EPL TEAMS OUT OF RICH LIST'S TOP FOUR

English sides no longer dominate annual Deloitte survey as Real retain top spot

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Spanish giants Real Madrid, with €1.16 billion (S$1.74 billion) in revenue last season, boast stars such as Kylian Mbappe (No. 10) and Jude Bellingham.

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LONDON - The Premier League is renowned for being the best football league in the world, but the fiercely competitive tournament does not always translate into money.

English teams have slipped out of the top four of Deloitte’s Money League for the first time in 29 years, according to an annual survey of the highest revenue generating football clubs globally.

Instead, the top four is made up of clubs who consistently dominate their respective leagues, almost always winning domestic trophies and qualifying for the most lucrative European and global tournaments.

Spain’s Real Madrid and Barcelona, as well as Germany’s Bayern Munich and France’s Paris Saint-Germain, now make up the top four.

Since Deloitte launched the table in 1997, there has always been an English team in the top four places of the league, which measures annual revenue figures but not profits and losses for top football clubs.