The Alabama-Georgia college football national championship scored higher than soccer with a 15.6 rating and 28.44 million viewers on the ESPN family of networks. If you removed all NFL games from this most watched list, FIFA’s France-Croatia World Cup Final only attracted 17.83 million viewers to FOX and claimed the top soccer spot for the year. In fact, the Eagles-Patriots Super Bowl game brought NBC over 103 million viewers. And football deserves to rake in the big bucks, attracting huge television audience.Īccording to the stats for the Sports Media Watch‘s Top 50 Sports Audiences of 2018, football is king with the NFL grabbing 40 out of the top 50 spots on the list for U.S. and AT&T averaging $7.2 billion a season. The NFL has contracts with Comcast, CBS Corp., Walt Disney, Fox Corp. Here is Forbes’ List of the Most Valued Teams in the NFL: Rank The New England Patriots ($4.1 billion), New York Giants ($3.9), Los Angeles Rams ($3.8) and the San Francisco 49ers ($3.5) round out the NFL’s top five most valuable teams.Īccording to Forbes, the Cowboys have an astounding $950 million in revenue-the most of any U.S. The Cowboys remain the only NFL team to reach a value of $5 billion. The Dallas Cowboys top Forbes 22 ndAnnual NFL Team Valuations, maintaining the title of the most valuable team for the 13 th consecutive year. Now, let’s compare that to American Football. Even Borussia Dortmund valued at $896 Million and Schalke 04 valued at $683 Million according to Forbes is worth more than many American Major League Soccer (MLS) teams combined. The #2 team is Barcelona with only a slightly lower valuation of $4.021 Billion. Here is Forbes’ List of the Top 10 Most Valued Soccer Teams: Ronaldo earned the #2 spot on that list with Neymar claiming #3. For the second year in a row, Messi takes the top spot in Forbe’s list of the World’s Highest-Paid Soccer Players, with earnings of $127 million. Topping the chart players from the two highest valued clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona.Īlthough they are bitter rivals, they are closely aligned in the financial world and pay their top players the highest salaries. Plus, noteworthy is Real Madrid’s eight-year kit deal extension with Adidas through June 2028 worth a record $113 million a year, plus 20% of team merchandise sales.įorbes’ also ranks the world’s highest paid soccer players for 2019. The #1 team with the highest valuation in the world is Spain’s Real Madrid with a revenue of $896 Million and an operating income of $112 Million.
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