Top Spanish football clubs Barcelona and Real Madrid pay their players more than $7m (£4.3m) a year, on average.

The influence of US investors in the Premier League is growing

Tottenham Hotspur have announced a 49% increase in revenue in their interim results released yesterday. Their financial results for the six months ending 31 December 2010 showed revenue had increase to £79.8m from £53.5m for the same period of last year.

Newcastle United Football Club sank £17.1m into the red as a result of relegation from the Barclays Premier League in 2009, figures show.

Reigning world player of the year Lionel Messi is the highest-paid footballer on the planet, while Jose Mourinho has the largest salary of any manager in the game.

In 2010, Peruvian football generated about $30 million, an increase of $5 million over 2009, but many believe that the industry is not reaching its earning potential

Italian football giant Juventus lost 39.5m (£24.3m) euros in the first half of the 2010/11 season, compared with a 14.2m euros profit a year earlier.

Arsenal have announced they had made a loss after tax of £2.5m in the six months between last May and last November.

The Premier League club Sunderland has announced an annual loss of £25.5m in a year of “growth and development”.

For the sixth consecutive year, Real Madrid claims top spot as the world’s largest football club according to this measure. Real is now just two years short of matching Manchester United’s eight year reign from 1996/97, the first edition of the Money League, through to 2003/04.

FC Barcelona retains second place ahead of Manchester United, making it a Spanish one-two for the second successive year.