Real Madrid top football rich list for ninth year

According to the newest Deloitte’s Football Money League list, Real Madrid remain the world’s highest-earning football club.

It is a record ninth successive season, the La Liga giants are ranked the highest, after they raked in a total of €518.9 million in the 2012/2013 season. The Los Blancos beat their fierce rivals Barcelona to second place. The Catalans made €36.3million during the same period.

Manchester United, who were ranked number one between 1996-1997 and 2003-2004, have dropped out of the top three clubs and are replaced by Bayern Munich, who made €7.4m more.


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However, according to Austin Houlihan, a senior consultant in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, the continued dominance of the two Spanish giants could soon be under threat,

“Real Madrid still enjoy a healthy gap over Barcelona and have done over the past few years,” Houlihan told Goal.

“The interesting thing, along with Barcelona being expected to accrue over €500m in revenue next year, is around Manchester United. If they continue to qualify for Europe, and with the Chevrolet sponsorship deal in 2014-15, then they have a real opportunity to challenge the top two.

“They are continuing to discuss a collective distribution model and the year they are working towards is 2015-16,” Houlihan explains.

“What has happened in Serie A since 2010-11 is that they experienced an overall uplift in the overall value of collective deals compared to individual deals, so there are promising signs for Spain.”