The Top 20 Richest Football Clubs In The World As At 2017.

Worlds’s Top 20 Richest Football Clubs In 2017

As far as top 20 richest clubs are concerned according to recent forbes valuation, eight premier league clubs feature in top 20 and we might expect a few more in couple of years time when the new premier league TV deal start to play its role. Manchester United are right on their way back on top of the list if they manage to qualify for Champions League next season and combine that with new Adidas kit deal and several other shirt & commercial sponsorship dealsaround the world can put them in the league of their own. However as the things stand in 2017, Real Madrid and Barcelona just marginally ahead of United in terms of club valuation. We take a look at 20 richest clubs in the world.

We have to consider factors like clubs matchday income, what country a club is from, their success on the field and its impact on the market value, social presence worldwide, high profile kit deals and shirt sponsorship, total yearly revenue and the debt situation of the club.

World’s Top 20 Richest Football Clubs In 2017NO#CLUBVALUEYEARLY REVENUELAST YEAR1Real Madrid $3.64 billion $694m1st2FC Barcelona $3.54 billion $675m2nd3Manchester United $3.45 billion $703m3rd4FC Bayern Munich $2.57 billion $570m4th5Arsenal $2.01 billion $524m7th6Manchester City $1.92 billion $558m5th7Chelsea $1.66 billion $505m6th8Liverpool $1.54 billion $471m8th9Juventus $1.29 billion $415m9th10Tottenham Hotspurs $1.01 billion $310m13th11Borussia Dortmund $836 million $338m11th12AC Milan $825 million $240m10th13Paris Saint Germain $814 million $572m12th14FC Schalke $655 million $264m14th15Atletico Madrid $633 million $225m16th16Inter Milan$559 million $198m15th17West Ham United $542 million $194m19th18AS Roma
$508 million $217mNew19Napoli $396 million $151m17th20Newcastle United$383 million $204m18th

Update: French sports money magazine “Deloitte” produces an yearly report on top 20 clubs according to their yearly revenue and here is the finding from the latest Deloitte “Football Money League” which was published in January 2017. Manchester United has overtaken both Real Madrid and Barcelona in terms of yearly revenue as they tacked up record €689 million in 2015-16 season.

Top 20 Football Clubs In Deloitte Football Money League 2017:

Deloitte divide the yearly revenue of a club in three streams, A) Match-day B) TV Broadcasting C) Commercial & Sponsorship. Since the original report features Euro (€) currency we have converted the yearly revenue numbers from euro to USD ($) as well. While the three revenue stream only feature euro currency.

Top 20 Clubs In Terms Of Yearly Revenue In 2017 (Confirmed)NO#CLUBSREVENUEMATCH-DAY BROADCASTING COMMERCIAL1Manchester United €689m €137m€187.6m€363.9m2Real Madrid €620.2m €121.4m€202.7m€296.1m3FC Barcelona €620.1m €129m€227.7m€263.4m4FC Bayern Munich €592m €101.8m€147.6m€342.6m5Manchester City €524.9m €70.2m€215.8m€238.9m6Paris Saint Germain €520.9m €92.5m€123.1m€305.3m7Arsenal €468.5m €132m€167.7m€135.8m8Chelsea €447.4m €93.1m€178.2m€148.7m9Liverpool €403.8m €75m€163.8m€153m10Juventus €341.1m €51.4m€199m€73.5m11Borussia Dortmund €283.9m €54.2m€82.1m€144.3m12Tottenham €279.7m €54.2m€125.2m€78.1m13Atletico Madrid €228.6m €37.2m€86.6m€63.3m14FC Schalke €224.5m €39.2m€72.6m€107.9m15AS Roma€218.2m€30.4m€114m€36m16AC Milan €214.7m €22.3m€79.7m€97.1m17Zenit St Petersburg€196.5m €35.2m€103.8m€30.9m18West Ham€192.3m €26.2m€47.7m€67.1m19Internazionale€179.2m €24.6m€114.1m€26.4m20Leicester City€172.1m €22.2m€97.2m€45.4m

Here is a slide show which goes into further details on every clubs financial activity in the last 1 year. From matchday and hospitality revenue to TV broadcasting rights money from the league and european competitions as well as the friendly matches club played in the last 12 months. Commeriscial activities include major sponsorships like shirt deals, stadium rights and all the regional sponsorship deals worldwide.

We are heading into the closing stages of 2014-15 season and this is that time of the year when people start talking about which clubs is the biggest and richest in the world. Although its hard to pin point how much a clubs is valued because their are so many different factors to be considered but Forbes has been producing list of top 50 richest clubs in the world for the best part of last 10 years and Real Madird, Manchester United and Barcelona has dominated the list over the years. Starting from 2005 Manchester United were widely considered as the richest football club in the world and that too by a margin but Real Madrid managed to close the gap in the late 2000’s and manage to take the number 1 spot in 2011 while FC Barcelona also overtook United this year after United failed to reach Champions league last season

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