Italy, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 battle it out on the financial front- part 1
“The hits just keep on coming” that is what Italian football must be thinking at the moment. Despite the fact that Inter Milan won the UEFA Champions League last year, Italian football is going through its dark ages.
Some might see this as a circle of history, which has to be faced by every top class European league in the world but in reality, Italian football is really going through the doldrums.
On their way to UEFA Champions League glory under Jose Mourinho’s special banner, the Serie A champions, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786, Barcelona and then finally Bayern Munich. Three teams which belong to Serie A’s rival leagues in European football.
Chelsea went onto win the English Premier League, Barcelona won the Spanish Primera Division and Bayern Munich attained success in Bundesliga. Respectively, these three teams were the best in their own leagues in May of 2010. Inter bested them all to secure
the European Cup in 2009-2010 club football season.
In the summer Italy got knocked out of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/South-Africa-c757 at the group stages after failing to win even a single match throughout the tournament. It should be noted that the Inter Milan side, which attained legendary status at Santiago
Bernabéu by winning the UEFA Champions league, had no Italian players in its starting line up.
However, has Inter’s success brought any financial benefit to Serie A as a whole? Not precisely.
Inter Milan collected €38.6m from their match day revenue during their title winning 2009-2010 season, which makes up for 17 percent of their total revenue.
In contrast, Manchester United, who only won the Carling Cup in 2009-2010 season accumulate an astonishing amount of €122.4m from their match day revenue system. 35 percent of Manchester United’s total revenue comes from their match day earnings.
Similarly, the current Serie A league leaders, A.C. Milan only secure around about €31.3m from their match day revenue system. This makes up for 13 percent of their total revenue. When compared to gains made by Arsenal in their match day department, A.C
Milan’s figures are put to shame as the Gunners gather €114.7m, which makes up of around about 42 percent of their total revenue.
Moreover, an amount of €10m goes to stadium lease installments as far as Inter Milan and A.C Milan are concerned as per their agreement with the city of Milan.
Therefore, money is a very rare commodity in Italian football.
Additionally, Juventus successfully earn €16.9m from their match day income and this makes up for about 8 percent of their total revenue. Lastly, Roma muster €19m from their match day revenue setup which makes up for 16 percent of their total revenue.
These figures are considerably lower than the English Premier League even if we see Chelsea and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809’s figures in comparison to both Juventus and Roma.
Chelsea recovers around €82.1m from their match day revenue and this amount accounts for 32 percent of their total revenue. Similarly, Liverpool follows this trend as they acquire €52.4m from their match day revenue statistics. This money makes up for around
23 percent of Liverpool’s total revenue.
Even when we add up all the money that is earned by the top four Italian clubs namely Juventus, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roma-c31603, Inter Milan and A.C. Milan, it still does come close to the €122.4m that is collected by Manchester United through match day income. It also doesn’t touch
Arsenal’s figure of around €114.7m.
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