Juventus lead Italy and have retained their place in the world’s top 10 richest clubs, but Real Madrid made almost twice as much.
The Deloitte Money League is published every January, and ranks the top clubs in Europe in terms of revenue for the previous season.
The Bianconeri have actually fallen down the list, after being ranked ninth last year, despite increasing revenue from €272.4m to €279.4m.
Juventus lead Italy and have retained their place in the world’s top 10 richest clubs, but Real Madrid made almost twice as much.
The Deloitte Money League is published every January, and ranks the top clubs in Europe in terms of revenue for the previous season.
The Bianconeri have actually fallen down the list, after being ranked ninth last year, despite increasing revenue from €272.4m to €279.4m.
Despite being the only major club in Italy to own their own stadium, the Old Lady struggled to create matchday revenue when compared with the other teams in the top 10.
Juve’s income from broadcasting amounted to €153.4m, while Liverpool – who overtook them into ninth place – made €120.8m.
However, the Reds raked in €61m from matchdays, compared to the Italian champions’ €41m, despite Anfield having a similar capacity [45,522] to Juventus Stadium [41,000]. The figures seem to back up club President Andrea Angelli's claims that Italian football is lagging behind its continental rivals.
At the top of the table for the 10th year running are Real Madrid, having generated €549.5m, with commercial revenues helped by star names such as Cristiano Ronaldo seeing Los Merengues earn €231.5m. By contrast, Juventus brought in €85m.
Milan are outside of the top 10 for the first time ever this season, despite earning €102.2m from commercial activities and €122.7m from broadcasting.
This is down to the fact that only €24.9m of the Rossoneri’s €249.7m total is made from matchday revenues, compared with Manchester United’s €129.3m. With plans said to be advancing for a new stadium owned by the club, it would seem the Diavolo are aware of this disparity.
Napoli have cracked the top 20 in the Money League this year, with a 38 per cent increase in matchday revenues due to Champions League participation seeing the Partenopei in 16th.
Inter fell two places to 17th this year, and despite a 10 per cent drop in broadcasting revenue retain this as their primary source of revenue, at 52 per cent of their total income of €164m.
Matchday income for the Nerazzurri was just €18.8m, with English Premier League side Newcastle, who finished last season in 10th position taking more [€31m].
As recently as 2006, Milan and Juventus occupied third and fourth position in the Deloitte list, but have failed to significantly grow their revenues as the biggest Spanish and English clubs have.
Real Madrid earned €275.7m that year, and €549.5m in this edition. Juventus on the other hand have seen just a €50m increase in revenue over the same period.
Roma have fallen out of the top 20 altogether, sitting at 24th behind the likes of West Ham United and Aston Villa.
In 2001 there were five Italian clubs in the top 10 [Inter, Roma, Lazio, Juventus and Milan], while only Juventus remain today. Meanwhile, the English Premier League provides eight clubs to the Money League, with high attendances and huge broadcast revenues the main factor.