Thursday, March 28, 2024

Arsenal slip to sixth in Deloitte Money League

Arsenal have slipped down a place in Deloitte’s annual Football Money League report despite a 14 per cent increase in annual revenue.

The Gunners estimated revenue of €290.3 million (£234.9m) for the period 2011/12 means they now sit sixth in the table of Europe’s football financial juggernauts with Chelsea’s Champions League success last May the catalyst for their rise above the Gunners into fifth.

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Roman Abramovich’s side are understood to have made €322.6 m last year – opening a not insignificant €32.2 million gap on their North London rivals – Bayern Munich sit 4th (€368.4m), Manchester United 3rd (€395.9m), Barcelona 2nd (€483m) while Real Madrid (€512.6m) have become the first club in history to break the half billion Euro mark.

As has been the case in recent years Arsenal remain the only club for whom matchday revenue is the biggest source of income with £95.2 million (€117.7m) representing 32.7% of the overall figure.

As the club have made clear in recent months steps have been taken to improve Arsenal’s commercial operation with secondary partner deals with Bharti Airtel and Malta Guinness boosting revenue by 13% to £52.5 million (€64.9m).

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These figures will receive a further lift in the next two years thanks to the £150 million shirt and stadium sponsorship deal with Emirates, while a renewed kit deal with Nike (or alternative) should add an additionally significant sum to the pot.

Nevertheless, despite a step in the right direction, the Gunners still trail Manchester United in this department by £65 million – a figure which could widen further given the Red Devils new shirt deal with Chevrolet and recent proclivity for signing up sponsors for everything from tyres to noodles.

Aside from Liverpool (9th, €233m) television revenue from participation in the Champions League continues to be incredibly important for all clubs in Deloitte’s top ten, however, they predict that up to half of the top 20 sides could come from England in the coming years following the incredibly lucrative sale of Premier League broadcast rights to Sky and BT from 2013/14 onwards.

Whilst the Money League covers clubs’ revenue performance, the report also notes an increased focus within European football on clubs achieving more sustainable levels of expenditure relative to revenues; a state of affairs Deloitte encourage given UEFA’s financial fair play break-even requirement which will apply at the start of next season.

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uler56

The figures for the total club revenues are in Euros not pounds I think.

leftpinky

We’ll also get at least another 30M next year from the new domestic tv rights deal plus how many ever millions from the global tv deal. So overall maybe an increase of 30-40m from tv, 25M from shirt/stadium and 20M from shirt, so a total increase of 75-85M pounds in the next year or two. not bad, but a ways off from the Spanish clubs and the fake money at Citeh

Merde Bag

So this is the league where selling players gives you a better chance of finishing in the top four?

DoubleDoubleDouble

Bayern Munich’s commercial revenue alone would be enough to see them in the top ten – that’s fucking impressive.

leftpinky

it is, but they get the majority of German commericial revenue. no competition as of yet for those dollars…kinda like Barca/Madrid rolled into one.

GiveMeWhatWengersSmoking

So not all bad news. Now spend some of the f**king revenue for f**ksakes or is this the only league table the board are concerned with?

Gunnersaurus Rex

Not Related: I dont know but how good is Jon Obi Mikel as a DM. Will he be a good buy?

Merlin's Panini

No. No he wouldn’t. It would be like having another Denilson. He slows everything down, plus he’s spent just a bit too much time in the presence of John Terry.

Jagger

Particularly agree with the 2nd one. The only person I would have from Chelsea’s squad is Mata. The general rule I have for Chelsea is assume cunts unless proven otherwise.

stonedwasherman

couldnt care less.. premier league table > money league table

Master Bates

Cats>oranges

stonedwasherman

cats will do just fine sir, thank you.

paulos

Have you not noticed those things are not exactly independent of each other?

RYAN.GAY.4.AFC

The new sponsership deals should see us sit in 5th place again easily, it’s good to see us so high up within the elite clubs of the world. And so ultimately i would love our quality of football resemble that also. The next few years look promising.

K. Soze

Now invest arsene.

Louie

Gotta spend money to make money yo!

weedwacker

One good night of great attacking football then straight back to the money bollocks. We are the sixth biggest club financially Whop Whop. We thrashed The Hammers. Thats what makes it tick

gunner man

It doesn’t surprise me the gunners have slipped in the world rankings. Nothing is permanent in the world.You look at Liverpool all dominant in the 70s and 80s. The y didn’t make the list at all.This shd serve as a warning to Wenger.
More years of underachievement will result in the Liverpool syndrome.Just imagine if the gunners had won the epl . They would have zoomed up the table.
Hopefully the coming years will see the gunners challenging for honours. If not,Arsenal will slip to tenth or even out of the list.

RizzRazz

Liverpool sitting 3 places behind us… Look again.

catbiscuits

Uhm, Liverpool are 9th in the list.

Miranda

Liverpool didn’t make what list? Their broadcasting revenue isn’t brilliant because they’ve been out of the top four but commercially they’re doing just fine still – anyway better than us. Liverpool should serve as a warning to Wenger? I reckon he knows already what losing fourth spot will cost us, and how difficult it may be to claw it back again from whatever club gets its hands on that income, especially as for us there’ll be no helpful injection of cash from the owner to give the next manager a chance to rebuild. Didn’t see West Ham but it sounds… Read more »

Fatgooner

We don’t need to finish in the top four. The club have plenty of money in reserve to compensate for Champions’ League qualification failure.

I’m so glad that I support a team that is forward thinking.

Lec

Speaks volume of Arsenals global reputation. We haven’t won silverware + money that comes along with it for 7 years now but we still make 6th position. Still able to attract investors, Now time to give back to the fans and investors their moneys worth and gets us some signings and eventually silverware perhaps? Yeah that.

Nilsen

We haven´t slipped, we were 6th last year as well.. 😉

Red Fred

Once next seasons ticket price increases we will surely be top :o)

rossi88

Why would you bring up Jon obi Mikel…….if you havent seen him play there for the last 2years, you should turn yourself about and fuck off……theres being silly, but thats a bit stupid. In every way you look at it.

(breathes, ahhh).

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rossi88

Off subject, but how stupid is gunnersaurus rex?? Cunt

Dobromir

hahaha the dumbest thing i’ve read today. thanks for the laugh though

R18

One David Villa for £12 million = 15 goals = F.A glory + top four.

Equates to £25 champions league money + F.A cup Prize money.

Spend some, gain some.

North Bank Gooner

One ageing player with high wages and no resale value = No guarantees other than aforementioned high wages.

R18

Resale value? Who gives a shit about resale value? I bet rvps resale value would be peanuts but look what the lads doing for them here and now. Besides I would take 3 good years of villa over resale value. Perhpas when his contract is up, he’ll be say bwle 34 and some MLS or qatar team will pop up for him Who knows.

He’s class mate, I want claas at arse.

Andy Mack

Most managers buy a player from overseas knowing that they’ll be better in the second year as few continental players can play consistantly well in their 1st season in the premier league (obvioulsy there are exceptions!). The game here is much more physical and consistantly higher tempo. No doubt Villa is world class but can a 31 year old be fit enough. And next year can a 32 year old be injury free enough to make it worthwhile. I don’t know the answer but for the fee and salary necessary that would be a real gamble. I think there are… Read more »

Pete

Revenue is all well and good but it is surely the gross profit that we are really interested in?

How much money each club has to spend on wages and transfers…

Arsene's Broken Zipper

Quite shocking to see how low our commercial revenue figures are compared to the rest of the top ten. Inter at 12th are the highest placed team with a lower commercial figure. Obviously the stadium preoccupied time and resources, and the new sponsorship deals are around the corner. But it does look like we are playing catch up.

Also feel that Stan the man could be doing more in this respect. I mean, if Liverpool’s owners can set up 94m euros (wtf?) in commercial revenue, surely we could be making a lot more.

Arsene's Broken Zipper

Unless pumping money into the club is included in those figures…

GlennF

So basically 4th place is a trophy made of money….now I see..

Chrispy

So Chelsea leapfrog us in the revenue table.

It’s amazing what happens when you win something isn’t it ?

Arsenal board take note!!

R18

I bet the Swansea ball boy wishes it had been Torres who took a swipe at him……. he would have missed.. …

gooner

Torres tried earlier. Wonder why it didn’t make the news

Festa

This is fairly facile analysis from Deloitte, a company’s valuation and prospects are determined by various financial metrics not just revenue.

You cannot make a definitive list indicating a clubs worth based on one metric (revenue). The list should be based on numerous factors, undertake analysis and then submit a valuation.

I find it interesting to look over the revenue breakdown but do not get anything else out of it. After all, a club can record huge revenue figures but still be loss making or have very low margins, e.g. Man City

Too Drunk To Be Offside

So I am to understand that we are the sixth highest revenue earning team in the world and we have no money to spend.

I applaud the board for that.

Andy Mack

There are loads of teams below us with ‘little to no’ money to spend plus they don’t have an excellent new staduim.
Although they also don’t have the big debt of a new stadium.

WindyCityArse

ManShitty in 7th is a joke…. Only reason they are there coz the Sheik had his uncle sponsor them through Etihad… Our commercial side… Isn’t that Kroenke Inc’s job? Wtf are the Yanks in charge doing? How long before Wengers face is put on this piñata to bash him? The Kroenke family are the heirs to Walmart…. They employ almost 50% of the US working population. It worries me that they spend millions every election cycle to keep minimum wage low… This is modern day slavery! This attitude has been reflected in the fortunes of The Broncos, Avalanche, Nuggets and… Read more »

DoubleDoubleDouble

The reason our commercial revenues are low – compared to Chelsea and Liverpool – is due to the long term deals taken out to fund the stadium.

The shirt sponsorship alone (additional €30m per season) will put the commercial revenue level with Liverpool; add in the kit deal (due for renegotiation in 2014) and we pull ahead of them by a significant margin.

I don’t think the commercial department have really shown their worth, compared to their Man Utd counterparts, but the current figures are a bit misleading.

WindyCityArse

Totally agree with you if I’m using my head… However I still harbor major reservations on the intent of Kroenke Inc. Broncos were NFL champions, Kroenke comes along and where are they now? Profitable but stuck in mediocrity… One thing I do know is that you get way better commercial deals if you have a competitive, winning squad. During the invincibles era, sunday footie down the park you would see all the little kids wearing Arsenal shirts… Bet most of them ended up as fans… These days, i take my nephew on sundays and all those shirts are Chelski /… Read more »

Jsergio

PHW is an arrogant old fool. ‘thank you for having an interest in our affairs’ makes my blood boil. It is because of our interest in your affairs that you make the majority of your revenue from 60,000 bums in seats you senile fucking cunthammer. Sorry I really dislike this guy.

Burak

“As has been the case in recent years Arsenal remain the only club for whom matchday revenue is the biggest source of income with £95.2 million (€117.7m) representing 32.7% of the overall figure.”

That can’t be right. There are three parts to the whole, and this part is less than 33.333% of it… how can it be the biggest part? The fonts in the image are tiny, but to me it looks like it should be 40.5% (= 117.7/290.3 x 100%).

…and I see that it’s wrong in the text, but correct in the pie chart. Mmmm… pie.

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