By far the most successful German Bundesliga club Bayern Munich earned significantly less last season. Winning the triple couldn’t prevent that.
Bayern Munich clearly felt the corona pandemic last season. The Bundesliga soccer team earned significantly less.
In the 2019/20 season, the measures taken to contain the pandemic also made themselves felt in Munich. Since March, the Bayern Games have been taking place in the Allianz Arena behind closed doors. Mainly because of this, the group’s total sales fell by seven percent. Without winning the Champions League, the German Championship and the DFB Cup, the club would certainly have done much weaker.
Nevertheless, the revenues of 698 million euros mean enormous growth, especially in a long-term comparison. At the beginning of the last decade, Bayern’s sales were less than half of the previous season’s sales.
However, profit suffered significantly more than sales in 2019/20. In the past season, this fell by a good four-fifths to 9.8 million euros. That was the lowest value for the successful club in almost ten years. Nevertheless, this is also an expression of the principle that has been practiced “for decades” of not spending more than taking in, commented Deputy CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen.
It gets even harder
The new season is likely to present Bayern with significantly greater challenges. The club fears a decline in sales in the three-digit million range, should you have to play long before empty ranks.
“If we have a 20 percent decline in sales, it is also difficult for us to show a positive result. The black zero is not a dogma for us, especially not in these times,” Dreesen told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
BVB panting afterwards
However, with the figures from last season, Bayern did significantly better than, for example, the archenemy Borussia Dortmund. While BVB had reported an almost constant turnover for the past season, the bottom line was that it slipped significantly into the red with a minus of 44 million euros.
A year earlier, the black and yellow had shown a profit of 17 million euros.
Negative example of FC Barcelona
But BVB is still doing quite well in an international comparison. For example, it hit FC Barcelona very hard. Before the start of the 2019/20 season, the Catalans had actually set themselves the goal of being the first professional club to break the barrier of one billion euros in sales. But the pandemic instead brought superstar Lionel Messi’s club a drop in sales of around a seventh to 855 million euros. The loss was almost 100 million euros.
With this development and the current lack of sporting success, there have even been reports of alleged serious financial difficulties for the Catalans.
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