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2023
Total revenue of Russian clubs reached €1.05 billion
The total revenue of football clubs playing in the Russian Premier League in the season 2022-2023. amounted to 1.05 billion euros. This was reported in a UEFA report published in mid-February 2024.
The amount of revenue is compiled by income from commercial income, TV income, payments from UEFA, sale of tickets, other income.
It follows from the document that the specified volume of revenues of Russian football clubs included total commercial revenues of clubs (617 million euros), payments from UEFA (9 million), income from the sale of tickets for matches (59 million), television revenues (104 million) and other revenues (260 million).
According to the total revenue of football teams, the Russian league in the season 2022-2023. took 6th place in Europe: higher revenues were shown only by the clubs of the English Premier League (6.45 billion euros), the Spanish La Liga (3.33 billion euros), the German Bundesliga (3.33 billion), the Italian Serie A (2.35 billion) and the French League 1 (almost 2 billion euros).
The UEFA report notes that in the season 2022-2023. the revenue of the top 20 clubs in England was almost as high as the total revenue of all 642 clubs in 50 countries at the bottom of the list.
In addition, the report says that the largest annual revenue was recorded from Real Madrid (€841 million), Manchester City (€836 million), Barcelona (€815 million) and Paris Saint-Germain (€807 million).
The total revenue of more than 700 European major league clubs in the reporting year reached 23.9 billion, an increase of 13% compared to a year ago.
The total revenues of football clubs from television broadcasts for the year reached 8 billion euros, and most of this revenue fell on the English Premier League (3 billion euros). Next are the championships of Spain (1.46 billion euros) and Germany (1.05 billion euros).
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Named the most profitable football clubs in the world
Real Madrid topped the ranking of the most profitable football clubs in the world at the end of the 2022/23 season. His earnings amounted to €831.4 million against €713.7 million in the 2021/22 season, which corresponds to an increase of about 16% on an annualized basis. Such data are given in a study by Deloitte Money League, published on January 25, 2024.
It is reported that 20 leading football clubs earned a record €10.5 billion in the 2022/23 season. This is 14% more than the amount received a year earlier. The growth is due to an increase in advertising revenues and matches, as stadiums began to fully receive fans amid the lifting of restrictions imposed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Top 20 of the biggest clubs, 17 reported a year-on-year increase in commercial revenues. Revenues from television broadcasts during the 2022/23 season rose by 5%.
In second place in the ranking after Real Madrid is Manchester City, which earned €825.9 million against €731 million during the 2021/22 season - plus 13% on an annualized basis. Closes the top three "Paris Saint-Germain": this club's income rose by 23% - from €654.2 million to €801.8 million.
The top ten also included Barcelona"" (€800.1 million during the season 2022/23 against €638.2 million a year earlier), "" (€745.8 Manchester United million against €688.6 million), Bavaria"" (€744 million against €653.6 million), Liverpool"" (€682.9 million against €701.8 million), "Tottenham" (€631.5 million against €522.9 million), Chelsea"" (€589.4 million against €568.3 million) and "Arsenal" (€532.5 million against €432.6 million).
It is said that of all the participants in the rating, Liverpool showed the strongest fall on an annualized basis, dropping from third to seventh place. This is due to the deterioration of results on the field in both domestic and European competitions.[1]