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Tottenham Hotspur have overtaken Chelsea to become the
richest club in London thanks to the earning power of their new stadium,
according to Deloitte’s latest Football Money League.
The rankings, which cover revenues earned by clubs during
the 2022-23 season, also show that Manchester City have been knocked off top
spot by Real Madrid, despite Pep Guardiola’s side’s Treble-winning season.
Spurs have leapfrogged Chelsea to become the eighth richest
club in the world, with annual revenues of £549.2 million — the Stamford Bridge
club’s revenues have been reported as £512.5 million. Arsenal are tenth in the
Money League on £463.1 million. Both Arsenal and Chelsea’s income was hit by
not being in the Champions League, so Tottenham’s north London rivals should
return significantly improved revenues for this season after reaching the
knockout stage.
Tottenham earn more than £105 million a season in match-day
income — only Manchester United make more among English clubs — while Chelsea’s
is about £70 million. Spurs have also benefited from hosting NFL and rugby
union matches at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which opened in April 2019, as
well as music concerts by artists including Beyoncé, Pink, Lady Gaga and Guns
N’ Roses.
The clubs’ revenue figures do not include player sales but
they are reflected in profits or losses, so the £100 million sale of Harry Kane
in August 2023 did not affect Spurs’s revenues but will have improved their
profit.
Real returned to the top of Deloitte’s Money League for the
first time in five years thanks to a sharp rise in sponsorship and match-day
income contributing to €831 million (£723 million) in revenues for the 2022-23
season. Clubs in Spain and Italy benefited from a full return of fans last
season after the pandemic.
Liverpool have dropped out of the top five after a fall in
income following their successful 2021-22 season, when they reached the
Champions League final but lost 1-0 to Real.
Barcelona have risen back to fourth spot after raising huge
sums from exploiting financial “levers”, including the sale of 49 per cent of
the media content arm, Barça Vision — which according to their latest accounts
raised an “extraordinary profit” of €194 million — and selling 25 per cent of
their future TV revenue for the next 25 years to the US private equity firm
Sixth Street. The challenge for Barcelona is that they are unlikely to be able
to exploit such levers in the future.
PSG have risen from fifth to third, partly due to a €200
million income boost from the French league’s deal with investment fund CVC
Capital Partners, who paid €1.5 billion for a 13 per cent share of the league’s
commercial subsidiary.
Last season’s relegation of Leeds United and Leicester City
means the Premier League now has eight rather than ten teams in the top 20 of
the Money League. Apart from the “big six” clubs, Newcastle United and West Ham
United are 17th and 18th respectively.
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