Madrid, second richest club behind City

The Manchester City is listed as the richest club in Europe for the first time, with revenues of 644 million euros in the 2020-2021 season, followed by Real Madridwhich is in second place with 640.1 million.

The English club leads the annual study for the first time ‘Football Money League’ that the consultant prepares Deloittein which he relieves the Barcelonawho headed it last season and the City it was sixth. The Barça club is now in fourth position, after the drop in its figures from 715 to 582 million euros.

Behind the Real Madrid and the Bayern Munich German in third position, with €611.4 million, appears on Manchester United (€558 million), PSG (€556 million), the Liverpool (€550 million), the Chelsea (€493 million), the Juventus (€433 million) and the Tottenham Hotspur (€406 million) to complete the top ten positions.

The Atletico Madrid remains in thirteenth position with revenues of €332.8 million and the Sevilla appears in twenty-first place with a figure of €199.5 million.

The study specifies that the City It has registered income of 106.4 million in transfers and has spent 218.8, which implies a negative net balance of 112.4, a section in which Real Madrid offers a positive balance of 86.8 million.

The white club, which heads the table on average over the two seasons, had transfer revenues of €131.4 million and expenses of €44.7 million.

The income of the Barça in this section they were €66.8 million and the expenses were €90.8 million (negative balance of -24); those of Atlético de Madrid of €77.6 million and expenses of €67.1 million (+10.5).

The total income figure of the 20 main clubs amounts to 8,178 million, higher than the 8,162 of the previous one, affected by the covid-19 pandemic. In the 2018-2019 season, the record of 9,300 million euros was reached.

The study estimates that the losses due to the health crisis are around 2,000 million euros. According to it, in this edition the English clubs Leicester City (15th), West Ham (16th), Wolverhampton (17th) and Aston Villa (20th) enter the top 20 positions. Arsenal (11th), Borussia Dortmund (12th), Inter Milan (14th) and Zenit (19th) continue among the privileged.

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