2023-24 Champions League final: head-to-head Borussia Dortmund - Real Madrid, on Saturday 01/06/2024

With a turnover of €843m for the 2022-23 financial year (from 01/07/2022 to 30/06/2023), Real Madrid CF (LALIGA EA Sports) are the club from the European Top 5 that generated the most revenue excluding transfers over the period, while Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga) are in 12^th place with €418m, as the two clubs prepare to face each other in the 2023-24 Champions League final at Wembley (London, ENG) on Saturday 01/06/2024 (kick-off at 21:00 CET). During the same 2022-23 season, the Spanish club's wage bill (€408m) was 1.7 times higher than that of their rivals (€236m).

In terms of the sums paid out by UEFA to the clubs taking part in the 2023-24 Champions League, the Madrid club can already count on €117m in guaranteed revenue (excluding market pool), compared with €101.4m for Borussia Dortmund. This difference can be explained by the gap between the two teams in terms of their UEFA coefficient rankings (€36.4m for the Spanish club, compared with €27.3m for Dortmund), as well as by their sporting performance during the group stage (€16.8m for Real Madrid, €14.9m for BVB). The…