Chelsea would need to play 86 home games this season to cover their wage bill.
The club spent £179million according to their last released accounts, which are for the 2012-13 season.
Using the cheapest matchday ticket offered according to the BBC price of football survey for the same season, £41, the club would have to have sold more than 4million tickets in order to cover their wage bill.
That works out at 104 home games based on Stamford Bridge's capacity.
Using the most expensive ticket at the time, £87, it would work out at 49 games.
The average for the Premier League that season was 86 games at the cheapest ticket rates, and 42 at the most expensive rates.
However, if we assume that the wage bill has not increased since 2012-13, then this season the number of games required has dropped.
Chelsea's cheapest ticket is £50 which would still require 86 home games to cover the wage bill, but 49 games with the highest price, £87.
The club most in trouble based on the statistics is QPR.
The west Londoners would require 169 home games this season at their cheapest matchday ticket rate in order to cover their 2012-13 wage bill.
Behind them are Fulham, who are no longer in the Premier League and have offloaded a lot of players, with 163 games and then Manchester City who would need 133 games to cover their 2012-13 wage bill.
Southampton would require the fewest home games with 45 at the cheapest rate and 28 at their most expensive.
They are followed by Sunderland at 47 and 30 games respectively and then Everton at 48 and 34 games at the two price ranges.
Norwich will need 62 games, although they also are no longer in the Premier League.
The average for the league though remains largely unchanged from 2012-13 at 85 games.
