{"id":146,"date":"2019-03-01T09:50:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/2019\/03\/01\/top-20-european-football-clubs-with-the-most-expensive-squads-in-the-2017-financial-year-according-to-uefa\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T09:50:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:50:56","slug":"top-20-european-football-clubs-with-the-most-expensive-squads-in-the-2017-financial-year-according-to-uefa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 European football clubs with the most expensive squads in the 2017 financial year, according to UEFA"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re going to get to the top of elite European football, you’re going to need to spend plenty of money in the transfer market.<\/p>\n

It’s no surprise 16 of the top 20 clubs who had the highest total squad cost for the 2017 financial year were in the Champions League this season.<\/p>\n

UEFA, European football’s governing body, have released their benchmarking report for 2019 allowing us to peruse information about the top sides’ accounts.<\/p>\n

One element UEFA has analysed is how much the clubs have spent on players in their quests for glory.<\/p>\n

So, which European teams had splashed the most cash on the squad by the end of the 2017 financial year? Find out below.<\/p>\n

20. Benfica \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac228million (\u00a3200.05m)<\/strong>
\n19. Borussia Dortmund \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac233million (\u00a3204.44m)<\/strong><\/p>\n

18. Everton \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac244million (\u00a3214.09m)<\/strong>
\n17. Monaco \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac265million (\u00a3232.52m)<\/strong>
\n16. Atletico Madrid \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac278million (\u00a3243.92m)<\/strong>
\n15. Tottenham Hotspur \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac280million (\u00a3245.68m)<\/strong><\/p>\n

14. Napoli \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac290million (\u00a3254.45m)<\/strong>
\n13. AC Milan \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac330million (\u00a3289.55m)<\/strong>
\n12. Roma \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac344million (\u00a3301.83m)<\/strong>
\n11. Liverpool \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac390million (\u00a3342.19m)<\/strong><\/p>\n

10. Inter Milan \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac394million (\u00a3345.70m)<\/strong>
\n9. Bayern Munich \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac415million (\u00a3364.13m)<\/strong><\/p>\n

8. Barcelona \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac429million (\u00a3376.41m)<\/strong>
\n7. Arsenal \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac508million (\u00a3445.73m)<\/strong><\/p>\n

6. Paris Saint-Germain \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac525million (\u00a3460.65m)<\/strong>
\n5. Juventus \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac529million (\u00a3464.16m)<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Chelsea \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac531million (\u00a3465.91m)<\/strong>
\n3. Manchester United \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac751million (\u00a3658.94m)<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Real Madrid \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac790million (\u00a3693.16m)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Manchester City \u2013 Squad cost for the 2017 financial year = \u20ac800million (\u00a3701.94m)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re going to get to the top of elite European football, you’re going to need to spend plenty of money in the transfer market. It’s no surprise 16 of the top 20 clubs who had the highest total squad cost for the 2017 financial year were in the Champions League this season. UEFA, European…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}