Real Madrid's revenues¹ of 480m euros (£401m) topped the Deloitte league table of the world's richest football clubs for the seventh straight year.

皇家马德里队4.8亿欧元的年收入连续七年位居德勒最富有的足球俱乐部排行榜榜首。

Deloitte's Football Money League, based on data for season 2010/11, says Real will match Manchester United's eight-year record if they stay top next year.

Real's arch-rivals Barcelona remained in second place, ahead of Manchester United, who stayed third.

Bayern Munich, Arsenal² and Chelsea are fourth, fiifth and sixth respectively.

Unchanged at top

The top seven clubs stayed in exactly the same positions as in the previous year.

Aston Villa³ fell out of the league entirely⁴, failing to hold on to their 20th position and leaving English clubs holding six places out of the top 20.

Liverpool fell one spot to ninth place in this year's list.

All of the 20 clubs in the list are from the "big five" European leagues, with Italy contributing five clubs, Germany four, Spain three and France down to two, from three in the previous year.

Together, the top 20 clubs earned 4.4bn euros, a rise of 3% on the previous year.