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The Chelsea team at the end of financial year 2024 was the most expensive ever gathered, according to a new UEFA report.
The Blues team of great expenditure was worth an amazing € 1.66 billion (£ 1.39 billion), eclipssing the highest registered by Real Madrid in 2020 (£ 1.12 billion).
The report of the Panorama of Finance and Investments of the UEFA European Club, published on Thursday, discovered that four clubs had squads worth one billion euros or more in 2024: Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal.
The Financial Power of the Premier League was stressed by the fact that nine of the 20 most expensive squads in 2024 have met in England, and West Ham cost more than that of Barcelona or AC Milan.
There were also nine English clubs in the Top 20 in Europe depending on the size of its total salary invoice.
Manchester City was second at 554 million euros (£ 464.5m), only behind Paris St Germain at 658 million euros (£ 551.7m).
Chelsea's team at the end of 2024 has been revealed as the most expensive in history
The blues have exceeded the previous registry established by Real Madrid in 2020 (£ 1.39billion)
The latest UEFA report reveals that four Premier League clubs are valued at more than 1 billion
Among the 20 best clubs, the report found the proportion of income absorbed by salaries ranging from 42 percent in Tottenham to 91 percent in Aston Villa.
The player's salary growth was 4.5 percent among the first report clubs by 2024 compared to 2023, considerably below the level of income growth, since the equipment works to comply with the UEFA Squadron costs, which will limit the expenditure on the salaries of the players, the transfer and the fees of the agents to 70 percent of the income.
The report discovered that a strong increase in the salaries of technical and administrative staff was eating the operational margins of the clubs.
They increased in Europe by 19 percent in 2023, with a two -digit salary growth reported in 16 of the 20 leagues examined in the report.
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said in the prologue of the report: 'While most clubs seem to be managing salary increases from players in a responsible way, other costs are increasing rapidly, exerting greater pressure on the operational margins than ever.
“Clubs must remain vigilant since considerable work must still be done to restore pre-pandemic profitability.”
The investment in stadiums in all clubs reached a record in 2023 to € 2.1bn (£ 1.8 billion), exceeding the previous record of € 1.5 billion established in the year before the 2019 pandemic, since the clubs in Europe seek to maximize income in the first year.
Four clubs invested more than 100 million euros for 2023: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Everton and Paris Saint -germain, but there was also an increase in the volume of investments with 36 clubs that invested at least € 10 million, compared to 18 clubs the previous year.
The report found that these long -term investments seem to have continued in the 2024 season, with record investment levels among early reports.
