Champions League: head-to-head Liverpool FC - Villarreal CF (semi-final first leg, 27/04/2022)

With a turnover of €550.4m in 2020-21, Liverpool FC (Premier League) are ranked 7^th in the 2022 edition of the "Deloitte Football Money League", a ranking from which Villarreal CF (LaLiga Santander) are absent (2020-21 turnover: €123.9m), as the two clubs prepare to face each other in the first leg of their 2021-22 Champions League semi-final at Anfield (Liverpool, ENG) on Wednesday 27/04/2022 (kick-off at 21:00 CET).

The English club's brand is valued at €976m, which places them 6^th in the "Football Annual 2020" ranking drawn up by the American company Brand Finance, a specialist in the economic valuation of brands, versus 44^th place for the 2020-21 Europa League winners. Liverpool were also ranked fifth in the Top 20 "World's Most Valuable Soccer Teams" (excluding real estate) as established by the American business magazine Forbes in April 2021, with a valuation of $4.1bn (€3.4bn). Their Spanish rivals were not featured in this ranking.

With more than 103 million followers on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, as of 12/04/2022), the Merseyside club has more…