Region’s Premier League football clubs take home a combined £1.3bn
The North West’s 18 Premier League and Football League clubs generated combined revenues of £1.5bn in 2015/16 – that’s around a third of the £4.4bn generated by the top 92 clubs in English football.
The four Premier League clubs in the region generated a combined revenue of £1.3bn, with Manchester United reporting the highest revenues with £515m, whilst Manchester City achieved £393m, Liverpool with £302m and Everton with £122m.
The figures, from Deloitte’s Annual Review of Football Finance, show that Manchester United was also the fastest growing club by total revenue in 2015/16, with a 30% increase of £120m.
Of the top four Premier League clubs in terms of wage costs, three are from the North West – Manchester United (£241m, first), Liverpool (£209m, third), and Manchester City (£198m, fourth).
Manchester United (£173m) and Manchester City (£97m) were the top two clubs in terms of operating profit in the Premier League in 2015/16, and together accounted for over 50% of Premier League profits. Liverpool generated an operating profit of £13m (down £49m on 2014/15), and Everton an operating loss of £6m (2014/15 operating profit of £18m).
The UK-wide picture shows that 92 Premier League and Football League clubs recorded combined revenues in excess of £4.4bn in the 2015/16 season. Premier League clubs generated record revenues of £3.6 bn, in the final year before the start of the new broadcast deals in 2016/17.
Dan Jones, partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said: “With the commencement of the new Premier League broadcast rights cycle in 2016/17, supported by new commercial agreements at clubs and matchday revenue growth from new and expanded stadia, we expect total Premier League clubs’ revenues to rise to over £4.5 billion in 2017/18.”
