Only Manchester City and Manchester United have higher incomes than Mikel Arteta’s side, who are now the seventh-richest club in the world according to the Deloitte Football Money League 2025 (DFML).
This is the first time Arsenal have overtaken north London rivals Tottenham in the DFML since 2019, also leapfrogging Liverpool and Chelsea and only trailing Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich and Barcelona outside England.
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Read MoreThe most significant increase is to broadcast income, rising to £257m from £186m, the result of reaching the Champions League quarter-finals and finishing second in the top flight.
The club overhauled their business team in August 2023, poaching Giulia Mazzia as head of commercial ventures from AC Milan alongside three other experienced names. Andrew Sheridan, formerly a senior figure in Liverpool’s commercial team, also announced last week he is heading to north London.
Below, we break what Arsenal’s improved financial outlook means for transfers, ticket prices and stadium expansion plans…
“They’ve got a degree of latitude, and they’ll be able to benefit from that,” football finance expert Kieran Maguire tells The i Paper. “They managed to get their wage bill under control in the past few years. The players on long contracts who weren’t delivering have now gone.
“And given that they’re going to finish in the top three this season in all probability, and they’re going to make more progress in the Champions League, this will be a spectacular year.”
Will ticket prices be cheaper?
This was the highest such figure among Premier League clubs, just topping Manchester United.
Despite experts telling The i Paper “there’s no end of challenges” with a potential expansion, the upside is obvious. Matchday revenue is the fastest-growing income stream among elite clubs, and Real Madrid, Barcelona and Lyon have all benefitted from recent renovations or stadium moves.
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Read MoreMaguire explains that expansion makes sense on a lot of fronts, despite a potential cost rising into the hundreds of millions: “They’ve got the London premium. They’ve got an established brand. They can sell out every match.
“If they’re in the Champions League, they can set ticket prices appropriately. They’re going to sell out. It’s really good from the point of view of sponsors. Those bonuses kick in, and then you get the Uefa bonuses as well.”
How could stadium expansion plans be affected?
“I suspect that matchday revenues, if Arsenal were able to elevate capacity, that’s something that they could anchor on,” Sajdeh explains. “There’s an element of what the allocation is within that capacity increase.
“It’s not just additional seats – it could look quite different based on how they allocate that across VIP and general admission. Some of the younger audiences today are quite focused on personal experiences and are willing to pay a premium for that.”
In short, PSLs allow people to buy the rights to a specific seat in a stadium – almost always VIP or hospitality seating – over a long, continuous period of time.
In Barcelona’s case, their PSL period is 30 years. They sold 475 PSLs for VIP tickets at the renovated Camp Nou in advance to Middle Eastern investment funds for £85m, just 5.5 per cent of the VIP seating at the new stadium. These investment funds will then sell the season tickets to wealthy individuals or companies for significant mark-ups.
Here is another example that growth does not tend to benefit “legacy” fans, and that Arsenal supporters should be careful what they wish for with their stadium expansion, despite the potential benefits of increased matchday income.
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