Manchester City Wage Bill: What the Club Pays Its Staff (2024/25)
Short answer: Manchester City’s employee costs were £408.4m in 2024/25, which is 58.8% of £694.1m revenue by our calculation and 1.0% less than a year earlier. Revenue fell by more, £20.9m, so the ratio rose from 57.7%. The club averaged 670 staff, and its accounts...
How Much Does Kylian Mbappé Earn? Salary and Earnings (2026/27)
Short answer: Forbes estimates Kylian Mbappé at $100 million for 2026/27, with $70 million on the pitch and $30 million off it, third among the world’s highest-paid soccer players. Real Madrid publish neither his salary nor a release clause, and say only that he is...
Liverpool Wage Bill: What the Club Pays Its Staff (2024/25)
Short answer: Liverpool paid £427.7m in staff costs in 2024/25, up £41.6m on £386.1m, while turnover grew to £702.7m. Wages therefore fell to 60.9% of revenue from 62.9%. The figure covers all 1,083 average full-time employees, not just the players. Liverpool’s staff costs were £427.7m...
How Much Does Erling Haaland Earn? Salary and Earnings (2026/27)
Short answer: Erling Haaland earns an estimated $85 million in 2026/27, according to Forbes: $60 million on the pitch and $25 million off it, before tax and agents’ fees. Manchester City have not published his salary, and the club has announced only that his contract...
MLS Salary Cap Explained: 2026 Budget Is $6,425,000 a Club
Short answer: MLS clubs work to a 2026 salary budget of $6,425,000, and no player can count for more than $803,125 against it, but this is a budget rather than a hard cap. Clubs can pay more through Designated Players, U22 Initiative slots and allocation...
Deloitte Football Money League: Top 20 Clubs by Revenue (2024/25)
Short answer: Real Madrid lead the Deloitte Football Money League for 2024/25 with revenue of €1,161m, ahead of Barcelona (€974.8m) and Bayern Munich (€860.6m). The top 20 clubs earned a record €12.4bn between them, 11% more than the year before. Deloitte ranks clubs on matchday,...
Top 10 Most Followed Football Clubs on Snapchat (2026/27)
Real Madrid lead Snapchat with 3.1 million followers, ahead of Barcelona (2.8 million) and Paris Saint-Germain (2.4 million). The notable feature is the Premier League: six of the top 10 clubs are English, one more than on Instagram. Only 31 of the 102 clubs in...
Top 10 Most Followed Football Clubs on Twitch (2026/27)
Paris Saint-Germain are the most followed football club on Twitch with 450,000 followers, ahead of Barcelona (390,000) and Real Madrid (340,000). Only 47 of the 102 clubs in our dataset have a Twitch figure, and two of the biggest names on other platforms, Manchester United...
Top 10 Most Followed Football Clubs on LinkedIn (2026/27)
LinkedIn is the one platform where the usual Spanish dominance fades. Manchester United are 1st with 432,000 followers, Liverpool 2nd with 376,000 and Real Madrid only 3rd on 350,000. Counts were collected from each club’s official accounts in October 2026. The numbers are small next...
Top 10 Most Followed Football Clubs on Threads (2026/27)
Real Madrid lead Threads with 19.8 million followers, with Barcelona 2nd on 16.4 million. Threads is the text-based app from the company behind Instagram, and the football table reflects that link: the top 10 contains exactly the same ten clubs as our Instagram ranking, only...