UEFA: 11^th edition of the European Club Footballing Landscape report for the financial year 2018

"UEFA has released the 11^th edition of the European Club Footballing Landscape report, its annual club licensing benchmarking report on European club football," announced the European body on 16/01/2020. "The latest report details that the 2018 financial year was the second consecutive year of overall profitability for European top-division club football," added UEFA.

"As financial performance has improved, clubs' financial position has become significantly healthier, with net assets increasing from less than €2bn to more than €9bn in the space of a decade, a testament to the success of UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations, the stable European football ecosystem and sustained and sensible investment," said Aleksander Ceferin (SVN), president of UEFA, in an introductory statement.

"The report focuses on how the stable European football ecosystem, aided by sensible regulation, has helped club football to 20 consecutive years of revenue growth. In fact, top division European club revenues increased in total from €20bn to €21bn in 2018," explained UEFA.