Top 20 European football clubs with the biggest gate receipts in the 2017 financial year, according to UEFA

Top 20 European football clubs with the biggest gate receipts in the 2017 financial year, according to UEFA
Elite European football clubs top up their cash reserves every other weekend thanks to supporters coming through the turnstiles.These gate receipts help teams to fund transfers, wages, and simply keep the whole organisation functioning from the megastore to the canteen.10

Tottenham fans queue to go through the turnstiles at White Hart Lane in 2017

Some sides, make more on the door than others though and thanks to UEFA’s latest benchmarking report we know who the top 20 clubs are at generating this cash.It isn’t an exact science, though, and the governing body of European football makes clear gate receipts per match are calculated by dividing total gate receipt revenue by the number of official competitive domestic league and cup matches and UEFA matches hosted during the financial year (i.e. home matches only, plus finals).

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The best supported clubs with aggregate attendances of more than a million fans, including Celtic, Arsenal and Manchester United

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And they admit this may in some cases lead to a slight overestimation of revenue per match if clubs also generated gate receipts from non-official friendly matches. In addition, there are also various revenue sharing arrangements for domestic league and cup matches that can increase or decrease receipts per match.Nonetheless, thanks to the figures we can get an idea of which top clubs are getting the most out of their paying fans. 19= Athletic Bilbao Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 36million/31.57m(25 home matches played = 1.4million/1.23mper game)19= Celtic Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 36million/31.57m(29 home matches played = 1.2million/1.05mper game)10

Celtic players salute the Celtic Park faithful after a game

18. Eintracht Frankfurt Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 37million/32.44m(19 home matches played = 1.9million/1.67mper game)17. Schalke Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 38million/33.32m(20 home matches played = 1.9million/1.67mper game)16. Hamburg Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 40million/35.08m(19 home matches played = 2.1million/1.84mper game)15. Atletico Madrid Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 41million/35.95m(29 home matches played = 1.4million/1.23mper game)10

Atletico Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano

13= Borussia Dortmund Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 44million/38.58m(26 home matches played = 1.7million/1.49mper game)13= Olympique Lyonnais Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 44million/38.58m(28 home matches played = 1.6million/1.40 m per game)12. West Ham United Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 45million/39.46m(24 home matches played = 1.9million/1.67mper game)10

A West Ham fan reacts at the London Stadium

11. Tottenham Hotspur Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 51million/44.72m(28 home matches played = 1.8million/1.58mper game)9= Juventus Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 60million/52.61m(30 home matches played = 2million/1.75mper game)9= Manchester City Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 60million/52.61m(26 home matches played = 2.3million/2.02mper game)10

Manchester City fans at the Etihad Stadium

8. Chelsea Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 68million/59.63m(25 home matches played = 2.7million/2.37mper game)7. Liverpool Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 85million/74.54m(24 home matches played = 3.5million/3.07mper game)10

Supporters at Anfield hold their scarves aloft

6. Paris Saint-Germain Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 90million/78.92m(29 home matches played = 3.1million/2.72m per game)4= Arsenal Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 117million/102.60m(28 home matches played = 4.2million/3.68m per game)10

Arsenal fans at the Emirates stadium

4= Bayern Munich Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 117million/102.60m(26 home matches played = 4.5million/3.95m per game)3. Manchester United Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 120million/105.23m(33 home matches played = 3.6million/3.16m per game)10

Manchester United’s Old Trafford Stadium

2. Real Madrid Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 142million/123m(29 home matches played = 4.9million/4.3m per game)10

Real Madrid’s home stadium, the Santiago Bernabeu

1. Barcelona Gate receipts for the 2017 financial year = 143million/125.39m(30 home matches played = 4.8million/4.21m per game)10

Barcelona fans at the Nou Camp

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