The figures, contained in the accounts of Chelsea FC Holdings Limited, reveal that key management personnel received a combined £10,593,000 in 2024-25, up from £5,893,000 the previous year. Directors fared similarly well, with total board pay rising almost 60 per cent to £3,486,000 from £2,183,000.
The highest-paid board member, believed to be club president Jason Gannon, took home £2,105,000 — an increase of just under 25 per cent on the year before, reports The Sun.
The executive group covered by the figures included commercial chief Todd Kline and chief revenue officer Casper Stylsvig, who departed the club last summer amid a dispute over the failure to secure a long-term front-of-shirt sponsor. Chelsea were unable to confirm whether co-sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart, or football executives Sam Jewell and Joe Shields, were also among those to benefit.
The rises are understood in part to reflect an increase in the number of executive personnel on the books.
By contrast, the wage bill covering other staff — the bulk of which relates to players — grew by just over six per cent, reaching £312,812,000.
Chelsea's £262.4 million loss contributed to parent company BlueCo posting a £619 million deficit across the group for the season. Since Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly completed their £2.5 billion takeover from Roman Abramovich in 2022, the cumulative losses have reached nearly £1.7 billion.
The numbers land awkwardly given that 2024-25 was by some distance the most successful season of the new ownership. Under Enzo Maresca, Chelsea won the Conference League, secured Champions League qualification and then lifted the Club World Cup at the start of the following financial year.
Success on the pitch has not translated into financial stability off it, and with losses of this scale now stretching across four consecutive years of new ownership, questions about the sustainability of BlueCo's model are only growing louder.