Real Madrid fail to reclaim football’s richest crown from Barcelona despite posting club record breaking revenue
Real Madrid posted the highest revenue figures in the club's history last season, with income breaking the €600m mark for the first time and reaching €620.1m (£560m).
Yet the 7.4 per cent rise in income from €577.7m in the 2013/2014 campaign, the Spanish giants were unable to match the record €679m enjoyed by Barcelona last season.
It could mark the first time in the modern era that Real Madrid have had revenue figures bested by their arch-rivals.
Yet Madrid's reported figure referred to the club's income before the player sales, while a breakdown of Barcelona's much-trumpeted €679m are yet to be disclosed.
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Yet both clubs are indisputably the ruling the football finance tables just as they dominate La Liga. The club's occupied the top two spots in last year's Deloitte Money League while the Premier League's richest club, Manchester United, posted revenue of £515m last year.
Real's profit for the season came in at €30.3m, narrowly beating Barcelona's €29m, while the club's cash balance rose by a huge 103 per cent to €211.5m.
That figure is likely to rise as the club will be banned from signing new players over the next two transfer windows after breaching Fifa rules on the signing of under-age foreign players.
Last season's football finance rankings:
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