American football is recognized as the most expensive sports club in the world.
1. Dallas Cowboys (American football, NFL), value $5 (4.8-2018) billion USA
"Dallas Cowboys" of the North American National football league(NFL, American football)
2. New York Yankees (baseball, MLB), valued at $4.6 (4-2018) billion
A professional baseball club based in the Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City.
3. Real Madrid (football, Soccer), value 4.24 (4-2018) billion USD
It is one of the most titled clubs in Spanish football, winning a total of 60 national titles; a record 33 La Liga championship titles, 19 Spanish Cups, 9 times won the Spanish Super Cup.
4. Barcelona (football, Soccer), value 2.02 (4.1-2018) billion US dollars
Representatives of Barcelona, together with representatives of Real Madrid and Athletic Basque, stood at the origins of the formation of "Examples". At the same time, Barcelona is one of three teams that have not left the top Spanish division.
5. New York Knickerbockers (basketball, NBA), valued at $4 (3.6-2018) billion
Professional basketball club based in New York City.
6. Manchester United (football, Soccer), value 3.81 (4.2-2018) billion US dollars
It is one of the most popular football clubs in the world. One of the founding clubs of the English Premier League in 1992
7. New England Patriots (New England Patriots, American football, NFL), worth $ 3.8 billion
Professional American football club based in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 2017, the team won the Super Bowl in Houston. This was the fifth time the team has won the National Football League title. Quarterback Tom Brady was named Most Valuable Player. He received his fifth NFL championship ring.
In 2018, the team advanced to the Super Bowl (LII) for the 10th time in its history. The match took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota and ended in victory for the Philadelphia Eagles.
In February 2019, the team played in the 4th Super Bowl in 5 seasons. The match ended in victory and the sixth league title in the history of the team. Receiver Julian Edelman was recognized as the most valuable player of the meeting.
8. Los Angeles Lakers (basketball, NBA), value $3.7 (3.3-2018) billion
American professional basketball team from Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference Pacific Division of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
The minimum cost of the club
needed to get into the top 50, amounted to $1.95 billion in 2018, remained unchanged in 2019. That is how much, according to Forbes, the American football club Cleveland Browns.
In total, according to Forbes, there are now 106 sports clubs worth more than $1 billion each in the world, which is 19 more than last year.
Apparently, the athletes of these clubs can afford to purchase
1. Manchester United (England)
Assessed value$3.69 billion
Dynamics for the year +11%
Income$765 million
Operating profit$288 million
For the first time in five years, Manchester United topped the list of the most valuable football clubs - thanks to the international popularity of their brand, the commercial acumen of management and, of course, the financial success of the English Premier League. In the 2015/16 season, United generated $765m in revenue, $77m more than its closest rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona. $405 million from commercial deals and $288 million in operating income are also the best figures among football clubs. And it is especially important that such financial well-being happened almost without the Champions League: in the 2015/16 season, Manchester United flew out of the tournament at the group stage, and missed the next draw. In the 2016/17 season, with new coach José Mourinho, the team did not perform very well in the national championship (6th place), but won the Europa League and secured a place in the Champions League for next season. In this scenario, getting around United in any financial ranking will be extremely difficult.
2. Barcelona (Spain)
Assessed value$3.66 billion
Dynamics for the year +2%
Income$688 million
Operating profit$113 million
Last year, Barça signed a $168 million a year kit deal with Nike from 2018 to 2023, overturning Manchester United's previous record deal, which back in 2014 gave the right to dress the club's players to Adidas for $111 million a year. year.
3. Real Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
Assessed value$3.58 billion
Dynamics for the year –2%
Income$688 million
Operating profit$181 million
May 2017 German edition Spiegel, citing Football Leaks documents, has published financial details of a 10-year (from 2015 to 2024) deal between Real Madrid and Adidas. The annual guaranteed payment of $75 million is supplemented by 22.5% of the sale of branded club equipment (about $32 million). In addition, there are decent bonuses for trophies (for example, $5 million for winning the Champions League).
5. Manchester City (England)
Assessed value$2.08 billion
Dynamics for the year +8%
Income$583 million
Operating profit$162 million
In the 2015/16 season, Manchester City earned $234 million from TV broadcasts, more than any other football club. In addition, City was the leader in revenue from participation in the Champions League - $ 93 million.
6. Arsenal (London, England)
Assessed value$1.9 billion
Dynamics for the year –4%
Income$520 million
Operating profit$122 million
Own modern stadium "Emirates", the popularity of the brand and the huge television contracts of the Premier League allow Arsenal, which has not won the national championship for more than 10 years, to earn decent money, while maintaining a place in the middle of the top ten of the Forbes rating. However, following the results of the 2016/17 season, the team did not qualify for the Champions League (for the first time since the late 1990s!) and for the year ahead they deprived themselves of an important source of income ($59 million in the 2015/16 season).
7. Chelsea (London, England)
Assessed value$1.85 billion
Dynamics for the year +11%
Income$497 million
Operating profit$52 million
In the 2018 rankings, Chelsea are likely to have to make room - a disastrous 10th place in the 2015/16 FA Championship deprived the team of European competitions and the accompanying income for a year. So, in the 2015/16 Champions League, Roman Abramovich's club earned $77 million (including the previous four seasons - $281 million). However, the absence international matches in the 2016/17 calendar allowed Chelsea to focus on the Premier League and win the league title (the second in three years).
8. Liverpool (England)
Assessed value$1.49 billion
Dynamics for the year –3%
Income$379 million
Operating profit$58 million
Liverpool owner Fenway Sports Group has spent $140 million to increase the capacity of the Anfield stadium where the team plays home matches by 8,500 seats (the arena now seats 54,000 spectators) and may add another 5,000. This will increase the club's match revenue.
9. Juventus (Italy)
Assessed value$1.26 billion
Dynamics for the year –3%
Income$379 million
Operating profit$58 million
In five campaigns in the Champions League (seasons 2011/12 - 2015/16), Juventus earned more than any other team in the tournament - $ 311 million. Largely due to the fact that other Italian participants were not very successful, and most of the money Juve received from the marketing pool (funds - $ 544 million in the 2015/16 season - distributed according to the specific weight of each specific TV market), which relied on Italy. So, in the recently completed 2016/17 draw, the Turin club earned the most in the League - $ 117 million (while the winner of the Real Madrid tournament - only $ 91 million).
10. Tottenham (England)
Assessed value$1.06 billion
Dynamics for the year +4%
Income$310 million
Operating profit$68 million
On May 14, 2017, Tottenham played their last match at White Hart Lane, where they had played since the late 19th century, and the demolition of the stadium began the very next day. New arena a club worth $1 billion should be ready for the 2018/19 season, and the next team will play at the 90,000th Wembley.
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The history of the Tottenham Hotspur club began on September 5, 1882. Several students from one of the local schools decided to establish their own football team. Support for Tottenham in the UK is one of the most massive. The club is especially popular in North London and around the British capital. Tottenham support clubs are scattered around the world. Spurs fans consider London Arsenal to be the main enemy of their club. There is also a sharp confrontation with Chelsea and with West Ham United. Tottenham enjoys the reputation of a "Jewish club" among its enemies, due to the fact that the club is located in the Jewish quarter and historically a significant part of the fans were Jews.
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On November 1, 1897, students from the Massimo d'Azeglio Lyceum founded in Turin sport Club Juventus. The original kit of the club was pink, but already in 1903 Juventus began to play in black and white shirts. The most famous nickname of Juventus is " old signora» (la Vecchia signora). There are several versions of this. One of them is related to the form of the club. There is another version of the origin of this nickname: "Signora" in the nickname of the club appeared because of the emblem of the team, which until the 1930s resembled a fan. At the beginning of the 20th century, Juventus was supported mainly by people from the bourgeois classes. In the middle of the twentieth century, workers, mechanics and machine builders supported the club, as the team was bought by the FIAT auto concern. After World War II, migrants and residents of northern Italy began to support Juventus. As internal migration intensified between the 50s and 70s, Juventus began to support mainly migrants, while the natives of Turin support Torino.
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Liverpool was founded over a rent dispute between the Everton committee and John Houlding, the club's president and land owner at Anfield. Houlding was accused of using his position for personal gain. After eight years at the stadium, Everton moved to Goodison Park in 1892 and Houlding founded Liverpool to play at Anfield. The most fundamental rival for Liverpool is another Merseyside club Everton, matches with their participation are called the Merseyside derby. Unlike other football rivalries, the rivalry between the Reds and the Toffees is not geographic, religious or political. Liverpool fans were involved in two of the biggest football tragedies: the Heysel tragedy, which occurred on 25 May 1985 in Brussels during the European Cup final between Juventus and Liverpool, in which 39 people died due to the collapse of the stadium wall. Juventus fans and the Hillsborough tragedy that occurred on April 15, 1989 in Sheffield during the semi-final game of the FA Cup, in which 96 Liverpool fans, including a cousin, died due to fences around the perimeter of the stands in a stampede former captain Team Steven Gerrard.
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The club quickly gained popularity among fans, but failed to win a single trophy in its first 50 years of existence. Chelsea's very first success came in the FA Cup, finishing second in 1915. During its existence, Chelsea has changed four emblems, which were considered the main ones. The first was the Chelsea Pensioners emblem adopted in 1905. From her club got its nickname - "Pensioners". A lion with a staff in a circle was used from 1953 to 1986. After victories in the FA Cup, options with stars on the sides of the lion or with the National Cup were added to the emblem. In 1986, the adoption new emblem club. It was made up in several types of colors - the lion and the abbreviation of the club could have red, blue or yellow colors. In the 1970s and 1980s, Chelsea fans were long associated with football hooliganism. The club's "football firm", originally called the Chelsea Shed Boys, now known as the Chelsea Headhunters, was notorious for its nationalist views and violent actions against other teams' "football firms" such as West Ham's Inter City Firm and Millwall's Millwall Bushwackers.
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The Arsenal Club was founded in 1886 in southeast London by workers from the Royal Arsenal Ordnance Factory in Woolwich. The original name of the club was Dial Square. Arsenal played their first match on December 11, 1886 against Eastern Wanderers. The Gunners won 6-0. Two weeks later, at Christmas, a meeting of players was organized, at which it was decided to rename the club to Royal Arsenal, a venue for the games and the players' uniforms were chosen. Red was suggested by former Nottingham Forest player Fred Beardsley. Arsenal fans often refer to themselves as the Gooners, a name derived from the team's nickname, the Gunners. The exact origin of this nickname is unknown. According to one version, the Scandinavian fans of the team pronounced the word "gunners" with an accent, which sounded something like "gooners". Local fans liked it and they also began to call themselves that. Arsenal fans' main rivals are Tottenham Hotspur fans. The match between these two clubs is called the North London Derby.
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The founder of the football club, today called Manchester City, was born in 1855. Anna Connell was the daughter of Arthur Connell, a priest of Peter I in Harrogate. The emblem of the club was created on the basis of the coat of arms of the city of Manchester. To show pride in being able to represent Manchester on the pitch, in finals major tournaments the team uses special uniforms, on which the coat of arms of the city is applied instead of the emblem. Manchester City's traditional colors are white and sky blue. Manchester City have permanently retired the number 23 worn by Marc-Vivien Foe, the Cameroonian footballer who died of a heart attack during the semi-final of the Confederations Cup in 2003.
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The first football club in the city was the existing and currently "Munich 1860", founded as a gymnastics club, this club opened a football section in 1899. Bayern appeared a little later - on February 27, 1900, a month after the German Football Association was created. At the meeting football section of the Munich Gymnastics Union, the discussion of whether to remain under the roof of the gymnasts or start an independent life turned into a split: 11 people, led by the Berliner Franz Jon, left the meeting and in the Gisela pub decided to create the Bayern football club - in honor of the German land, whose capital is Munich. As for the financial issue, Bavaria is an exception in the professional international football and consistently profitable. Other clubs often incur losses, use loans, while Bayern use internal sources of funding. Also Bayern differ from other European top clubs in terms of revenue, while other clubs earn over 35% of their revenue from broadcast rights, Bayern earn only 22-25% of their revenue this way.
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In 1896, the Sky Football Club was created, which became the progenitor of the Madrid club. But the official founding date is March 6, 1902, when the brothers Padros and Julián Palacios open a club called Madrid Football Club. June 29, 1920 King of Spain Alfonso XIII awarded the club the title of Royal. Hence the modern name of the club - Real Madrid. Real Madrid is one of three clubs, who have never left the top Spanish division, the other two are Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao. Sporting Intelligence based on an analysis of the financial statements of 14 top clubs in different types sports around the world, concluded that Real Madrid players earn an average of $7,356,632 per year.
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Catalan professional football club from the city of the same name, one of the most titled clubs in Spain and in the world. Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, British, Spanish and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper. The club has become one of the symbols of Catalonia, hence the motto - Mes que un club- "More than a club". The emblem has the shape of a "cauldron", divided into three quartel. The top two reproduce the flag of the city of Barcelona (that is, the Cross of St. George and the flag of Catalonia). In the lower part there is a leather ball of the sample of the first half of the 20th century against the background of blue-garnet stripes - the colors of the club. In the center of the shield on a golden stripe that separates the upper and lower parts of the coat of arms, the initials of the name of the club FCB (Football Club Barcelona) are displayed.
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oldest club this rating. The club was formed under the name Newton Heath L&YR F.C by a group of Manchester railway workers in 1878. The club uniform contained two colors - green and gold. For 15 years, the team played at the small dilapidated North Road, before moving to Bank Street in Clayton in 1893. In 1902, the team was on the brink of bankruptcy, with over £2,500 in debt. Bank Street Stadium was even closed by the bailiffs. The club was saved from closure by John Henry Davies, manager of the Manchester Brewery, who invested in the team solid investments at that time. On April 26, 1902, the club changed its name and officially became Manchester United. At the same time, club colors changed - from green and gold to red and white. Manchester United is considered the most popular football club in the world with the highest home match attendance of any European clubs. There are different opinions about who is Manchester United's main rival. Traditionally, the club's main rivals have been Liverpool, Manchester City and Leeds United, although Arsenal have been added to the list in the last decade.
Rating of the most expensive clubs in Europe
The CIES Football Observatory has named the clubs that have spent the most money building their current squads.1. Manchester City - €878m
You can admire the genius of Pep Guardiola all you want, but we must not forget that he has a superstar squad at his disposal. Since the summer of 2016, City have spent about 400 million euros on strengthening the defense alone.
2. PSG - €805m
The ambitious Parisians would not have been so high if not for the transfers of Neymar and Mbappe. Only for this couple, with the help of muddy schemes, they paid so much that it’s even indecent to talk about it out loud.
3. Manchester United - €747m
Jose Mourinho can continue to complain that there are clubs that spend more on players than Manchester United. But the huge gap between his team and the leader of the Premier League this season is definitely not connected with this. The management of "United" does not spare money for the stars either.
4. Barcelona - €725m
Dembele, Coutinho, Paulinho - these guys cost the Catalans a tidy sum. And it seems that Barça is not participating in the arms race that the British have staged, but reality forces them to unfasten tens of millions for almost any bright football player.
5. Chelsea - €592m
Roman Abramovich began to behave more modestly. If in the 2000s the Russian businessman's club was the main player in the transfer market, now it is in the middle of the top ten.
6. Real Madrid - €497m
A year and a half Madrid do not make big transfers. And this does not prevent them from collecting titles. But at the end of the current season, Florentino Perez plans to renew the squad. This means that Real Madrid will take a higher position in the next ranking.
7. Liverpool - €461m
The club, which plays the most expensive defender in the world, had to be in the top ten. Merseysiders are used to making fun of the transfer policy in England, but in recent years there have been successful transitions - Firmino, Mane, Salah are among them.
Manchester United is the most valuable club in the world Forbes versions
For the second year in a row, Manchester United topped the ranking of the most expensive football clubs in the world according to Forbes.
Per Last year price English club increased by 12% and now stands at 4.123 billion dollars. In second place is Real Madrid (4.088 billion, + 14%), in third - Catalan Barcelona (4.064 billion, + 12%), followed by German Bavaria (3.063 billion, + 13%) and English Manchester City (2.474 billion, + nineteen%).
Top 20 most expensive clubs world according to Forbes:
1. Manchester United - $4.123 billion (+12%)
2. Real - 4.088 billion (+14%)
3. Barcelona (4.064 billion, +12%)
4. Bavaria - 3.063 billion (+13%)
5. Manchester City - 2.474 billion (+19%)
6. Arsenal - 2.474 billion (+19%)
7. Chelsea - 2.062 billion (+12%)
8. Liverpool - 1.944 billion (+30%)
9. Juventus - 1.472 billion (+17%)
10. Tottenham - 1.237 billion (+17%).
11. PSG - 971 million (+16%)
12. Borussia Dortmund - 901m (+12%)
13. Atlético - 848 million (+16%)
14. West Ham - 754m (+19%)
15. Schalke - 707 million (+12%)
16. Roma - 618 million (+9%)