Chelsea Squad the most expensive ever gathered, reveals a new UEFA report because the Premier League clubs dominate the list | Football news
Chelsea’s team at the end of 2024. The financial year was the most expensive ever gathered, according to a new UEFA report.
The Blues detachment with great consumption was valid 1.66 billion euros (€ 1.39 billion), eclipped the previous highest recorded by Real Madrid 2020 (1.12 billion pounds).
The Financing and Investment Landscape Report of UEFA, announced on Thursday, found that four clubs had a team worth 1 billion euros or more in 2024 – – Chelsea,, Manchester City,, Manchester United and Arsenal.
The Premier League financial power was emphasized by the fact that the nine of the 20 most expensive teams in 2024 were gathered in England, West Ham’s It costs more than Barcelona or AC Milan.
There were also nine English clubs in the top 20 in Europe based on the size of their total salary account.
Manchester City was second to € 554 million (£ 464.5 million), behind Paris Saint-Germain only to EUR 658 million (£ 551.7 million).
Among the top 20 clubs, the report found that the share of revenue that absorbed wages ranging in the range of 42 percent on Tottenham up to 91 percent on Aston villa.
Player growth was 4.5 percent among the clubs for early reporting for 2024. Compared to 2023 – significantly below the revenue level – because teams work according to the rules on the costs of UEFA expenses, which will limit the consumption of players, transfer and reimbursement of agents to 70 percent of revenue from next season.
It has been revealed that the sudden increase in the salary of technical and administrative staff in the report that he has been handed into operational margins of clubs.
They increased in Europe by 19 percent in 2023, with a double -digit growth in the salaries reported in 16 of the 20 leagues tested in the report.
UEFA President Alexander Ceferin said in connection with the report: “Although most clubs are managed to manage the salary of players responsibly, other costs grow rapidly, which exerts more pressure on operational margins than ever before.
“Clubs must remain awake because it is still necessary to do a significant job to return before the pandemic.”
Investing in stadiums at all clubs has reached a record high height from 2023 to € 2.1 billion (€ 1.8 billion), exceeding the previous record of 1.5 billion euros set in before Pandemic in 2019, as clubs across Europe seek to maximize revenue from the day of the match.
Four clubs have invested more than 100 million euros during 2023 – Real Madrid, Barcelona, Everton And PSG – but there was also an increase in the amount of investment with 36 clubs that invested at least 10 million euros, compared to 18 clubs in the previous year.
The report found that these long -term investments seemed to continue in the 2024 season, with a record level of investment among clubs that apply early.
