Money and standings in the Euroleague
At the beginning of the season, the French magazine L’Equipe was presenting the budget for each Euroleague’s team. I think it was a great idea in order to have a more transparent image about who is investing the most money in the major European competition.
Of course, there is a big discussion about the real budgets because it seems that some clubs are not including there all their bills, but only the salaries. But even so, we can have a clue about which teams are spending a lot of cash on very poor results and which ones are doing great things being short of money.
According to our comparison between budgets and standing at the moment in the Euroleague, there are 3 types of clubs:
a) the ones who are on a good spot regarding the goals for the season (F.C. Barcelona, CSKA Moscow, Real Madrid, Asvel Lyon)
b) the ones that have a much better position in the standings than the money invested (Anadolu Efes, Maccabi Tel Aviv, PAO, Valencia, Olympiacos, Zalgiris, Crvena Zvezda, Alba Berlin)
c) the disappointing teams, which in spite of their big budgets are occupying lower spots in the standings (Khimki, Fenerbahce, Armani Milan, Baskonia, Zenit, Bayern)
Money Standings
1) FC Barcelona 41M Anadolu Efes
2) CSKA Moscow 40.7M Real Madrid
3) Real Madrid 40M FC Barcelona
4) Khimki Moscow Region 33.3M CSKA Moscow
5) AX Armani Exchange Milan 31M Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv
6) Fenerbahce Beko 30M Panathinaikos OPAP
7) Zenit Saint-Petersburg 26.7M Valencia Basket
8) Anadolu Efes 24M Khimki Moscow Region
9) Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv 24M Olympiacos
10) FC Bayern Munich 23M Fenerbahce Beko
11) KIROLBET Baskonia 16M AX Armani Exchange Milan
12) Olympiacos 16M Zalgiris Kaunas
13) Valencia Basket 15M Crvena Zvezda
14) Panathinaikos OPAP 14M ALBA Berlin
15) Zalgiris Kaunas 11.9M KIROLBET Baskonia
16) LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 11.4M LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne
17) ALBA Berlin 11M Zenit Saint-Petersburg
18) Crvena Zvezda 8.3M FC Bayern Munich
Photo: Image by Kevin Schneider from Pixabay
Gratian Cormos
