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The huge 5 European leagues generated a record €14.7bn (£12.6bn) in income in 2016-17, a 9% annual improve, based on new figures from Deloitte.
It says the European football market is now worth some €25.5bn (£21.9bn).
The English Premier League was the market chief, with record income of £four.5bn, as every of the 20 golf equipment set their very own annual income record.
In income phrases, the Premier League is 86% bigger than its nearest competitor, Spain's La Liga.
Deloitte mentioned the monetary outcomes of the 2016-17 football season mirrored a new period of improved profitability and monetary stability for European football golf equipment.
'Resilience and energy'
It mentioned the Premier League had benefited from the impression of its record broadcasting offers, in addition to from working in a regulated enterprise atmosphere, by way of Uefa Financial Fair Play rules and the league's personal price management measures.
"Just a decade ago, 60% of Premier League clubs were making an operating loss, whereas in the 2016-17 season, all clubs were profitable," mentioned Dan Jones, head of Deloitte's sport enterprise group.
"In addition, and for the first time ever, Premier League clubs' revenues have grown at a faster rate than wages over a 10-year period."
He stated that though the sale of the Premier League's home TV rights for the 2019-20 to 2021-22 seasons didn't ship the anticipated monetary improve, this shouldn't be a trigger for concern.
"The fact that the Premier League has once again shown its resilience and strength by retaining the vast majority of its audience and value has provided market leading financial security to clubs for at least the next four years, providing they are not relegated," Mr Jones added.
"Indeed, once the sales process for the remaining international rights is completed, we expect the league will have delivered overall increases in television revenue."
Tax contribution
Other findings relating to English football funds in 2016-17 embrace:
- The prime 92 Premier League and Football League golf equipment generated a record £5.5bn in income
- Premier League golf equipment' revenues elevated to £four.5bn, an improve of 25% as the primary yr of a new broadcast rights cycle noticed golf equipment paid between £95m and £150m in central distributions
- All top-flight golf equipment made a working revenue
- Championship golf equipment generated record mixed revenues of £720m, a 30% improve from 2015-16. The three newly relegated golf equipment generated virtually one-third of this whole income
- It is now greater than 5 years since an English football membership entered insolvency proceedings, reflecting higher monetary self-discipline and the constructive impression of regulation
- The 92 Premier League and Football League golf equipment contributed £1.9bn to the UK authorities in taxes (2015-16: £1.6bn).
European participation
Meanwhile, Scottish Premiership revenues elevated by 63% to £181m in 2016-17, pushed by the on-field success of Celtic, and Rangers' participation in Scotland's top-flight.
Celtic's participation within the 2016-17 Uefa Champions League contributed €32m, greater than the quantity distributed throughout all 12 golf equipment from the Scottish leagues' personal broadcast revenues in 2016-17.
Aggregate match-day and industrial revenues each elevated by greater than 40%, as Rangers participation within the prime division helped to drive Scotland's prime tier again into the highest 10 income producing leagues in Europe.
Inter impression
Outside the UK, the success of La Liga's collective gross sales method noticed broadcast income progress of 20%.
That adopted on from 26% progress within the 2015-16 season, has meant collective La Liga income grew to a record €2.9bn in 2016-17.
The Spanish league has overtaken the Bundesliga to be the world's second-highest revenue-generating league.
Meanwhile, the German Bundesliga remained the most effective attended European league, with common crowds of over 44,000.
Bundesliga golf equipment collectively maintained their robust total income progress, up 15% from 2015-16 to €1.4bn.
Italy's Serie A noticed income develop by eight% to greater than €2bn for the primary time. The majority of this progress got here from industrial sources, with income growing by €91m (17%) on 2015-16,.
More than three-quarters of this was was solely attributable to Internazionale, following the membership's acquisition by Chinese electronics retailer Suning in June 2016.
France's Ligue 1 remained the bottom revenue-generating of Europe's "big five" leagues, at €1.6bn in 2016-17, regardless of getting into a new four-year home broadcasting rights cycle.