The 2026-27 Premier League's Money Table, Built Before a Ball Is Kicked
These are the 20 clubs lining up for the 2026-27 season, ranked not by last season's form but by the size of the financial accounts each one filed covering 2024-25.
This table covers the 20 clubs who make up the 2026-27 Premier League: the 17 who survived the 2025-26 relegation battle, plus Coventry City, Ipswich Town and Hull City, promoted back up from the Championship. Three of last season's clubs, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Burnley and West Ham United, drop out of this list entirely, since they're down in the Championship this time round.
The ranking itself is built from each club's FY2024-25 accounts, filed in 2026, using the financial size ranking in the underlying data rather than turnover, points or league position. Chelsea, who finished 4th on the pitch that season, top it by some distance. Sunderland and Ipswich Town, both promoted or newly returned to the top flight, sit above several clubs with far longer uninterrupted Premier League histories.
Coventry City and Hull City don't disclose a turnover figure in these filings, and Ipswich Town's accounts don't break out a separate staff costs line, so those cells are marked n/d rather than estimated.
How to read this: every figure is for the year covered by each club's FY2024-25 accounts (filed 2026), not the 2026-27 season about to start. Values are rounded to protect the precision of the source filings: to the nearest £25m above £500m, the nearest £10m between £50m and £500m, the nearest £1m between £5m and £50m, and the nearest £0.5m below £5m. Click any club to read the full story behind its numbers.
| Rank | Club | Turnover | PBT | Cash | Net Assets | Staff Costs | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chelsea→ | £490m | -£260m | £49m | £875m | £360m | 1,062 |
| 2 | Manchester City→ | £700m | -£10m | £170m | £850m | £410m | 670 |
| 3 | Manchester United→ | £675m | -£30m | £90m | £750m | £350m | 932 |
| 4 | Liverpool→ | £700m | £15m | £2.5m | £160m | £430m | 1,083 |
| 5 | Arsenal→ | £650m | £25m | £33m | £360m | £330m | 797 |
| 6 | Tottenham Hotspur→ | £575m | -£120m | £20m | £625m | £260m | 877 |
| 7 | Everton→ | £200m | -£9m | £80m | £390m | £150m | 528 |
| 8 | Aston Villa→ | £360m | -£70m | £6m | £6m | £21m | 793 |
| 9 | Newcastle United→ | £320m | £19m | £12m | £310m | £240m | 569 |
| 10 | AFC Bournemouth→ | £180m | £15m | £47m | £130m | £160m | 923 |
| 11 | Nottingham Forest→ | £220m | -£80m | £13m | -£5m | £170m | 337 |
| 12 | Brighton & Hove Albion→ | £220m | -£32m | £40m | -£29m | £160m | 1,032 |
| 13 | Crystal Palace→ | £200m | £8m | £14m | -£40m | £150m | 378 |
| 14 | Fulham→ | £190m | -£39m | £13m | £60m | £170m | 347 |
| 15 | Sunderland→ | £39m | -£3.5m | £21m | -£37m | £50m | 320 |
| 16 | Brentford→ | £170m | -£21m | £2m | £60m | £130m | 379 |
| 17 | Ipswich Town→ | £160m | £4m | £14m | £70m | n/d | 369 |
| 18 | Leeds United→ | £140m | -£49m | £34m | £45m | £100m | 1,415 |
| 19 | Coventry City→ | n/d | -£22m | £0.5m | -£18m | £26m | 419 |
| 20 | Hull City→ | n/d | -£10m | £0m | -£42m | £37m | 255 |
Financial size and league position rhyme in the Premier League, they don't match. Three of the twenty clubs about to kick off the new season don't disclose a turnover figure at all, and the club that tops this table finished outside the top three on the pitch.