Revealed: 16 clubs to give statements to Premier League by midnight as Liverpool file paperwork
Up to 16 Premier League clubs – including Liverpool – may be racing to file their 2021-22 financial statements with the Premier League before midnight tonight (28 February), Football Insider analysis shows.
Liverpool, who turned a £7.5m profit on club-record turnover of £594m, released a snapshot of their accounts earlier today but are yet to upload their in-depth figures to Companies House.
Arsenal, Man United, Tottenham and West Ham are the only top-flight teams to have submitted their annual financial reports to both the Premier League and Companies House.
Like Liverpool, Man City have released headline figures from their books but are yet to make an official submission to the business register.
All Premier League clubs are required to submit audited figures to the league’s board by no later than 1 March, although they have longer to log the paperwork with Companies House.
Chelsea (29 December 2021) were the earliest to release their full accounts for the 2020-21 campaign, while several clubs did not make any financial information public until May last year.
Revenue figures for the 11 Premier League clubs that made the top 20 of the Deloitte Football Money League were, however, available as early as mid-January.
Teams such as Everton, who are in the red by over £370m in the last three published accounting years alone, have promised maximum financial transparency in dialogue with the supporter advisory boards.
That has led some commentators to question why, when clubs are in a position to share their accounts with the Premier League, they would not also do so with supporters.
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