2019-20 Season European Professional Basketball Club Budgets

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Listed in € euros and $ US dollars ($US dollars as of November 10, 2019 exchange rate):


2019-20 EuroLeague (1st European level) basketball budgets :

1. FC Barcelona €41 million euros ($45.2 million US dollars)

2. CSKA Moscow €40.7 million euros ($44.9 million US dollars)

3. Real Madrid €40 million euros ($44.1 million US dollars)

4. Khimki Moscow Region €33.3 million euros ($36.7 million US dollars)

5. Olimpia Milan €31 million euros ($34.2 million US dollars)

6. Fenerbahce Istanbul €30 million euros ($33.1 million US dollars)

7. Zenit Saint-Petersburg €26.7 million euros ($29.4 million US dollars)

8. Efes Istanbul €24 million euros ($26.5 million US dollars)

9. Maccabi Tel Aviv €24 million euros ($26.5 million US dollars)

10. FC Bayern Munich €23 million euros ($25.3 million US dollars)

11. Panathinaikos Athens €21.5 million euros ($23.7 million US dollars)

12. Olympiacos Piraeus Athens €21 million euros ($23.2 million US dollars)

13. Saski Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz €16 million euros ($17.6 million US dollars)

14. Valencia Basket €15 million euros ($16.5 million US dollars)

15. Zalgiris Kaunas €11.9 million euros ($13.1 million US dollars)

16. ASVEL Basket Lyon-Villeurbanne €11.5 million euros ($12.7 million US dollars)

17. Alba Berlin €11 million euros ($12.1 million US dollars)

18. Red Star Belgrade €8.3 million euros ($9.2 million US dollars)

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2019-20 EuroCup (2nd European level) basketball budgets:

1. Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar €19.5 million euros ($21.5 million US dollars)

2. UNICS Kazan €14.2 million euros ($15.7 million US dollars)

3. Virtus Bologna €14 million euros ($15.4 million US dollars)

4. Reyer Venice Mestre €12 million euros ($13.2 million US dollars)

5. Malaga Baloncesto €11 million euros ($12.1 million US dollars

6. AS Monaco Basket €10 million euros ($11.0 million US dollars)

6. Galatasaray Istanbul €10 million euros ($11.0 million US dollars)

8. Partizan Belgrade €8.5 million euros ($9.4 million US dollars)

8. Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana €8.5 million euros ($9.4 million US dollars)

8. Budocnost Podgorica €8.5 million euros ($9.4 US million dollars)

8. EWE Baskets Oldenburg €8.5 million euros ($9.4 million US dollars)

12. Ratiopharm Ulm €8 million euros ($8.9 million US dollars)

13. Limoges CSP €7.5 million euros ($8.3 million US dollars)

13. Tofas Bursa €7.5 million euros ($8.3 million US dollars)

13. Darssuafaka Istanbul €7.5 million euros ($8.3 million US dollars)

16. Andorra Basquet €6 million euros ($6.6 million US dollars)

16. Aquila Trento €6 million euros ($6.6 million US dollars)

16. Brescia Leonessa €6 million euros ($6.6 million US dollars)

19. Nanterre 92 €5.1 million euros ($5.6 US million dollars)

20. Promitheas Patras €5 million euros ($5.5 million US dollars)

20. Arka Gydnia €5 million euros ($5.5 million US dollars)

22. Joventut Badalona €4.5 million euros ($5 million US dollars)

22. Rytas Vilnius €4.5 million euros ($5 million US dollars)

22. Maccabi Rishon LeZion €4.5 million euros ($5 million US dollars)

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2019-20 FIBA Champions League (2nd European level) basketball budgets:

1. Brose Baskets Bamberg €14 million euros ($15.4 million US dollars)

2. AEK Athens €12 million euros ($13.2 million US dollars)

3. Hapoel Jerusalem €10 million euros ($11 million US dollars)

3. Besiktas Istanbul €10 million euros ($11 million US dollars)

3. Bandirma Basket €10 million euros ($11 million US dollars)

3. Turk Telekom Ankara €10 million euros (11 million US dollars)

7. 1939 Canarias €9 million euros ($10 million US dollars)

8. Gaziantep Basket €8.5 million euros ($9.4 million US dollars)

9. SIG Strasbourg Basket €7.6 million euros ($8.4 million US dollars)

10. Nizhny Novgorod €6.5 million euros ($7.2 million US dollars)

10. Basket Zaragoza €6.5 million euros ($7.2 million US dollars)

10. Baskets Bonn €6.5 million euros ($7.2 million US dollars)

13. Dinamo Sassari €6 million euros ($6.6 million US dollars)

13. New Basket Brindisi €6 million euros ($6.6 million US dollars)

15. Pau-Orthez €5.7 million euros ($6.3 million US dollars)

16. Basquet Manresa €5 million euros ($5.5 million US dollars)

16. PAOK Thessaloniki €5 million euros ($5.5 million US dollars)

16. JDA Dijon Basket €5 million euros ($5.5 million US dollars)

16. Peristeri Athens €5 million euros ($5.5 million US dollars)

16. Basket Miraflores Burgos €5 million euros ($5.5 million US dollars)

16. Basketball Nymburk €5 million euros ($5.5 million US dollars)

22. VEF Riga €4.5 million euros ($5 million US dollars)

22. Neptunas Klaipeda €4.5 million euros ($5 million US dollars)

22. Hapoel Holon €4.5 million euros ($5 million US dollars)

25. Oostende €4 million euros ($4.4 million US dollars)

25. Antwerp Giants €4 million euros ($4.4 million US dollars)

25. Rasta Vechta €4 million euros ($4.4 million US dollars)

25. Mornar Bar €4 million euros ($4.4 million US dollars)

[THE J0KER]

It is important to say that "team budget" in European basketball doesn't mean only players' salaries. Here are last season EuroLeague budgets where in many cases salaries are just about half of "team budget".


Talking about salaries, here is unofficially EuroLeague TOP10 salaries this season:

$5,400,000 - Nikola Mirotic (Barcelona)
$4,000,000 - Alexey Shved (Khimki)
$3,000,000 - Walter Tavares (Real Madrid)
$2,600,000 - Nando De Colo (Fenerbahce)
$2,550,000 - Nick Calathes (Panathinaikos)
$2,430,000 - Jan Vesely (Fenerbahce)
$2,200,000 - Sergio Rodriguez (Olimpia Milan)
$2,200,000 - Sergio Llull (Real Madrid)
$2,200,000 - Alex Abrines (Barcelona)
$2,150,000 - Greg Monroe (Bayern Munich)

[Mirotic12]

Those are mainly budgets of total player costs (net salary plus taxes, living and car expenses), and a few teams added in net salary of the head coach and agent costs and taxes.

Total budges are more. Those listed budgets for example of Olympiacos and Panathinaikos, cover nothing but net player salaries and their taxes, and don't even include cost of player living and cars.

Also, under current EuroLeague rules, the player salaries have to be at least 65% of the club's total operating budgets. So they have to be at least a minimum of 15% more than 50% of the overall cost, which again, is higher than those listed.

Talking about salaries, here is unofficially EuroLeague TOP10 salaries this season:

$5,400,000 - Nikola Mirotic (Barcelona)
$4,000,000 - Alexey Shved (Khimki)
$3,000,000 - Walter Tavares (Real Madrid)
$2,600,000 - Nando De Colo (Fenerbahce)
$2,550,000 - Nick Calathes (Panathinaikos)
$2,430,000 - Jan Vesely (Fenerbahce)
$2,200,000 - Sergio Rodriguez (Olimpia Milan)
$2,200,000 - Sergio Llull (Real Madrid)
$2,200,000 - Alex Abrines (Barcelona)
$2,150,000 - Greg Monroe (Bayern Munich)

As for the salaries, those are just the net income amounts the players earn. That's how much the players earn after taxes, agent fees, union fees, insurance, retirement funds, etc. are all deducted.

NBA salaries are always only listed as the gross amount, the amount before all deductions and taxes. So those salaries would be worth more than double those amounts, in how NBA counts salary. For a realistic comparison to NBA salaries, you have to at least double those amounts. That doesn't even factor in that the EuroLeague clubs pay for the living quarters, cars, and utilities of the players also. Something the NBA does not do.

So it's actually:

$5,400,000 net income - Nikola Mirotic (Barcelona)
$4,000,000 net income - Alexey Shved (Khimki)
$3,000,000 net income - Walter Tavares (Real Madrid)
$2,600,000 net income - Nando De Colo (Fenerbahce)
$2,550,000 net income - Nick Calathes (Panathinaikos)
$2,430,000 net income - Jan Vesely (Fenerbahce)
$2,200,000 net income - Sergio Rodriguez (Olimpia Milan)
$2,200,000 net income - Sergio Llull (Real Madrid)
$2,200,000 net income - Alex Abrines (Barcelona)
$2,150,000 net income - Greg Monroe (Bayern Munich)

Net income (EuroLeague), versus gross income (NBA), is a huge difference that has to be accounted for, when comparing the salaries in the two leagues. Remmeber that US sports agents, as a standard, double the listed net amounts for EuroLeague, to compare them to what the listed gross amounts are in terms of how they would compare to NBA contracts. So for what those salaries would look like in NBA terms (gross money):

$10,800,000 - Nikola Mirotic (Barcelona)
$8,000,000 - Alexey Shved (Khimki)
$6,000,000 - Walter Tavares (Real Madrid)
$5,200,000 - Nando De Colo (Fenerbahce)
$5,100,000 - Nick Calathes (Panathinaikos)
$4,868,000 - Jan Vesely (Fenerbahce)
$4,400,000 - Sergio Rodriguez (Olimpia Milan)
$4,400,000 - Sergio Llull (Real Madrid)
$4,400,000 - Alex Abrines (Barcelona)
$4,300,000 - Greg Monroe (Bayern Munich)