Real Madrid is the most expensive football team in the world

The American CNBC channel has published a list of the most expensive 25 soccer teams in the world for the current year 2025, and said that the value of these clubs is on average $ 2.76 billion.

She pointed out that the 25 most valuable teams achieved revenues of $ 520 million, and profits before interest, taxes and destruction amounted to 54 million dollars last season.

She explained that the assessments for 22 European clubs in this list relate to the 2023/2024 season, while the evaluation of the three American clubs in the same list is linked to the football season in 2024.

Real Madrid tops the list with a value of 6.7 billion dollars, and added that the Spanish club achieved revenues of 1.1 billion dollars, followed by Manchester City in second place with revenues of 902 million dollars.

According to the Deloitte Foundation’s Financial Football Association’s report for 2025, Real Madrid’s revenues increased by 26% compared to the 2022/2023 season, taking advantage of the completion of the renovations of its Santiago Bernabeu stadium, which contributed to doubling the revenues of matches to reach 268 million dollars.

Otherwise, the annual Real Madrid report indicated last year that the club achieved $ 174 million in the Champions League, which the team won in 2024 for the 15th time, its record number.

It is expected that two teams will witness an increase in their revenues soon thanks to the improvement of the stadium’s returns, Barcelona, ​​Spain and Inter Miami, USA.

Reports stated that Barcelona is expected to return to its “Camp Nou” stadium after the renovation and the Spotify service in the coming months, while Inter Miami announced that the team will move to the new “Miami Friedom Park” stadium in 2026.

The CNBC list for the assessments of the world football teams for the current year includes 11 English teams, three of which are among the top five due to the large number of TV broadcasting contracts for the English Premier League, where the value of his local and international rights is about 4.4 billion dollars annually, according to the source of the request not to be identified.

This source added that this amount is more than twice what the Spanish League gets, explaining that the average broadcasting rights for the Premier League, which extends for three years, starting from the next season 2025/2026, will reach about 5.1 billion dollars annually.

The second place in the most expensive list is the Manchester United team ($ 6 billion), then Barcelona (5.65 billion dollars), Liverpool (5.4 billion dollars), and Manchester City (5.2 billion dollars).

It also includes in order from the sixth place to 25 Bayern Munich clubs, Paris Saint -Germain, Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea, Borussia Dortmund, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Newcastle United, Inter Milan, AC Milan, West Ham United, Aston Villa, Fulham, Los Angeles FC, Los Agilis Galaxy, Inter Miami, Eintracht Frankfurt, Brighton, and Napoli.