Valuations + Ownership
What sports teams are worth, with sources, and who controls each one.
Data as of
770 teams valued · 675 control owners · sources named on every row
- 770Teams valuedin 18 sports, 40 leagues
- 50%Published or a saleby the method each row records
- 43%Our estimatesmarked CoN on the board
- 675Control owners24 holdings contested
What it is for
The question this dataset answers, and the pages built from it.
To see what a team, a league and an owner's portfolio are worth on one board, and who holds control of each club. The figures carry their source, so a reader can tell a published valuation from a sale price or our own estimate.
Each team carries the highest valuation we hold for it, in US dollars, with its source and year. Where a football club has changed division since its published figure, or no figure exists, the board shows our own estimate, marked CoN. Each franchise has exactly one control owner.
On the site:Team ValuationsThe Owners
Coverage
Counted from the data as of 13 Oct 2026.
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Teams valued | 770 |
| Sports | 18 |
| Leagues and divisions | 40 |
| Figure years | 2020 to 2026 |
| Named publishershouses the site recognises by name, ours included | 29 |
| Published valuations or sale prices | 388 (50%) |
| Our own estimates (CoN) | 330 (43%) |
| Figures with a source link | 301 (39%) |
| Franchises with an owner on record | 770 |
| Distinct control owners | 675 |
| Contested holdings | 24 |
| Holdings with a source link | 701 (91%) |
| Latest ownership source date | 2026-10-13 |
Data dictionary
Every field the public pages show: its key in the data, what it means, its unit and how often it is filled.
How filled is counted
Filled is the share of rows that carry a value for the field. For counts and money a second line gives the share that is not zero, because a zero there means none recorded rather than a missing value. A share never rounds up to 100% unless every row is filled.
| Field | Meaning | Unit | Filled |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teamteamtext | The team as the valuation source names it; it links to the team page where one exists. | text | 100%of 770 teams |
| Leagueleaguetext | The league, or the country for men's football. | text | 100%of 770 teams |
| Divisioncompetitiontext | Men's football: the division the club plays in this season. | text | 43%of 770 teams |
| Countrycountrytext | Men's football: the country the club's league is in. | text | 43%of 770 teams |
| Valuevalue_mUS$ millions | The team's valuation: the highest figure held, or our estimate where marked. | US$ millions | 100%non-zero 100%of 770 teams |
| Yearyearyear | The year the figure belongs to. | year | 100%of 770 teams |
| Sourcesourcetext | Who published the figure, shown as a short label beside it. | text | 100%of 770 teams |
| Methodmethodcategory | Published valuation, a real sale price, a third party's unofficial estimate, or ours. | category | 100%of 770 teams |
| Confidenceconfidencecategory | How firm the figure is: high, medium or low. | category | 100%of 770 teams |
| Our estimateestimateUS$ millions | For a CoN figure: the range, the basis, and the published figure it replaced. | US$ millions | 43%of 770 teams |
| OwnerownerDisplaytext | The entity with control of the franchise. | text | 100%of 770 owner rows |
| Owner typeownerTypecategory | Individual, family, corporate, consortium, fund, state, trust or members. | category | 100%of 770 owner rows |
| StakestakeLabeltext | The controlling stake, as reported. | text | 91%of 770 owner rows |
| Ownership confidenceconfidencecategory | Sourced, cross-checked, or contested (with what is pending). | category | 100%of 770 owner rows |
| Ownership sourcesourceUrllink | The article or filing the holding is taken from. | link | 91%of 770 owner rows |
| Source datesourceDatedate | When the ownership source was checked. | date | 98%of 770 owner rows |
Method
The short version; the full method lives on the pages linked below.
ReviewedPublished valuations and owners are copied from named sources and checked by hand; our own estimates are labelled as ours. About the tiers
- Where we hold more than one valuation for a team, the board shows the highest and archives the rest; an old figure is marked as old.
- Our estimates are labelled CoN: a club that changed division is valued from projected revenue or its parachute year, a team with no published figure from comparables, each with a range.
- Football Benchmark is enterprise value (equity plus net debt); the other houses publish franchise values.
- Ownership records one control entity per franchise; co-controllers and minority holders are shown but never summed, so a portfolio cannot double count a club.
Full method:Team Valuations: how this is measuredThe Owners
Changelog
Board rebuilds from the valuations change log, and release notes that mention valuations or owners.
- Board rebuilt: 1 revalued, 36 added.
- Team Valuations now covers Ligue 2, the 2. Bundesliga and Premiership Rugby on the League Explorer, each club valued from published budgets, accounts or deals and labelled with how.
- Several deals are corrected from fresh sources, including Chelsea's 2026 stake sale in pounds and Benfica's lapsed sale, which no longer counts as a valuation.
- A new League Ownership Rules page sets out, league by league, whether private-equity funds may invest, how much they may own, and the limits on passive and multi-team stakes, each cell sourced and dated.
- A new Sports Deals page lists 101 sourced team transactions with stake, price, implied full value, buyer type and deal structure, linked from Owners and Valuations.
- Board rebuilt: 6 added.
- Board rebuilt: 7 revalued, 10 added.
- Board rebuilt: 23 revalued, 30 added.
- Board rebuilt: 12 revalued, 60 added.
Sources
- Sportico, Forbes and Football Benchmark published valuations
- League-specific reporting, deal prices and other published estimates, each named on its row
- Citizen of Nowhere estimates (CoN), our own and labelled as ours
- The site's own owner registry, curated with a source for each holding
Rights and reuse
The valuation figures are compiled from lists published by others (Forbes, Sportico, Football Benchmark and more). They are shown here as pages and the source lists are not redistributed, so there is no valuations download. The owner registry is our own and is already served as a file.
Files
- Team owner registry · JSON, owners only, no valuation figures