Teams

This graph shows the Profit & Loss for each side in 2008. This may be viewed as being unrepresentative due to it being a snapshot of a single season. The season by season analysis is in the sites for each individual club. The St Mirren profit came from the ground deal, Rangers from their Uefa run, and selling Hutton. The Hearts figure is vastly better than the previous year but it does include the one-off fee they received on selling Craig Gordon.

It is probably fair to say that, in the long run, most fans would not want their club to making either a profit or a loss. Ideally all the money a club brings in should be spent on improving the club. This may be through better players, or a better ground, or a youth academy.