2023-06-15 08:16:29
LaLiga Spanish “has managed to overcome the effects of the pandemic” to recover the second position as the national competition with “the highest income” in Europe during the 2021-22 season, with 3,277 million euros and an increase “of 11 percent” compared to the year previous, although it is still surpassed by the Premier League, with 6,442 million, according to the Deloitte report on soccer finances.
In its thirty-second edition, this annual analysis, which addresses “the economic and commercial impact generated by the main football leagues in Europe”, reflects the leadership of the English league, which repeats as the most powerful of all in this sense, with an increase in addition to income in 2021-22 compared to 2020-21 of 12 percent to reach the aforementioned 6,442 million euros. In 2012-13, a decade ago, he received 2,946 million.
return of public
The Spanish LaLiga is second, with 3,277 million euros, which is 3,165 less than the Premier League, but allows it to surpass the Bundesliga. The German tournament entered 3,149 million euros in 2021-22, 5 percent more than in 2020-21.
“The return of the public to the stadiums” allowed the Spanish competition “to generate 409 million euros in box office revenue, 353 million more than the previous season,” says the Deloitte report, which shows that the Premier League enters 901 million per spectators in the fields, by 277 in the Bundesliga, 231 in Serie A and 225 in Ligue 1.
new contracts
“The 2022-2023 season has marked the start of LaLiga’s new five-year national rights contracts with DAZN and Telefónica, which, together with certain rights sold on a non-exclusive basis, are estimated to be worth around 1,000 million euros. per season,” adds the analysis.
“These agreements now require LaLiga to cover production and marketing costs, reflecting the competition’s intention to have greater control over the production quality and storytelling of its broadcasts,” Deloitte said.
LaLiga remains ahead of both the Italian Serie A, with 2,350 million in revenue and a 7 percent drop “due to the depreciation of national and international broadcasting contracts”, as well as the French Ligue 1, with 2,026 and a 26 percent higher than the previous season.
The “strong growth” of the French competition is “mainly motivated by commercial income (301 million, 39 percent more), with Olympique de Marseille (97 million) and PSG (45 million) responsible for 47 percent of this increase,” according to the report.
In the “projection” that Deloitte makes for the 2023-24 campaign, for example, LaLiga would again be surpassed by the Bundesliga, which would then have some 3,450 million euros in revenue, according to the report’s estimate, compared to 3,400 in the competition. Spanish.
The ‘Premier’ would continue in first place, with 6,662 million, 220 million more than now.
The report also points out that, “at the European level”, the set of national competitions “increased their income by 7 percent” in the 2021-22 season “to reach 29,500 million euros thanks to the end of the restrictions due to the Covid and the return to the stadiums, in addition to the growth in sponsorship contracts”.
Of that amount, which exceeds the 28.9 million of 2018-19 prior to the pandemic, 17.2 million euros (58 percent) corresponds to the five major European Leagues.
THE 5 EUROPEAN LEAGUES WITH THE MOST INCOME OF THE 2021-22 SEASON:
.1. Premier League (England) 6,442 million euros in revenue.
.2. LaLiga (Spain) 3,277 million euros in revenue.
.3. Bundesliga (Germany) 3,149 million euros in revenue.
.4. Serie A (Italy) 2,350 million euros in revenue.
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.5. Ligue 1 (France) 2,026 million euros in revenue.
Fuente: ‘Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance 2023’.
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