FC Porto accounts: early repayments, CAR land price, recent windows | OneFootball

José Pedro Pereira da Costa, FC Porto’s financial director, assured during the presentation of the club’s 2024/25 accounts that the SAD is currently not facing “any dark cloud” regarding potential breaches of UEFA regulations that could result in a “possible suspension from European competitions.”

The confidence in the evolution of the accounts was demonstrated, the director highlighted, by the early repayment of 79 million euros: two tranches of €26M related to the advance of television revenues to Sagasta; €10M from a sponsorship; and €17M from various smaller loans. “The average financing rate, excluding factoring, for the operations that made this possible is around 5.7%, well below the previous 11 and 10%,” he emphasized.

The assets recorded in 2024/25 include a €4.2M investment in the acquisition of land for the future High-Performance Center in Gaia, as well as €5.5M in renovation works at Estádio do Dragão. Pereira da Costa stated that members will, in the future, enjoy better conditions at the stadium and pointed to clear signs of willingness to participate in the club’s life, also providing indicators for the first quarter of the 2025/26 season: the maximum number of annual seats was set at 31,665 (+15% compared to 2023/24), resulting in a revenue increase of over 17%, to €7.6M.

Regarding the balance of transfer transactions, the director compared the last transfer window with the three windows under the current administration. Last summer, the accounts show an investment of €112M (+€11M in variables); sales of €77M (+€5M in variables); and total commissions of €13M, resulting in an average commission of 6.5% per operation. As for the variables this season, €8M have already been reached, mainly related to Evanilson (Bournemouth) and Francisco Conceição (Juventus).

Regarding the last three transfer windows (summer 2024, January 2025, and summer 2025), Pereira da Costa revealed an investment of €156.6M for revenues of €259.8M in transfer transactions, here “including the operations to purchase percentages of Samu.” “We could have done this only in 2026, but we decided to bring it forward. This is to say that, in this context, we have about 60% of the revenue from sales invested in strengthening the team, but without this aspect of the Samu business, we would be at 55%, so working with about half of what we sell,” he said.

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