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Madrid tops Deloitte
Football Money League again
Real Madrid remains the world’s richest
football club for the fifth straight year
according to the latest annual Football
Money League produced by Deloitte. The
Money League, based on data for season
2008/09, also stated that Real are the
first global sports team to see annual
revenues top 400m euros.
Real’s arch-rivals Barcelona have
taken second spot in the list, ahead of
Manchester United who drop to third.
Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool are fifth,
sixth and seventh respectively.
The report shows that 7 of the top 20 in
its table are from England, the other three
being Tottenham (15th), Manchester
City(19th), and relegated club Newcastle
United (20th).
All the 20 clubs represented are from the
‘big five’ European leagues, with Germany
contributing five clubs, Italy four, and
France and Spain two each.
The Deloitte review does not include the
cost of transfer fees or player wages,
or VAT and other sales taxes, and
concentrates solely on day-to-day income
from football business. Income includes
money from ticket sales, sponsorship,
merchandising and other commercial
revenues, television monies, corporate
hospitality, and non-match day stadium
use such as for conferences.
Deloitte Football Money League
1) Real Madrid: 401.4m euros
2) Barcelona: 365.9m euros
3) Man Utd: 327m euros
4) Bayern Munich: 289.5m euros
5) Arsenal: 263m euros
6) Chelsea: 242.3m euros
7) Liverpool: 217m euros
8) Juventus: 202.3m euros
9) Inter Milan 196.5m euros
10) AC Milan: 196.5.m euros
Source: Deloitte: 2008/09
FIFA rejects use
of technology
The International Football Association
Board (IFAB) has confirmed that
technology will not be introduced into
the game. The Board voted that goal-
line technology would not be pursued
- FIFA’s general secretary Jérôme Valcke
said: ‘A decision was made not to go with
technology. It’s an end to the potential
use of technology within football.’
FIFA has been under increasing pressure
to use technology in a bid to eliminate
mistakes that are highlighted by television
replays.
2018 Winter Olympics
candidates hosts
Munich (Germany), Annecy (France)
and PyeongChang (Republic of Korea)
have submitted their responses to the
IOC Candidature Acceptance Procedure
questionnaire to become candidates to
host the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
in 2018, The International Olympic
Committee has announced.
The completed questionnaire provides
the IOC with an overview of each of the
applicant city’s project and is the key
element in the first phase of the procedure
leading to the election of the host city of
the Olympic Winter Games in 2018. The
IOC Executive Board will meet in June in
Lausanne to decide which cities will be
accepted as Candidate Cities.
The election of the 2018 host city will take
place in Durban, South Africa, on 6th July
2011.
RBS Six Nations
draws in £420m
The RBS Six Nations Championship
delivered a £420.94m total economic
impact for the six competing nations
according to a survey by MasterCard.
The study estimated that England enjoyed
a positive economic impact of £88.38m –
the largest of the participating countries.
Ireland received a boost of £81.85m,
followed by France with £81.21m,
Wales with £72.50m, Scotland drawing
in £62.90m and Italy seeing a £34.10m
benefit from the championship.
Rugby is also continuing to see a growth
in both popularity and participation
according to the research which found
that more than 2.6m people currently play
the sport in the six competing nations.
The largest numbers are in England,
where 687,000 people played rugby in
2009, an estimated 4.4% increase from
2007.
The research found that the Six
Nations tournament remains popular
across Europe with an estimated 125m
people watching the 2010 Six Nations
Championship on television across the six
participating nations.
In addition, an estimated 1,054,654
people attended 2010 matches, which is
an increase on last the previous season,
which saw attendances of 981,963.
Mountain biker dies
during Cape Epic stage race
AUSTRALIAN mountain biker James
Williamson has died while competing in
South Africa.
A former world solo 24-hour champion
and respected cycling journalist, 26-year-
old Williamson from Canberra died in
Ceres in the Western Cape Province while
taking part in the 722km Absa Cape Epic
stage race, according to The Cape Argus
newspaper.