The richest football clubs in the UK, 2026
English and Scottish clubs ranked by revenue from their latest filed accounts — the 2024-25 season. Total revenue (matchday, broadcast and commercial), not transfer profits, and one entity per club so nobody is counted twice. The numbers show exactly what promotion is worth and what relegation costs.
What the filings show
The Big Six still own the money. Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham and Chelsea earn £3.76B between them — 50% of every club on this list — and Liverpool top it at £703M on the back of a title-winning season. Below them the drop is steep: by the time you reach the bottom of the Premier League a club earns less than a sixth of what the leaders do.
But the real drama is in the year-on-year column, and it has one cause: the Premier League's broadcast deal. Promotion roughly triples a club's revenue overnight — Ipswich Town (+317%), Southampton (+88%), Leicester City (+77%) are the clubs that just went up — while relegation sends it off a cliff: Watford (-55%), Luton Town (-49%), Norwich City (-46%) are the ones that came down, cushioned only by parachute payments. No other industry we track has swings like these, and they're entirely structural.
Two things the table quietly proves. Celtic, on £144M, out-earns every relegated Premier League club and would sit mid-table in England — Champions League nights and a 60,000 stadium beating a bigger TV deal. And these figures are revenue, not profit: most of these clubs lose money, and the gap between what they earn and what they spend on wages and transfers is the story the accounts tell that the league table doesn't.
Top 30 football clubs in the UK by revenue
Latest accounts filed as of June 2026 · refreshed monthly
| # | Firm | Turnover | YoY | Staff | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Liverpool Professional football club The Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Ltd — 2024-25 Premier League champions. | £703M | +14% | 1,083 | FY to May 2025 |
| 02 | Manchester City Professional football club Manchester City Football Club Ltd. | £694M | -3% | 670 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 03 | Arsenal Professional football club holding company Arsenal Holdings Ltd, consolidated. | £691M | +12% | 871 | FY to May 2025 |
| 04 | Manchester United Operator of Manchester United Red Football Ltd — the UK holding company; Man Utd plc is NYSE-listed above it. | £667M | +1% | 932 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 05 | Tottenham Hotspur Professional football club holding company Tottenham Hotspur Ltd, consolidated. | £565M | +9% | 877 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 06 | Chelsea Premier League football club Chelsea Football Club Ltd; the BlueCo ownership group sits offshore above it. | £442M | +7% | 626 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 07 | Aston Villa Premier League football club Aston Villa Football Club Ltd; figure boosted by Champions League participation. | £359M | +37% | 793 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 08 | Newcastle United Premier League football club Newcastle United Ltd, consolidated. | £335M | +5% | 614 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 09 | West Ham United Professional football club | £226M | -16% | 969 | FY to May 2025 |
| 10 | Nottingham Forest Holding company for Nottingham Forest NF Football Investments Ltd, the club’s holding company. | £223M | +17% | 375 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 11 | Brighton & Hove Albion Professional football club | £221M | -0% | 1,032 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 12 | Everton Premier League football club Everton Football Club Company Ltd. | £197M | +5% | 528 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 13 | Crystal Palace Holdco for Crystal Palace FC Palace Holdco UK Ltd, consolidated. | £197M | +3% | 434 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 14 | Fulham Professional football club subsidiary Fulham Football Leisure Ltd, consolidated. | £195M | +7% | 675 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 15 | Leicester City Professional football club Relegated to the Championship for 2025-26; this is the parachute-cushioned PL season. | £187M | +77% | 529 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 16 | AFC Bournemouth Premier League football club | £182M | +13% | 923 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 17 | Brentford Premier League football club Brentford FC Ltd, consolidated. | £173M | +4% | 379 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 18 | Wolverhampton Wanderers Professional football club | £172M | -3% | 386 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 19 | Southampton Professional football club Relegated after 2024-25; parachute payments begin next season. | £158M | +88% | 347 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 20 | Ipswich Town Premier League football club Promoted then immediately relegated — a single Premier League season in the accounts. | £155M | +317% | 369 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 21 | Celtic Scottish Premiership Listed professional football club Celtic plc — bigger than half the Premier League despite Scottish football’s smaller TV deal. | £144M | +15% | 1,008 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 22 | Leeds United Championship Professional football club operator Promoted to the Premier League for 2025-26; this Championship season carries parachute payments. | £137M | +7% | 1,415 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 23 | Rangers Scottish Premiership Holding company for Rangers FC Rangers International Football Club Ltd. | £94M | +7% | 326 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 24 | Sheffield United Championship Professional football club | £79M | -42% | 287 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 25 | Burnley Championship Professional football club operator Promoted to the Premier League for 2025-26; parachute-cushioned Championship season. | £72M | -46% | 408 | FY to Jul 2025 |
| 26 | Luton Town Championship Professional football club operator Luton Town Football Club 2020 Ltd. | £67M | -49% | 570 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 27 | Sunderland Championship Professional football club Promoted to the Premier League for 2025-26 via the play-offs. | £39M | +5% | 320 | FY to Jul 2025 |
| 28 | Norwich City Championship Professional football club Norwich City Football Club plc. | £39M | -46% | 408 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 29 | Stoke City Championship Professional football club | £35M | +10% | 332 | FY to May 2025 |
| 30 | Coventry City Championship Professional football club | £34M | +17% | 419 | FY to May 2025 |
The next 3
Firms ranked 31–33
| 31 | Queens Park Rangers Championship | £31M | +18% | FY to May 2025 |
| 32 | Watford Championship | £26M | -55% | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 33 | Millwall Championship | £24M | +11% | FY to Jun 2025 |
The firms we can't rank
The clubs missing here either file in dollars or file too little to rank.
- Manchester United plc — the NYSE-listed parent reports in US dollars; we rank Red Football Ltd, its UK consolidation
- EFL League One & Two clubs — most file abbreviated small-company accounts with no turnover line
- Wrexham, and recently-takeover clubs — rank once a full season’s accounts are filed under current ownership
How this list is built
Source. The latest annual accounts each firm filed at Companies House. Where a firm files consolidated group accounts, the group figure is used; the entity ranked is named under each firm. Where a firm filed a transition period longer or shorter than twelve months (flagged in the Accounts column), the table shows the filed figure but the firm is ranked on its annualised equivalent.
What's counted. Total revenue — matchday, broadcast and commercial — from each club's latest filed accounts (2024-25 season). It excludes profit on player sales, which clubs report separately and which swings wildly; this ranks the football business, not transfer accounting.
One entity per club. Clubs file through a stack of companies — a holding company, the club itself, a women's team, a community trust, property and merchandising subsidiaries. We rank each club on its top UK football consolidation and exclude the rest, so no club is double-counted. Manchester United is ranked on Red Football Ltd because the listed plc above it reports in US dollars; clubs that file only abbreviated accounts can't be ranked.
Cadence. Rebuilt monthly as new accounts land. Spot a club we've missed or misread? Tell us — the methodology only works if it's challenged.
Quick answers
- Which is the richest football club in the UK?
- By revenue in the latest filed accounts, Liverpool — £703M in its 2024-25 title-winning season, just ahead of Manchester City and Arsenal. The "Big Six" (Liverpool, City, Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham and Chelsea) earn £3.76B between them, 50% of every club on this list.
- Why do some clubs' revenues swing so wildly year on year?
- Promotion and relegation. Reaching the Premier League roughly triples a club's broadcast income — Ipswich's revenue jumped 317% on promotion — and dropping out of it sends revenue off a cliff, softened only by parachute payments. The Championship clubs falling hardest here are the ones recently relegated.
- Is this matchday, broadcast or total revenue?
- Total revenue — matchday, broadcast and commercial combined — as reported in each club's filed accounts. It excludes player-trading profits, which clubs report separately and which can dwarf revenue in a given year. We rank the football business, not the transfer accounting.
- Why is Celtic above half the Premier League?
- Celtic's £144M would place it mid-table in the Premier League despite Scottish football's far smaller TV deal — Champions League nights and a huge stadium do the work that broadcast money does south of the border. It out-earns every relegated Premier League club on this list.