A few days ago, UEFA prepared the European Club Finance and Investment Landscape Report, which analyzes the economic situation of the major European football clubs during the past year. The letter determined that FC Barcelona was the club that obtained the most income thanks to ticket sales, since it earned 190 million euros, ahead of PSG (€153M) and Tottenham (€135M).
The Catalan team is also in first place in the sale of t-shirts and merchandising, having pocketed 179 million euros. Second in this classification is the Blaugranas’ eternal rival, Real Madrid, which raised €155M. In third place is Bayern, with revenues of €147M.
Furthermore, during 2023, FC Barcelona earned a total of 815 million euros, figures that place it only behind the current European champion, Manchester City (€836M), and Real Madrid (€841M).
UEFA has also provided the salaries that clubs paid to their players. In this section, Barça loses, since it is the second team that paid the most money to its players. The Catalan team allocated €505M to pay the salaries of the first team players. A figure that has increased considerably compared to 2022, since Barça, at that time, allocated €347M.
Although the team led by Joan Laporta was the second European club that paid the most money to its players, it was not even close to the most expensive squad in Europe. The total cost of the Barcelona players reached €576M, placing FC Barcelona in eleventh position, behind clubs such as Tottenham (€666M) or Juventus (€769M).
The income that the Catalan team obtained from UEFA is not excessively high either. Having been eliminated from the Champions League prematurely, Barça only received €75M from the body led by Ceferin, which places it as the twelfth team that received the most money from UEFA, behind Sevilla (€77M), which won the Europa League, or Benfica, which received the same amount as the Andalusian team for having reached the Champions League quarterfinals.
Finally, FC Barcelona achieved a good economic pinch thanks to sponsorships and commercial income, since the Catalan team pocketed 396 million euros, ahead of Real Madrid (€355M) or Bayern (€368M) and only by behind Manchester City (€401M).
