Arsenal have overtaken Chelsea in the ‘rich list’ of European clubs. Moving up to fifth place on the list.
The Deloitte Football Money League has Real Madrid and Barcelona in the top two spots but mainly due to the continuing decline of the pound against the euro. The Deloitte list is based on clubs’ revenue excluding transfer fees.
Arsenal moved ahead of Chelsea as the Gunners recorded a 7% rise in revenue to £224 million compared to Chelsea’s’ £20 6million – a 3% fall in revenue.
Dan Jones, partner in the sports business group at Deloitte, said:
“Chelsea’s revenue has dropped because last season was a bit worse than usual on the pitch, they had frozen season ticket prices and there was not a lot going on in big new commercial developments. Arsenal have the advantage in matchday income with a new 60,000-seater stadium and they made the semi-finals of both the Champions League and the FA Cup.”
If the exchange rates had remained at their June 2007 level then Arsenal would probably have overtaken Bayern Munich and moved into fourth place.
Deloitte Football Money League – 2008-09 revenue (Last year’s position in brackets)
1 (1) Real Madrid £341.9million
2 (3) Barcelona £311.7m
3 (2) Man Utd £278.5m
4 (4) Bayern Munich £246.6m
5 (6) Arsenal £224.0m
6 (5) Chelsea £206.4m
7 (8) Liverpool £184.8m
8 (11) Juventus £173.1m
9 (10) Internazionale £167.4m
10 (7) AC Milan £167.4m
11 (15) Hamburg £124.9m
12 (9) Roma £124.7m
13 (12) Lyon £118.9m
14 (16) Marseille £113.5m
15 (14) Tottenham £113.0m
16 (13) Schalke £106.0m
17 (n/a) Werder Bremen £97.7m
18 (20) B Dortmund £88.1m
19 (n/a) Man City £87.0m
20 (17) Newcastle £86.0m
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If wenger can remain in arsenal for life, i think arsenal can one time overtake realmadrid financially. Wenger is an expert financially, as he also provides entertaining soccer.
i agree john, wenger has overseen the biggest overhaul of a club in football history. i’ve got to question the figures deloitte has given as it’s well know arsenal had generated £313m this term. all other news outlets have stated it was the largest in GB. so how manchester united sit above them in the table does make you wonder to the accuracy of this report.
The figures released by Deloitte only include the income from core football sources Charlie. The income from the real estate side of the club is not included here.
If he can manage the money and give us the trophy
AW is wholly n exclusively everblazing
But we have a transfer budget less than Bolton
if arsenal was also succesful on the pitch i’m sure we’d have been above munich, maybe above man utd
The figures released by Deloitte only include the income from core football sources. Arsenals property development income has produced a total turnover of £313 million, and their current half termly figure is even better, indeed they are set-up to be the richest club in world football, currently they stand as 2nd.
Good point Andy.
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