Chelsea remain sixth biggest club in Europe

http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_GB/.../9db981f2bd415310VgnVCM1000001a56f00aRCRD.htm

We have the sixth biggest revenue in Europe for the third season running.

We were fifth in 07/8 before Arsenal maxed the Emirates and fourth the season before Bayern moved.

We are closing the gap on Arsenal financially for 10/11; and increased the gap over Liverpool.

That gap will get bigger next year with Liverpool and Spurs not entering Europe for 11/12. And with the shirt sales from Torres.

Keep up the good work, Chelsea.

Every year we play Champions League our name, support and brand gets stronger.

As an established top six European club ... maybe there would life after Roman (when he leaves in 2060!).

Interestingly we have been top 6 in the money league eight seasons running; and we were top ten in three season preRoman too (9th, seventh, tenth).

So maybe we were not that small a club preRoman!

 

Just need a bigger stadium now

 

Yes. With our current revenue we could compete with Bayern and Arsenal to be fourth biggest club in Europe
behind United, and the Spaniards who make more cash from TV

 

I'm confused.Our own figures show we had an increase over the previous season yet Deloitte is showing us with a drop.
Also our figures translate to 265M Euro they say 249M.

Seems to me that the actual figures released by the club are the one's to concentrate on.

 

True but looks difficult to achieve ATM.

 

Roman will deliver: he always gets what he wants.

And he will leave us as an established top 5 club in Europe for a couple more decades, we hope!

 

How do you reckon Spurs won't be in Europe?

The way it is going at the moment even Newcastle look more likely than us ffs!

 

They won't be in Europe for next year's ratings 2013 (for 11/12)

we will be OK. Drogs, JT and Lamps will guide us to Europe

 

God, I wish my favourite team were as much of a global brand as yours. I'm embarrassed.

 

MAybe you wouldn't need Chelsea fans to fill your home areas for Cup games if you were.

 

I'm more interested in balancing the books! Turnovers one thing, but Euro rules will determine the kind of losses we're delivering over the past few years might rule us out of the CL. Somehow or other, our costs have got to be cut back. We've also got to make sure we stay in the top4 or that turnover will go for a ball of chalk as well!

 

Arsenal only make more than us because of match day revenue, if/when we get a bigger stadium we'll trump them on all fronts.

Spuds do not even come close

 

I think you'll find that Chelsea are the club with the sixth highest revenue in Europe, revenue is just one part of what makes a club big and most people accross Europe would probably put quite a few clubs ahead of Chelsea in this regard, especially the 3 directly below them on that list (AC and Inter Milan, and Liverpool), plus a few others like Juve and Dortmund

 

Fair point. Would say Juve and AC def bigger than Chelsea. Juve biggest club in Italy historically and still has biggest fanbase despite poor home crowds. Their away following is legend,

Liverpool historically bigger but around the same size these days and Inter too

My current biggest clubs list:

Real
United
Barca
Bayern
AC
JUve
Arsenal
Chelsea
Inter
PSG
Liverpool

 

To be fair Lf Forbes list is slightly different due to how they calculate the clubs worth.

http://www.therichest.org/sports/forbes-richest-football-teams/

The yearly change in our financial worth up until 2011 was -33%.

Obviously not qualifying for the CL took its toll but the main reason was the debt Hicks & Gillett left us in.

 

Only you lot would bang on about being 5th at anything

 

I agree with your list but you really ought to call Milan by their proper name. AC is effectively the Italian for FC, whereas they are named Milan rather than Milano in honour of the game being invented in England. So AC Milan or Milan but not AC.

 

Thanks for AC correction. You know your stuff Power; and are a welcome Spur on our board

 

Yes, welcome a rare commodity indeed.

 

Thanks both of you. Glad you took it in the way it was intended