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Pandemic impact: First reports of 2020 suggest operating losses have more than doubled

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PA Images | Of the 24 clubs in the Off The Pitch database having released their 2019/20 financial report AS Roma are one of the clubs being hit hardest. Here is the clubs new owner Dan Friedkin (C) and his son Ryan together with CEO Guido Fienga.

Twenty-four clubs in the Off The Pitch database have published their 2020 financial reports. On top of that we have included FC Barcelona and Real Madrid who have released key figures but not the full financial report.

With clubs ranging from the Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Germany, it's becoming easier to infer how the pandemic has affected clubs on a continental level.

And the end of the 2019/20 season is only the beginning. Next year's accounts are expected to show more severe pandemic impacts, keeping the transfer market's decline and continued matchday shortages in mind.

3 December 2020 - 4:16 PM

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