World's 5 Richest Football Clubs (2013)

1. Real Madrid Club de Futbol

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (Royal Madrid Football Club), commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain.

Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, has traditionally worn a white home kit since. The word Real is Spanish for royal and was bestowed to the club by King Alfonso XIII in 1920 together with the royal crown in the emblem. The team has played its home matches in the 85,454-capacity Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in downtown Madrid since 1947. Unlike most European football clubs, Real Madrid's members (socios) have owned and operated the club since its inception.

The club is the world's richest football club in terms of revenue, with an annual turnover of €513million and the most valuable, worth €3.3billion. It is one of three clubs to have never been relegated from the top flight of Spanish football, along with Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona. Real Madrid holds many long-standing rivalries, most notably El Clásico with FC Barcelona.

The club established itself as a major force in both Spanish and European football during the 1950s. Domestically, Real Madrid has won a record 32 La Liga titles, 18 Copas del Rey, 9 Supercopas de España, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de La Liga. Internationally it has won a record nine European Cup titles and a joint record three Intercontinental Cups, as well as two UEFA Cups, and one UEFA Super Cup.

& they got hot fans too!!!!!

2. Manchester United FC

Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.

Manchester United have won many trophies in English Football, including a record 20 League Titles, a record 11 FA Cups, four League Cups and a record 20 FA Community Shields. The club has also won three European Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 1998-99, the club won a continental treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League, an unprecedented feat for an English club.

The 1958 Munich Air Disaster claimed the lives of eight players. In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United was the first English football club to win the European Cup. Sir Alex Ferguson won 25 major honours, and 38 in total, from November 1986 to May 2013, when he announced his retirement after 26 years at the club. Fellow Scot David Moyes was appointed as his replacement on 9 May 2013.

Manchester United is one of the wealthiest and most widely supported football teams in the world. After being floated on the LSE in 1991, the club was purchased by Malcolm Glazer in May 2005 in a deal valuing the club at almost £800 million. In August 2012, Manchester United made an initial public offering on the NYSE. In January 2013, Manchester United became the first sports team in the world to be valued at $3 billion. Forbes Magazine valued the club at $3.3 billion – $1.2 billion higher than the next most valuable sports team.

They too got some amazing fans...

3. FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona, also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence the motto "Més que un club" (More than a club). The official Barcelona anthem is the "Cant del Barça" written by Jaume Picas and Josep Maris Espinàs. Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelona. It is the world's third-richest football club in terms of revenue, with an annual turnover of €483 million and the third most valuable, worth €2.6billion. The club has a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid; matches between the two teams are referred to as "El Clásico".

They are the current Spanish football champions and have won 22 La Liga, 26 Copa del Rey, 10 Supercopa de  España, 3 Copa Eva Duarte and 2 Copa de La Liga trophies, as well as being the record holder for the latter four competitions. In International football Barcelona have won four UEFA Champions' League, a record four UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, four UEFA Super Cup, a record three Inter Cities Fair Cup and a record two FIFA Club World Cup trophies.^[7]

Barcelona is also the only European club to have played continental football every season since 1955, and one of three clubs never to have been relegated from La Liga, along with Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid. In 2009, Barcelona became the first Spanish club to win the continental treble consisting of La Liga, Copa del rey, and the Champions League. That same year, it also became the first football club ever to win six out of six competitions in a single year, thus completing the sextuple, comprising the aforementioned treble and the Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.

with beautiful fans.....

4. Arsenal FC

Arsenal Football Club is an English Premier League Football club based in Holloway, London. One of the most succesful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups. Arsenal holds the record for the longest uninterrupted period in the English top flight and would be placed first in an aggregated league of the entire 20th century. It is the second side to complete an English top flight season unbeaten (in the 2003-04 season), and the only one to do so across 38 matches.

Arsenal was founded in 1886 in Woolwich and in 1893 became the first club from the south of England to join the Football League. In 1913, it moved north across the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury. In the 1930s the club won five League Championship titles and two FA Cups. After a lean period in the post-war years it won the League & FA Cup double, in the 1970-71 season, and in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century won two more Doubles and reached the 2006 UEFA Champions League final. Arsenal has a long-standing rivalry with North London neighbours Spurs, with whom it contests North London derby. Arsenal is the fourth most valuable association football club in the world as of 2013, valued at over $1.3 billion.

with hot chicks!!!!!

5. FC Bayern Munich

Fußball-Club Bayern München e.V., commonly known as FC Bayern, FC Bayern München or FC Bayern Munich, is a German Sports Club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the bundesliga, the top tier of the German Football League system, and is the most successful football club in Germany, having won a record 23 national titles and 16 national cups.

FC Bayern was founded in 1900 by eleven football players players led by Franz John. Although Bayern won its first national champinship in 1932, the club was not selected for the Bundesliga at its inception in 1963. The club had its period of greatest success in the middle of the 1970s when, under the leadership of Franz Beckenbauer, it won the European Cup three times in a row (1974–76). Overall Bayern has reached ten European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals, most recently winning their fifth in 2013 as part of a continental treble. Bayern has also won one UEFA Cup, one Eurpean Cup Winners' Cup and two Intercontinental Cups, making it one of the most successful European clubs internationally. Since the formation of the Bundesliga, Bayern has been the dominant club in German football with 22 titles and has won five of the last ten titles. They have traditional local rivalries with TSV 1860 München and 1. FC Nuremberg, as well as a contemporary rivalry with Borussia Dortmund.

& their amazing fans ...........