Beyond the decade, the world’s top valuable sports brands have used their wealth and ties to other major assets to expand their sports holdings in everything from media and genuine goods to other sports groups and stadium operations in historic ways.
It’s all about packaging with scale, asset diversification and tax breaks. (please see bottom of story for full list of most valuable sports empires).
The ideal leader: Kroenke Sports
Jerry Jones, a great defender of the allocation of the stadium in Los Angeles, has the time of the valid maximum gaming empire, value of $ 6. 9 billion. Its trophy, the Dallas Cowboys, which bought with the operational rights at the Texas stadium for $ 150 million in 1989, is the maximum valuable games team on the planet, value 5. 5 billion dollars. But Jones also has more than a third in The Legends, a hotel and a stadium vending business that has agreements with the maximum of Kroenke’s games. In addition, Jones generates a source of income related to the star game: the $ 1. 5 billion in cowboys, combined comforts of genuine goods, head and practice in Frisco, Texas, and is the majority owner, with John Goff, of complexity , an Egames, an Egames organization.
This trend will continue. In 2018, NFL owners voted to lift the league’s longstanding ban, which is now loose to own a professional sports team in another city that has an NFL team. The NBA, MLB and NHL have already allowed one of their groups to be owned in the other leagues. Landlords’ debt limits have also been stimulated recently, providing them with more cash to take the credit for their fairness to build stadiums.
The highest owner of the NFL, David Tepper, mobilizes his billions. He paid $ 2. 3 billion last year for the Carolina Panthers. This week, MLS granted his 30th franchise to Tepper in Charlotte for an expansion of up to $ 325 million.
The result: the bifurcation between the richest sports and everyone else will widen.
To compile our valuable maximum sports empires board, we have tested our database of the maximum valuable groups of the NFL, the MLB, the NBA, the NHL and the football for other people or corporations whose assets in those groups were greater than $ 2 billion. Only those who have most interests in at least one team were eligible. For those who cut, we appreciate their investments in their other sports properties. We have excluded the Paul G. Allen Trust, which had the Seattle Seahawks, the Portland Trail Blazers and a minority participation in the Sounders of Seattle since Paul Allen’s death arrest until they are sold. If we had included Paul G. Allen Trust, he would have occupied the ninth place with $ 4. 4 billion. Our empire tests are corporate prices (more net debt) of all assets connected to the sport. The first ten sports assets with a combined price of $ 56 billion.
1. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment: 8. 4 billion dollars
Properties: Los Angeles Rams, Arsenal, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids, Colorado Mammoth, Altitude Sports & Entertainment, Los Angeles Gladiators, Los Angeles Guerrillas
2. Jerry Jones: $6. 9 billion
Properties: Dallas Cowboys, Legends*, The Star, Complexity Gaming
3. Fenway Sports Group: $6.6 billion
Properties: Boston Red Sox, Liverpool, Nesn, Roush Fenway Racing, Fenway Sports Management
4. Yankee Global Enterprises: $6.1 billion
Properties: New York Yankees, Legends *, Yes Network *, New York City FC *
5. Madison Square Garden Co: $5.9 billion
Properties: New York Knicks, New York Rangers
6. Glazer Family: $5.2 billion
Properties: Manchester United, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
7. City Football Group: $4. 8 billion
Properties: Manchester City, New York City FC, Melbourne City FC
8. Kraft family: $ 4. 5 billion
Properties: New England Patriots, New England Revolution, UFC*, Kraft Analytics Group
9. Maple Leaf Sports
Properties: Toronto Raptors, Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto FC, Toronto Argonauts
10. Benson Family: $3. 5 Billion
Properties: New Orleans, New Orleans Pélicans
* It has 50%