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Welcome to the Deloitte Football Money League 2008 (register to download your report). This is the eleventh year of the publication, profiling the largest clubs in the world’s most popular sport. The Deloitte Football Money League is the most contemporary and reliable analysis of clubs’ relative financial performance and is released less than nine months after the end of last season, as soon as all the clubs’ revenue figures are available to us. For the purposes of this publication, we look at the best publicly available measure of financial comparison: turnover from day to day football business operations.
This year Real Madrid retains its place at the top of the Money League, the club’s third season at the top, while Manchester United , whose turnover leapt by 33% retake second place, Barcelona consolidate their strong performance in recent seasons and complete the top three.
Arsenal’s move to the Emirates Stadium has transformed their revenues and they rise four places into the top five for the first time, joining United and Chelsea. This is the first time that any country has had three clubs in the Money League top five.
To download a free copy of the report, please click here 'Football Money League 2008' (PDF, 3131 KB).
Read our related press release: United rise but Real Madrid stays top
Coverage in the news
BBC - Real top Man Utd in rich list
Times - English clubs are striking it rich in assault on European money league
Financial Times - TV deals favour Man Utd over Real Madrid
Telegraph - Man Utd can be at head of rich man's table
Our focus this year
In addition to profiling the top 20 clubs and their revenue sources we provide three additional articles this year.
Firstly, we address a question which we are often asked – What are the alternative methods by which the relative strengths of clubs can be measured and how different do these rankings look to the ones you use? Then we review the impact of recent stadium developments on clubs’ positions in the Money League. Finally, we provide an update on trends in the ever changing broadcast market and the influence the selling arrangements in different countries have on the composition of, and ranking within, the top 20.
The Deloitte Football Money League was compiled by Dan Jones, Rich Parkes, Austin Houlihan, Grant Ingles, Martyn Hawkins and Amelia Ashton-Jones of the Sports Business Group at Deloitte. Our thanks go to all those who have assisted us, inside and outside the Deloitte international network. We hope you enjoy this edition.
Previous Football Money League reports
Read our executive summary and register to receive your free copy of previous year's reports: Football Money League 2007, Football Money League 2006, Football Money League 2005.
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