The NFL’s 32 squads are worth an average of $1.17 billion, easily continuing a trend where the league’s teams are the most lucrative in all of sports.
For the seventh straight season, Forbes Magazine ranks the Dallas Cowboys at the top of the list with an estimated value of $2.3 billion. Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones also recently signed a $500 million, 25-year stadium naming rights deal with AT&T.
Rounding out the league’s top five most valued squads are the New England Patriots ($1.8 million), Washington Redskins ($1.7), New York Giants ($1.55) and the Houston Texans ($1.45). Overall, the average value of all NFL teams were up by 5 percent this year over last.
By comparison, Forbes found the average value of the world’s top 20 soccer teams to be around $968 million, while the average worth of Major League Baseball’s 30 squads settles in at $744 million.
NBA teams, meanwhile, were found to have an average value of $509 million while NHL teams are said to be worth an average of $282 million.
Forbes added the increase in NFL values during the past year were mainly due to league revenue increasing 3.6% last season, to an average of $286 million per team, up from $276 million in 2011. Five teams—Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Houston Texans, Atlanta Falcons, St. Louis Rams—posted double-digit gains in value.
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