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The Chelsea team at the end of the financial year 2024 was the most expensive, according to a new UEFA report.
The Big Spenders Blues squad was worth a surprising € 1.66 billion (£ 1.39 billion), eclipsing the highest previous recorded by Real Madrid in 2020 (£ 1.12 billion).
The UEFA Finance and Investment Finance and Investment Report, published on Thursday, found that four clubs had one billion euros or more in 2024 – Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal.
Premier League’s financial power was underlined by the fact that nine of the 20 most expensive squads in 2024 were gathered in England, with the cost of West Ham more than Barcelona or AC Milan.
There were also nine English clubs among the top 20 in Europe, based on the size of his total salary account.
Manchester City was in second place with 554 million euros (£ 464.5m), behind only Paris St Germain at 658 million euros (551.7 million euros).
The Chelsea team in late 2024 was revealed as the most expensive in history
The blues surpassed Real Madrid’s previous record in 2020 (£ 1.39 billion)
UEFA’s last report reveals that four Premier League clubs are evaluated in over 1 billion
Among the main 20 clubs, the report found that the portion of salary -absorbed revenue ranged from 42 % at Tottenham at 91 % at Aston Villa.
The growth of players ‘salaries was 4.5 % among the first 2024 report clubs compared to 2023 – considerably below revenue growth level – as teams work to meet UEFA Squad cost rules, which will limit spending on players’ salaries, transfer rates and agents to 70 % of revenue.
It was found that a sharp increase in the salaries of the technical and administrative team is consuming the operational margins of the clubs by the report.
They increased in Europe by 19 % by 2023, with two -digit salary growth reported in 16 of the 20 alloys examined in the report.
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin said in the report’s preface: ‘Although most clubs seem to be managing the player’s salary increases responsibly, other costs are rapidly increasing, pressing more operational margins than ever.
“Clubs must remain vigilant, as considerable work still needs to be done to restore pre-standard profitability.”
The investment in stadiums in all clubs reached a record by 2023 to € 2.1 billion (£ 1.8 billion), exceeding the previous record of 1.5 billion euros in the 2019 pre-standard year, while Europe’s clubs seek to maximize journey revenue.
Four clubs invested more than € 100 million during 2023 – Real Madrid, Barcelona, Everton and Paris Saint -Germain – but there was also an increase in investment volume with 36 clubs investing at least 10 million euros compared to 18 clubs the year before.
The report found that these long -term investments seem to have continued in the 2024 season, with record levels between the early clubs.
