Real Madrid top Forbes list of most valuable football clubs
Real Madrid are the most valuable football club with a value of $6.6 billion for the third year in a row, according to 'Forbes', with a 9% increase in value over last year, with Barcelona in third position with $5.6 billion, up 2%.
Madrid are also the team that has generated the most revenue ($873 million) thanks to earning an average of $205 million a year from shirt sponsors. This is the highest figure in football according to 'Football Benchmark' and they have won five of the last ten Champions League trophies, and could win the sixth on 1st June against Borussia Dortmund at Wembley.
Barcelona are in third place, 100 million dollars behind president Florentino Perez's team, who earn an average of 189 million dollars thanks to their sponsors.
In second place are Manchester United, whose billionaire founder Jim Ratcliffe bought a 27.7 per cent stake in the club in February, stalking Real Madrid's lead by just $50 million.
The top ten includes six teams from the Premier League, which signed a new domestic TV deal in December for the 2025/26 to 2028/29 seasons and will earn more than twice as much in domestic broadcast revenue as any other football league and almost twice as much as Spain's number two La Liga if international broadcast deals are included.
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