Bundesliga: economic head-to-head Borussia Dortmund - Schalke 04 (Matchday 26, Saturday 16/05/2020)

With €377.1m in turnover in 2018-19, Borussia Dortmund occupies 12^th place in the Deloitte Football Money League 2020, compared to 15^th place for FC Schalke 04 and its €324.8m, while the Ruhr derby will see the two clubs meet at the Signal Iduna Park (Dortmund, GER), this Saturday 16/05/2020 (kick-off at 15:30 CET), for Matchday 26 of the 2019-20 Bundesliga.

According to the 2020 edition of the Deloitte Football Money League, if the Dortmund club had slightly higher audiovisual (€167.3m) and matchday (€59.6) revenues than those of Schalke 04 (respectively €161.1m and €53.6m respectively) in 2018-19, the former leads its Gelsenkirchen neighbor Gelsenkirchen - the two cities in North Rhine-Westphalia are 35km apart - in terms of commercial income (€150.2m compared to €110.1m).

With 29.5 million followers on the main social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, on 01/05/2020), Borussia Dortmund has 6 times more than its opponent, who totals 4.7 million.

At the time of the suspension of the German championship by the DFL on 13/03/2020, Borussia Dortmund had an average…