2020-21 Europa League: LOSC Lille - AFC Ajax (Round of 32 first leg, Thursday 18/02/2021)

With more than 12 million followers on social networks (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok, as of 17/02/2021), AFC Ajax (Eredivisie) has 4.8 times more than LOSC Lille (Ligue 1 Uber Eats), which totals more than 2.5 million, at a time when the two teams face each other in the Round of 32 first leg of the 2020-21 Europa League, at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille (FRA), this Thursday 17/02/2021 (kick-off at 21:00 CET).

AFC Ajax, with €162.3 million in turnover in 2019-20, is 27^th in the Deloitte Football Money League 2021. The Amsterdam club is also 27^th in the "Football Annual 2020" ranking established by the American company Brand Finance, a specialist in football economic valuation of brands. LOSC Lille is absent from both of these two rankings.

LOSC Lille is the top European Top 5 club which has recorded the best financial results concerning transfer transactions concluded during the last five seasons (i.e. 10 markets in total, from summer 2016 to winter 2021), with a positive balance of €191m, according to a study by the CIES published on 08/02/2021. Also according to…