most streamed sports events<\/a> <\/span>of 2024.<\/p>\nDeloitte Football Money League: Real Madrid and Manchester City Top the Standings<\/h2>\nBreaking Records<\/h3>\n
Commercial income remained the largest revenue source for Money League clubs for the second year running at \u20ac4.9bn, accounting for 44% of total revenue.
\nMatchday revenue surpassed \u20ac2bn for the first time in the history of the study, while cumulative broadcast revenue remained steady at \u20ac4.3bn.<\/p>\n
The top five leagues are in a period of stability with their broadcast deals, with longer-term domestic media rights boxed off until at least 2027. Tim Bridge, lead partner in the Deloitte Sports Business Group, said: \u201cMoney League clubs continue to break records with ongoing growth in commercial and matchday revenues.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile on-pitch performance is critical for teams to reach the top echelons of the rankings, high-performing clubs are also able to diversify the way they generate revenue through unlocking innovative partnerships and developing the land and stadium space that they own or operate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Broadcast Revenue Crucial for Many Clubs<\/h3>\n
On-pitch success and broadcast revenue play a more significant role for the clubs ranked 11th to 20th in the Money League standings. Clubs such as Newcastle United (\u20ac372m) and Aston Villa (\u20ac310m) have increased their revenues through improved domestic performances which garnered higher broadcast distributions.<\/p>\n
Participation in UEFA competitions also boosted their respective revenues, but Bridge says this presents challenges in terms of the additional workload on players.
\n\u201cWhile commercial revenue dominates the income of the top ten Money League clubs, broadcast income remains crucial for teams in the second half of the rankings,\u201d Bridge added. \u201cAs competitions expand and create more broadcast and matchday opportunities, these can further increase the earning potential for clubs. At a time where there is more demand than ever for a greater number of matchdays, this must be balanced with player welfare, as they ultimately bring the on-field success that can earn clubs many further rewards off-field.\u201d<\/p>\n
Women’s Game Generating Millions<\/h3>\n
The football gravy train also extends to the women\u2019s game, where the top 15 revenue-generating clubs generated more than \u20ac100m for the first time.
\nThe reported cumulative figure of \u20ac116.6m is actually on the conservative side, with PSG failing to provide information on their women\u2019s team revenue to Deloitte.
\nBarcelona and Arsenal each generated \u20ac17.9m in revenue, while Chelsea (\u20ac13.4m), Manchester United (\u20ac10.7m) and Real Madrid (\u20ac10.5m) round off the top five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Real Madrid have become the first football club to surpass \u20ac1 billion in revenue according to the 28th edition of the Deloitte Football Money League. The annual study has revealed the 20 highest revenue-generating football clubs globally for the 2023\/24 season, and the La Liga giants have established a new landmark. Manchester City\u2019s tally of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":651250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1366,17],"tags":[4652],"class_list":["post-651244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-madrid","category-manchester-city","tag-deloitte-money-league"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651394,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651244\/revisions\/651394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}