The Real Gallagher Premiership Table: Ranked by Money, Not Points

This table ranks all ten Gallagher Premiership clubs in this dataset by financial size, largest to smallest, using each club's overall "top companies" ranking figure from its FY2024-25 accounts (year ending June 2025). It is not a form guide, and it is not the league table. A club can top this ranking while finishing mid-table on the pitch, and a club fighting for survival financially can still post a healthy turnover figure.

The clearest mismatch here is Newcastle. They finished bottom of the Premiership with just 13 points and were the subject of public financial concern throughout the season, yet they still rank 7th by financial size, ahead of Saracens, Bristol and Sale, and their accounts even show a paper profit (built on a loan write-off, not on winning rugby matches; see their full article for the detail). At the other end, Leicester Tigers, a Premiership runner-up, top the ranking largely on the strength of the healthiest balance sheet in the league, not the biggest turnover.

Look past turnover and the more telling number is net assets. Only four of the ten clubs here, Leicester, Gloucester, Northampton and Saracens, have a positive balance sheet at all. The other six, including the champions, Bath, are trading with negative net assets, kept going by owner funding rather than by the business itself.

How to read this table

All figures are for the financial year ending June 2025 and are rounded for readability: under £5m to the nearest £0.5m, £5m-£50m to the nearest £1m, and so on up the scale, using soft language (around, roughly, close to) rather than presenting them as exact. Where a club's accounts did not disclose a figure, such as Leicester's cash position, it is marked "n/d" for not disclosed rather than estimated. Click any club name to read its full season story.