Man Utd 1st UK football club to earn £500 mn a year
With a total revenue of £515.3 million for the 2016 financial year, Manchester United became the first English club to earn more than half a billion pounds a year. United are almost £55 million pounds short of global revenue leaders Spain's FC Barcelona. The Manchester club has also achieved a record operating profit of £68.9 million in 2015-16.