The 50 most valuable football clubs in the world – ranked

He Manchester United It has been considered the most valuable club in world football with an estimated total value of 6.2 billion dollars (5,702 million euros), ahead of Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and their national rivals Liverpool.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe agreed to buy an initial 25% for $1.3 billion last December, increasing to 29% over time for an additional $300 million. That deal valued the entire club at $5.5 billion, suggesting his investment may already be profitable; It’s not that he’s in it for the money, by his own admission.

Real Madrid is valued at $6.06 billion, Barcelona at $5.28 billion and Liverpool at $5.11 billion. The presence of Manchester City (sixth, $4.75 billion), Arsenal (eighth, $3.91 billion), Tottenham Hotspur (ninth, $3.49 billion) and Chelsea (tenth, $3.47 billion) ensure that the Premier League dominates the top ten with six clubs.

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After the top comes a significant drop for Juventus in 11th place with a valuation of $1.77 billion.

A large number of Major League Soccer teams feature in the top 50, despite the fact that the clubs do not enjoy large sources of income and it is not considered a leading competition. Los Angeles FC, for example, is in 15th place and surpasses Inter Milan, finalist for the 2023 Champions League. Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami has also been valued at more than 1 billion dollars, despite the fact that they debuted in 2020.

The figures come from Sportico, which calculates a club’s value based on revenue figures, “team-specific multipliers” such as historical sales, market share, brand strength, on-field performance – both historical and current – conditions of the lease contracts for the facilities, the debt and the future economic forecasts of the club and the league. This could explain why MLS clubs are so highly rated, with many of them enjoying new, modern stadiums, operating on a cost-controlled model and protected from the threat of relegation.

Forbes publishes a similar but better-known annual list that ranks the value of clubs, while the Deloitte Football Money League ranks teams based on their annual revenue. The most recent list of Forbes Published a little less than 12 months ago, it places Real Madrid in first place with 6.07 billion dollars (approximately 5.58 billion euros).