You may have already seen that Deloitte has just published the annual Football Money League report and, as I speculated might happen in a post on last year’s report, Villa have just snuck back into the top 20 for the first time in several years.
The report is always an interesting read, but lately I’ve found that it gives us an early glimpse of Aston Villa’s revenue ahead of the official accounts being filed.
Last year, Deloitte said that Villa’s 2008/09 revenue
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[Updated: This post has been replaced, The Telegraph have butchered the facts]
I didn’t expect to be following up the earlier post on the 2008/09 revenue so quickly, but I just spotted this article at The Telegraph which suggests that our accounts have now been filed, they’ve seen them and the revenue increase of 11% to £84.2 million is confirmed.
However, the not-so-sexy news is that we still made a loss. Not insignificant either. £43.7 million in the red for the
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You may have already seen that Deloitte recently released their annual Football Money League report which ranks Europe’s top 20 football clubs by revenue. The headline for the 2008/09 season was that Real Madrid became the first sporting club in the world to earn more than €400m in one year.
If you’re not familiar with the report and/or don’t fancy reading the full story at The Guardian, I’ll just summarise the top 20 below (figures are €million) :-
1
Real Madrid
401.4
11
Hamburg
146.7
2
Barcelona
365.9
12
Roma
146.4
3
Manchester Utd
327.0
13
Lyon
139.6
4
Bayern Munich
289.5
14
Marseille
133.2
5
Arsenal
263.0
15
Tottenham
132.7
6
Chelsea
242.3
16
Schalke
124.5
7
Liverpool
217.0
17
Werder
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