For the ninth straight year, the Dallas Cowboys are the world’s most valuable sports team, worth an estimated $10.1 billion—the first to cross the 11-figure threshold and $1.3 billion beyond their closest competition. But there is plenty of movement among the top 50 teams, with 12 NBA franchises now flooding the ranking, double the six on last year’s list and led by the Golden State Warriors, worth an estimated $8.8 billion and No. 2 overall.
To be fair, this build is due in component to a replacement in the Forbes list calendar, however, the basketball market in the currency rankings also reflects genuine gains across NBA groups. The league’s 30 franchises were valued at $4. 4 billion on average this year, a building of 15% to 2023 and a jump of 596% a decade ago (a compounded annual return of 21%). No other game represented among the top 50 valuable groups comes 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. )
The NFL, however, continues to dominate the list with 29 franchises, 58 % of the 50 most sensible. 4 leagues, with Real Madrid of Spain, Real Madrid, leading the way to $ 6. 6 billion, tied in the 12th.
While elite soccer groups in Europe may have an unbeatable global range, there’s nothing beyond marketing American professional sports, starting with their media deals. The NBA’s national television deals, signed in July and take effect next season, are $76 billion over 11 years, resulting in an average annual payout of $230 million according to the team. Each NFL team, on the other hand, will get about $380 million according to the average year-long National League media rights package, which deserves to pay at least $125. 5 billion through 2033.
Consider that Atlético Madrid of the League, which is rarely among the 50 maximum valuable sports groups in the global, but held the 13th place among the football clubs in the Forbes list in 2024, had $ 382 million in earnings in earnings Last season, of all sources, according to Forbes, according to Forbes estimates. Or only look at Manchester City, who has accumulated 4 consecutive titles in the powerful Premier League in England and the 2023 Champions League trophy. The club now has a value of $ 5. 1 billion, which put it in the number 31 In the global with the global with the Chargers of Los Angeles de la NFL, which are only the fifth maximum valuable franchise in its domestic market, the Rams, Lakers, Clippers and Dodgers.
Combined, the 50 maximum valuable groups are valuable of less than $ 289 billion, an average of around $ 5. 8 billion, 13% to 2023. The threshold is also at record levels, which increases 16% to $ 4. 3 one billion to $ 3. 7 billion since the last year. In fact, this year’s last position team would have been No. 1 only seven years ago, when the cowboys led the qualification to $ 4. 2 billion.
The 50 maximum valuable groups are extracted from the maximum tests of the Formula 1, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL and the football team. Team prices are corporate prices (more net capital capital) and come with the economy of the team’s stadium, but not the price of the genuine heritage of the stadium itself. Similarly, prices come with the rights of the rights of regional sports networks that belong to the team, but not at the price of the RSN itself; The demanding situations of action of other sports assets and genuine real estate projects for combined use are also excluded. For the evaluations that come with all the sports -related assets, see the Forbes classification in 2024 of the maximum valuable sports empires. All figures are in US dollars.