Chelsea Football Club’s holding company has posted a record pre-tax loss for a Premier League team, underlining the scale of the task at hand for its US owners and the wider struggles of English top-flight clubs to report profits. Chelsea FC Holdings reported a pre-tax loss of £262.4mn in the financial year ended June 2025 despite revenues increasing to £490.9mn from £468.5mn a year earlier, according to a statement by the club on Wednesday. This was the club’s second-highest revenue figure in history, boosted by higher broadcasting income thanks to finishing fourth in the league. The losses are a blow for private capital firm Clearlake Capital and US financier Todd Boehly, who led the £2.5bn takeover of Chelsea from Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich in 2022. “This is a record pre-tax loss for a Premier League football club,” football finance guru Kieran Maguire, told the Financial Times .“That’s significant in an era when clubs are trying to prove they are not just tro...
Everton’s final season at Goodison Park coincided with the club’s best financial results in eight years — though only after they generated £49.2million ($65.2m) from the internal restructuring of companies housing both their old home and the club’s women’s team. Accounts for the 2024-25 season, published on Tuesday, reveal Everton’s revenues climbed to a club record £196.7m and the club’s pre-tax loss fell to £8.6m. Their underlying operating profitability improved too, though without those internal sales Everton’s overall loss would have exceeded the £53.2m a year before. Everton’s revenue reached a club record last season, coming in just shy of £200m after improvements in both matchday and commercial income. The final season at Goodison Park saw gate receipts top £20m for the first time in 17 years, and commercial revenue grew a substantial 22 per cent, following new and improved deals with Red Bull, vodka manufacturer Nemiroff, and corporate payments company Corpay, as well as...