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, that increase is due in part to a change in the timing of Forbes’ list, but basketball’s march up the financial leaderboard also reflects real gains by the NBA’s teams. The league’s 30 franchises were worth $4.4 billion on average this year, a 15% increase over 2023 and a staggering 596% jump from a decade ago (a 21% compound annual return). No other sport represented among the 50 most valuable teams comes close to that appreciation.
The influx of NBA teams comes at the expense of Major League Baseball, which lost two teams in the top 50 (the Chicago Cubs and the San Francisco Giants); Formula 1, which had both of its outfits fall out (Ferrari and Mercedes); and the NFL, which is now missing the Buffalo Bills. (Because of a tie at No. 50 this year between the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals and the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, six new teams join the ranking while only five teams depart.)
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 effective next season, are $76 billion over 11 years, resulting in an average annual payout of $230 million consistent with the team. Each NFL team, on the other hand, will get about $380 million consistent with the average year-long duration of the National League’s media rights package, which deserves to pay at least $125. 5 billion through 2033.
Consider that Atlético Madrid of the League, which is not among the 50 maximum valuable sports groups in the world, but held the 13th position among the football clubs in the Forbes list in 2024, had 382 million dollars of income source Last season, of all sources, of all sources, according to Forbes estimates. Or simply look at Manchester City, who has accumulated 4 consecutive titles in the hard premier league in England and the Champions League Trophy 2023. The club now has a value of $ 5. 1 billion, which treated it in the 31 In the Mondial qualification with the angels of the NFL loaders, which are only the fifth maximum valid franchise in its national market, Rams, Lakers, Caquippers and Dodgers.
Combined, the 50 maximum valuable groups are just under $ 289 billion, an average of approximately $ 5. 8 billion, 13% more than 2023. The threshold is also at record levels, emerging 16% at $ 4. 3 billion $ 3. 7 billion last year. In fact, this, this the last place of Year would have been number 1 only seven years ago, when the cowboys led the classification 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.