TSG 30th in list of world's most valuable football clubs

Brand Finance published the findings of their yearly study on Tuesday. Manchester United remain the most marketable club with a value of $1.73Billion and increased their worth by 43%. Real Madrid follow in second ($1.49bn), with Barcelona ($1.418bn) third and Chelsea FC fourth ($1.248bn). The highest ranked German club is Bayern Munich ($1.222bn). “This is a very high accolade for our club, to be included in circles like this. Our rise as a new entrant to 30th place of the best clubs in the world is evidence for the solid, goal-orientated work that everyone here at TSG undertakes,” explained TSG’s Director of Finance and Organisation Frank Briel.

Borussia Dortmund ranked 11th in the list ($511m), with Schalke 04 ($338m) and Bayer 04 Leverkusen ($332m) in 14th and 15th place. VFL Wolfsburg are 21st ($265m) and Borussia Mönchengladbach are one place ahead of TSG in 29th ($208m). Hoffenheim ranked ahead of some notable clubs such as Roma, Napoli, Monaco and Olympic Marseille and were the second best newcomer to the list after behind English club Bournemouth - who ranked 26th with a worth of $220m.

Brand Finance looks into the market values of companies in several industries and is regarded as being very established in the advertising industry. The latest study does not show the overall worth of the football club. Last week KPMG released the results of an investigation which revealed Manchester United to be the best of 32 clubs surveyed, and the first to have a total net worth of over €3bn euros.
Here are the results of the Brand Finance study into the Market value of the 50 most valuable football clubs for 2017. (Results displayed in US-Dollars).

 

Club	Country	Market value 2017	2016
Manchester United	England	1733	1170
Real Madrid	Spain	1419	1148
FC Barcelona	Spain	1418	993
FC Chelsea	England	1248	776
Bayern München	Germany	1222	867
Manchester City	England	1021	905
Paris Saint-Germain	France	1011	792
FC Arsenal	England	941	858
FC Liverpool	England	908	748
Tottenham Hotspur	England	696	441
Borussia Dortmund	Germany	519	371
Juventus Turin	Italy	492	287
FC Everton	England	360	279
Schalke 04	Germany	338	282
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Germany	332	290
Atletico Madrid	Spain	324	266
West Ham United	England	303	274
AC Mailand	Italy	286	207
FC Southampton	England	281	223
Leicester City	England	257	237
VfL Wolfsburg	Germany	256	280
Newcastle United	England	247	129
Stoke City	England	227	212
Swansea City	England	226	175
West Bromwich Albion	England	222	184
Bournemouth FC	England	220
Olympique Lyon	France	218	138
Inter Mailand	Italy	217	151
Bor. Mönchengladbach	Germany	208	173
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Germany	194
AS Rom	Italy	180	131
SSC Neapel	Italy	177	118
Crystal Palace	England	175	176
VfB Stuttgart	Germany	171	95
AS Monaco	France	170	124
Olympique Marseille	France	164	129
Hamburger SV	Germany	163	152
1. FC Köln	Germany	162
Hertha BSC	Germany	159	123
Werder Bremen	Germany	155	110
Zenit St. Petersburg	Russia	154
Athletic Bilbao	Spain	154	123
Villarreal CF	Spain	152	110
FC Burnley	England	148
RB Leipzig	Germany	145
FC Watford	England	144	91
Ajax Amsterdam	Niederlande	144	116
FC Valencia	Spain	144	93
Eintracht Frankfurt	Germany	140
FC Sevilla	Spain	140	115