Aston Villa's revenue past the £100m mark

New figures revealed today show Aston Villa's revenue climbed past the £100million mark last season.

But the claret and blues remain on the outside looking in when it comes to the world's top earning clubs.

The latest Deloitte Football Money League has Villa ranked in 22nd place - – the tenth highest English club – with revenue of £111.2m during the 2013-14 season, a jump of nearly £30m on the previous term.

But that leaves them well adrift of the world's richest club, Real Madrid, who pulled in an estimated £459.5million over the course of the campaign.

Manchester United are ranked as the richest British club in the annual survey, in second place overall. Bayern Munich are third, with Barcelona in fourth.

In the Midlands, Stoke City also made the longer list for the first time in 30th place, with Albion just behind.

All Premier League clubs showed a significant increase in revenue following, which has been put down to the new improved TV broadcast deal.

Austin Houlihan, senior manager at Deloitte, said: "The Premier League's new broadcast deals have translated into big revenue increases across the English top flight.

"Every Premier League club reported record revenues in 2013/14. Between them, the eight English clubs in our top 20 achieved total broadcast revenues of €1.1bn (£0.9bn).

"The fact that All the clubs in the Premier League are in the top 40 is testament to the huge appeal of the league globally and also the equality of the distributions the clubs enjoy relative to their European counterparts.

"Additionally, the Premier League is currently negotiating for the next cycle of media rights and further uplifts are anticipated."

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