A recent UEFA report revealed that Chelsea had the most expensive team ever gathered at the end of the 2024 fiscal year.
Assessed at an astonishing 1.66 billion euros (1.39 billion pounds sterling), the blues exceeded the previous record of 1.12 billion pounds sterling set by Real Madrid in 2020.
The European report on the club’s finance and investment landscape and investment has also identified four clubs with squads worth more than 1 billion euros – Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal.
The results highlight the financial force of the Premier League more, with nine of the 20 most expensive teams in Europe belonging to English clubs.
Remarkably, the West Ham team was considered more expensive than those of Barcelona and AC Milan.
The report also examined wage expenses across Europe, revealing that nine English clubs have ranked among the best 20 on the continent on the basis of total salary bills.
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Manchester City recorded the highest salary costs at 554 million euros (464.5 million pounds Sterling), only Paris Saint-Germain passing more to 658 million euros (551.7 million pounds Sterling).
Commenting on the financial landscape of European football, the president of UEFA, Aleksander Ceferin, warned the clubs to remain cautious despite the responsible management of the wages of the players.
He said: “While most clubs seem to manage players’ salary increases in a responsible manner, other costs increased quickly, exerting greater pressure on operating margins than ever. Clubs must remain vigilant because considerable work must still be done to restore pre-pale profitability. »»
The report also highlighted a record of 2.1 billion euros (1.8 billion pounds sterling) in stadiums across Europe in 2023, exceeding the previous summit of 1.5 billion euros in 2019 before the pandemic.
Real Madrid, Barcelona, Everton and PSG each invested on 100 million euros in stadium projects, while 36 clubs allocated at least 10 million euros to stadium improvements – double the number of the previous year.
These long -term investments continued in 2024, the first financial reports showing support supported in infrastructure, because clubs aim to maximize the revenues of the day.
