the last time in the championship...

[caytonmiller]

been reading and participating in the richie towell thread.. decided to find out how much each club spends/earns whilst in the championship... main thing i was looking at were staff wages paid and wage to turnover ratio...

Rotherham United
Company name: Rotherham United Football Club (RUFC) Ltd
Owned by: ASD Lighting Holdings, owned by Tony and Joan Stewart (88 per cent); Brian Becket, Ronald Hull and Lelsie Wilson (3.92 per cent each)
Turnover: £13.3m (£5.2m – six months to 30 June 2015)
Pre-tax loss: £1.5m (-£732,000 – six months to 30 June 2015)
Staff costs: £9.9m (£3.3m – six months to 30 June 2015)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 74 per cent
Highest paid director: Not stated
Net debt: Not stated; £1.3m loan provided by ASD Lighting during the year
Bank: Barclays
Auditor: Buckle Barton


Sheffield Wednesday
Company name: Sheffield Wednesday Football Club
Owned by: Dejphon Chansiri, whose family controls the Thai Union Frozen Group, the world's largest producer of tuna
Turnover: £22m (£14.9m)
Pre-tax loss: £9.8m (-£4.4m)
Staff costs: £19.3m (£13.4m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 88 per cent
Highest paid director: £264,000 (£228,000)
Net debt: Not stated; £17.7m shareholder loan provided during the year

Nottingham Forest
Company name: Nottingham Forest Football Club
Owned by: Evangelos Marinakis, the Greek shipping magnate and Olympiacos president who bought out Fawaz Al-Hasawi in May 2017
Turnover: £18.4m (£18.2m)
Pre-tax loss: £2.2m (£21.6m)
Staff costs: £30.6m (£30.4m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 166 per cent
Highest paid director: £311,000 (£332,000)
Net debt: Not stated; loans to directors and other related parties totalled £55.6m
Bank: NatWest
Auditor: Baldwins Audit Services


Middlesbrough
Company name: Middlesbrough Football & Athletic Company (1986)
Owned by: Gibson O'Neill Company, which is itself wholly owned by Steve Gibson and Mike O'Neill
Turnover: £21.7m (£20.5m)
Pre-tax loss: £32m (-£9m)
Staff costs: £32.4m (£20.5m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 149 per cent
Highest paid director: Not stated
Net debt: Not stated; amounts owed to "group undertakings" total £93.6m in addition to a £5m bank loan
Bank: Barclays
Auditor: PwC


Leeds United
Company name: Leeds United Football Club
Owned by: Andrea Radrizzani through his Greenfield Investment vehicle, owned by ASER Group. He acquired full control in May 2017 as Massimo Cellino exited
Turnover: £30.1m (£24.4m)
Pre-tax loss: £8.9m (-£2m)
Staff costs: £18.1m (£19.8m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 60 per cent
Highest paid director: Not stated
Net debt: Not stated; in September 2016, since the 2015-16 year-end, Leeds United restructured a £17m loan with GFH Financial and Cellino's Eleonora Sport converted £5m of debt into equity
Bank: Barclays
Auditor: Gibson Booth

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Ipswich Town
Company name: Ipswich Town Football Club Company
Owned by: Marcus Evans through the Isle of Man-registered Marcus Evans Worldwide Holdings (IOM)
Turnover: £16.3m (£16.4m)
Pre-tax loss: £6m (£6.1m profit)
Staff costs: £16.6m (£16m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 102 per cent
Highest paid director: £72,000 (£69,000)
Net debt: £86.5m (£87.2m)
Bank: Barclays
Auditor: KPMG

Hull City
Company name: Hull City Tigers
Owned by: Allamhouse Ltd, the business behind the interests of Assem Allam
Turnover: £41.9m (£84.1m)
Pre-tax loss: £20.7m (£11.5m profit)
Staff costs: £30m (£55.6m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 72 per cent
Highest paid director: Not stated
Net debt: £99.1m (£77.4m)
Bank: Lloyds Bank
Auditor: Jacksons


Fulham
Company name: Fulham Football Club
Owned by: Shahid Khan, a US-based billionaire who also owns Jacksonville Jaguars in the NFL, via Cougar Holdco London Ltd
Turnover: £36m (£43.3m)
Pre-tax loss: £12.9m (-£27.9m)
Staff costs: £36.1m (£37m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 100 per cent
Highest paid director: £582,000 (£555,000)
Net debt: Not stated; loans of £28m were provided during the year, taking the amount due to the club's immediate parent to £45.3m.
Bank: Metro Bank


Derby County
Company name: The Derby County Football Club
Owned by: Sevco 5112, owned by Candy Crush tycoon Mel Morris
Turnover: £22.6m (£21.5m)
Pre-tax loss: £14.7m (-£10.1m)
Staff costs: £31.9m (£21.8m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 141 per cent
Highest paid director: £194,583 (£449,578)
Net debt: Not stated; £3m bank loan
Bank: Barclays
Auditor: Smith Cooper

Cardiff City
Company name: Cardiff City Football Club
Owned by: Cardiff City Football Club (Holdings), a company majority owned by Vincent Tan, the Malaysian businessman
Turnover: £31.4m (£37.6m)
Pre-tax loss: £9.5m (£3.8m profit)
Staff costs: £33.5m (£41.6m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 107 per cent
Highest paid director: N/A
Net debt: Not stated; non-current loans from overseas shareholders and associated undertakings £100.8m (£101.6m)
Bank: Barclays
Auditor: Moore Stephens


Bristol City
Company name: Bristol City Holdings
Owned by: Pula Sport, owned by billionaire and Hargreaves Lansdown co-founder Steve Lansdown
Turnover: £14.2m (£7.7m)
Pre-tax loss: £14.9m (-£10m)
Staff costs: £17.4m (£11m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 123 per cent
Highest paid director: £58,826 (£61,937)
Net debt: £63.9m (£35.5m)
Bank: Barclays
Auditor: PKF Francis Clark

Brighton & Hove Albion
Company name: Brighton & Hove Albion Holdings
Owned by: Tony Bloom, a sports bettor and property investor
Turnover: £24.6m (£23.7m)
Pre-tax loss: £25.9m (-£10.4m)
Staff costs: £27.4m (£20.6m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 111 per cent
Highest paid director: £578,213 (£558,177)
Net debt: Not stated; £170.5m (£147.5m) owed toTony Bloom
Auditor: Mazars

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Brentford
Company name: Brentford FC Ltd
Owned by: Matthew Benham, a betting industry tycoon and owner of Danish side FC Midtjylland
Turnover: £10.6m (£10m)
Pre-tax loss: £12.6m (-£17.7m)
Staff costs: £17.6m (£17.7m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 166 per cent
Highest paid director: N/A
Net debt: Not stated; shareholder loans of £37.1m (£28.5m)
Bank: Barclays
Auditor: BDO


Bolton Wanderers*
Company name: Bolton Wanderers Football & Athletic Company
Owned by: Ken Anderson, who bought former striker Dean Holdsworth's shares in March 2017. The deal came 12 months after the duo completed a protracted takeover from former owner Eddie Davies
Turnover: £23.1m in 2014-15 (£30.6m in 2013-14)
Pre-tax loss: £4.6m (-£9.1m in 2013-14)
Staff costs: £26.5m (£27.6m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 115 per cent
Highest paid director: Not stated
Net debt: £193m (at the date of the balance sheet)
Bank: Barclays
Auditor: Deloitte


Blackburn Rovers
Company name: Blackburn Rovers Football and Athletic
Owned by: Venky's London Ltd, owned by Venkateshwara Hatcheries Private, an Indian company with interests in poultry, processed food, animal vaccines and pharmaceuticals
Turnover: £22m (£22.4m)
Pre-tax loss: £1.5m (-£17.3m)
Staff costs: £25.3m (£30.1m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 115 per cent
Highest paid director: £150,304 (£177,969)
Net debt: Not stated, loans of £87.3m (£87.1m) to parent and £14.2m (£12.9m) bank overdraft
Bank: State Bank of India
Auditor: PM+M Solutions for Business


Birmingham City
Company name: Birmingham City plc
Owned by: Birmingham Sports Holdings, in turn majority owned by Trillion Trophy Asia. The man behind Hong Kong-based Trillion Trophy Asia, incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, is Paul Suen Cho Hung, said to have a £450m fortune
Turnover: £14.7m (2014-15: £21m)
Pre-tax loss: £5m (2014-15: £1.3m profit)
Net debt: Not stated; total borrowings of £16m
Staff costs: £15.3m (2014-15: £14.1m)
Wage-to-turnover ratio: 104 per cent
Net debt: Not stated; total borrowings of £16m (2014-15: £10.2m) at the year end
Highest paid director: Not stated
Bank: HSBC
Auditor: Edwards & Co Accountants

[caytonmiller]

also the last time we were in the championship the amount of parachute payments alone being made by the premier league was £219million... thats approx 30% of the leagues total revenue

[caytonmiller]

Of the 19 clubs who made losses, some were heavy, particularly those sustained by the three clubs which won promotion. Newcastle, who received the first year of £42m parachute payments after relegation from the Premier League, gambled for immediate promotion, sustaining a £47m loss. Their wage bill, £112m, was £26m more than its total revenues for the year. Brighton, engaging in another push to make the top flight, also paid wages substantially greater than their revenues and made a loss of £39m. Huddersfield did the same, making a £20m loss.

[Brin]

Cayton, thing is fella a lot of those clubs are STILL in the Championship or Premier so it shows the league doesn't really care either way.

Look at the debacle with QPR and the outcome of that. 20 years to pay off a bill, what joke!

[caytonmiller]

Cayton, thing is fella a lot of those clubs are STILL in the Championship or Premier so it shows the league doesn't really care either way.

Look at the debacle with QPR and the outcome of that. 20 years to pay off a bill, what joke!

aye and then theres sunderland whos wage bill when they got relegated was 68.3 million.

huddersfields wage bill when they went up was 21 million. didnt stewart say we have a sim budget?

[Brin]

Yes that was laughable at the time. Think Tony was thinking back to the 80's when we probably did.