Beyond the decade, the world’s top valuable sports brands have used their wealth and ties to other major assets to expand their sports holdings in everything from media and genuine goods to other sports groups and stadium operations in historic ways.
It is about packing with scale, diversification of taxes and tax exemptions (see the rear of the story to obtain a complete list of the maximum valuable sports empires).
The ideal boss: Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, value of $ 8. 4 billion. The Stan Kroenke empire began with the acquisition of the NBA NBA and Denver NBA Nuggets Colorado Avalanche in 2000, with the Pepsi Center, the sand shared by the groups, for 400 million combined dollars. A decade later, it acquired 60% that did not have Rams of the NFL, then in Saint -Louis, now in Los Angeles, in an agreement that edits the team at $ 750 million. The 3 groups now have a value of 5. 7 billion dollars combined through the estimation of Forbes.
Jerry Jones, a great defender of the allocation of the stadium in Los Angeles, has the second maximum valuable sports empire, $ 6. 9 billion. Its trophy, the Dallas Cowboys, which bought with the rights to the Texas stadium for $ 150 million in 1989, is the maximum valuable sports team on the planet, $ 5. 5 billion. But Jones also has more than a third of the legends, a hospitality business and expectation of the stadium that has an agreement with the maximum of Kroenke’s sports properties. In addition, Jones generates profits related to the star sports: the genuine farm for mixed use of $ 1. 5 billion of the cowboys, the headquarters, the headquarters and the amenities of practice in Frisco, Texas, and is the majority owner, together With John Goff, complexity, an electronic sports organization.
This trend will continue. In 2018, NFL housing owners voted to lift the long data ban, which means that they now have freedom to own a professional sports team in another city that has a NFL team. The NBA, the MLB and the NHL have already allowed the owner of one of its groups to own other leagues. The debt limits of the owners have also recently increased, giving them more effective to take advantage of their equity to build stadiums.
The NFL’s recent top owner, David Tepper, mobilizes his billions. He paid $2. 3 billion last year for the Carolina Panthers. This week, MLS awarded its 30th franchise to Tepper in Charlotte for an expansion of up to $325 million.
The result: bifurcation between the richest sports and everyone else will be expanded.
To compile our scorecard of the most valuable sports empires, we screened our database of the most valuable teams from the NFL, MLB, the NBA, the NHL and soccer for people or companies whose holdings in these teams were above $2 billion. Only those with a majority interest in at least one team were eligible. For those that made the cut, we valued their investments in their other sports properties. We excluded the Paul G. Allen Trust, which has owned the Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers and a minority stake in the Seattle Sounders since the passing of Paul Allen a little over a year ago because the assets are essentially in a holding pattern until they are sold. Had we included the Paul G. Allen Trust it would have ranked ninth at $4.4 billion. Our empire valuations are enterprise values (equity plus net debt) of all sports-related assets. The top ten own sports assets worth a combined $56 billion.
1. Kroenke Sports
Properties: Los Angeles Rams, Arsenal, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids, Colorado Mammoth, Altitude Sports
2. Jerry Jones: $ 6. 9 billion
Properties: Dallas Cowboys, Legends*, The Star, CompLexity Gaming
3. Fenway Sports Group: $ 6. 6 billion
Properties: Boston Red Sox, Liverpool, Nesn, Roush Fenway Racing, Fenway Sports Management
4. Yankee Global Enterprises: $6.1 billion
Properties: New York Yankees, Legends*, YES Network*, New York City FC*
5. Madison Square Garden Co: $5.9 billion
Properties: New York Knicks, New York Rangers
6. Glazer family: $ 5. 2 billion
Properties: Manchester United, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
7. City Football Group: $4. 8 billion
Properties: Manchester City, New York City FC, Melbourne City FC
8. Kraft Family: $4. 5 billion
Properties: New England Patriots, New England Revolution, UFC *, Kraft Analytics Group
9. Arce leaf sports
Properties: Toronto Raptors, Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto FC, Toronto Argonauts
10. Benson family: $ 3. 5 billion
Properties: New Orleans Saints, New Orleans Pelicans
* Owns 50%