Arsenal leapfrog Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea in football rich list as Real Madrid break never-before-seen record

ARSENAL person leapfrogged Liverpool and London rivals Spurs and Chelsea successful the latest shot net table.

The Gunners had dropped to 10th successful the planetary gross charts aft 5 years extracurricular the European elite.

But their instrumentality to the Champions League past season, and different Prem near-miss, saw the Emirates outfit gross £605.5m to determination up to seventh successful a array headed by Real Madrid.

The Spanish giants became the archetypal nine successful Uefa football past to slope much than £1b Euros successful 2023-24, with the Bernabeu side, who won a 15th European crown, earning £883.7m aft the refurbishment of their location ground.

While Manchester City remained 2nd successful the table, with revenues of £708.1m, the spread betwixt them and Madrid has leaped from conscionable £5m successful 2022-23 to £175m, past season.

Across Manchester, United moved up from 5th to fourth, overtaking Barcelona, who dropped 2 places, adjacent though their revenues roseate by little than £3m, from £648.5m to £651.4m.

But it was Arsenal who made the biggest beforehand - arsenic Spurs’ deficiency of immoderate European shot saw them driblet from eighth to ninth, according to the latest Deloitte Football Money League figures.

Tottenham had seen grounds income of £549.2m successful 2022-23, erstwhile they reached the past 16 of the Champions League but missed retired connected European qualification.

That saw their 2023-24 income chopped to £519.9, a £30m reduction.

Arsenal, eliminated by Bayern Munich successful the past eight, earned £258.2m from broadcasters, positive £129.7m successful match-day income and £217.9m from their commercialized deals.

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Liverpool, seventh past twelvemonth with £793.8m, driblet a spot aft earning £604.2m, with Chelsea besides down a spot connected £461.2m, down £51.3m.

It is the archetypal clip the Gunners person grossed much than Liverpool and Chelsea since the 2016-17 season.

The Deloitte figures corroborate the Prem’s fiscal musculus with Newcastle, West Ham and Aston Villa each successful the apical 20 earners.

While that is 9 Prem teams, Spain, France and Italy person 3 representatives, with Munich and Dortmund the Bundesliga wealth sides. 

Prem income is acceptable to emergence by up to 20 per cent adjacent word with the caller planetary broadcast deals, portion TV contracts crossed the remainder of the Big Five are successful decline.

Deloitte’s Tim Bridge said: “On-pitch show is captious for teams to scope the apical echelons of the rankings, though precocious performing clubs are besides capable to diversify the mode they make gross done unlocking innovative partnerships and processing the onshore and stadium abstraction that they ain oregon operate.

“While commercialized gross dominates the income of the apical 10 Money League clubs, broadcast income remains important for teams successful the 2nd fractional of the rankings.

“As competitions grow and make much broadcast and matchday opportunities, these tin further summation the earning imaginable for clubs.

“At a clip wherever determination is much request than ever for a greater fig of matchdays, this indispensable beryllium balanced with subordinate welfare, arsenic they yet bring the on-field occurrence that tin gain clubs galore further rewards off-field.”