Ligue 1, OL, PSG, OM… DNCG figures warn about the financial health of French football

This is a report that does not go unnoticed. On Wednesday 24 April, the DNCG published its annual report for the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 accounts for the 2022-2023 season. The opportunity to take stock of the financial health of French clubs.

PSG and OL bad students

The final between the two clubs in the Coupe de France, on May 25, will also be played on a financial level. Paris has accumulated a deficit of 110 million euros. Lyon has 99 million. A combination that accounts for almost 77% of the cumulative loss for all French elite clubs.

Eight serious Ligue 1 clubs

In total, only eight clubs in the French championship finished the 2022-2023 season on green. LOSC acts as a manager with a positive wallet of 30 million euros. Behind we find Clermont (14.9 million euros), Lorient (8.1 million euros), Lens (3.2 million euros), Mets (989,000 euros), Nantes (850,000 euros), Toulouse (249,000 euros) and Reims (144,000 euros). OM is trying as best it can to recover financially. The effort is worth noting.

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But the lag since the season since 2018 has not been fully recovered (-91.5 million in 2018-2019, -127 million in 2019-2020, -76.3 million in 2020-2021, -31 million in 2021-2022). Last year’s deficit was only 12.7 million.

Brest and Rennes are negative

Stade Brestois accumulated a deficit of 4 million euros last season.

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Stade Rennais is in 17th place in the ranking with 14 million euros behind in 2022-2023. It is ahead of the negatives from Nice, Lyon and Paris.