PSG tops TheStadiumBusiness Index 2024 with runaway revenue per seat

By Michael McCabe

At its Parc des Princes dwelling French super-club Paris Saint-Germain generated over €1,000 extra per seat via matchday income than every other stadium among the many high revenue-generating European soccer golf equipment, in keeping with TheStadiumBusiness Index 2024.

TheStadiumBusiness Index divides the overall matchday revenues of every of the highest 20 golf equipment – as ranked within the newest Soccer Cash League, which is printed yearly by skilled providers agency Deloitte – by their stadium capacities to calculate an annual income per seat.

PSG generated €3,192 per seat within the 2022-23 season at its 47,929-capacity dwelling, based mostly on complete matchday income of €153m, with second-placed Chelsea incomes a median of €2,181 per seat.

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PSG’s president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, lately acknowledged that the French Ligue 1 soccer membership will search to maneuver from the Parc des Princes following the Metropolis of Paris’ declaration that the stadium will not be on the market.

Arsenal generated €1,944 per seat, with complete matchday revenues representing 22.2% of the membership’s earnings – a better share than every other English membership

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Chelsea led 5 English Premier League golf equipment within the Index rankings, forward of Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool, with the opening of the membership’s Westview premium facility in 2021 having helped to drive Stamford Bridge revenues.

In third place within the Index, Tottenham Hotspur posted complete matchday revenues of €135m – €2,148 per seat – within the latest stadium within the high 20, the state-of-the-art 62,850-seat Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Apparently, Manchester United, whose shareholder Sir Jim Ratcliffe has brazenly mentioned a full-scale redevelopment of the membership’s ageing Outdated Trafford Stadium, confirmed that it may well nonetheless generate important earnings per seat on the largest membership facility in England regardless of a number of years of underperformance on the pitch. With common revenues of €2,032 per seat, United ranked fourth within the Index.

In the meantime, Arsenal generated €1,944 per seat based mostly on complete matchday revenues of €118m, which represented 22.2% of the membership’s earnings – a better share than every other English membership.

FC Barcelona’s matchday earnings of €166m was probably the most within the high 20, with the Spanish LaLiga membership having launched into an entire rebuild of the Camp Nou final summer season.

Of all of the golf equipment within the Index, Ligue 1 membership Olympique de Marseille’s matchday earnings of €64.00 represented the very best share of earnings – 24.8%.

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