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Europe: ownership distribution of the clubs in the major football leagues 2016

Published by Statista Research Department, Dec 8, 2022

This statistic displays the distribution of the types of ownership of clubs in the major football leagues in Europe in 2016. In 2016, approximately 19 percent of the clubs in the 13 major European football leagues were owned by foreign parties. UEFA is the administrative body for the union of the national football associations in Europe. In 2015/2016, UEFA registered a total revenue of 4.6 billion euro. Further information about football in Europe can be found in the Dossier: UEFA.

Distribution of the types of ownership of clubs in the major football leagues* in Europe in 2016

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Characteristic	Share of clubs
Domestic	43.75%
No controlling party**	36.72%
Foreign	18.36%
Unknown	1.17%

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Details: Europe; UEFA; 2016

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Source

UEFA

Survey by

UEFA

Survey name

Club Licensing Benchmarking Report Financial Year 2016

Published by

UEFA

Source link

UEFA, The European Club Footballing Landscape, p. 21

Release date

February 2018

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

2016

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information:
* Information sourced from a combination of club representations submitted as part of the club licensing process (March-July 2016) and UEFA desktop research (up to November 2016). The Major football leagues include: England tier 1 and tier 2, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine
** No controlling party in this analysis refers to no single or group of owners working in concert with more than 50% holding in the voting share capital.

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