The renowned football observatory CIES (Centre International d’Étude du Sport – International Centre for Sports Studies) from Neuchâtel has made a list of football academies from around the world and ranked them according to the profit made in the last 10 years.There are no big surprises at the top. The clubs that are most often talked about as the best traders are in the first two places. Of course – Benfica and Ajax. The Lisbon Eagles collected more than half a billion for the 30 sold players, or specifically 516,000,000 euros, while the Amsteraamers are richer by 376,000,000 thanks to their ‘pupils’. However, they also sold six more players in the given period, which is the most in the entire list of 100 clubs.##NAJAVA_MECA_7788988##It is important to underline that CIES took into account only football players who spent at least three seasons in a certain team, between the ages of 15 and 21…Behind Benfica and Ajax came the French Lyon (370,000,000), followed by Real Madrid (364,000,000), Chelsea (347,000,000), Monaco (325,000,000) and another team from the capital of Portugal – Sporting (305,000,000).The Top 10 list is completed by Tottenham, Manchester City and Atalanta.(See the complete list HERE)
