This season again, OM intends to play the leading roles in Ligue 1. Second during the 2024-2025 exercise, stalled between Paris and Monaco, Marseille put the means to finish at least at this same place next spring. Via ambitious recruitment, a certain stability in the locker room and a budget which despite the TV rights crisis remains very comfortable.
The team takes stock of the budgets of each elite clubs this season. And behind PSG, which obviously crushes the competition with a stratospheric budget of 850 million euros – with the support of the Qataric State – OM stands out as the second power of the plateau in financial terms.
According to estimates of the sports daily aroused, the club led by Pablo Longoria on behalf of the American businessman Frank McCourt displays a consequence budget of 260 million euros. A considerable leap carried out in two years which places the Phocaeans far from their Monegasque rivals, limited them to 140 million euros if we believe the specialized Sportune site but with an advantageous taxation it is true.
Paris FC very well loti too
The big surprise of this hierarchy of means comes from the promoted Parisian, the PFC, which is already invited in fourth row with an alleged budget of 130 million euros. It is more than a quintet playing Europe made up of Nice (€ 120 million), Lille, Lyon, Rennes (all three at € 110 million) and Strasbourg (€ 100 million).
Lens is thus won at 60 million euros. Angers and Le Havre, yet already residents of the elite, closing the walk with 25 million euros to manage the season. Much less than the promoted that are Lorient (€ 60 million) and Metz (€ 40 million).
The classification of budgets of Ligue 1 clubs
1. PSG: € 850 million
2. OM: € 260 million
3. Monaco: € 140 million
4. Paris FC: € 130 million
5. Nice: € 120 million
6. Lille: 110 M €
– Lyon: € 110 million
– Rennes: 110 M €
9. Strasbourg: € 100 million
10. Lens: € 60 million
– Lorient: € 60 million
12. Nantes: € 50 million
– Toulouse: € 50 million
14. Auxerre: 40 M €
– Metz: 40 M €
16. Brest: € 35 million
17. Angers: 25 M €
– Le Havre: 25 M €
