The most expensive clubs in the world: Barcelona surpasses Manchester United… and Real Madrid is at the distant top

In the magazine’s latest ranking, Barcelona is surpassed only by Real Madrid with $9.5 billion. “Forbes” American, specializing in the world of finance and business.

Real Madrid top the list, while Barcelona are valued at $7.5 billion, but Spotify’s Camp Nou stadium operation is still in the middle, the newspaper reported. “Mundo Deportivo” Catalan.

Barcelona’s brand value continues to grow, Spotify Camp Nou has 104,600 fans.

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Barcelona – which will reveal on Monday the exact figure for record revenues for the 2025-26 season approaching 1.1 billion euros and surpassing 994 million for the 2024-25 season – announced that it has become the second most expensive football club in the world, according to a new update of the classification. “Forbes”.

With a value of $7.5 billion, the Catalan club rose from third to second place, overtaking Manchester United, whose value is $7.2 billion.

This is worth considering “Forbes” Its classification is based on figures at the end of the 2024-25 season, not the 2025-26 season, which saw the capacity of the “Spotify Camp Nou” increase from 45,401 seats after 22 November 2024 to 62,652 seats between 15 March and 17 May, the date of Catalonia’s last match.

Liverpool ($6.2 billion) and Paris Saint-Germain ($5.8 billion) complete the top five, followed by Bayern Munich ($5.7 billion), Manchester City ($5.5 billion), Arsenal ($5.4 billion), Chelsea ($4.2 billion), Tottenham ($3 billion) in the list of the ten most valuable clubs in the world.

Barca is coming financially

and according to“Mundo Deportivo”The comparison with Real Madrid is still a long way from what the real picture will look like in about a year and a half, when the Spotify Camp Nou is finished and has a capacity of 104,600.

The Santiago Bernabéu stadium has been operating at full capacity for two years after the completion of renovations, with a capacity of 83,186 seats, in addition to the use of VIP areas.

When the Catalan project is completed, the stadium will include 9,400 VIP seats, a huge source of revenue that will help increase Barca’s financial value.

At the level of global classification of all sports clubs, Barcelona is in fifteenth place.

The list is topped by the Dallas Cowboys of the American Football League (NFL) at $13 billion, followed by the Golden State Warriors of the American Basketball League (NBA) at $11 billion, then the Los Angeles Rams ($10.5 billion), the New York Giants ($10.1 billion), the Los Angeles Lakers ($70 billion), and the Los Angeles Lakers ($70 billion). Los Angeles Lakers ($71 billion) Madrid, worth $9.5 billion, ranks seventh in the world.

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