UEFA report details European football´s journey to profitability
(WorldNews Switzerland)

UEFA has released the on European club football, named `The European Club Footballing Landscape`. As well as focusing on the 2017 financial year, the tenth edition also analyses the major trends of the past ten years. The resulting report provides the most comprehensive and transparent overview of the state of the European football finance ever published. Both the 2017 data and the detailed ten-year trends paint a positive picture. For the first time, the 700 top-division clubs together generated a `bottom-line` profit figure in the 2017 financial year. These bottom-line profits of EUR615million - profits after transfer, non-operating, financing, tax and divestment - reflect six consecutive...