Figures that make you dizzy. With 1.161 billion euros in revenue generated during the 2024-2025 season, a new record, Real Madrid is still at the top of the “Football Money League” ranking published Thursday by the Deloitte firm, while PSG gave up one place (4th).
FC Barcelona, 6th the previous year, returns to the podium (2nd) for the first time since the 2019-2020 season with nearly a billion in revenue (974 million euros), ahead of Bayern Munich (more than 860 million euros).
Paris SG, third in the last edition of the ranking and yet author of a historic sporting season including victory in the Champions League, fell one place, with 837 million euros, a slight increase compared to the previous year (806 million euros).
For the first time since 2020-2021, PSG is the only French club in the Top 20 of this ranking, where Marseille and Lyon appeared last year, in particular due to the TV rights crisis in France.
PSG is the only French club in the top 20 of this ranking
Liverpool is for the first time the English club with the highest revenue (836 million euros), and jumps from 8th to 5th place.
In 2026, these 20 clubs in the “Football Money League” declared cumulative revenues of 12.4 billion euros, a record and an increase of 11% compared to the 2023-2024 season.
The Deloitte study is based on three sources of revenue to establish its ranking: ticketing, TV rights and commercial revenue.
For the third year in a row, commercial revenues represent the largest share of club revenues (5.3 billion euros, or 43% of the total).
Revenues from TV rights are up sharply, by 10%, and represent 38% of total revenues.
The TV rights crisis in France has penalized Ligue 1 clubs
This increase, explains Deloitte, is explained in particular by the TV rights for the Club World Cup, expanded to 32 teams and the first edition of which took place last summer in the United States.
The clubs which participated in this World Cup experienced a 17% increase in their revenues linked to TV rights.
As for women’s football, the 15 clubs with the most revenue generate a total revenue exceeding 150 million euros for the first time (€158 million).
The ranking is dominated by Arsenal, titled in the Champions League (€25.6 million), with an increase in revenue of 43% compared to the previous season, ahead of Chelsea (€25.4 million) and Barcelona (€22 million).
