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Kobbie Mainoo from Manchester United during the Prime Minister -Liga match between Manchester FC and FC Aston Villa on Old Trafford on May 25, 2025 in Manchester, England.
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European Football is a bigger business than ever, with the clubs in the Continent’s five-leagues of 20.4 billion euros (23.7 billion) revenue in the 2023-2024 season.
Currently, American investors are owned, completely or in part, most football teams in the Premier -League of England. This includes four traditional big six clubs: Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal that attract investment in the US.
The main increase in income has become a key attraction.
In the 1996-97 season, when the Premier League was established in England, the revenues in the five major European leagues amounted to 2.5 billion euros, reports Deloitte analysis.
In 2023-24, this figure rose by 750%.
This growth has led to a sharp increase in estimates for the largest football teams in Europe. Glazer’s family, which also owns Tampa Buccaneers Tampa Bay NFL, bought Manchester United for $ 790 million ($ 1.07 billion) in 2005. In 2024, the sale of minority for billionaire Jim Ratcliffe tied the club about £ 5 billion, or the greatest assessment of the world T -shirt.
Kiran Maguire, Associate Professor at Football at Liverpool University, said CNBC on Wednesday that US -football level raises in European football were due to a higher wealth aggregation.
“It’s actually a little not brain … What else can you do with your money? You only have so many helicopters that you can only have so much super -yacht.”
According to Maguar, a small number of the best professional sports teams available for the purchase also contributed to the growth of demand, and investors cannot meet price tags to multi -billion dollar dollars, attached to NFL or NBA teams looking for European football as an alternative.
Private capital
More than 36 clubs in the five largest leagues in Europe now have private capital, venture capital or private debt participation through the majority or minority, including most clubs in the premiere, Pitch Book Research reports.
The data shows a sharp increase in transactions in the field and A in European football clubs – only 66.7 million in 2018 to almost 2.2 billion euros in 2024.
Many private equity investors have turned to the property model to increase their investments. Speaking in front of CNBC, Pitchbook Senior Analyst EMEA Nicolas Moore said many US investors want to “create different football clubs” and that the model may have marketing and financial benefits.
But the increasing prevalence of ownership of apartment ownership has risked the anger of the regulators, and Moore said that the UEFA European Football Corps “begins to crack clubs”.
This summer, the Crystal Palace in England was banned from participating in the UEFA Europa League competitions due to violations of the ownership rules. American businessman John Textor owns a share in the English club, as well as France Lyon, who also received qualifications for the competition.
Moore says that the decision-which crystal palace is referred to as “injustice”-can become more problem, since more and more clubs involved in apartment structures go into the main units of Europe.
What’s next?
In recent years, the growth of football income has slowed down, and Deloitte said he saw that the plateau’s profit in the 2025-26 season at the backward growth of the cost of sports media.
This left a commercial profit-at 6% in the 2023-24 season, for the Deloitte-in the quality of the main driver, when the clubs completed new sponsorship and there were stadiums for non-standard events.
Moore says that many of us, private capital investors, “seek to make their stands, the whole stadium,” trying to diversify away from the revenue.
Searching for commercial income and matches can see more clubs that spend regular matches abroad. This season in Spain La Liga will take its first regular season abroad when the current Barcelona champions are preparing to play Villarreal in Miami. The Italian Series A also considering an international game, and the governing body of the country that approved the plans for the match in Australia. So far, the games in the domestic leagues have not been allowed to play by the borders of their country, while the global governing body is considering the official change of its rules at foreign matches.
Maguire says the Prime Minister -Lig clubs will eventually look for games abroad to compete with the competitors of European leagues, and that the money received will mean that games “will be sold a fan base … effectively as Fait Seedia.”
The Prime Minister -League did not publicly entertain the idea of spending regular seasons from England, and CEO Richard Masters told CNBC that the league is “very different from American peers when it comes to international games.
