Real Madrid Remain Europe's Most Valuable Football Club: Report

Real Madrid remain Europe's most valuable football club despite the ever-increasing dominance of the English Premier League, according to two reports by analysts published Thursday

Real Madrid remain Europe's most valuable football club despite the ever-increasing dominance of the English Premier League, according to two reports by analysts published Thursday. The Football Benchmark report, which ranks Europe's 32 most prominent clubs on their value based on their annual financial statements and assessing squad values, put Real top with a valuation of 3.184 billion euros ($3.4 billion). Real, who face Liverpool in Saturday's Champions League final, came out on top for the fourth consecutive year of the report.

That is still short of their valuation in 2020, just before the pandemic, of nearly 3.5 billion euros, although the report points out that they were one of few clubs to register a net profit in both seasons impacted by the pandemic.

In a separate study, Forbes also ranked Real top but with a valuation of $5.1 billion.

"Real Madrid have extended their lead at the top due to continuous sporting and commercial success," said the Football Benchmark report's author, Andrea Sartori.

It said Real lost 84 million euros due to the absence of matchday revenues with supporters shut out due to the pandemic.