UEFA have revealed Aston Villa's revenue and losses for the 2023-24 season
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Updated 11:25, 11 Mar 2025
Aston Villa competed in the Europa Conference League last season
Aston Villa competed in the Europa Conference League last season
A UEFA report on club finances shows that Aston Villa posted losses of more than £80m for their 2023/24 campaign.
According to UEFA’s European Club Finance and Investment Landscape, Villa's pre-tax loss is among the 10 largest in Europe, despite the club reporting a sharp increase in revenue.
Seven of the 10 largest losses before tax were reported by clubs that had poorer sporting results than anticipated, but not Villa, who were playing in Europe for the first time in more than a decade.
Reaching the semi-finals of the Europa Conference League helped the club record the 18th largest revenue of around £270m.
Juventus recorded the highest losses for 2024 before tax at roughly £165m, while Chelsea came in at a £93m loss, behind Villa.
Villa escaped a possible Premier League double-digit points deduction by selling Douglas Luiz to Juventus to comply with the top-flight stringent Profit and Sustainability Rules.
But Villa are due to be in breach of UEFA’s squad cost rules for this season as spending on wages, transfer fees and agents’ fees is capped at 80 per cent of revenue.
That threshold will be permanently tightened to 70 per cent from next season after being progressively implemented from the start of the last campaign.
Figures published in the UEFA report claim Villa’s wage bill was the 10th highest in Europe last season at £246m, a 33 per cent increase in 2023.
Paris Saint-Germain had the largest wage bill of £554m, followed by Manchester City, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.
UEFA also claim that Villa have the 11th most expensively assembled squad at around £490m, which is more than the likes of Bayern Munich, Newcastle United, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and AC Milan.
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