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Coventry City finances

What the filed accounts show, season by season from 2005/06 to 2024/25: 12 of 20 seasons have a filing in the database; in 8 the club was below the Championship. Figures as filed, not adjusted: on the nearest group that holds the club alone, or on the club company where no such group files; the table names which for each season.

(20)(10)0········(25.3)05/0607/0809/1011/1213/1415/1617/1819/2021/2223/2424/252005/06(2.9)2006/072007/082008/09(7.6)2009/10(3.1)2010/112011/122020/21(4.7)2021/22(7.0)2022/23(4.2)2023/245.02024/25(25.3)
Profit or loss before tax, £m, for the 12 of 20 seasons with a filing in the database; the latest in orange. A ring marks a season with a filing but no profit figure (4; the table gives the reason). A dot marks a season with no filing in the database.

Revenue and profit, by season

SeasonDivisionAccounts ofRevenue, £mProfit before tax, £mOwner-related gains in it, £m
2005/06ChampionshipClub company7.6(2.9)–
2006/07ChampionshipClub company7.7not printed–
2007/08ChampionshipClub company9.2not printed–
2008/09ChampionshipClub company8.9(7.6)–
2009/10ChampionshipClub company9.3(3.1)–
2010/11ChampionshipClub company10.3not printed–
2011/12 (13 months)ChampionshipClub companynot printednot printed–
2012/13 to 2019/20Below the Championship: not in the database
2020/21ChampionshipClub company11.8(4.7)–
2021/22ChampionshipClub company18.1(7.0)–
2022/23 (6 months)ChampionshipNearest group11.1(4.2)–
2023/24ChampionshipNearest group29.35.0–
2024/25ChampionshipNearest group34.1(25.3)–

Losses in brackets. Profit before tax is as filed. Owner-related gains are the gains from the owner or its companies that the accounts count inside that profit (the hidden-losses record); they are not taken out of it here, and they are read for Premier League seasons only ("–" in a Championship season). Where no figure is shown, the reason is given: "not printed", neither reading found the figure on the pages read; "read once only", only one reading found it; "readings differ", the two readings disagree; "not read", no reading of the filing holds it.

"Accounts of": the nearest group that holds the club alone, or the club company where no such group files or the group's filing does not hold the club for that season. A season whose accounts cover other than 12 months shows its length beside it, from the year ends the database holds for that company.

Net assets, debt and owner support, by season

SeasonNet assets, £mBorrowings by lender, £mGoing concern relies on owner
2005/06(26.4)
  • Owner 10.9
  • Other related parties 2.0
Not agreed
2006/07(29.2)
  • Owner 14.4
  • Other related parties 2.0
  • Other outside lenders (bonds included) 4.0
Not agreed
2007/08(37.5)
  • Owner 35.9
  • Other outside lenders (bonds included) 1.1
Yes
2008/09(45.1)
  • Owner 44.0
  • Other outside lenders (bonds included) 0.7
Yes
2009/10(48.2)
  • Owner 43.7
  • Other outside lenders (bonds included) 2.7
Yes
2010/11(54.9)
  • Owner 52.2
  • Other outside lenders (bonds included) 2.8
Yes
2011/12 (13 months)(1.8)
  • Other related parties 1.8
Yes
2012/13 to 2019/20Below the Championship: not in the database
2020/21(27.9)
  • Owner 3.8
  • Other shareholders 17.3
  • Other outside lenders (bonds included) 2.6
Conditional
2021/22(34.6)
  • Owner 5.6
  • Other shareholders 20.5
  • Other outside lenders (bonds included) 2.3
Yes
2022/23 (6 months)29.7
  • Other related parties 6.1
  • Other outside lenders (bonds included) 1.1
Yes
2023/2434.7
  • Other related parties 30.1
Yes
2024/2524.7
  • Owner 49.8
Yes

Read twice from each filing, as agreed by both readings: Premier League seasons from 2020/21 from the balance-sheet record; Premier League seasons 2005/06 to 2017/18 and every Championship season from the records built on the Championship's method. Each record keeps its own lender types.

Owner
the club's ultimate controlling party, its parent or companies in its group, or a person or company acting for it, as the related-party note shows.
Other shareholders
a shareholder who lends to the club but does not control it.
Other related parties
a lender the accounts show as a related party (a director, a director's relative or company, a connected party) but not as a shareholder or as acting for the owner.
Other outside lenders
other debt to lenders outside the club: funding secured on central payments, factoring, finance leases, preference shares treated as debt, and lenders the accounts do not name. Marked "(bonds included)" in the records that count bonds and loan notes here too.
Going concern relies on owner
"Yes", the directors say the club can carry on because its owner will support it; "Conditional", that support is promised only if something goes wrong, or as a promise not to call existing loans; "No", the directors do not rely on it; "Not agreed", the two readings differ.

From the Orange Ledger's database as of 31 October 2026: figures read from accounts filed at Companies House, not official figures, and the database holds what was read; it does not make it verified. Coventry City's squad cost ratio · All clubs.