Champions League: head-to-head Real Madrid - Chelsea (semi-final first leg, Tuesday 27/04/2021)

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 8^th place for Chelsea FC (Premier League) with a turnover of €469.7m, as the two clubs prepare to face each other in the first leg of their 2020-21 Champions League semi-final behind closed doors at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano (Madrid, ESP) on Tuesday 27/04/2021 (kick-off 21:00 CET).

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, seven places above Chelsea in 8^th place (€949m).

Valued at $4.75bn (€3.93bn) according to Forbes, Real Madrid are also second in the 2021 ranking of the most valuable football clubs by the US business magazine Forbes, while the Chelsea are ranked 7^th ($3.2bn/€2.65bn).

The Madrid club has more than 273 million fans on social networks (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, as of 04/26/2021), 2.9 times as many as their English opponents, who are approaching 94 million…