Which leagues have the largest income inequality?

A widening gap between rich and poor has become a characteristic of many areas of the world, and the world of football is no different.

The clubs in the top tiers in Europe generate billions of Euros in turnover each year. However, not all clubs get an equal slice of the cake.

Off The Pitch has analysed the big five leagues to see which has the biggest income inequality.

We used typical economic tools, namely the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient, to see how turnover is distributed among the clubs.

The results show that the distribution of income is heavily skewed in several leagues, where a few top clubs should almost be considered to be in a league of their own.