The Deloitte Football Money League 2026 rich list was published a few weeks ago.
It showed the clubs in world football with the biggest revenues.
Deloitte compiling their rich list from the most recent available accounts for all clubs.
This was for the most recent full season, the 2024/25 campaign.
The Deloitte Football Money League 2026 rich list top 20 listed below.
Deloitte Football Money League 2026 top twenty covering the 2024/25 season accounts for each club and the amount of their total revenues that season, then where each of these clubs have finished in the final Champions League table of the Swiss League phase:
Rank Club Revenue (24/25) CL Finish
1 Real Madrid €1,161.0m 9th
2 Barcelona €974.8m 5th
3 Bayern Munich €860.6m 2nd
4 PSG €837.0m 11th
5 Liverpool €836.1m 3rd
6 Man City €829.3m 8th
7 Arsenal €821.7m 1st
8 Man U €793.1m N/A
9 Tottenham €672.6m 4th
10 Chelsea €584.1m 6th
11 Inter Milan €537.5m 10th
12 Borussia Dortmund €531.3m 17th
13 Atletico Madrid €454.5m 14th
14 Aston Villa €450.2m N/A
15 AC Milan €410.4m N/A
16 Juventus €401.7m 13th
17 Newcastle United €398.4m 12th
18 Stuttgart €296.3m N/A
19 Benfica €283.4m 24th
20 West Ham €276.0m N/A
An interesting statistic to now note, is that of the top ten clubs in the Deloitte Football Money League 2026 rich list, already in 2026 four of them have sacked their managers.
1 January 2026 Chelsea sacked Enzo Maresca
5 January 2026 Man U sacked Ruben Amorim
12 January 2026 Real Madrid sacked Xabi Alonso
11 February 2026 Tottenham sacked Thomas Frank
When you look at all of the top 20 Deloitte Football Money League 2026 rich list, then leaving aside Newcastle United, seven of the other 19 in the list have sacked their managers since the start of this season.
As well as the four mentioned above, you also have had:
16 September 2025 Bruno Lage sacked by Benfica
27 September 2025 Graham Potter sacked by West Ham
27 October 2025 Igor Tudor sacked by Juventus
Is it an inevitability that the richer a club is, the more likely they are to sack their managers?
The more pressure they feel, the more fear they feel that they will drop from their powerful positions?