Barcelona is a number one European champion

Zdroj: Economic Daily, Vladimir Travnicek

A KPMG study has compared economic results of the football champions in eight leagues. The Catalonian top club dominates in a half of indicators. 

(...) The data collected after the season 2017/2018 confirm that FC Barcelona with one of the best football players in history Lionel Messi dominates in the overall revenues, the social networks numbers as well as salary expenditures. „Barcelona tends to be compared to Real Madrid or Manchester United in the charts of top earning clubs. They are a clear number one in comparison with other league champions,“ Jozef Tokos, sports analyst and football intermediary said to the Economic Daily.

(...)  According to the KPMG study, one of the most interesting data is a huge, 42-per cent yearly increase of expenditures for players´ salaries, four fifth of the overall club´s revenues.  „That was caused by an extraordinary situation in the transfer market. The club sold the Brazilian Neymar and subsequently bought several players. The new financially improved contract for Lionel Messi also influenced this number,“ explains Tokos. 222 milion euro for Neymara was used for the transfers of players like Philippe Coutinho, Ousmane Dembélé, Paulinho, Nelson Semedo či Gerard Deulofeu. 

(...) Barcelona is not the number one as to the overall value of players, the economic results and, especially, gate income at Nou Camp. The attendances were only 66 per cent of its capacity the last season, which is the fewest number out of all eight compared clubs. „Despite this fact the overall gate income increased by 24 per cent, which is interesting. Moreover, the club is to plan to increase the capacity from 99000 as of today to 105000,“ says Tokos. Less interest and the higher gate income at the same time could have been caused by the increase of ticket prices for La Liga as well as the most prestigious competition the Champions League. 

(...) Statistics of KPMG shows how huge the economic results are among the top clubs in respective countries. For instance, the Turkish champions Galatasaray Istanbul had yearly revenues 114 million euro, six times less than FC Barcelona.  (...) „The numbers of clubs like ako Galatasaray or PSV Eindhoven are quite low in comparison with some others champions. An interesting increase of numbers was made by FC Porto,“ says Tokos.