The World’s Top 20 Most Valuable Football Teams.

Real Madrid Tops Forbes’ 2014 List Of The World’s Most Valuable Football Teams

Wed 7th May 2014 | Money & Finance

Forbes announced today its 2014 list of The World’s Top 20 Most Valuable Football Teams. 

Real Madrid, valued at $3.44 billion, tops the list for the second consecutive year.

Real Madrid’s value increased 4% over the past year. Barcelona is currently valued at $3.2 billion, placing the team in the No. 2 spot on this year’s rankings.

This is the first time since Forbes began tracking football team valuations in 2004, that the top two teams are from Spain. 

Manchester United, which will not compete in the next Champions League due to its substandard 2013-14 Premier League performance, now ranks No.3 on the list, valued at $2.8 billion.

According to this year’s valuations, the top 20 teams are worth an average of $1.05 billion, an increase of 8% over last year. The increase is driven by climbing Champions League prize money, television fees and sponsorship revenues.

Methodology: Forbes’ team values are enterprise values (equity plus debt) that are based on multiples of revenue that teams garner from television, premium seating, media, licensing, merchandise and concessions.

The Top 10 Most Valuable Teams of 2014 are:

Rank	Club	Country	Owner/ Controlling Shareholder	Current Value ($mil)	1-Year Value Change (%)	Revenues ($mil)	Operating Income      ($mil)
1	Real Madrid	Spain	Club Members	3.4	4	675	172
2	Barcelona	Spain	Club Members	3.2	23	627	154
3	Manchester United	England	Glazer Family	2.8	-11	551	165
4	Bayern Munich	Germany	Club Members	1.9	41	561	122
5	Arsenal	England	E. Stanley Kroenke	1.3	0	370	38
6	Chelsea	England	Roman Abramovich	868	-4	394	61
7	Manchester City	England	Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan	863	25	411	-18
8	AC Milan	Italy	Silvio Berlusconi	856	-9	343	47
9	Juventus	Italy	Giovanni Agnelli	850	22	354	66
10	Liverpool	England	John Henry, Tom Werner	691	6	313	61