Draft:List of the most valuable football teams

Draft article not currently submitted for review.

This is a draft Articles for creation (AfC) submission. It is not currently pending review. While there are no deadlines, abandoned drafts may be deleted after six months. To edit the draft click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.

To be accepted, a draft should:

Show the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article by using multiple sources that meet four criteria. The sources should be (1) reliable (2) secondary (3) independent of the subject (4) talk about the subject in some depth. For some topics, there are alternative criteria.
Be written from a neutral point of view
Respect copyright and do not plagiarize. Do not copy-paste.

It is strongly discouraged to write about yourself, your business or employer. If you do so, you must declare it.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Last edited by 74.141.57.66 (talk | contribs) 22 hours ago. (Update)

Submit the draft for review!

Given that the only list article on Wikipedia ranking the most valuable sports teams is directly quoting the Forbes article^[1], it is important to note that, since this list only includes privately owned club teams of any sport. Nowhere in the article does it say so, hence the table in the current page lists the top 10 sports teams in the world including national/international teams. This is because of three reasons:

International teams are very much included in the definition of teams, and unless the article says so, must be included in the list.
Valuation of the top international teams in the world's two most popular sports, Football (Soccer) and Basketball, are readily available, and can reasonably assumed to be the only kind of teams not including club teams (like casual teams, virtual teams etc.) which are capable of appearing in the top 10 of this list, as publish in the sports news website Transfermarkt^[2].
The estimated value of these teams are calculated based on dividing up club value for each player and adding them up in the national team.

Current rankings

As of May 2024^[3]

Rank 2024	Team	Country	Value in $ millions
1	Real Madrid	Spain	6,600
2	Manchester United	England	6,550
3	Barcelona	Spain	5,600
4	Liverpool	England	5,370
5	Manchester City	England	5,100
6	Bayern Munich	Germany	5,000
7	Paris Saint-Germain	France	4,400
8	Tottenham Hotspur	England	3,200
9	Chelsea	England	3,130
10	Arsenal	England	2,600
11	Juventus	Italy	2,050
12	Borussia Dortmund	Germany	1,980
13	Atlético Madrid	Spain	1,600
14	England	England	1,520
15	Milan	Italy	1,430
16	Brazil	Brazil	1,200
17	LAFC	United States	1,200
18	West Ham United	England	1,100
19	Inter Miami	United States	1,030
20	Internazionale	Italy	1,000