Update: The latest version of the world’s most valuable sports teams can be found here.
The Dallas Cowboys start the camp this weekend when the NFC East Champions protinging. The Last season ended with a defeat by the playoffs against the Los Angeles Rams, who scored 23 consecutive years, the cowboys were removed from the NFC championship game. Only the Washington Redskins and Detroit the lions have longer droughts.
But the American team remains Sport’s biggest display. Nine of the 50 most sensible sports TV displays in 2018 were the Cowboys’ regular-season games, Goose’s ratings for CBS, NBC, and Fox (the Patriots were the only other team with more than 4 more sensible-50 games. ) Cowboys fever owner Jerry Jones generates about $340 million in sponsorship and the largest sensible level profit in the ballpark
While Jones’ team has come up short on the field the past 20-plus years, the Cowboys are the world’s most valuable sports franchise for the fourth-straight year at $5 billion. Jones has capitalized on the insatiable appetite for all things Cowboys.
“Inside and off the field, in the season and outside the season, there is a small soap opera in every day and every day,” Jones told my colleague Mike Ozanian the past fall forbes sportsmoney on the network Yes. ” What marketing.
Jones has been visionary since he bought Cowboys for $ 150 million 30 years ago. Revolutionized the sponsorships of the stadium; He left the Formula for the Income Formula of the NFL shared; He introduced a stadium control company, Legends Hospitality, with the New York Yankees; And opened a practice practice of $ 1. 5 billion in 2017.
The result: Dallas is at the top of the richest sports league in the global with profits before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, of $ 365 million in 2017, a record for any sports team.
The cutoff to rank among the world’s 50 most valuable sports teams is $2.075 billion, up $125 million from last year and $1.2 billion from five years ago. The values of sports teams have skyrocketed on the backs of ballooning media rights deals and more owner-friendly collective bargaining agreements that restrain player costs. There are 52 teams across all sports worth at least $2 billion, up from one, Manchester United, in 2012.
The NFL is the dominant sports league with respect to the price of its franchises. More from the first 50 are soccer groups. Accredit that Monster Media-Dright deals with CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN and DirecTV, who paid more than $ 260 million according to the team last year. TV sending is an excellent cushion to cover the largest article in the expenditure of the groups, the costs of the players, before all tickets, sponsorship, beer or playback t -shirts are sold. The salaries of the players players were $ 177 million last season (each team is also in the hook for $ 40 million a year in players functionality costs).
The New York Yankees moved up three spots to just behind the Cowboys with a value of $4.6 billion, up 15%. The Bronx Bombers head seven MLB teams that made the top 50. The Yankees are surging on and off the field. They own the best record in the American League this season, after posting 100 wins last year. Attendance at Yankee Stadium jumped 10% last year to 3.5 million fans, the highest for the club since 2012. Viewership of Yankees games on the YES Network was 57% higher than any other baseball franchise in 2018.
Real Madrid occupies the third place with $ 4. 2 billion and the highest among the 8 football clubs at the maximum sensitive 50. The League Club The last sports team considered as the maximum valuable in the global before the cowboys won The name of 2016. winning its recent crown of the Champions League last year.
Don’t look for Real Madrid to set any records with regard to the richest sports team sale, currently $2.3 billion for the sales of the Carolina Panthers in 2018 and the Brooklyn Nets in 2019. Real is owned by its more than 90,000 members, who elect a club president. It’s a similar structure at rival Barcelona, which ranks fourth overall with a value of $4.02 billion.
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NBA teams have made the most dramatic moves this decade. The New York Knicks headline nine hoops teams in the top 50 this year. Their $4 billion value, up 11%, ranks fifth among all sports teams. The Los Angeles Lakers ($3.7 billion) and Golden State Warriors ($3.5 billion) also cracked the top 10. In 2012, the Lakers were the most valuable NBA team at $900 million and ranked 35th out of all sports franchises. The Knicks were the only other NBA team in the top 50 in 2012.
Three NBA franchises have been sold for at least $ 2 billion since 2014 (Nets, Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers). The sale of NBA record for a value of $ 550 million for the Milwaukee Bucks, which closed 3 months before the successful acquisition of $ 2 billion Steve Ballmer of the acquisition of the $ 2 billion of Steve’s acquisition Ballmer Scissors.
Investors salivate at the NBA’s foreign customers, with 300 million basketball players in China and an annual source of income outside the U. S. gates at a higher teen rate. ABC 2016 has locked player prices to 50% of the league’s developing revenue stream, and league-scale profits are higher than tenfold in the past seven years through Forbes’ count.
The richest sports groups in the world are almost all swimming in the money these days. Other groups made a profit of at least $25 million. More than a share of the groups have earned more than $100 million, led through the Cowboys at $365 million.
The franchise prices below are based on the published evaluations of Forbes in the last 12 months through Mike Ozanian, Christina Setmi and me. Team prices reflect corporate prices (capital plus debt). No NHL, Nascar, MLS or One Formula team has made the maximum sensitive 50 price of $ 1. 55 billion.
* Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.