Chelsea's 2024 squad is the most expensive EVER, reveals new UEFA report - with four Premier League teams worth more than £1BN

Chelsea's 2024 squad is the most expensive EVER, reveals new UEFA report - with four Premier League teams worth more than £1BN Chelsea's squad from 2024 has been revealed as the most expensive in history UEFA report discloses four Premier League teams are worth more than £1billion LISTEN NOW: It's All Kicking Off! Is Alisson the best goalkeeper in the Premier League? By JAMIE GARDNER, PA CHIEF SPORTS REPORTER Published: 23:46, 6 March 2025 | Updated: 23:46, 6 March 2025 e-mail 9 shares View comments Chelsea 's squad at the end of the 2024 financial year was the costliest ever assembled, according to a new UEFA report. The big-spending Blues' squad was worth an astonishing €1.66billion (£1.

39bn), eclipsing the previous highest recorded by Real Madrid in 2020 (£1.12bn). UEFA's European Club Finance and Investment Landscape Report, published on Thursday, found four clubs had squads worth one billion euros or more in 2024 - Chelsea, Manchester City , Manchester United and Arsenal .



The Premier League 's financial might was underlined by the fact that nine of the 20 most expensive squads in 2024 have been assembled in England, with West Ham 's costing more than Barcelona 's or AC Milan 's. There were also nine English clubs in the top 20 in Europe based on the size of their total wage bill. Manchester City were second on 554 million euros (£464.

5m), behind only Paris St Germain on 658m euros (£551.7m). Chelsea's squad at the end of 2024 has been revealed as the most expensive in history The Blues have outperformed the previous record set by Real Madrid in 2020 (£1.

39billion) The latest report by UEFA reveals that four Premier League clubs are valued at over £1bn Among the top 20 clubs, the report found the share of revenue absorbed by wages ranged from 42 per cent at Tottenham to 91 per cent at Aston Villa. Player wage growth was at 4.5 per cent among the early reporting clubs for 2024 compared to 2023 - considerably below the revenue growth level - as teams work to comply with UEFA's squad cost rules, which from next season will limit spending on player wages, transfer and agents' fees to 70 per cent of revenue.

A sharp increase in the wages of technical and administrative staff was found to be eating into clubs' operating margins by the report. They increased across Europe by 19 per cent in 2023, with double-digit wage growth reported in 16 of the 20 leagues examined in the report. Read More Chelsea's major dilemma and the 'master mentalist' truth of Thomas Tuchel partying with Blues stars UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said in the foreword to the report: 'While most clubs appear to be managing player wage increases responsibly, other costs are rising rapidly, putting greater pressure on operating margins than ever before.

'The clubs must remain vigilant as considerable work still needs to be done to restore pre-pandemic profitability.' Investment in stadiums across all clubs reached a record high in 2023 to €2.1bn (£1.

8bn), exceeding the previous record of €1.5bn set in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, as clubs across Europe seek to maximise matchday revenue. Four clubs invested more than €100m during 2023 - Real Madrid, Barcelona, Everton and Paris Saint-Germain - but there was also an increase in the volume of investments with 36 clubs investing at least €10m, compared to 18 clubs the previous year.

The report found these long-term investments appear to have continued into the 2024 season, with record investment levels among early-reporting clubs. Real Madrid Barcelona Chelsea Premier League Share or comment on this article: Chelsea's 2024 squad is the most expensive EVER, reveals new UEFA report - with four Premier League teams worth more than £1BN e-mail 9 shares Add comment Comments 0 Share what you think No comments have so far been submitted. Why not be the first to send us your thoughts, or debate this issue live on our message boards.

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