The European football governing body, UEFA, has released a new report on the financial health of European football clubs, the European Club Footballing Landscape. Finances of more than 600 top-clubs among UEFA’s 53 member national associations have been studied in order to produce the broadest benchmarking report ever made.

Headlines of the report:

• Licensing accross Europe is implemented: 21 clubs including 6 in the most recent year have been refused access to UEFA’s competition.
• Employee’s costs rose annually by 18% outpacing the 10.6% increase in revenues. The 10 highest-spending clubs’ employee and transfer costs is double of the amount of the next ten clubs.
• The transfer system contributes to financial redistribution from big to small clubs. It particularly benefits to clubs from countires with strong young training and development cultures such as France, the Netherlands and Croatia, whose saw their finances improved.
• 54% of Europe’s top-division teams reported operating losses.

The European Club Footballing Landscape is available in four languages: English, French, German and Russian.

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