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Top 30 English League Clubs by Turnover - 2001/02-2004/05

Club

2004/05

2003/04

2002/03

2001/02

Chelsea Football Club Ltd.

122.657

118.032

75.136

75.248

Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds plc

121.054

91.576

102.504

98.668

Arsenal F.C. plc

115.075

115.056

103.789

90.602

Manchester United FC Ltd

107.561

116.956

119.480

99.486

Newcastle United Football Company Ltd

87.117

90.195

96.473

70.891

Tottenham Hotspur plc

70.550

66.324

66.506

65.033

Manchester City Football Club plc

60.864

61.932

49.028

28.006

Everton F.C. Co. Ltd

59.953

44.302

46.781

38.231

Middlesbrough Football and Athletic Co. (1986) Ltd

51.988

43.047

40.229

35.434

Aston Villa plc

51.623

55.859

45.447

46.724

Bolton Wanderers Football & Athletic Co. Ltd

44.970

41.363

31.066

31.121

Birmingham City F.C. plc

42.706

45.337

36.480

15.184

Blackburn Rovers Football & Athletic plc

41.303

40.843

45.438

38.480

Charlton Athletic plc

40.714

42.606

35.141

30.641

Southampton FC Ltd

39.317

44.401

44.131

33.882

Norwich City F.C. plc

37.425

13.928

12.965

15.271

West Bromwich Albion Ltd.

36.504

20.324

28.122

14.277

Fulham F.C. (1987) Ltd

36.207

39.082

33.641

32.381

Portsmouth City Football Club Limited

36.043

39.813

12.667

9.945

Leeds United A.F.C. Ltd

31.121

41.954

46.998

64.169

Sunderland plc

25.341

28.459

42.454

43.829

West Ham United F.C. plc

25.142

28.217

44.862

42.756

Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. (1986) Ltd

23.915

37.980

16.997

16.828

Leicester City F.C. plc

22.471

39.633

 

 

Ipswich Town plc

17.482

24.371

25.532

37.376

Sheffield United plc

12.880

11.837

12.999

10.041

Nottingham Forest Football Club Ltd.

12.243

10.586

9.137

10.928

The Reading Football Club Limited

9.915

10.500

10.187

8.368

Sheffield Wednesday plc

9.661

9.026

8.512

18.552

Coventry City Football Club (Holdings) Ltd

8.686

7.888

14.500

16.446

Note 1: Figures are in £ million

Note 2: Missing from list are Crystal Palace, promoted in 2004/05 and likely to have a turnover that financial year of approximately £35 million, and possibly Derby County, who's turnover in 2003/04 was £16.7 million. We will update this table when we get these figures.

Note 3: Manchester United plc was de-listed from stock exchange in 2005 after the Glazer takeover. We have only used the football club's limited company turnover figures in the above table so it is missing certain marketing and ancillary revenues also accruing to the club. Deloitte have this figure at £166.4 million for 2004/05. Similarly, Deloitte estimated Chelsea's total turnover at £149.1 million.


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