Soccer as an Industry

It is a well known fact that the sport of soccer has become a worldwide industry worth billions. The Barclays premier league has the highest revenue of any football league in the world. Its revenue is estimated to be around 2.9 BILLION euro. Crazy to think that something that started off in an English school yard has turned into this. Manchester United alone are worth over 500 million dollars.

The other major leagues in Europe, the La Liga, the Bundesliga, the Serie A and the ligue 1 all have a revenue of over 1 Billion dollars. FC Bayern Munchen is the most valuable football brand coming in just shy of 900 Million dollars. Many others clubs like Real Madrid CF and Paris Saint Germain are posting figures almost as high.

We have talked a lot about clubs and how they're worth a lot but now I want to focus in more on the actually commodity: the players. Here are some absurd statistics: Gareth Bale, the world's most expensive player, was purchased by Real Madrid for a fee of approximately 100 Million euro. The average annual wage for a Barcelona player is 7,910,737 dollars. How about this one: Cristiano Ronaldo makes approximately 13 Million euro, that's just 35,000 euro a day. Absolutely mind blowing.

That's all for now.
Ps. sorry about inconvenience with switching currencies.

(Statistics and pictures taken from: www.statista.com )