Results on the pitch haven’t gone to plan this season, but for anyone seeking confirmation that Liverpool have firmly reestablished themselves as one of the financially dominant players in English and
European football over the past decade the latest football rich list from Deloitte would seem to put proof to that.
Having been a top ten mainstay through the Jürgen Klopp era, for the first time the Reds are listed as the top English club—though on this occasion that’s only good enough for fifth overall. Real Madrid and Barcelona top the list, unsurprisingly and once again, followed by Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain.
After Liverpool in fifth, it’s Manchester City next up in sixth, meaning the Reds are sandwiched on the 2026 edition of the rich list by two clubs widely seen as getting creative with their commercial revenues in order to provide a fig leaf of financial fair play plausibility to their consistently big spending ways.
Anfield’s redevelopment, and with it the ability by the club to increasingly monetize the venue when the Reds aren’t playing, is key to an uptick to their own commercial revenues that pushes them past City, Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham, and Chelsea as English sides get a run to round out the top ten.
Aston Villa, Newcastle, and West Ham also make it into the list, meaning the Premier League have nine of the 20 richest clubs in Europe at the moment. Spain and Germany have three, as does Italy—though no Italian side is in the top ten—with one for France and one, Benfica, for Portugal to round out the top twenty.
