UEFA satisfied with FC Porto's finances | OneFootball

FC Porto recorded a net profit of approximately 40 million euros in the 2024/25 fiscal year.

In a press conference, José Pereira da Costa, the financial director of FC Porto's SAD, detailed the figures disclosed in the report submitted to CMVM, which show a net result close to 40 M and over 170 million in sales.

Referring to "2024/2025 was the first full fiscal year of André Villas-Boas' administration," the director emphasized that this is the highest net result so far, especially considering the lack of sporting success. "And we didn't have income from participating in the Champions League," he said.

José Pereira da Costa highlighted "the restructuring that was done and the good results of commercial revenues, with growth in members and ticket sales" and also mentioned the profits obtained from the presence in the "Club World Cup, which helped mitigate the non-participation in the Club League".

FC Porto's SAD recorded a "reduction in operating costs of 30 million euros", and due to the "deep financial restructuring, it was possible to reduce about 6 million euros of financial debt". "The nearly 40 million in profit allowed for a significant improvement towards the positive we want to achieve," he added.

José Pereira da Costa recalled that this administration started "from a highly unbalanced situation" and managed to rectify "these imbalances".

Player transfers set a record, reaching 170 million euros (totaling €171.502 M), which fully complied with UEFA's accounting rules. "We presented the figures to UEFA and convinced UEFA not to put us under the jurisdiction of financial fair play and we had a much less heavy fine, of 750 thousand euros, which has already been paid, and we will be able to get out of the situation we were in."

In view of the 2024/2025 fiscal year, the financial director renewed FC Porto's "stronger and renewed ambitions" now that the "dark cloud" of UEFA sanctions no longer weighs.

Pereira da Costa explained that the reinforcement of the squad in this transfer window was only possible because, adding up the previous markets, FC Porto made "156 million" from player sales and the "purchases were 60% of this value".

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