Manchester United revealed record revenues of \u00a3666.5m for last season but still reported a loss of \u00a333m for the financial year.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils were without Champions League football in 2024\/25 and stumbled home 15th in the Premier League \u2013 their lowest top-flight finish in 51 years.<\/p>\n
But United still saw revenue marginally increase by 0.7% to \u00a3666.5m, with the accounts for the year ending June 30, 2025 showing their operating loss fell from \u00a369.3m to \u00a318.4m compared to the previous 12 months.<\/p>\n
Overall losses dropped from \u00a3113.2m to \u00a333m after co-owner Jim Ratcliffe oversaw some wide-ranging, and often unpopular, changes at a club he claimed in March had “gone one off the rails” as a business.<\/p>\n
The British billionaire even warned United would have gone “bust at Christmas” if they had not taken “really tough decisions” \u2013 something chief executive Omar Berrada believes will help moving forwards.<\/p>\n
“As we settle into the 2025\/26 season, we are working hard to improve the club in all areas,” he said.<\/p>\n
“On the field, we are pleased with the additions we have made to our men’s and women\u2019s first team squads over the summer, as we build for the long-term.<\/p>\n
“Off the field, we are emerging from a period of structural and leadership change with a refreshed, streamlined organisation equipped to deliver on our sporting and commercial objectives.<\/p>\n
“To have generated record revenues during such a challenging year for the club demonstrates the resilience which is a hallmark of Manchester United.<\/p>\n
“Our commercial business remains strong as we continue to deliver appealing products and experiences for our fans, and best-in-class value to our partners.<\/p>\n
“As we start to feel the benefits of our cost-reduction programme, there is significant potential for improved financial performance, which will, in turn, support our overriding priority: success on the pitch.”<\/p>\n
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United are expecting the next financial year to bring in revenue of \u00a3640m to \u00a3660m despite being without European football for the first time since 2014\/15.<\/p>\n
The club\u2019s earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation was \u00a3182.8m \u2013 a figure they expect to be between \u00a3180m to \u00a3200m this year.<\/p>\n
In terms of their outlook, United said “the club remains committed to, and in compliance with, both the Premier League\u2019s Profit and Sustainability Rules and UEFA\u2019s Financial Fair Play Regulations”.<\/p>\n
The results released on Wednesday showed broadcasting revenue for the 12 months ending 30 June, 2025 decreased by \u00a348.9m to \u00a3172.9m after the men\u2019s team played in the Europa League rather than the Champions League.<\/p>\n
That change, along with player departures and the wider restructuring process, saw employee benefit expenses decrease by \u00a351.5m \u2013 14.1% over the prior year \u2013 to \u00a3313.2m.<\/p>\n
United posted record commercial revenues of \u00a3333.3m thanks in no small part to their front-of-shirt deal with Snapdragon, while the club achieved record matchday revenues of \u00a3160.3m.<\/p>\n
The club said they spent \u00a336.6m in terms of exceptional items, which included pay-offs to employees as part of their “transformation plan” along with former boss Erik ten Hag and his staff.<\/p>\n
United\u2019s principal debt remains at $650m but a fluctuation in the exchange rate has seen the figure drop from \u00a3511m to \u00a3471.9m.<\/p>\n
Watch Liverpool v Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday from 7.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on rte.ie\/sport and the RT\u00c9 News app.<\/p>\n
Watch Newcastle United v Barcelona in the Champions League on Thursday from 7.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on rte.ie\/sport and the RT\u00c9 News app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United revealed record revenues of \u00a3666.5m for last season but still reported a loss of \u00a333m for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-27191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}