Top 20 Richest Football Clubs in the World 08/09 Season

The Deloitte’s sports  has released its Football Money League for the season 2008-2009 and where Real Madrid emerged as the world richest football club for the fifth time in a row. Real Madrid is also the first international football team to have crossed annual revenues of Euro 400 million. Real Madrid is followed by FC Barcelona, the last season winner of the UEFA Champion league, follow by, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool in that order. The exchange rate of the pound is said to have a great  impacted Manchester United and other English Premimer League club’s  position. Manchester United was at the top of this list for eight years before Real Madrid took over that position.

Seven of the top 20 richest clubs are from England despite the fall in the value of the pound due to global economy recession. Germany has five clubs, Italy has four, and Spain and France each have two clubs included in this list. Real Madrid has not had a very satisfactory playing last season as they came second in La Liga behind FC Barcelona and also got knocked out in the Round of 16 stage of the Champions League last season, which FC Barcelona went on to win. The purposes of this assessment by Football Money League, is to ascertain deal of Euro 1.1 billion seven-year deal with Mediapro has been very successful. This season most of the clubs in the top 20 stayed the same with only VfB Stuttgart and Fenerbahce being replaced by Werder Bremen and the second big spending Manchester City.

Current   2007-08      FC Club Euro

1                         (1)                 Real Madrid                      401.4 million
2                        (3)                 FC Barcelona                    365.9 million
3                        (2)                 Manchester United        327.0 million
4                        (4)                 Bayern Munich                289.5 million
5                        (6)                 Arsenal                               263.0 million
6                        (5)                 Chelsea                                242.3 million
7                        (8)                 Liverpool                           217.0 million
8                        (11)                Juventus                           203.2 million
9                        (10)               Internazionale                 196.5 million
10                       (7)                AC Milan                            196.5 million
11                      (15)               Hamburger SV                  146.7 million
12                       (9)                AS Roma                              146.4 million
13                     (12)               Olympique Lyonnais       139.6 million
14                     (16)               Olympique de Marseille 133.2 million
15                     (14)               Tottenham Hotspur         132.7 million
16                     (13)               Schalke 04                           124.5 million
17                   (n/a)               Werder Bremen                 114.7 million
18                    (20)                Borussia Dortmund         103.5 million
19                   (n/a)               Manchester City               102.2 million
20                    (17)                Newcastle United             101.0 million