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Most Valuable Sports Teams

Each year, Forbes compiles a list of the world's most valuable sports franchises. How many can you name?
As of September 2023. This quiz will be updated every other year.
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Last updated: September 11, 2023
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First submittedJuly 16, 2012
Times taken74,536
Average score54.0%
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Value
Country
Team
$9.00 B
Dallas Cowboys
$7.10 B
New York Yankees
$7.00 B
Golden State Warriors
$7.00 B
New England Patriots
$6.90 B
Los Angeles Rams
$6.80 B
New York Giants
$6.30 B
Chicago Bears
$6.20 B
Las Vegas Raiders
$6.10 B
New York Knicks
$6.10 B
New York Jets
$6.07 B
Real Madrid
$6.05 B
Washington Commanders
$6.00 B
Manchester United
$6.00 B
San Francisco 49ers
$5.90 B
Los Angeles Lakers
$5.80 B
Philadelphia Eagles
$5.70 B
Miami Dolphins
$5.51 B
FC Barcelona
$5.50 B
Houston Texans
$5.29 B
Liverpool
$5.10 B
Denver Broncos
$5.00 B
Seattle Seahawks
$4.99 B
Manchester City
$4.86 B
Bayern Munich
$4.80 B
Los Angeles Dodgers
Value
Country
Team
$4.70 B
Atlanta Falcons
$4.65 B
Minnesota Vikings
$4.63 B
Baltimore Ravens
$4.63 B
Pittsburgh Steelers
$4.62 B
Cleveland Browns
$4.60 B
Green Bay Packers
$4.50 B
Boston Red Sox
$4.40 B
Tennessee Titans
$4.35 B
Indianapolis Colts
$4.30 B
Kansas City Chiefs
$4.21 B
Paris Saint-Germain
$4.20 B
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
$4.15 B
Los Angeles Chargers
$4.20 B
Chicago Cubs
$4.10 B
Chicago Bulls
$4.10 B
Carolina Panthers
$4.08 B
New Orleans Saints
$4.00 B
Boston Celtics
$4.00 B
Jacksonville Jaguars
$3.90 B
Ferrari
$3.90 B
Los Angeles Clippers
$3.80 B
Mercedes
$3.80 B
Arizona Cardinals
$3.70 B
San Francisco Giants
$3.70 B
Buffalo Bills
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Level 57
Mar 17, 2014
I disagree with having Ferrari and McLaren on this. Those aren't sports teams. They're automakers that sponsor people who drive cars in circles. At the least have a note at the top that says "includes racing", or something. As for the other answers, I knew I'd miss some soccer teams (I don't know enough to know which teams are the most valuable), and I missed the Dodgers, Bulls, and Phillies. I'm surprised the Rangers and the Canadiens weren't on here. I thought the Rangers were in the 800 million range.
+14
Level 74
Sep 22, 2014
They're definitely sports and definitely teams, so they fit the definition. BTW Grand Prix drivers don't just go around in circles; that's NASCAR and it's a sport too (prerequisites being reflexes, timing, coordination, endurance etc)
+3
Level 51
Apr 19, 2016
if the IOC doesn't recognize nascar as a sport then i don't think it should be classed as a sport, this being said, i love watching nascar and have nothing but respect for the drivers because it does take an insane amount of talent to drive like they do.
+7
Level 74
Jun 20, 2016
The IOC does not govern international sport. It just organises and runs the Olympics.
+4
Level 63
Jul 21, 2018
When entire families dominate a sport, I doubt the participants' athleticism.
+2
Level 71
Jul 22, 2018
Curiously enough, the IOC does recognise automobile racing as a sport now. (I only learned this because I wasn't sure whether they recognised American football as a sport. they do.)
+3
Level 75
Oct 9, 2023
F1 is 1000x a sport compared to your doped meatsacks running around kicking an egg. We are talking about people who defy human limits every time they race.

Not to mention, the former is famous worldwide, as opposed to only one country.

+1
Level 79
Oct 21, 2023
Sorry what human limits do they defy every time they race? Also the NFL is popular beyond the US, they play several games in Europe every season now.
+1
Level 57
Mar 17, 2014
Ok, I'm not sure when this was done, but you say "updated for 2013", well as of Nov 25 2013, the New York Rangers were valued at 850 million. http://www.forbes.com/nhl-valuations/
+1
Level 43
Sep 24, 2014
The Buffalo Bills just sold for $1.1 billion and Forbes actually valued them at $935 mil right around the time of the sale. Would be cool to see what else has changed...
+1
Level 74
Dec 7, 2014
I like this, but do people really classify driving as a sport? What athletic skill does that require?
+10
Level 82
Mar 12, 2015
Endurance, reflexes, extremely high levels of motor (as in body movement) skill perfected over years of practice... not to mention in some races the driver's being a few pounds overweight could cost them a race so they have to be as fit and weight conscious as Olympic wrestlers. These guys aren't going out for a Sunday drive with the cruise control on. Why don't *you* try driving an extremely temperamental precision-tuned 1,000 horsepower machine at 180 mph for 500 miles without stopping?
+2
Level 55
May 6, 2018
True. Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR driver) bikes like 75 miles (not joking) on an average race weekend and then jumps in the car.
+3
Level 82
Mar 12, 2015
The vehicle is just a tool. Like a baseball bat. Diminishing the skill of the person using that tool would sort of be like saying, "why did people think Babe Ruth was so great? It was the bat that made all those balls fly out of the park. He was just holding it and swinging it forward." This is very much the same as trying to say professional drivers don't need any skill because all they're doing is sitting in a car and turning left. Go for a ride with one of those guys around a track sometime, see what they can do up close and how effortlessly they can do it... or, try what I said above and see how incredibly hard and grueling it is. You'll get a new appreciation.
+5
Level 71
May 6, 2018
Much as I admire the drivers of these fast vehicles I think the main factor in being the best is the car itself. Almost any of the top 20 drivers would win if they had the same cars as the leaders. It would only be a true sport if all the drivers had the same vehicle. Most races the pole position (great advantage) and the lap times are only differing by 0.25 of a second and the best cars give this advantage.
+1
Level 82
May 6, 2018
Maybe so but then you could argue that minor differences in equipment (even the friction coefficient of a swimmer's Speedos) can be the difference between victory and failure. And even if you are 100% correct and what determines the winner in auto racing is the machine and not the driver, it's still true that every one of the drivers on the track is amazing at what they do and I think they qualify as athletes.
+6
Level 83
Jul 21, 2018
While it's true in any sport that it's important to use the most effective equipment, in almost all other sports all competitors have the opportunity to choose what they consider to be the most effective equipment. In tennis, if one manufacturer had a clearly better racquet than all the others, everyone would start using that racquet and tournaments would still be about who plays the best. IMO F1, although (or perhaps because) the competitors are all amazing drivers, is not primarily a test of who's the best driver, any more than a horse race is primarily a test of who's the best jockey.
+1
Level 82
Sep 3, 2018
eh... I might be ignorant here but I feel like F1 drivers have a LOT more control over the outcome of a race than a jockey. In some places they have replaced the jockeys with robots. They are little more than ballast. The jockey's chief role is to be as tiny and underweight as possible, and then hang on. I think. Maybe there's more to it than that.
+1
Level 82
Oct 29, 2021
and if the drivers' contributions were really so minimal then there would not be legendary drivers out there who win many different races driving for many different teams in many different cars... it would be all about teams and manufacturers and nobody would know who the drivers were. But that's obviously not the case.
+1
Level 67
Jan 12, 2022
Playing devils advocate here, nobody would consider a musician an athlete, even though being a good one requires a good deal of physical skill.
+2
Level 75
Oct 9, 2023
Didn't know musicians lose multiple kilos and are subjected to multiple factors of G-force during every performance. Do they risk injury and death if they lose focus for a split sec? Do they win a world championship trophy?
+3
Level 88
Jan 27, 2015
Would not take New York Knickerbockers, the proper name. That should be fixed.
+3
Level 79
Aug 22, 2015
nonono
+3
Level 47
Oct 4, 2017
Why would you want to waste time typing Knickerbockers instead of just Knicks?
+3
Level 67
Jan 12, 2022
"Some people just want to watch the world burn."
+1
Level 83
May 27, 2015
I feel like an idiot! I did not think of F1 at all.
+4
Level 62
Aug 22, 2015
I don't even know why I bothered taking this quiz.
+1
Level 74
Aug 22, 2015
So basically name all the teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA and a few of the big names in the NHL and you'll be most of the way there.
+2
Level 67
Feb 28, 2021
Really just the NFL.
+1
Level 75
Aug 22, 2015
I'm American and I got Manchester United and City. Woo hoo! Two soccer/football teams committed to memory and so many more to go. But I'm trying, world.
+1
Level 82
Jul 15, 2016
The only soccer teams that show up on this list are really big internationally famous ones with large followings outside of their respective countries. I don't watch football at all and I got all of them on the first go except for Munich, I think.
+2
Level 75
Nov 10, 2018
You just rained on my parade, Kal, but I'm still happy that I added another one to my list - Real Madrid. I keep trying.
+1
Level 82
Mar 21, 2020
I'm sure that it helped living and working overseas
+1
Level 32
Aug 23, 2015
Not much time to guess everything. Please give 2 more hints: 1. Sport discipline 2. Team country.
+1
Level 80
Aug 24, 2015
I'm really surprised the Spurs aren't on this list, considering how successful they've been recently.
+9
Level 92
Oct 5, 2015
Curiosity, which Spurs were you referring to? San Antonio or Tottenham?
+3
Level 84
Mar 9, 2017
Almost certainly San Antonio (with a username of punkybrewster). NBA Spurs have won 5 championships since they drafted Tim Duncan, now retired but they are still winning.
+1
Level 33
Feb 20, 2016
what is ferrari? sports team? preeeeetty sure thats a car lol
+3
Level 82
Jul 15, 2016
Racing
+16
Level 82
Jul 5, 2016
Once I ran out of Premier League clubs and had entered Real, Barcelona and Bayern, I just started typing in random words that sounded like the kinda things Americans would name a sports team. This proved a surprisingly fruitful technique.
+8
Level 68
Jul 21, 2018
This, just started guessing the few I'd heard in TV shows too, Yankees, Red Socks, Mets etc
+1
Level 75
Oct 9, 2023
I did the exact same thing and got about half, very predictable lol
+1
Level 66
Jul 19, 2017
I'm very surprised (like, the most surprised I've ever been by a Jetpunk quiz) that Cleveland Cavaliers isn't on the list. I'm not american and I don't watch the NBA, but haven't they been in about 4 finals since year 2010?
+1
Level 90
Jul 19, 2017
I tried Cavs, then Cavaliers full expecting them to be on the list. But looking them up, they have a value of 1.2B and the bottom of the list is 1.75B. But in 2010 they were only worth 250 million - their value is climbing quickly now that they are making it to the finals.
+1
Level 47
Jul 21, 2017
3 straight finals (2015-2017), winning in 2016.
+1
Level 56
Aug 1, 2017
And the value of all NBA teams has skyrocketed. NBA was giving teams away in the early 2010s.
+1
Level 84
Jul 20, 2017
Not enough time to come up with 50 answers. I could barely type in that many names if I had the answers on a list!
+2
Level 76
Jul 20, 2017
The Cleveland Browns are just as valuable as Chelsea Football Club. I'm from Ohio and that's absolutely ridiculous.
+2
Level 47
Jul 21, 2017
Name all of the NFL teams, all of the MLB and NBA teams in Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago and the most popular soccer (football) teams in the world and you'll get almost all of them.
+1
Level 67
Feb 28, 2021
And San Francisco.
+2
Level 66
Jul 25, 2017
Amazed that Kansas City Chiefs are more valuable than Chelsea.
+2
Level 70
Jul 21, 2018
I'm so dubious of anything that sites Forbes as source. I can't wrap my head around the "fact" that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are more valuable than global soccer teams like PSG or Juventus.
+1
Level 73
Jul 21, 2018
It's simply a function of the NFL being so valuable as a league. (Though clearly not enough to guarantee contracts or actually do serious research on CTE.) Cost has nothing to do with overall quality off a team.
+1
Level ∞
Jul 22, 2018
I kind of agree with @martay. It's hard to see how the L.A. Rams can be worth $3 billion with the tiny fan base they currently have. But then again, sports teams are worth as much as someone is willing to pay. The value of a sports team is less a reflection of the underlying economics and more about the desire of billionaires to own a sports team.
+2
Level 72
Jul 25, 2018
Yeah, another who is surprised by some of the teams on the list. I'm not convinced that 'all' those American sports teams are worth more than the vast majority of the big European football sides (thos enot on the list), but I guess it depends how you choose to measure it.

I'm also very surpirsed to see Arsenal on the list ahead of Liverpool. I would have thought the latter had a much bigger global fan base. Maybe the value aspect includes stadium capacity and thus ability to earn income from match receipts.

+2
Level 72
Jul 25, 2018
Ohh and as a Brit, I need way more time for this quiz. My knowledge of US sports teams is probably only slightly better than the average American sportfan's knowledge of European football teams. The answers come to me, but slowly.
+1
Level 67
Nov 10, 2018
Well the Rams were great last season and are currently great again. They play in a huge market, and will have partial ownership rights to a brand new stadium that is currently being built in a planned community. Plus the ownership stake comes with a percentage of shared profits from the world's most profitable sports league, so...the fact that the Rams don't have a ton of fans *right now* (although knowing people from LA, the number of fans is doubling daily with the Rams' winning record) doesn't factor into the math too much.
+1
Level 69
Sep 3, 2018
As an Australian who doesn't watch NFL, this was a nightmare. I got all of them except the NFL ones, in which I only got a few
+4
Level 58
Nov 10, 2018
the fact that you have to type a slur for this quiz is disgusting
+3
Level 67
Nov 10, 2018
It really is, but that's not the quiz's fault. Hopefully the fan base will come to its senses, and soon.
+7
Level 82
Jul 29, 2020
The fans were already with their senses. And so were 90% of all Native Americans polled who saw no problem with the team name, which is not and never was a slur. Of those 90% most either liked the team name and logo, or just didn't give a crap.

However, what did eventually happen is that the team owners decided that they could make more money trying to appear woke and racially conscious by giving in to the demands of a vocal, misguided minority. And so they did.

+1
Level 79
Oct 26, 2023
Bravo, another stunningly cold-hearted reply. The poll you reference has come under fire for multiple methodological issues. Had a good chuckle thinking about Dan Snyder, surely one of the worst NFL owners in the league's history and certainly one of the sleaziest, deciding that somehow caving to the "woke mob" and changing the name would make him more money. Washington is one of the worst teams to play football this century and they did the right thing in changing their crappy team's name, not least because they represent the capital of a nation with a repulsive history of the systematic destruction of indigenous peoples. And the best they could come up with for a replacement was "Commanders" and they still play, on the whole, atrociously bad football. The DMV should consider itself blessed to even have an NFL franchise.
+1
Level 61
Nov 11, 2018
no slurs involved except to whiners.
+1
Level 79
Oct 26, 2023
Incredible, did you come up with that one all by yourself?
+3
Level 82
Nov 11, 2018
You mean the packers?
+4
Level 78
Nov 12, 2018
I agree. Everytime I hear the word 'Packers' I shudder.
+1
Level 82
Nov 12, 2018
Not sure how I missed Barcelona -- I guessed Forca Barcelona, Forca Barca, Barcelona FC... Every possible combo but the right one. Or I was spelling something wrong. Frustrating either way!
+4
Level 59
Feb 26, 2019
It's FC Barcelona - Futbol Club Barcelona. Dunno what you mean by Forca.
+1
Level 75
Feb 5, 2019
Only 2 NFL teams aren't on the list
+1
Level 67
Feb 28, 2021
So, the Bills and who else?
+1
Level 55
Jul 7, 2021
Titans, at least as of right now
+8
Level 62
Aug 27, 2019
Ugh so many made up sounding American teams. Surprised there’s that much money in the cringe inducing, boring and life sapping things that they claim to be sports. Suppose selling weak beer and repeatedly having fans shout DEFENCE makes lots of money.
+9
Level 47
Dec 28, 2019
"So many made up sounding"? Pretty much every American team name up there is a real word thing. And if these are all "cringe inducing, boring and life sapping", what sports aren't to you? Give me a break!
+10
Level 82
Jul 29, 2020
Be nice. Not every sporting event can be as exiting as a week long cricket test match during which most of the fans in attendance are napping and none are really sure what's going on. Or a scintillating game of the foosball that ends in a 0 - 0 tie after being interrupted every 15 minutes by some "athlete" falling to the ground nursing his knee like an infant trying to get ice cream when someone on the opposing team brushed up next to him. And yes team chants are so much more boring than getting crushed to death against a chain link fence by a bunch of soccer hooligans, granted, but some of us have lives to go back to after the sporting event is over.
+3
Level 76
Jun 20, 2021
Ha ha, I can hear the sand grinding in the underpants through this text, kal. Well done.
+3
Level 68
Oct 7, 2023
I happen to like American football, and to watch it regularly, but, to be fair, it's interrupted way more often than any actual football match I've ever seen. It's the ultimate get-drunk-and-take-a-nap sport, tailored to people with a 12-second attention span. It's 3h of commercials occasionally interrupted by very short bursts of play. Again: I like it, but let's try to be somewhat fair here.
+1
Level 68
Oct 7, 2023
American football wishes it was interrupted "every 15 minutes". It's also by faaaar the professional sport with the most severe injuries, despite the players being heavily body-armored.
+1
Level 62
Jan 11, 2024
I don't get why anybody thinks any sport is for people with a 12 second attention span. What are you doing in between downs? Not paying attention? Not analyzing?
+1
Level 28
Nov 16, 2019
Soccer counts........wow :0
+6
Level 68
Jun 19, 2021
Wow? Footballers earn millions a week…
+2
Level 64
Jul 28, 2020
How 'Bout Them Cowboys
+1
Level 70
Jun 19, 2022
Whether they win or lose, I love watching them. My favorite part of a loss is seeing the inevitable close up shot of Jerry Jones' botoxed, scowling face as he seethes in his owners box. A win is pretty ok too.
+1
Level 79
Oct 21, 2023
You love watching one of the richest franchises in the world continually fail to achieve any meaningful goals and play mediocre football?
+1
Level 75
Nov 18, 2020
The Mets just sold for $2.475 billion. Might be time to update the list again.
+1
Level 68
Jun 24, 2021
Surprisingly, I got all the non-USA teams but missed some obvious USA ones (I am American). Go figure!
+1
Level 79
Jun 29, 2021
Also got all the non-American teams but not a lot of the rest.
+1
Level 66
Jun 19, 2022
The fact that a advertising block with some interruptions of a few man in armored suits running after a egg shaped ball is the most present in this list is just showing how much of a joke America is and how meaningless this 'sport' actually is.
+2
Level 80
Sep 12, 2023
Wow, so grumpy
+1
Level 79
Oct 21, 2023
I think it actually shows how filthy stinking rich America is, don't see how that makes the whole country a joke. I'd prefer football to watching a bunch of sweaty astronauts getting rich off of Saudi and Russian oil money drive stupid fast cars around a track for an hour and a half.
+1
Level 62
Jan 11, 2024
If you're too blind to look for entertainment in another sport just say so. Your argument can easily be applied to soccer.
+1
Level 58
Mar 23, 2023
Didn't even consider the possibility that American teams would be on this list. Don't even know which sport they play.
+1
Level 79
Oct 21, 2023
I didn't realize bragging about your ignorance was in these days.
+4
Level 64
Sep 11, 2023
Non-American users are going to suffer one pointers in this quiz.
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Level 90
Sep 12, 2023
Not necessarily. I was Germany for the first time since Covid this summer and was shocked by the number of NFL branded jerseys, t shirts, jackets and caps I saw. It wasn't a huge percentage but any time I was in a bigger city I would see 20 to 30 people in NFL garb. A couple of times a day when people figured out I was American, I'd get asked NFL questions some of which I was unable to give an intelligent answer to. I would go days before seeing NFL stuff in 2019.
+2
Level 68
Oct 7, 2023
It's very common in a lot of Europe for US sports gear to be worn purely as fashion, especially with some teams. For instance, Raiders gear has been popularised by early 90s West Coast rappers, and most people wearing it couldn't name a single player on that team (or indeed tell you that it's a team, or what sport it plays). Similar with Yankees caps.
+1
Level 67
Sep 12, 2023
Didn't realize purple signified racing but that makes sense
+1
Level 76
Sep 17, 2023
I tried "FC Liverpool", did not work .. but "FC Barcelona" is correct, why?
+1
Level 79
Oct 21, 2023
The team name is Liverpool FC not the other way round
+5
Level 68
Oct 7, 2023
And yet another quiz where kalbahamut can't seem to stfu, congrats
+1
Level 49
Oct 7, 2023
Didn't think about F1, here's me putting in Juve, Inter, AC, Roman, Napoli to the Italian one think "it must be a football team"
+1
Level 34
Oct 8, 2023
oh so when you mean sports teams you also mean MOTORsports teams, so that explains ferrari and mercedes
+1
Level 54
Oct 9, 2023
Where is THE ohio state university?
+1
Level 54
Oct 10, 2023
Mercedes is a Britsh team just owned by germans
+1
Level 90
Dec 12, 2023
Oh, to be the Bengals and the Lions. The only 2 NFL teams that couldn't make this list.