This year, Man U tops the average attendance with 75000 for each game. Number 2 is Arsenal with 60000. Number three is Newcastle with 50000. Then there is Liverpool, Sunderland(!), and Chelsea with 43000(+/-) and change.

Now, lets assume that an average ticket to a United match costs 50 pounds (not Euros, that exercise is left for the reader). With 19 home games (they all sell out) that gives them 14.25 million pounds sterling extra compared to number two, Arsenal. Forget about the rest (another exercise for the reader).

Besides the obvious big money in TV rights and so on, there is just no way in hell little teams like Fulham (Craven Cottage seats 25000) will EVER catch up with the big four. This is also why ‘pool is building a new stadium, as it makes sense cause they will fill it.

A 14.25 million pounds extra a year will let you sign a world class player. And that is ignoring shirt and merchandise sales.

Good point on the prize money. It doesn’t seem to fit in any of the three, so where does it go? Good point.

The Liverpool ticket sales question… I can’t answer that.

The Keegan remark is interesting taken into account that the number last in the EPL still gets more TV-money than, say, Ajax or PSV

What i find really interesting is the fact that the italian clubs make so little money out of tickets. They seem to depend very heavily on tv rights. Which is in turn interesting since they don’t capitalize on that since marketing contributes so little (in comparison to Spain and England) to their accounts.
I also found it astonishing to see that Liverpool earns so little from tickets when compared to the other three big english clubs. How the heck is that possible?
One thing i don’t get though is in category falls the money earned from sportive success? In which category do the earnings from the CL, for instance, fall?
And it would be interesting to see whether there really is a big gap after the top 10-15 like Kevin Keegan claims.