This year, Manchester United became the first club to surpass $645 million in turnover, enough to deprive Real Madrid of their top spot on the list for the 12th year in a row.
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1. Juventus - $329 million The continuation of the Jeep sponsorship deal and their success in the season, as evidenced by the odds on the forecasters website, helped to increase the income of Italy's biggest club. 
2. Liverpool - $389.58 million Wards Jurgen Klopp took ninth place. Their incomes will rise next year, according to forecasts. 
3. Chelsea - $431.6 million Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is one of the richest people in Russia and in the world. His fortune is estimated at 8.8 billion dollars. 
4. Arsenal - $425 million Earnings keep Arsenal in the top 10, and it's no surprise that a ticket to the club's game is the most expensive in Britain, costing around $1,308. 
5. Paris Saint-Germain - $502.5 million This is the first time PSG has been eliminated from the top five in the Money League. Superstar striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic left for Manchester United last year, after which Paris Saint-Germain fell two places in the rankings. 
6. Manchester City - $392.6 million This is the first time that Manchester City have risen above fifth place. 
7. Bayern - $571 million Bavaria targets monumental 25% increase in revenue for last season after they won their 25th Bundesliga title and the DFB-Pokal Final. 
8. Real Madrid - $598.3 million Winning the Champions League and a steady 7% annual revenue was not enough to keep it at the top. Therefore, 3rd place. 
9. Barcelona - 593.8 million Barcelona moved all their enemies and broke into second place. 
10. Manchester United - $664.7 million The Red Devils have never been far from the top three, but they have taken first place in the last ten years for the first time. The club has been financially backed by huge sponsorship deals with Chevrolet and Adidas.
Rating of the most expensive clubs in Europe
The CIES Football Observatory has named the clubs that have spent the most money building their current squads.1. Manchester City - €878m
You can admire the genius of Pep Guardiola all you want, but we must not forget that he has a superstar squad at his disposal. Since the summer of 2016, City have spent about 400 million euros on strengthening the defense alone.
2. PSG - €805m
The ambitious Parisians would not have been so high if not for the transfers of Neymar and Mbappe. Only for this couple, with the help of muddy schemes, they paid so much that it’s even indecent to talk about it out loud.
3. Manchester United - €747m
Jose Mourinho can continue to complain that there are clubs that spend more on players than Manchester United. But the huge gap between his team and the leader of the Premier League this season is definitely not connected with this. The management of "United" does not spare money for the stars either.
4. Barcelona - €725m
Dembele, Coutinho, Paulinho - these guys cost the Catalans a tidy sum. And it seems that Barça is not participating in the arms race that the British have staged, but reality forces them to unfasten tens of millions for almost any bright football player.
5. Chelsea - €592m
Roman Abramovich began to behave more modestly. If in the 2000s the Russian businessman's club was the main player in the transfer market, now it is in the middle of the top ten.
6. Real Madrid - €497m
A year and a half Madrid do not make big transfers. And this does not prevent them from collecting titles. But at the end of the current season, Florentino Perez plans to renew the squad. This means that Real Madrid will take a higher position in the next ranking.
7. Liverpool - €461m
The club, which plays the most expensive defender in the world, had to be in the top ten. Merseysiders are used to making fun of the transfer policy in England, but in recent years there have been successful transitions - Firmino, Mane, Salah are among them.
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The history of the Tottenham Hotspur club began on September 5, 1882. Several students from one of the local schools decided to establish their own football team. Support for Tottenham in the UK is one of the most massive. The club is especially popular in North London and around the British capital. Tottenham support clubs are scattered around the world. Spurs fans consider London Arsenal to be the main enemy of their club. There is also a sharp confrontation with Chelsea and with West Ham United". Tottenham enjoys the reputation of a "Jewish club" among its enemies, due to the fact that the club is located in the Jewish quarter and historically a significant part of the fans were Jews.
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On November 1, 1897, students from the Massimo d'Azeglio Lyceum founded the Juventus sports club in Turin. The original kit of the club was pink, but already in 1903 Juventus began to play in black and white shirts. Juventus's most famous nickname is "The Old Signora" (la Vecchia signora). There are several versions of this. One of them is related to the form of the club. There is another version of the origin of this nickname: "Signora" in the nickname of the club appeared because of the emblem of the team, which until the 1930s resembled a fan. At the beginning of the 20th century, Juventus was supported mainly by people from the bourgeois classes. In the middle of the twentieth century, workers, mechanics and machine builders supported the club, as the team was bought by the FIAT auto concern. After World War II, migrants and residents of northern Italy began to support Juventus. As internal migration intensified between the 50s and 70s, Juventus began to support mainly migrants, while the natives of Turin support Torino.
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Liverpool was founded over a rent dispute between the Everton committee and John Houlding, the club's president and land owner at Anfield. Houlding was accused of using his position for personal gain. After eight years at the stadium, Everton moved to Goodison Park in 1892 and Houlding founded Liverpool to play at Anfield. The most fundamental rival for Liverpool is another Merseyside club Everton, matches with their participation are called the Merseyside derby. Unlike other football rivalries, the rivalry between the Reds and the Toffees is not geographic, religious or political. Liverpool fans were involved in two of the biggest football tragedies: the Heysel tragedy, which occurred on 25 May 1985 in Brussels during the European Cup final between Juventus and Liverpool, in which 39 people died due to the collapse of the stadium wall. Juventus fans and the Hillsborough tragedy that occurred on April 15, 1989 in Sheffield during the FA Cup semi-final game, in which 96 Liverpool fans, including the cousin of the former captain, died in a stampede due to fences around the perimeter of the stands Team Steven Gerrard.
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The club quickly gained popularity among fans, but failed to win a single trophy in its first 50 years of existence. Chelsea's very first success came in the FA Cup, finishing second in 1915. During its existence, Chelsea has changed four emblems, which were considered the main ones. The first was the Chelsea Pensioners emblem adopted in 1905. From her club got its nickname - "Pensioners". A lion with a staff in a circle was used from 1953 to 1986. After victories in the FA Cup, options with stars on the sides of the lion or with the National Cup were added to the emblem. In 1986, the adoption new emblem club. It was made up in several types of colors - the lion and the abbreviation of the club could have red, blue or yellow colors. In the 1970s and 1980s, Chelsea fans were long associated with football hooliganism. The club's "football firm", originally called the Chelsea Shed Boys, now known as the Chelsea Headhunters, was notorious for its nationalist views and violent actions against other teams' "football firms" such as West Ham's Inter City Firm and Millwall's Millwall Bushwackers.
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The Arsenal Club was founded in 1886 in southeast London by workers from the Royal Arsenal Ordnance Factory in Woolwich. The original name of the club was Dial Square. Arsenal played their first match on December 11, 1886 against Eastern Wanderers. The Gunners won 6-0. Two weeks later, a meeting of players was organized at Christmas, at which it was decided to rename the club to Royal Arsenal, a venue for the games and the players' uniforms were chosen. Red was suggested former player Nottingham Forest by Fred Beardsley. Arsenal fans often refer to themselves as the Gooners, a name derived from the team's nickname, the Gunners. The exact origin of this nickname is unknown. According to one version, the Scandinavian fans of the team pronounced the word "gunners" with an accent, which sounded something like "gooners". Local fans liked it and they also began to call themselves that. Arsenal fans' main rivals are Tottenham Hotspur fans. The match between these two clubs is called the North London Derby.
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The founder of the football club, today called Manchester City, was born in 1855. Anna Connell was the daughter of Arthur Connell, a priest of Peter I in Harrogate. The emblem of the club was created on the basis of the coat of arms of the city of Manchester. To demonstrate their pride in representing Manchester on the football field, in the finals of major tournaments, the team uses special kits, on which the coat of arms of the city is applied instead of the emblem. Manchester City's traditional colors are white and sky blue. Manchester City have permanently retired the number 23, under which Marc-Vivien Foe, the Cameroonian football player who died of a heart attack during the semi-final of the Confederations Cup in 2003, played.
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The first football club in the city was the existing and currently "Munich 1860", founded as a gymnastics club, this club opened a football section in 1899. Bayern appeared a little later - on February 27, 1900, a month after the German Football Association was created. At the meeting football section of the Munich Gymnastics Union, the discussion of whether to remain under the roof of the gymnasts or start an independent life turned into a split: 11 people, led by the Berliner Franz Jon, left the meeting and in the Gisela pub decided to create the Bayern football club - in honor of the German land, whose capital is Munich. As for the financial issue, Bayern is an exception in professional international football, being consistently profitable. Other clubs often incur losses, use loans, while Bayern use internal sources of funding. Also Bayern differ from other European top clubs in terms of revenue, while other clubs get over 35% of their revenue from broadcast rights, Bayern only earn 22-25% of their revenue this way.
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In 1896, the Sky Football Club was created, which became the progenitor of the Madrid club. But the official founding date is March 6, 1902, when the brothers Padros and Julián Palacios open a club called Madrid Football Club. June 29, 1920 King of Spain Alfonso XIII awarded the club the title of Royal. Hence the modern name of the club - Real Madrid. Real Madrid is one of three clubs that have never left the top Spanish division, the other two being Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao. Sporting Intelligence based on an analysis of the financial statements of 14 top clubs in different types sports around the world, concluded that Real Madrid players earn an average of $7,356,632 per year.
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Catalan professional football club from the city of the same name, one of the most titled clubs in Spain and in the world. Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, British, Spanish and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper. The club has become one of the symbols of Catalonia, hence the motto - Mes que un club- "More than a club". The emblem has the shape of a "cauldron", divided into three quartel. The top two reproduce the flag of the city of Barcelona (that is, the Cross of St. George and the flag of Catalonia). In the lower part there is a leather ball of the sample of the first half of the 20th century against the background of blue-garnet stripes - the colors of the club. In the center of the shield, on a golden stripe that separates the upper and lower parts of the coat of arms, the initials of the name of the club FCB (Football Club Barcelona) are displayed.
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The oldest club in this rating. The club was formed under the name Newton Heath L&YR F.C by a group of Manchester railway workers in 1878. The club uniform contained two colors - green and gold. For 15 years, the team played at the small dilapidated North Road, before moving to Bank Street in Clayton in 1893. In 1902, the team was on the brink of bankruptcy, with over £2,500 in debt. Bank Street Stadium was even closed by the bailiffs. The club was saved from closure by John Henry Davies, manager of the Manchester Brewery, who invested in the team solid investments at that time. On April 26, 1902, the club changed its name and officially became Manchester United. At the same time, club colors changed - from green and gold to red and white. Manchester United is considered the most popular football club in the world with the highest home match attendance of any European club. There are different opinions about who is Manchester United's main rival. Traditionally, the club's main rivals have been Liverpool, Manchester City and Leeds United, although Arsenal have been added to the list in the last decade.
Forbes named the most expensive sports clubs in the world. Updated rating published on the official website of the publication.
1 DALLAS COWBOYS
The Dallas Cowboys of the North American National Football League (NFL, American football) became the most expensive sports club in the world according to Forbes magazine. The cost of the club is $ 4.8 billion. Dallas has become the most expensive in the world for the third year in a row. In one year, the club has grown in value by 14%.
2. MANCHESTER UNITED FC
Second on the list is Manchester United, which is valued at $4.123 billion, making it the most valuable football club in the world. It is one of the most popular football clubs in the world. One of the founding clubs English Premier League in 1992
3. REAL MADRID FC
The third club on the list is Real Madrid ($4.09 billion). Real Madrid is one of three clubs that have never left the top Spanish division, the other two being Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao. It is one of the most titled clubs in Spanish football, having won a total of 60 national titles; a record 33 La Liga championship titles, 19 Spanish Cups, 9 times won the Spanish Super Cup. He holds the record for most victories and goals in the Champions League.
4. BARCELONA FC
In 4th place is Barcelona (4.064 billion). Barcelona is the most titled club in Spain in terms of total number of official trophies - 69 (25 Spanish titles, 30 Spanish Cups, 12 Spanish Super Cups, 2 Cups Spanish league). Representatives of Barcelona, together with representatives of Real Madrid and Athletic Basque, stood at the origins of the formation of "Examples". At the same time, Barcelona is one of three teams that have not left the top Spanish division. The other two are the same Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao.
5. NEW YORK YANKEES
The American baseball club New York Yankees fell from 2nd to 5th place in the list in a year, its value is estimated at $4 billion. The New York Yankees is a professional baseball club based in the Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York York. The Yankees achieved wide popularity and loyal fans, despite the fact that during George Steinbrenner's ownership of the team, they gained a controversial reputation for spending heavily on the salaries of players in order to attract the league's best talent to the team.
6. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
The New England Patriots are in 6th place with $3.7 billion. The New England Patriots are a professional American football club based in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2017, the team won the Super Bowl in Houston. This was the fifth time the team has won the National Football League title.
7. NEW YORK KNICKS
The New York Knicks are in 7th place in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with $3.6 billion. New York Knicks - professional basketball club, based in New York. The club plays its home matches at the Madison Square Garden Arena (Borough, Manhattan). This is one of two teams based in New York.
8. LOS ANGELES LAKERS
In 8th place is the NBA club Los Angeles Lakers ($3.3 billion). The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Pacific Division. Western Conference, in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays his home games at the Staples Center.
9. NEW YORK GIANTS
On the 9th place is the NFL club "New York Giants" ($3.3 billion). The New York Giants are a professional American football club that plays in the National football league. The team was founded in 1925 and is based in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
10 GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
Rounding out the top ten are the reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors ($3.1 billion). The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. Plays in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Manchester United is the most valuable club in the world Forbes versions
For the second year in a row, Manchester United topped the ranking of the most expensive football clubs in the world according to Forbes.
Over the past year, the value of the English club has increased by 12% and now stands at 4.123 billion dollars. In second place is Real Madrid (4.088 billion, + 14%), in third - Catalan Barcelona (4.064 billion, + 12%), followed by German Bavaria (3.063 billion, + 13%) and English Manchester City (2.474 billion, + 19%).
Top 20 most expensive clubs world according to Forbes:
1. Manchester United - $4.123 billion (+12%)
2. Real - 4.088 billion (+14%)
3. Barcelona (4.064 billion, +12%)
4. Bavaria - 3.063 billion (+13%)
5. Manchester City - 2.474 billion (+19%)
6. Arsenal - 2.474 billion (+19%)
7. Chelsea - 2.062 billion (+12%)
8. Liverpool - 1.944 billion (+30%)
9. Juventus - 1.472 billion (+17%)
10. Tottenham - 1.237 billion (+17%).
11. PSG - 971 million (+16%)
12. Borussia Dortmund - 901m (+12%)
13. Atlético - 848 million (+16%)
14. West Ham- 754 million (+19%)
15. Schalke - 707 million (+12%)
16. Roma - 618 million (+9%)