As the Premier League looks forward to its 25th season, the Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance has now completed
its quarter century of documenting English professional football’s business and commercial performance.
2. As the Premier League looks forward to
its 25th season, the Deloitte Annual
Review of Football Finance has now
completed its quarter century of
documenting English professional
football’s business and commercial
performance.
3. Europe’s premier leagues
Annual Review of Football Finance 2016 Sports Business Group
Of additional revenue
generated by the ‘big
five’ European leagues
in 2014/15 was spent
on wage costs
89%
From 2016/17 Premier
League broadcast rights
deals will be worth more
than the combined
broadcast revenues of the
Bundesliga, La Liga and
Serie A combined.
‘Big five’ European league clubs’ revenues – 2014/15 (€m)
0
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
England Germany Spain Italy France
1,000
1,295
29%
2,337
53%
731
31%
673
28%
643
31%
975
48%
483
27%
1,099
61%
628
44%
768
18% 521
22%
467
19%
4,400
2,392
2,053
1,792
1,418
165
12%
318
22%
307
22%
210
12%435
21%
436
19%
Matchday Broadcasting Other commercialSponsorship/commercial
220 133 90103 71
Average club revenue (€m)
36,163 42,685 21,58625,734 22,329
Average match attendance
96 90 5271 71
Stadium utilisation (%)
4. Premier League clubs
Annual Review of Football Finance 2016 Sports Business Group
Premier League clubs’ revenues – 2012/13 to 2016/17 (£m)
0
2,000
3,000
5,000
4,000
1,000
2012/13 2013/14 2014/15
3,259
897
27%
1,758
54%
604
19%
2015/16 2016/17
Matchd
Broadc
Comme
Averag
per club
2,525
749
30%
1,191
47%
585
23%
3,347
985
29%
1,778
53%
584
18%
3,570
1,100
31%
1,860
52%
610
17%
4,320
1,120
26%
2,590
60%
126 163 167 179 216
610
14%
Projected
2,000
3,000
5,000
4,000
1,000
3,259
897
27%
1,758
54%
604
Matchday
Broadcast
Commercial
Average revenue
per club
2,525
749
30%
1,191
47%
3,347
985
29%
1,778
53%
3,570
1,100
31%
1,860
52%
610
4,320
1,120
26%
2,590
60%
610
Projected
c.£95m-£150m
Premier League central
distributions to clubs
in 2016/17
By half-time of the second
Premier League game that is
televised domestically in 2016/17,
more broadcast revenue will have
been generated than by all the
First Division matches combined
25 years ago.
5. Premier League clubs
Annual Review of Football Finance 2016 Sports Business Group
Burnley’s wages/revenue ratio of
37% was the lowest in the Premier
League since Manchester United
recorded 33% in 1998/99.
Premier League clubs’ revenue and wage costs – 2014/15 (£m)
0
200
300
400
100
Wage costs Wages/revenue ratioRevenue
52%
395
204
ManUnited
194
353
55%
ManCity
192
331
58%
Arsenal
217
319
68%
Chelsea
167
298
56%
Liverpool
107
196
55%
TottenhamHotspur
102
167
61%
Average
65
129
51%
NewcastleUnited
78
126
62%
Everton
73
122
59%
WestHamUnited
80
114
71%
Southampton
87
113
77%
AstonVilla
57
104
55%
LeicesterCity
68
99
68%
CrystalPalace
77
101
76%
Sunderland
83
103
n/a
SwanseaCity
67
100
67%
StokeCity
70
96
73%
WestBromwichAlbion
73
86
85%
QueensParkRangers
56
84
66%
HullCity
29
79
37%
Burnley
6. Football League clubs
Annual Review of Football Finance 2016 Sports Business Group
Football League clubs’ revenues and wage costs – 2013/14 and 2014/15 (£m)
0
200
300
400
500
600
Championship
2013/14 2014/15 2013/14 2014/15 2013/14 2014/15
League 1 League 2
100
106% 99% 84% 86% 74% 72%
22 23 5.1 4.5 2.4 2.5
5958
107
122
541
518
548
490
124
145
8278
Wage costs
Revenue
Wages/revenue ratio
Average wage costs
per club
Future incremental revenue
for a non-parachute
club promoted from the
Championship in 2015/16
£170m+
Wage costs were greater
than total revenue for nine
Championship clubs in
2014/15.
7. Player transfers
Annual Review of Football Finance 2016 Sports Business Group
Premier League and Football League clubs’ player transfer payments – 2014/15 (£m)
Premier League clubs
Within PL clubs
£276m
Premier League total
£1,108m
Non-English
clubs
Football League clubs
Within FL clubs
£54m
Football League total
£137m
Agents
£627m
£35m£8m
£200m£130m
£30m
£18m£75m
Premier League clubs’
gross player transfer spending in
summer 2016 may exceed
£1 billion
In the 2014/15 season the
Premier League and Football
League clubs spent a record
£1.2 billion on acquiring
new players.
8. Stadia
Annual Review of Football Finance 2016 Sports Business Group
of capital expenditure –
the most ever invested in
a season
£305m
Premier League and Football League clubs’
expenditure on stadia and other facilities – 2013/14
and 2014/15 (£m)
3
6
228
53
21
212
49
13
305
280
0
200
300
400
2013/14 2014/15
100
Championship
League 1
League 2
Premier League
Source: Deloitte analysis
The aggregate attendance for
Premier League and Football
league matches reached
30 million in 2015/16.