Manchester City is officially the most valuable football club brand in the world with the Brand Finance Football 50 Report proving just how dominant the English game has become. City are the first Premier League team to top this list in six years and have ended Real Madrid’s four-year streak in first place.
Pep Guardiola’s side – who were charged with 115 breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules in February after a four-year investigation – enjoyed a 13% brand value increase from 2022 and boast the highest revenue in the 2023 rankings.
Although Real Madrid are no longer the pacesetters, the report has deemed the Spanish giants ‘the world’s strongest football club brand’, meaning they ‘attract fans, players, investors, and sponsors to engage with the club’.
The top 50 includes one non-European club (Flamengo), 17 English clubs, one Scottish club (Celtic), and only three French clubs.
Here are the top 20 from the report, including nine Premier League clubs.
20) Aston Villa (England)
2023 value – £184,000,000
2022 value – £155,000,000
2022 position – 26th
19) RB Leipzig (Germany)
2023 value – £192,000,000
2022 value – £207,000,000
2022 position – 18th
18) Napoli (Italy)
2023 value – £207,000,000
2022 value – £155,000,000
2022 position – 27th
17) Newcastle United (England)
2023 value – £216,000,000
2022 value – £162,000,000
2022 position – 23rd
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16) West Ham (England)
2023 value – £266,000,000
2022 value – £250,000,000
2022 position – 15th
15) AC Milan (Italy)
2023 value – £309,000,000
2022 value – £228,000,000
2022 position – 17th
14) Inter (Italy)
2023 value – £439,000,000
2022 value – £420,000,000
2022 position – 14th
13) Borussia Dortmund (Germany)
2023 value – £468,000,000
2022 value – £439,000,000
2022 position – 13th
12) Atletico Madrid (Spain)
2023 value – £474,000,000
2022 value – £491,000,000
2022 position – 12th
11) Juventus (Italy)
2023 value – £545,000,000
2022 value – £598,000,000
2022 position – 11th
10) Chelsea (England)
2023 value – £742,000,000
2022 value – £725,000,000
2022 position – 9th
9) Tottenham (England)
2023 value – £774,000,000
2022 value – £740,000,000
2022 position – 8th
8) Arsenal (England)
2023 value – £782,000,000
2022 value – £672,000,000
2022 position – 10th
7) Bayern Munich (Germany)
2023 value – £949,000,000
2022 value – £940,000,000
2022 position – 6th
6) Paris Saint-Germain (France)
2023 value – £976,000,000
2022 value – £871,000,000
2022 position – 7th
5) Liverpool (England)
2023 value – £1,173,000,000
2022 value – £1,079,000,000
2022 position – 4th
4) Manchester United (England)
2023 value – £1,174,000,000
2022 value – £1,060,000,000
2022 position – 5th
3) Barcelona (Spain)
2023 value – £1,185,000,000
2022 value – £1,124,000,000
2022 position – 3rd
2) Real Madrid (Spain)
2023 value – £1,258,000,000
2022 value – £1,293,000,000
2022 position – 1st
1) Manchester City (England)
2023 value – £1,299,000,000
2022 value – £1,126,000,000
2022 position – 2nd
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