Club Brugge: Climbing the Football Rich List

It is the first time in the list’s 29-year history that no English football club is in the top four. It consists of Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich and PSG. Liverpool is the highest ranked English club in fifth place, while Manchester City drops from second to sixth because it did not become champion this time and missed out on the financial surplus.

Thanks to the income from its participation in the Club World Cup, Benfica is the only club from a non-top five competition in the top twenty. Brazilian champion Flamengo – winner of the Copa Libertadores, the South American Champions League, and also present at the Club World Cup – is the only club outside Europe to reach the top thirty.

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It is striking that Club Brugge is closing the gap with the thirty richest clubs. With its 177 million euros in income in 2024/2025, it is only eleven million below the 188 million euros that Olympique Marseille collected – number thirty in the list and coincidentally also next week’s opponent on the last matchday of the competition phase of the Champions League.

There is a real chance that that direct match will decide who is higher in next year’s Deloitte Football Money League, because there is a lot of money involved in qualifying for the next round of the champions ball. In total, this amounts to at least 6.7 million euros, depending on where Club Brugge ultimately ends its competition phase.

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New stadium

Club Brugge’s current record revenue is related to the more than sixty million euros that Club Brugge earned from its successful Champions League campaign last year. That is the most ever for a Belgian team. At the same time, French clubs are suffering from a TV rights deal that is worth much less than before and a temporary halt to investments by external financier CVC due to a fraud investigation. As a result, the gap between the top thirty in the world and the richest Belgian club is closing.

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Club Brugge has a large savings pot left over – it now has around a hundred million euros in equity. However, he tries to save as much as possible for the costs of building a new stadium. Once that is said, it should increase Club Brugge’s income once again.

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