This Tuesday night Management of Companies made public the report with balance sheets of Colombian clubs. The most surprising thing about the study is that, according to the entity, the Colombian soccer has one more year in 2022. A fact that does not cease to amaze the complex economic situation experienced by the teams in recent years and even more so during the pandemic.
According to Supersociedades, the proper management of these clubs to solve this crisis is one of the keys to see these good results today. “A positive financial balance is shown, with a revenue growth of 288.8% equivalent to 108.8 billion pesos, which shows the good management of football clubs to recover and achieve the stabilization of sporting activity,” explained the entity in its report.
In this report, teams like National or Millionaires, the first two in the list with the most income last year. However, this definition leads to confusion in its reading, because according to the report, it is They are not even far off the teams with the most money was last year. To the surprise of all who enter in this first place This is one of the teams that in recent years have flirted with relegation: A Caldas.
Why is Once Caldas the team that won the most in 2022?
Neither National nor Millionaire, the the most profitable team in Colombia today is Once Caldas. This is stated in the report published by Supersociedades and misunderstood by many. The profit for the year is one thing and the balance of profits versus losses is quite another. In this study, the Blanco Blanco team is the Colombian club with the best results in 2022, giving a favorable balance of 27 billion pesos.
The data provided by Once Caldas is very surprising for a team that in recent years has not even fought for titles and is far from the best moment in the game. In addition, this report explains that there is a significant increase in cost, up to 195 percent. Something different, however, is the overall balance, which has a also increase your profit up to 26,000%.
But then, what did Once Caldas do to become the most profitable club last year? Where does the financial income come from? The answer was given by Supersociedades explaining that most of These benefits come from sports rights.
Last year, Once Caldas earned a significant financial income with the training rights of many players. Just for this concept, A total of 44.7 billion pesos came in. The most famous is Luis Sinister, a player transferred from Feyenoord to Leeds in July 2022 and in which Once still holds a little more than 12 percent of the rights. For this operation alone, Once Caldas received the amount of 13.2 billion pesos.
Other players who also contributed to Blanco Blanco’s coffers are Johan Carbonero, even left more revenue than Sinisterra itself. Its sale in racing de avellaneda reported in Once Caldas 16,340 million equivalent to about 3.8 million dollars.
The sale of Mender Garcia Minnesota United of the MLS completes this list. The operation closed at 1.8 million dollars, equivalent to approx 7.8 billion pesos.
National is the biggest earner and the one that loses the most
This report highlights National As the team with the most revenue He has everything in the championship. Purslane eliminates its competitors in this sense, which is achieved a total of 70.3 billion pesos. she second in this list are the Millionaires, with 57.7 billion pesos. The difference is that Nacional was also the team that spent the most last year.
she Verdolaga is also first in the balance of losses, leaving it as the least profitable club last year. In this study of Supersocieties they appear in the first place with a balance of 8.7 billion pesos.