Champions League: head-to-head Real Madrid CF - Liverpool FC (quarter-final first leg, 06/04/2021)

With a turnover of €714.9m in 2019-20, Real Madrid CF (LaLiga Santander) are ranked 2^nd in the Football Money League 2021, versus 5^th place for Liverpool FC (Premier League) with a turnover of €558.6m (£489.9m), as the two clubs prepare to face each other in the first leg of their 2020-21 Champions League quarter-final behind closed doors at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano (Madrid, ESP) on Tuesday 06/04/2021 (kick-off 21:00 CET).

Liverpool generated more audiovisual revenue than Real Madrid (€232.5m vs €224m) in 2019-20, however the Spanish club was ahead in terms of commercial (€382.7m vs €243.4m) and matchday revenue (€108.2m vs €82.7m).

With a brand valuation of €1.419bn, Real Madrid are ranked first place in the "Football Annual 2020" ranking established by the American company Brand Finance, a specialist in the economic valuation of brands, three places above Liverpool in 4^th place (€1.262bn).

The Madrid club has nearly 249 million followers on social networks (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, as of 01/04/2021), 2.8 times as many as their English rivals, who are…