Rangers and Celtic have shown an increase among the best clubs in Europe in a new financial report issued by UEFA, which also reveals that Scotland has seen positive movements in a number of fields.
The UEFA European Club Finance and Investment Report, published on Thursday, is labeled as the “Ultimate Guide to European Football Finance” in a preface to the report by UEFA President Alexander Ceferin.
And she has revealed some positive results for both sides of the old firm, with Celtic discovered to be among the top 20 clubs in Europe for sales of kit and trading, and in the top 10 places for the pre -tax profits listed among the continent clubs.
Rangers, meanwhile, are among the top 20 clubs in Europe for income from the gate by 2024, with the club seeing a tremendous increase of 47 percent of this type of revenue over the past five years.
Scottish clubs as a whole have also enjoyed an increase in areas, including TV income, gate bills and total income.
Celtic on the largest list of pre -tax profits
Celtic are among the top 10 clubs in Europe in terms of the biggest earnings before the tax recorded in 2024.
The Parkhead club recorded a pre -tax profit of € 21m (17.6 million) for 2024 which represents a decline from € 47 million (£ 39.3 million), but Celtic still finds itself on the list, along with last year’s Europa League winners.
Celtic are among the top 10 European clubs in terms of the biggest earnings before the tax recorded in 2024, according to UEFA report
Bayern Munich leads the way to this list, registering a pre -tax profit of € 63 million (52.7 million) for the calendar year, one of the four sides of the Bundesliga in Top 10.
Celtic player trading model is undoubtedly a factor in their healthy financial figures for 2024, with back champions league campaigns and sales of players such as Matt O’RILY, whose summer in Brighton set a new record transfer of records taken by a Scottish club. Celtic in Al Ittihad in 2023.
Rangers in Top 20 for income from the gate
Rangers find themselves among the top 20 clubs in Europe for the income of gates last year, with the figure generated in 2024 reaching € 53 million (£ 44.4m), just like the Bundesliga Giantsia Dortmund.
Rangers find themselves among the top 20 clubs in Europe for gate revenue over the past year. Credit: UEFA
They would have a way of going to match the top Real Madrid winners with € 185m (€ 155 million) but the figures are impressive, with UEFA reporting a 11 percent increase in the gateway in 2024 across Europe.
While they actually dropped a place on the UEFA list in 19, this figure represents a considerable jump from the 2019 number of € 36 million (£ 30m), an increase of 47 percent. Indeed, in 2014 Rangers recorded income from the gate of € 15 million (12.6 million), with the previous decade showing a fierce growth.
In that five-year period Rangers continued to restore themselves as a force in Europe, with former Steven Gerrard manager taking the club back into the Europa League group stage in its first season in 2018.
Since then the Rangers have been a regular match in the final stages of European competition, with the 2022 competition at the Europa League final in Seville under Giovanni Van Bronckhorst, by playing a portion from the gate to receive a jump over the past five years, with additional matches in Ibrox helping to grow.
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Far from Europe, Rangers have sought to increase the capacity of the stadium, improve hospitality experiences, and have repeatedly sold ticket allocation of their season over the past decade. The construction of the New Edmiston House, which holds the Rangers Museum, a club store and hosts a fan of in matches, will also play a role in increasing gate revenue during the season.
The UEFA report said: “The gate revenue continues to grow, with up to six percent total in pre-fandemic levels and premium car tickets. Dutch, Swiss, Belgian and Scottish clubs are the next highest winners outside the Big Five.
“Large cities -based clubs tend to have higher basic prices and ticket premiums, reflected in a fan of a little more or below € 100 (£ 83.72) in five clubs.”
Celtic in the first 20 countries in Europe for Kit sales
Celtic also decreases in the top 20 countries across Europe for KIT and Trade revenue, with the revenue from the club’s registration of € 35 million (29.3 million) in this department for 2024.
Celtic decreases in the top 20 places across Europe for income from sets and trading. Credit: UEFA
Again, Celtic saw strong growth over a five-year period from 2019, with a dance of € 14 million (£ 11.7 million) in the income from KIT and trade since then.
The constant internal success and the beginning of a five-year agreement with Adidas in 2020 will undoubtedly have helped increase these figures.
Continued internal success has helped Celtin
Real Madrid are coming to the list, with their 2024 income and trading of € 196 million (€ 164 million), with Celtic sitting in 17th place in the first 20 places, only after the two Milan clubs, with that figure of € 35 million (29.3 million) calculating 24 percent of the total club income.
UEFA’s report said: “Clubs are increasingly benefiting from their global fans and a larger trade focus. For the first 20 countries, trade revenue increased 26 percent and Kit manufacturers are taken by six percent in 2024 to reach a combined 1.8bn (1.5bn £).”
Scotland sees positive growth of TV revenue
Scotland has also seen some positive results during 2024.
Scotland has shown a positive growth in the new UEFA report. Credit: UEFA
TV’s internal revenues saw a 20 percent increase in the figures of 2022, with € 32 million (26.8 million)) seeing Scotland located 16th across Europe.
The country’s total revenue for clubs of € 357 million (£ 299 million) represents a 14 percent increase, setting the 11th Scotland in general across the continent.
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Scotland was also seventh in terms of port bills, with € 130 million (109 million) throughout 2024 providing a 4.3 percent increase of 2022, with Scottish clubs showing a total net capital of € 269m (225 million), with only two clubs having negative capital.
The country was ranked NO1 across Europe in one field, with 100 percent of private ownership clubs.
