Chelsea possess the Premier League ’s most profitable academy, but the Blues and their fellow Big Six members fall some way behind the rest of Europe’s top sides.
The CIES Football Observatory have analysed how much income clubs across the world have received from the transfer of players who graduated from their academies, having been there for at least three years between the seasons of their 15th and 21st birthday.
The figures include any potential future add-ons from the transfer deals that have been done in the past seven years for each clubs academy graduate sales.
