Ratio of payroll costs for match operations to total revenue

Although the clubs’ payroll costs for their professional teams rose by €46.6 million compared to the previous year, total revenue increased by €282.4 million, meaning that the payroll cost ratio for players and coaches fell by four percentage points. At 27.7 per cent, it reached the lowest level in the history of Bundesliga 2; the previous record was 30.2 per cent from the 2021-22 season. On average, the clubs therefore only spent just over one in four euros they earned on their players’ salaries.