Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, June 3rd. Today on Forbes, the world's most

valuable soccer teams 2025. The coronation is beginning to feel routine. For the fourth year

in a row, and the ninth time in the past 12 editions of Forbes's ranking, Spain's Real Madrid is the world's most valuable

soccer team, worth $6.75 billion, a 2% increase over 2024. This time, however, the club

has a new jewel in its crown. During the 2023-24 season, Los Blancos posted $1.13 billion in revenue, becoming the

first soccer team to hit the 10-figure threshold in a single year. In fact, only one other

team in any sport has crossed the $1 billion revenue barrier, the NFL's Dallas Cowboys,

who first did so in 2021, and subsequently

climbed to $1.2 billion in 2023, according to Forbes' estimates.

Manchester City of England's Premier League, with $901 million in revenue in 2023-24, is the

closest any other soccer team has come.

But it is the other team from Manchester, Manchester United,

that is nearest to Real Madrid with its valuation at $6.6 billion,

maintaining its lead on another Spanish powerhouse, Barcelona,

which sits third in the financial standings at $5.65 billion.

Together, the 30 most valuable soccer teams are worth more than $72 billion, or an average of

$2.4 billion, up 5% from 2024's record $2.26 billion.

The list includes 12 teams from the Premier League, four from Italy's Seria, three from Spain's La Liga,

two from Germany's Bundesliga, and one from France's League One.

There are also eight teams from Major League Soccer, although none rank

higher than number 15, LAFC, at $1.25 billion. European clubs benefit from continental

competitions that offer hefty payouts tied to how far teams advance. For instance, Real Madrid's

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