Not all football clubs can boast not only high incomes, but generally more or less serious profits. This requires not only the interest of fans far outside the city where the team plays, but also high results on the international arena.
Spain
These qualities are fully consistent with Real Madrid, a football club that has been the richest in the world for nine years. The team has annual revenues of over 500 million euros, and the profits are growing every year. This is achieved mainly due to the high popularity of the club among fans all over the world, which allows you to dictate your terms when selling rights to television broadcasts. Real Madrid's commercial agreements with numerous companies and sponsors also play an important role in this profit.
The second, in terms of annual income, the football club of the world, based on the economic rating of Delloite, is also the Spanish team - Barcelona. Despite the fierce competition in the championship with Real Madrid, which is held with varying success, the financial race Barcelona is losing to its opponent year after year.
Germany and France
The German and French football championships are not considered the strongest in Europe, and it is all the more surprising that in recent years teams from these countries have managed to break into the top of the richest clubs in the world.
Bayern, the Bundesliga champion of recent years, have managed to break into the top three most profitable clubs in the world, largely thanks to their sporting success in the international arena, which has increased prices for the sale of TV broadcasts by more than a third.
The French Paris Saint-Germain took a slightly different path, concluding lucrative deals with financial giants such as Microsoft, Panasonic, Nike, McDonalds, and others. PSG's advertising contracts amount to more than 60 percent of the club's total profits, which is an absolute world record.
England
Despite the fact that income levels of English clubs have dropped significantly in recent years, the number of football teams from Foggy Albion in the top 10 richest is still large.
Manchester United, which for a long time held the third place among the richest clubs in the world, and was second only to the Spanish giants, had to give this place to Bayern Munich. This was largely due to the deterioration of the team's results, which occurred after the departure from Manchester United of the permanent coach Sir Alex Ferguson, who led the football club from Manchester for twenty-six years.
Other English clubs - Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal are also among the ten most profitable teams in recent years, but they are still far from the leaders, as well as teams from other countries, which are far behind in terms of income of the top -clubs.
