On Thursday, Deloitte unveiled its annual ranking of the highest-earning clubs in world football. Despite financial progress, Paris Saint-Germain still dropped a place.
As it does every year, Deloitte published its annual ranking of the highest-earning football clubs in the world on Thursday. Three sources are used to rank the teams: ticket sales, television rights and commercial revenue.
Unsurprisingly, Real Madrid remains firmly in first place, being the only team to exceed €1 billion in the 2024-2025 season: €1.161 billion.
PSG drops one place, but…
Paris Saint-Germain, which was in third place last year, has dropped one place and is now in fourth position in this edition. However, the reigning European champions have seen a slight increase in revenue (+€31 million), from €806 million to €837 million. In reality, the French capital’s club is paying the price for FC Barcelona’s revival.
Ranked only sixth in 2023-2024, the reigning Spanish champions have seen a meteoric rise (+€214.5 million) to overtake PSG and take second place. Bayern Munich (€860.6 million), which remains stable, completes the podium. Unsurprisingly, the top 20 in this ranking is largely dominated by the Premier League, which has nine representatives: Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Newcastle and West Ham.
OM and OL have slipped completely.
What about France? For the first time since 2020–2021, PSG is the only French club in this ranking! Olympique de Marseille and Olympique Lyonnais, which ranked 19th and 20th respectively last year, have been affected by the TV rights crisis in Ligue 1 and have even disappeared from the top 30… This is a bad sign for the economic state of French football.
