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The world's most valuable sports teams, as ranked annually by the American magazine ''
Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also r ...
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association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
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American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
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baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
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basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
. In 2016, the
National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the majo ...
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Dallas Cowboys The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divis ...
simultaneously became both the first team to surpass $4 billion in value and the first non–association football team to top the ranking since its inception in 2010.
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(2010–12) and
Real Madrid Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid. Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
(2013–15) have previously each been named the most valuable team three times.


Current ranking

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Number one by year


Previous rankings


2020

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2019

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2018

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2017

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2016

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2015

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2014

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2013

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2012

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2011

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2010

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See also

* Forbes' list of the most valuable association football clubs *
Forbes' list of the most valuable NFL clubs ''Forbes'' compiles the finances of all 32 NFL teams to produce an annual ranking of the best franchises in terms of valuation. The valuations are composed of the monetary worth of the sport, market, stadium deals, and brand. These areas are ...
*
Forbes' list of the most valuable NBA clubs ''Forbes'' compiles the finances of all 30 National Basketball Association#Teams, NBA teams to produce an annual ranking of the best franchises in terms of Valuation (finance), valuation. The valuations are composed of the monetary worth of the ...
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Forbes' list of the most valuable MLB clubs ''Forbes'' compiles the finances of all 30 Major League Baseball#Teams, MLB teams to produce an annual ranking of the best franchises in terms of Valuation (finance), valuation. The valuations are composed of the monetary worth of the sport, Ma ...
*
Forbes' list of the most valuable NHL clubs ''Forbes'' compiles the finances of all 32 National Hockey League#Teams, NHL teams to produce an annual ranking of the best franchises in terms of Valuation (finance), valuation. The valuations are composed of the monetary worth of the sport, Ma ...
* Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada#Franchise valuations


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