Sevilla has been in the top 10 of LaLiga for the entire century. There were even years when it flirted with the championship in the final days. However, in the last three seasons, its war has been different and its status, both sporting and economic, too. The Seville club saved the 2022/23 season with a Europa League as impressive – it was the seventh – as it was unexpected. This allowed it to maintain a salary limit in line with the history and entity of the club. At the end of the last winter market, the Seville team’s Sports Squad Cost Limit (LCPD) amounted to 152 million, the fourth in LaLiga EA Sports.
In this first check by the body that governs the clubs, the situation of the team chaired by Jose María del Nido Carrasco is very different. At the presentation of the squad costs at the headquarters of LaLiga Business, both Javier Gomezmanaging director, as Javier Tebaspresident of LaLiga, highlighted the delicate situation of the institution. According to figures provided by the organisation, Sevilla’s LCPD is 2.499 billion euros. It is the lowest cost of the 42 professional clubs. In fact, only Sociedad Deportiva Huesca, which plays in LaLiga Hypermotion, comes close to that figure and exceeds it by just 30,000 euros.
The president of LaLiga wanted to point out that Europe is key in the preparation of the budgets of the big clubs. “Not getting into the Champions League means 70 million euros,” he argued. Javier TebasAt the domestic level, Sevilla finished eleventh in the 2021/22 season and thirteenth in the 2023/24 season. In the first season, they spent five games in the relegation zone and in the second, three.
Sevilla is one of nine clubs that has exceeded its salary limit in the two professional categories of Spanish football. Espanyol, the second team with the lowest limit in LaLiga EA Sports with just €8 million, and FC Barcelona are also in the same situation, along with Getafe, Levante, Almería, Granada, Oviedo and Huesca. Being over the limit means that only 50% of the income or savings that the club obtains can be reinvested in new signings or 60% if the cost of the player does not exceed 5% of the team’s squad.
However, as explained by LaLiga, there are exceptions that allow players to be registered despite not complying with that rule, such as article 77 of the LaLiga financial control regulations, which FC Barcelona has used to register Dani Olmo As is the case of a player’s long-term absence, in this case Christensen.
LaLiga does not require the reduction of the limit to be immediate, even though Barça, for example, has managed to get close to 1/1 (a balanced balance of expenses and income) in just seven months. From 204 million in winter 2024, to the current 426 after the sales of Dembelé, Kessie y Araujoamong others. Sevilla, for its part, has gotten rid of En Nesyri, Ocampos y Acuna for almost 28 million euros. It is said that the excess of the Sevilla club could be around 100 million euros. Salvation by entering the Champions League, today, is a utopia for a club that is second to last in the league.
Top teams
On the other side of the coin is a Real Madrid that has dominated the spending limit table with an iron fist for a few years now. The Whites have managed to increase their limit by 27 million, from 727 to 754 after this market in which they have finally managed to sign the long-awaited player. Kylian Mbappéwhich accompanies Endrick on the discharge list.
Another team that has managed to improve its LCPD has been Atlético de Madrid. The colchoneros have been the Spanish club that has spent the most on signings with an investment of 185 million euros. Despite this expense, since they have only been able to sell for 94 million euros, the club has managed to increase its maximum cost in squad to 310 million euros. Real Sociedad is consolidated in fourth place with 159 million and Villarreal with 135, closing the top 5.
Regarding LaLiga Hypermotion, it is worth highlighting the third place of Deportivo de la Coruña, a recently relegated team, with a limit of 18.8 million euros, rather than the leadership of Cádiz. The Galicians, recently promoted from Primera RFEF, with 13.4 million are only surpassed by Elche with 14.9. The total limit of LaLiga Hypermotion rises to 193 million euros, 14 more than last season and in LaLiga EASports it is 2,608, 44 more than in 2022/23.