EuroLeague teams' budgets grew by an average of roughly €6M per team from 2022 to 2025. Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, Crvena Zvezda, and Monaco experienced the most significant increases in total spending and team contracts.
BasketNews' recent study compares EuroLeague teams' budgets between the 2021–22 and 2024–25 seasons. The data reveals solid increases in overall spending and players' and coaches' salaries.
Although the period is arbitrarily chosen, the data reveals a striking trend: most clubs have dramatically increased their total budgets and players' and coaches' salaries, with overall averages climbing approximately 29% for total spending and 26% for net salaries.
Average EuroLeague budget
The total budget increase had an average jump of roughly €6M per team. Net salaries boost suffered an average increase of approximately €2.5M per team.
According to BasketNews research, the average total budget per team jumped from about €21.2M in 2021–22 to
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