Deloitte: €4.87bn in revenue for Premier League clubs in 2015-16 (+9%)

The 20 Premier League clubs totaled a cumulative €4.87bn in revenue in 2015-16, an increase of 9% compared to 2014-15. The 18 Bundesliga clubs accumulated €2.71bn in revenue, with the Liga BBVA completing the podium with €2.44bn accumulated by its 20 clubs in 2015-16, according to the 2017 edition of the "Annual Review of Football Finance", carried out by the UK office of the audit and consulting firm Deloitte and published on 11/07/2017.

The average revenue per club was €243m in the Premier League in 2015-16. This amount is much higher than the average revenue of the Bundesliga clubs (€151m), the second place league in average financial terms, and much higher than the average revenue of Ligue 1 clubs (€74m), last among the European Top 5 leagues.

"The financial performance of the ‘big five’ European leagues in 2015-16 was heavily influenced by growth in centralised broadcast revenues, with new collective arrangements in both Spain and Italy, and new international rights deals in Germany. The impact of this growing, shared wealth, coupled with ever-increasing revenues generated from…