For the ninth year in a row, the Dallas Cowboys are the most valuable sports team in the world, valuing approximately $10. 1 billion, the first to break the 11-figure threshold and $1. 3 billion beyond their nearest competition. But a lot of motion among the top 50 sensible teams, with 12 NBA franchises flooding the rankings, doubling down from six on last year’s list and leading through the Golden State Warriors, value roughly $8. 8 billion and No. 2 in general.
To be fair, this construction is due to a replacement in the calendar of the Forbes list, however, the basketball market in the monetary classification also reflects genuine gains through the NBA groups. The 30 league franchises were valued of $ 4. 4 billion on average this year, a 15% to 2023 building and a 596% jump a decade ago (an annual yield composed of 21%). No other game represented among the 50 maximum valuable groups is close to this appreciation.
The entry into NBA groups is at the expense of Major League Baseball, which has lost two groups in the Top 50 (the Chicago Cubs and the San Francisco Giants); Formula 1, which dropped its two outfits (Ferrari and Mercedes); And the NFL, which now lacks Buffalo’s tickets. (Due to the 50-50 tie this year between the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals and the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, six new groups are signing up for qualifying, while only five groups are leaving. )
However, the NFL continues to dominate the list with 29 franchises: 58% of the first 50. Soccer, which had 8 clubs in the most sensible 50 a decade ago, adding the first 3 places, now it has seven groups distributed in 4 leagues . , with the true Madrid of the Spanish League that opens the road to 6,600 million dollars, similarly in row 12.
While elite soccer groups in Europe can have an unbeatable global range, there is nothing beyond the marketing of American professional sports, starting with their media agreements. The NBA national television agreements, signed in July and enter into force next season, are 76 billion dollars in 11 years, resulting in an average annual payment of $ 230 million according to the team. Each NFL team, on the other hand, will obtain around $ 380 million according to the year on average the duration of the National League rights package, which deserves to pay at least $ 125. 5 billion up to 2033.
Consider that Atlético Madrid of La Liga—which is not among the world’s 50 most valuable sports teams but ranked 13th among soccer clubs on Forbes’ 2024 list—had $382 million in revenue last season, from all sources, according to Forbes estimates. Or simply look at Manchester City, which has piled up four straight titles in England’s powerful Premier League plus the 2023 Champions League trophy. The club is now worth $5.1 billion—tying it at No. 31 in the world ranking with the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers, who are only the fifth-most-valuable franchise in their home market, behind the Rams, Lakers, Clippers and Dodgers.
Combined, the 50 most valuable teams are worth just under $289 billion, or an average of roughly $5.8 billion, up 13% from 2023. The cutoff is also at record levels, rising 16% to $4.3 billion from last year’s $3.7 billion. In fact, this year’s last-place team would have been No. 1 just seven years ago, when the Cowboys led the ranking at $4.2 billion.
The 50 most valuable teams are taken from the recent maximum evaluations of the Formula 1, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL and Football teams. Team prices are corporate prices (equity plus net debt) and come with the economy of the team’s stadium, but not the team’s stadium, but not the price of the genuine stadium estate itself. Similarly, prices come with the fees for the rights to regional sports networks owned by the team, but not the price of the NSRs themselves; Capital issues for other sports assets and mixed-use real estate projects are also excluded.