The global landscape of sports valuations continues to reach unprecedented heights, and Liverpool Football Club are among the elite, featuring in Forbes’ prestigious list of the world’s 50 most valuable sports teams for 2025. The Anfield club, valued at $5.4 billion, stand as one of just four football clubs to make the cut in a list increasingly dominated by American sports franchises.
Six years ago, the world’s most valuable team was worth $5 billion – a figure that wouldn’t even crack the top 50 today. The Dallas Cowboys remain perched atop the mountain with a staggering $13 billion valuation, having held the number one spot every year since 2016. Together, the 50 elite teams are worth more than $353 billion, averaging $7.1 billion each—up 22% from 2024 and more than double the mark from just four years ago.
Liverpool’s inclusion marks them as one of only two Premier League representatives, alongside Manchester United ($6.6 billion), while Real Madrid ($6.75 billion) and Barcelona ($5.65 billion) complete football’s quartet in the rankings.
And indeed, the disparity between European football and American sports has widened considerably, with Liverpool ranking at a tied 48th place alongside NFL’s Detroit Lions. Football accounts for just four spots compared to seven in each of the previous two years. Manchester City, Bayern Munich, and Paris Saint-Germain all dropped from the 2024 list.
The NFL’s financial dominance is overwhelming – 30 of the league’s 32 franchises feature in the top 50. This American sports supremacy stems largely from lucrative media rights deals.
However, Fenway Sports Group, continue to demonstrate their commitment to infrastructure investment on Merseyside. The American ownership group, led by John W. Henry and Tom Werner, have embarked on a £20 million redevelopment of Liverpool’s academy facilities at Kirkby.
The project, expected to be completed by 2028, will feature enhanced medical and sports science facilities, a new natural grass pitch replacing the current artificial surface, and a 500-capacity stand.
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