Friday, February 13, 2009

Football Rich List (Deloitte, cited in Wall, 2009)

Having watched Abramovich spending millions as a compensation for a sacked manager and the £100m bid from Manchester City for Kaka, credit crunch doesn't seem to have adverse impact on football clubs. Let's have a look at some analysis on how their financial performance is in the 2007/08 season.

10: Internazionale

Revenue: £136.9m

The revenue reduction was due to the disqualification for the Champions league and sharing the San Siro stadium with AC Milan.

62% of its income was from broadcast.

9: AS Roma

Revenue: £138.9m

The increase was because of the new broadcast and commercial agreements with Kappa and Wind Telecommunications (This contributed £36.7m) and their good performance on the pitch, i.e. winning the Coppa Italia, reaching the quarter finals of the UEFA Champions League and finishing second in Serie A (This contributed £22.9m).

8: AC Milan

Revenue: £165.8m

The revenue reduction was owing to their poor perfomance which was finishing fifth in Serie A and failing to qualify for the Champions League and the low matchday revenue of £21.1m although their broadcast revenues was £97m.

7: Liverpool

Revenue: £167m

The increase of revenue was due to the increase of broadcast money to £76.3m as well as the increased commercial revenue to £51.5m from deals with Carlsberg, Paddy Power and Thomas Cook.

6: Arsenal

Revenue: £209.3m

The increase was because of their fairly good perfomance (finishing third in the Premier League, reaching the quarter finals of the UEFA Champions League and the semi-finals of the Carling Cup) which led to an increase in broadcast revenue to £70.4m and the new 60,355 capacity Emirates Stadium which contributed the matchday revenue of £94.6m.

Commercial revenue only accounted for 21% of its total revenue.

5: Chelsea

Revenue: £212.9m

The increased revenue was owing to the increased broadcast revenue of £77.4m and their matchday revenues of 74.5m as well as the commercial deals with Thomas Cook, Samsung, Adidas and Etihad Airways.

4: Bayern Munich

Revenue: £233.8m

The increase was because of the acquisition of the remaining 50% stake of its Allianz Arena home ground previously owned by city neighbours TSV 1860 Munich and the commercial deals with Deutsche Telekom and Adidas which provided £32.5m merchandising revenue.

3: Barcelona

Revenue: £244.4m

The increase was due to the increased broadcasting revenues (£92m) and commercial deals with companies like Nike.

2: Manchester United

Revenue: £257.1m

The increase was owing to their sporting success in the Europe and Premier League which generated the broadcast revenue and the matchday revenues of £101.5m as well as the commercial deals with Nike, Saudi Telecom, Hublot and Budweiser.

1: Real Madrid

Revenue: £289.6m

The increase was because of the commercial deals, the matchday revenues of £80m and the broadcasting rights which was worth £102.1m.

2 comments:

  1. thanks for sharing.

    I don't know Liverpool get much less income than other BIG 3 before. Seems that a new stadium should be built in the near future.

    I know, no one should be surprised that Real Madrid is that rich......

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  2. You are welcome.

    Well, Liverpool may even have less revenue in these few years if they go ahead to build a new stadium. But after the new stadium is built, they will receive more income.

    Real Madrid may be taken over by Man Utd because of non-Becks effect.

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