Here is a list of my top 30 richest Asian Clubs. This is my information gained through research. There are big clubs missing, because of difficulties in getting information. All the J1 and J2 clubs are official figures converted to Euros at the 163 yen/euro rate ie Urawa have 6100 million yen revenues and so on. If you think this information is incorrect or if you have more information please post !! I especially wish to see more Arabic clubs. TEAM COUNTRY REVENUES (EURO) Urawa Red Diamonds Japan € 37.42 Yokohama F Marinos Japan € 29.58 Jubilio Iwata Japan € 23.87 Kashiwa Reysol Japan € 23.77 Nagoya Grampus 8 Japan € 22.82 Gamba Osaka Japan € 20.97 FC Tokyo Japan € 19.44 Kashima Antlers Japan € 19.36 Tokyo Verdy 1969 Japan € 18.88 Shimizu S-Pulse Japan € 18.88 JEF Utd Ichihara Chiba Japan € 16.70 Albirex Niigata Japan € 16.19 Al-Ittihad Saudi Arabia € 15.24 Al-Hilal Saudi Arabia € 15.24 Cerezo Osaka Japan € 14.18 Hiroshima Sanfrecce Japan € 14.13 Omiya Ardija Japan € 13.75 Vegalta Sendai Japan € 12.65 Kyoto Purple Sanga Japan € 12.63 Kawasaki Frontale Japan € 11.74 Vissel Kobe Football Japan € 11.51 Daegu FC South Korea € 9.70 Shanghai Shenua China € 9.60 Incheon United South Korea € 9.38 Oita Trinita Japan € 9.21 Al-Nasr Saudi Arabia € 9.15 LG FC Seoul South Korea € 8.72 Pohang Steelers South Korea € 8.72 Suwon Samsung Bluewings South Korea € 8.69 Jeju United South Korea € 7.93
In Asia or in Japan Anyway I think Al-Sadd (Qatar) is In the top 3 ?! And Al-Ain (UAE) With them ,, one more question .. where is Seongnam (Korea) ?
This is fake, there are so many clubs only in Qatar richer then Urawa Red Diamonds.. and am not even talking about the other Big clubs in the Middle-east.
When you say, "this is fake", you may mislead the users here. The figures are correct and he did mention that he had difficulties obtaining financial figure from Middle Eastern clubs. But I do agree that he should not have titled the thread as "Top 30 Richest Teams in ASIA, by revenues" since many Asian clubs are missing.
Seongnam's size compared to other top K-League teams is almost non-existent. The amount of supporters are also not comparable to the top K-League teams, not to mention the old stadium we play in. Once we get a new stadium things will start to change, but for now we only rely on skillful players to do the talking.
Shandong Luneng is the richest club in China, follow them is Dalian Shide, Shanghai Shenhua has a rich boss, but the club is not so valuable
Ok if you are so convinced that Qatar clubs are so rich, give me figures. I want to see Revenue figures only ie Gate Receipts, Commercial Income, Sponsorship, TV money, Prize Money. Not budgets allocated by rich owners. I wanna see how much money each club generates by themselves. the list is not fake, its incomplete !! Thats why i ask for input from you guys . .
Arab clubs usually don't make strong revenues.Mainly because they don't get much money selling players,there's no ticket budget and low selling products like replica shirts,shorts,etc. And why they don't change that?Because many of them can get cash without problem.That's the point.
Revenues bitch, revenues! All Middle-East clubs do is spend, spend, spend their oil money. There are other clubs out their making money instead of spending lots of money from some sugar daddy.
Its really Strange ??! Even if we cant compare Ilhwa with Other top Korean clubs ! There are 5 Korean clubs in the List !! And Seongnam is NOT One of them I think Its Just a Matter of time Qatar Support clubs with millions every season !! it may reach € 15 (for one club) looooooooool What do you mean with "All" ??
Actually thats pretty true, most are usually from individuals, businessmen etc. They usually gather around 75 million riyals (Hilal and Ittihad) but a mere couple of millions is usually left. Shabab is the first club to actually begin real investments in the middle east, 2 years and maybe around 5-10 million euros should be entering Shabab's budget, they have just began constructing a hotel, offices, and a large mall.
Actually there is ticket budgets from this season, also ART pays each club in the Saudi League Premiership around 3 million riyals, also Hilal and Nasr both have tv channels, and alot of clubs have a mobile phone subscription where you get messages about the latest club news. Its hardly anything, but its a beginning.
Her are all the other teams I have for Asia, by revenue - feel free to add or comment. Figures in EUROS Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma ~~~ South Korea ~~~ € 7.92 Sapporo ~~~ Japan ~~~ € 7.69 Shandong Luneng ~~~ China ~~~ € 7.68 Fukuoka ~~~ Japan ~~~ € 7.48 Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors ~~~ South Korea ~~~ € 6.99 Busan I'park ~~~ South Korea ~~~ € 6.89 Ulsan Hyundai Horang-I ~~~ South Korea ~~~ € 6.46 Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix ~~~ South Korea ~~~ € 6.34 Gyeongnam ~~~ South Korea ~~~ € 5.96 Daejeon Citizen FC ~~~ South Korea ~~~ € 5.89 Shenzhen ~~~ China ~~~ € 5.76 Shonan Bellmare ~~~ Japan ~~~ € 5.43 Sydney FC ~~~ Australia ~~~ € 5.03 Melbourne Victory ~~~ Australia ~~~ € 5.03 Dalian Shide FC ~~~ China ~~~ € 5.03 Sichuan Guancheng ~~~ China ~~~ € 5.00 Liaoning FC ~~~ China ~~~ € 5.00 Chunnam Dragons ~~~ South Korea ~~~ € 4.56 Beijing Hyundai ~~~ China ~~~ € 4.53 Montedio Yamagata ~~~ Japan ~~~ € 4.43 Adelaide United ~~~ Australia ~~~ € 4.40 Ventforet Kofu ~~~ Japan ~~~ € 4.17 Al Ain Sporting Club ~~~ Saudi Arabia ~~~ € 4.06 Al Jazira FC ~~~ United Arab Emirates ~~~ € 4.00 Tianjin Teda ~~~ China ~~~ € 3.84 Queensland Roar ~~~ Australia ~~~ € 3.77 Central Coast Mariners ~~~ Australia ~~~ € 3.46 International Shanghai FC ~~~ China ~~~ € 3.36 Zhongbang ~~~ China ~~~ € 3.36 Perth Glory ~~~ Australia ~~~ € 3.14 Newcastle Knights Jets ~~~ Australia ~~~ € 3.14 FC Yokohama ~~~ Japan ~~~ € 3.05 Tokushima Vortis ~~~ Japan ~~~ € 3.05 The Spa Kusatsu ~~~ Japan ~~~ € 3.05 Tosu ~~~ Japan ~~~ € 2.63 Mito Hollyhock ~~~ Japan ~~~ € 1.90
Beijing and Shandong are sponsored by large state enterprise...but Shanghai is the one that is good at marketing and generating revenu on its own... Shanghai Zhongbang doesn't exist anymore. It merged with Shanghai Shenhua..
Thanks, I will delete Zhongbang. The entire Chinese Premier League had club revenues of 930 million Yuan or about $120m US last year, which would make it 3rd biggest in Asia after J-league and possibly K-League. i just need to know the split in revenues between the clubs !
The revenue of Melbourne Victory should be around 25 million dollar next year I guess. They had average attendance of more than 30 000 and became Australian champions.
I want to know that too, but not all CSL & China League clubs announces their incomes and outcomes every season, CFA & CSL Committee doesn't provide the infomation either here are the prize money given by J-League and CSL to participater clubs prize money for Domestic League in Japan and China J-League Champions: 1.7m USD Prize money + 425k for participating = 2.125 m USD Runner-up: 850k + 425k 3rd: 680k +425k 4th: 510k +425k 5th: 340k +425k 6th: 170k +425k 7th: 85k + 425k don't know other clubs but the 18th only got 425k CSL Champions: 625k USD Prize money + 250k for participating = 975k USD Runner-up: 500k + 250k 3rd: 437.5k +250k 4th: 375k +250k 5th: 334k +250k 6th: 292k +250k 7th: 250k +250k don't know other clubs but the 15th only got 250k by the end of last season, CSL committee announced the income of the season, is 930 million yuan and about 120m USD so your datas are correct
[pedantic on] There's an obvious typo .. the figures should include a 'M' to indicate millions of euros. Asian clubs aren't that poor, get it right! [pedantic off] In regards to the topic .. who cares how much a club makes? it only matters if it translates to wins on the pitch. At the moment it doesn't and it won't unless the foreigner rules are killed off by a Bosman-like case. So if we want to have a more relevant rivalry-type thread (which is what this thread is trying to do, but with obviously biased criteria) then the only topic worth discussing is wins on the pitch.
Well, I for one care how much a club makes. It doesn't directly translate to wins on the pitch. But it does indirectly translate to how well a club does. Money is only one factor of how well a club is doing. But it's one of the main factors, and looking at revenues provides an interesting viewpoint about what each club is like. You may not care, but I do, and the thread starter probably does as well. I don't know if this thread was meant as a rivalry-type thread. I sure hope it won't become one, because fights about money become ugly quickly.
Read my post again, never did I say that you shouldn't discuss money, you're barking up the wrong tree (figuratively speaking). It certainly does in europe, but asia is a different fishtank, simply clubs are restricted to their own country's players due to the lack of a common EU-type labour market (and the lack of a bosman-type ruling). Most clubs are restricted to a limited number of non-national players, which significantly reduces the impact that money can have on the pitch. Having said that, again you're barking up the wrong tree .. the OP is clearly an attempt to rank clubs, ie. it's trying to say x is better than y. Comparing the wealth of clubs is no problem .. the problems is that OP clearly takes a narrow and clearly biased set of criteria that's engineered to produce a certain outcome. If we applied the same criteria to europe, the result would be that Chelsea wouldn't be anywhere near the top of the list .. yet it's obvious that they're the top club when it comes to purchasing power. Purchasing power is the only true indicator of what effect money has on the pitch performance (which is the only true rivalry topic worth discussing imho). Yet the OP wipes out all oil-daddy clubs (eg. Saudi) in stroke of criteria engineering. Clearly the criteria used have been engineered and massaged to have the japanese clubs on top. That's fine, but then the OP shouldn't try to pretend that it's anything near a valid criteria to rank clubs on. Basically the premise of the OP is like a boxer saying "I have the #1 most expensive set of trunks!". Perhaps remotely interesting, but of zero relevance to anything beyond the question itself.
Here are some more upto date revenues for K-League clubs (sourced from a Korean Newspaper, no detail) CLUB ~~~~ K'WON BN ~~~~ €uros ~~~~ US$ LG FC Seoul ~~~~~ 26200 ~~ € 18.77 ~ $27.53 Busan I'park ~~~~~ 13000 ~~ € 9.31 ~~ $13.66 Incheon United ~~~~ 9409 ~~ € 6.74 ~~ $9.89 Gyeongnam ~~~~~~ 7900 ~~ € 5.66 ~~ $8.30 Anyang Citizen ~~~~ 5000 ~~ € 3.58 ~~ $5.25 Daegu FC ~~~~~~~ 4800 ~~ € 3.44 ~~ $5.04 Daejeon Citizen FC ~ 4700 ~~ € 3.37 ~~ $4.94