Tag: European football

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Real Madrid, the most valuable European football club, worth €3.22bn

  

  Real Madrid has overtaken Manchester United and been named most valuable European football club, being worth about €3.22bn (£2.91bn), says KPMG. The Spanish club tops KPMG's study of top sides' “enterprise value”.

• Thursday, June 7th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

  Europe's five leagues revenue €14.7bn, in 2016-17, and the English Premier League is market leader

  

  The big five European leagues generated a record €14.7bn in revenue in 2016-17, a 9% annual increase, according to new figures from Deloitte. It says the European football market is now worth some €25.5bn and the English Premier League was the market leader, with record revenue of £4.5bn, as each of the 20 clubs se their own annual revenue record.

• Tuesday, February 5th 2013 - 02:08 UTC

  Widespread football match fixing and criminal network uncovered by Europol

  

  A major investigation involving Europol and police teams from 13 European countries has uncovered an extensive criminal network involved in widespread football match-fixing. A total of 425 match officials, club officials, players, and serious criminals, from more than 15 countries, are suspected of being involved in attempts to fix more than 380 professional football matches.