World most valuable football team is Real Madrid - Forbes

For three years in a row, Real Madrid has been ranked the most valuable team in the world by Forbes Magazine, in its yearly ranking of top 20 football teams according to their asset values and revenues. 

According to Forbes’ annual ranking the Spanish club worth $3.26bn and had the highest revenue among all the sports team in the world put at $746m. 

Barcelona followed with $3.16bn while Manchester United comes third with $3.10bn.  Bayern Munich is fourth with Manchester City fifth, Chelsea sixth, Arsenal seventh, Liverpool eighth, Juventus ninth and AC Milan tenth in the world. 

Sponsorship revenue and rising television right rakes in pushed the average net worth of the top 20 clubs to $1.16bn, a growth of about 84% from five years ago. Among this team, according to Forbes,  United has the biggest revenue in the Premier Leagues and second biggest revenue amounting to $703m in the world. Below is the ranking of the top 20 football teams as published by Forbes:

Football's most valuable clubs
1. Real Madrid $3.26 bn (£2.14bn)
2. Barcelona $3.16 bn (£2.07bn)
3. Manchester United $3.10 bn (£2.03bn)
4. Bayern Munich $2.35bn (£1.5bn)
5. Manchester City $1.38bn (£906m)
6. Chelsea $1.37bn (£899m)
7. Arsenal $1.31bn (£860m)
8. Liverpool $982m (£644m)
9. Juventus $837m (£549m)
10. AC Milan $775m (£509m)
11. Borussia Dortmund $700m (£459m)
12. Paris St-Germain $634bn (£416m)
13. Tottenham $600m (£393m)
14. Schalke 04 $572m (£375m)
15. Inter Milan $439m (£288m)
16. Atletico Madrid $436m (£286m)
17. Napoli $353m (£231m)
18. Newcastle $349m (£229m)
19. West Ham $309m (£202m)
20. Galatasaray $294m (£192m)