Gunners top Blues in Europe football club rich list

By ANI
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

LONDON - Arsenal have overtaken Chelsea in the ‘rich list’ of European clubs, while Manchester United are down to third behind Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The latest Deloitte Football Money League sees the Gunners recording a seven per cent rise in revenue to 224-million-pounds to stand at fifth in the ranking of Europe’s top 20 football club rich list.

Rivals Chelsea is at sixth position in the list, having earned a revenue of 206-million pounds, a three per cent fall, reports The Sun.

Real have topped the ‘rich list’ for five years but, Barca overtook United despite a nine per cent rise in income at Old Trafford.

Liverpool are up to seventh, Spurs are 15th, Manchester City 19th and Newcastle 20th.

The full top 20 are as follows:

1 Real Madrid 341.9m pounds

2 Barcelona 311.7m pounds

3 Man United 278.5m pounds

4 Bayern Munich 246.6m pounds

5 Arsenal 224.0m pounds

6 Chelsea 206.4m pounds

7 Liverpool 184.8m pounds

8 Juventus 173.1m pounds

9 Inter Milan 167.4m pounds

10 AC Milan 167.4m pounds

11 Hamburg 124.9m pounds

12 Roma 124.7m pounds

13 Lyon 118.9m pounds

14 Marseille 113.5m pounds

15 Tottenham 113.0m pounds

16 Schalke 106.0m pounds

17 Werder Bremen 97.7m pounds

18 B Dortmund 88.1m pounds

19 Man City 87.0m pounds

20 Newcastle 86.0m pounds (ANI)

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