What it costs to run a club in Portugal

Portugal's tiers compared, and every club whose figures are published.

Clubs with published figures: 40; 40 with full accounts
Typical Primeira Liga club: €6.66m; revenue, median of 23 clubs
Lost money: 28 of 40; clubs, in their latest accounts
Public money: €171.0m; paid, 2021 to 2025

Tier by tier

Open a tier for its rules, central money, division accounts and clubs.

1Primeira Liga18 clubs · 23 with accounts at this tier€8.29mmedian of 23 clubs · revenue €6.66m−€106k€1.10€2,760a month—2Liga Portugal 218 clubs · 25 with accounts at this tier€4.31m avgleague total over 16 clubs · revenue €1.10m−€1.74m€3.32€1,610a month—3Liga 320 clubs · 9 with accounts at this tier€674kmedian of 9 clubs · revenue €170k−€646k€2.33€1,380a month€250fees 4Campeonato de Portugal56 clubs · 4 with accounts at this tierToo few accounts——€920a month€250fees

617 regional leagues312 clubs

Choose one of 17 leagues

1.ª Divisão da AF Aveiro 1.ª Divisão da AF Leiria 1.ª Divisão da AF Viseu 2.ª Divisão da AF Santarém 2.ª Divisão da AF Setúbal 2.ª Divisão da AF Viana do Castelo 2.ª Liga da AF Guarda Campeonato da AF Horta Campeonato da Graciosa Campeonato de São Jorge–Terceira Divisão de Elite da AF Porto Divisão de Honra da AF Beja Divisão de Honra da AF Braga Divisão de Honra da AF Coimbra II Divisão da AF Lisboa Liga 2 da AF Algarve Liga AFE da AF Évora

Too few accounts————

Staff costs are wages and social charges, the largest cost of running a club: the league’s own total spread over all its clubs where the league publishes one (“avg”), otherwise the median of each club’s latest accounts from a season at the tier, where at least 6 clubs publish. Revenue, before player sales, follows the same idea, but uses the league’s total only where under half the division publishes.

Revenue in Portugal

A typical Primeira Liga club earns 7.4× a Liga Portugal 2 club’s revenue

Each dot is a club’s revenue before player sales, from its latest recorded accounts. The white mark is the median: the club in the middle.

Primeira LigaPortugal, tier 1 · 17 clubs

Liga Portugal 2Portugal, tier 2 · 14 clubs

Liga 3Portugal, tier 3 · 4 clubs, too few for a typical figure

Campeonato de PortugalPortugal, tier 4 · 4 clubs, too few for a typical figure

How it’s counted & sources

Each club's newest recorded accounts since 2021–22, at the tier it played that season. If that year's revenue cannot be separated from player trading, the club is omitted rather than using an older year. Coverage counts comparable accounts, not every club with financial data. Revenue excludes player-sale income. Where that income is included in the published total, we subtract the statement's separately reported player-trading figure. Some statements group loan fees and other player income with sale gains; those are removed together. Otherwise loan fees remain included. These are comparisons across accounting formats, not identical revenue definitions. Tiers need at least three clubs to appear and six for a median. Each step on the scale is ten times the one before.

Read as a table

Nation	League	Tier	Clubs	Typical club	Lowest	Highest
Portugal	Primeira Liga	1	17	€8.35m	€5.05m	€230.6m
Portugal	Liga Portugal 2	2	14	€1.12m	€572k	€1.64m
Portugal	Liga 3	3	4		€139k	€537k
Portugal	Campeonato de Portugal	4	4		€12.9k	€501k

Club figures and calculations

Club and sources	Season	Tier then	Published total	Published basis	Player trading removed	Revenue shown	Calculation and source notes
Académica	2025-26	Portugal, tier 3	€170,210.23	Revenue	Already excluded	€170,210.23	Reported revenue €170k; player-sale gains already excluded
Académico de Viseu	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€1,044,902.33	Revenue	Already excluded	€1,044,902.33	Reported revenue €1.04m; player-sale gains already excluded
Alverca	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€637,397.79	Revenue	Already excluded	€637,397.79	Reported revenue €637k; player-sale gains already excluded
Amora	2024-25	Portugal, tier 4	€305,868.29	Revenue	Already excluded	€305,868.29	Reported revenue €306k; player-sale gains already excluded
Arouca	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€5,607,337.58	Revenue	Already excluded	€5,607,337.58	Reported revenue €5.61m; player-sale gains already excluded
AVS	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€8,354,009.18	Revenue	Already excluded	€8,354,009.18	Reported revenue €8.35m; player-sale gains already excluded
Beira-Mar	2024-25	Portugal, tier 4	€500,696.20	Revenue	Already excluded	€500,696.20	Reported revenue €501k; player-sale gains already excluded. Vendas e serviços prestados, including members' fees of €134,250
Belenenses	2024-25	Portugal, tier 3	€536,755.87	Revenue	Already excluded	€536,755.87	Reported revenue €537k; player-sale gains already excluded
Benfica	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€230,618,000.00	Revenue	Already excluded	€230,618,000.00	Reported revenue €230.6m; player-sale gains already excluded. Rendimentos e ganhos operacionais
Braga	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€18,108,204.00	Revenue	Already excluded	€18,108,204.00	Reported revenue €18.1m; player-sale gains already excluded. Vendas e serviços prestados
Casa Pia	2023-24	Portugal, tier 1	€8,872,524.00	Revenue	Already excluded	€8,872,524.00	Reported revenue €8.87m; player-sale gains already excluded
Chaves	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€1,185,584.33	Revenue	Already excluded	€1,185,584.33	Reported revenue €1.19m; player-sale gains already excluded. Venda de bens €249,075.60 and prestação de serviços €936,508.73 (notes)
Estoril Praia	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€5,412,861.00	Revenue	Already excluded	€5,412,861.00	Reported revenue €5.41m; player-sale gains already excluded
Estrela da Amadora	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€14,906,471.06	Revenue	Already excluded	€14,906,471.06	Reported revenue €14.9m; player-sale gains already excluded. Vendas e serviços prestados (labelled 'vendas de mercadorias' in the notes; no breakdown)
Fafe	2022-23	Portugal, tier 3	€139,237.99	Revenue	Already excluded	€139,237.99	Reported revenue €139k; player-sale gains already excluded
Famalicão	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€6,578,691.63	Revenue	Already excluded	€6,578,691.63	Reported revenue €6.58m; player-sale gains already excluded
Farense	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€6,060,501.62	Revenue	Already excluded	€6,060,501.62	Reported revenue €6.06m; player-sale gains already excluded
Feirense	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€626,203.36	Revenue	Already excluded	€626,203.36	Reported revenue €626k; player-sale gains already excluded. Vendas e serviços prestados: TV rights €450,000, sponsorship and advertising €112,445.30, gate €17,827.35, boxes €15,165.63, competition participation €18,968.89, loan fees €4,914.96, other €6,881.23 (note 15)
Gil Vicente	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€16,569,850.12	Revenue	Already excluded	€16,569,850.12	Reported revenue €16.6m; player-sale gains already excluded
Leça	2024-25	Portugal, tier 4	€172,356.21	Revenue	Already excluded	€172,356.21	Reported revenue €172k; player-sale gains already excluded
Leixões	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€777,927.47	Revenue	Already excluded	€777,927.47	Reported revenue €778k; player-sale gains already excluded
Mafra	2023-24	Portugal, tier 2	€1,275,143.83	Revenue	Already excluded	€1,275,143.83	Reported revenue €1.28m; player-sale gains already excluded
Marítimo	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€1,050,514.00	Revenue	Already excluded	€1,050,514.00	Reported revenue €1.05m; player-sale gains already excluded
Moreirense	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€5,052,729.00	Revenue	Already excluded	€5,052,729.00	Reported revenue €5.05m; player-sale gains already excluded. Vendas e serviços prestados: sales €17,864, TV rights €3,600,000, other services €1,434,865 (note 11)
Nacional	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€6,067,662.00	Revenue	Already excluded	€6,067,662.00	Reported revenue €6.07m; player-sale gains already excluded
O Elvas	2023-24	Portugal, tier 4	€12,923.00	Revenue	Already excluded	€12,923.00	Reported revenue €12.9k; player-sale gains already excluded
Oliveirense	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€1,150,125.66	Revenue	Already excluded	€1,150,125.66	Reported revenue €1.15m; player-sale gains already excluded
Paços de Ferreira	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€1,423,564.09	Revenue	Already excluded	€1,423,564.09	Reported revenue €1.42m; player-sale gains already excluded
Penafiel	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€571,519.59	Revenue	Already excluded	€571,519.59	Reported revenue €572k; player-sale gains already excluded
Portimonense	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€1,097,157.79	Revenue	Already excluded	€1,097,157.79	Reported revenue €1.10m; player-sale gains already excluded
Porto	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€97,223,000.00	Revenue	Already excluded	€97,223,000.00	Reported revenue €97.2m; player-sale gains already excluded. Prestações de serviços €94,499k and outros proveitos operacionais €2,724k
Rio Ave	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€5,722,176.13	Revenue	Already excluded	€5,722,176.13	Reported revenue €5.72m; player-sale gains already excluded
Santa Clara	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€6,658,978.90	Revenue	Already excluded	€6,658,978.90	Reported revenue €6.66m; player-sale gains already excluded
Sporting CP	2025-26	Portugal, tier 1	€137,315,000.00	Revenue	Already excluded	€137,315,000.00	Reported revenue €137.3m; player-sale gains already excluded. Rendimentos e ganhos operacionais sem transacções do plantel
Sporting da Covilhã	2024-25	Portugal, tier 3	€226,939.93	Revenue	Already excluded	€226,939.93	Reported revenue €227k; player-sale gains already excluded
Torreense	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€1,317,070.33	Revenue	Already excluded	€1,317,070.33	Reported revenue €1.32m; player-sale gains already excluded. Vendas e serviços prestados (face statement)
União de Leiria	2023-24	Portugal, tier 2	€1,643,977.28	Revenue	Already excluded	€1,643,977.28	Reported revenue €1.64m; player-sale gains already excluded
Vitória de Guimarães	2024-25	Portugal, tier 1	€22,584,986.98	Revenue	Already excluded	€22,584,986.98	Reported revenue €22.6m; player-sale gains already excluded
Vizela	2024-25	Portugal, tier 2	€1,499,018.00	Revenue	Already excluded	€1,499,018.00	Reported revenue €1.50m; player-sale gains already excluded