Barcelona and Real Madrid move 791.8 M € in 08/09

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The recent clash between Barcelona and Real Madrid, had a crucial importance in financial terms, not only by the importance of clubs, but also for being the confrontation between the two biggest clubs in the world. A review of Crowe Horwath RCS, last season the two clubs' aggregate revenues reached 791.8 million euros, an increase of 209% over the past nine years. The pace of revenue growth of Barcelona in the same period was 15% and 11.8% of Real Madrid, and the two clubs' budgets for 2009/10 provides a consolidated revenue of 827 million Euros, an increase of 4 %.

Despite the depressed situation of the Spanish economy, the two giants of world football continue to increase their revenues, either through new marketing projects, either through new advertising contracts, or revenues from their stadiums. This means that the revenue generated by the two clubs, representing more than half of the total revenue produced in Liga BBVA (Spanish League).

The economic strength of the two clubs is also found to increase the representation of the resources generated by the emblem over the GDP of Spain. So the consolidated revenues of Real Madrid and Barcelona in the last nine years has increased about 98%, and in 200/01 represented 0.038% of the wealth of the country and in 2008/09 represented 0.075% of Spanish GDP.

With the downturn in the Spanish economy and the likely increase in revenue from two clubs next season, Crowe Horwath RCS provides that the billing for the club reach the 0079% of Spanish wealth and exceeding the 0.10% in 2012/13, representing that for every € 1,000 made by the Spaniards, € 1 will come from two Barcelona-Real Madrid.

Collaboration:
Amir Somoggi - Prof. Sports Marketing and Strategic Planning of Football Clubs and specialist in marketing and management of football clubs in Crowe Horwath RCS, Audit and Consulting.