Revealed! 100 Most Valued Transfer Clubs In World; Manchester United Missing In Top 10

European Champions Real Madrid, armed with a glittering roster of high-value talent headlined by Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Junior and Jude Bellingham, have been crowned as the most valuable squad in world football in the latest CIES Football Observatory data report.

Of the top 100 teams compiled by the stats specialists, Carlo Ancelotti’s side leads the way with the highest aggregate transfer value ever recorded for a football club: €1.728 billion. The team also topped a value ranking released by Football Benchmark last week.

Premier League holders Manchester City rank second with an ‘owned-players’ valuation of €1.471 billion, dwarfed by Real Madrid’s tally which is almost €300 million higher.

Chelsea place third with a value of €1.38 billion spread across 54 players- the most on the list. Despite recent results that have not always lived up to expectations, the Londoners have a squad that is both rich in numbers and young talented players tied by long-term contracts, which inflate valuations according to the CIES model.

Arsenal and FC Barcelona trail in fourth and fifth, with the latter being particularly impressive due to its low spending in recent windows and heavy reliance on academy talent.

Notably all of the Premier League ‘Big Six’ have a place inside the top ten, with Liverpool (6th, €1.09 billion), Manchester United (8th, €989 million) and Spurs (9th, €886 million) fending off the likes of Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and Juventus.

It is Bayer Leverkusen who secures another valuable win over their German rivals to land the final spot in the top ten, with a valuation of €862 million.

The data shows that in terms of the average value of players owned, Real Madrid are in first place, followed by three English clubs (Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool).

Despite their high placement, Manchester United missed out on the €1 billion valuation despite spending far north of that figure on the current squad, suggesting players’ values have depreciated since joining, or the club overpaid in the first place.

Each and every Premier League club features in the top 100 list, including newcomers Ipswich at the foot of the table with a valuation of €129 million. This still ranks it higher than Saudi League champions Al Hilal and Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassr, who tally €125 million and €124 million. Each of those clubs have spent considerably more than that figure to put together their current squads.

CIES estimates were calculated on the basis of a statistical model developed exclusively by the CIES Football Observatory, using a methodology explained in a recently published in the International Journal of Financial Studies.

Source: InsideWorldFootball