The NFL’s 32 teams are worth, on average, $1.17 billion, 5% more than last year. The Cleveland Browns, a lousy team for years in a midsize market, sold for almost $1 billion last year.
In contrast, the world’s top 20 soccer teams have a mean value of $968 million. The average worth of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams is $744 million. And average values for the National Basketball Association and National Hockey League, also each with 30 teams, are $509 million and $282 million, respectively.
The increase in NFL values during the past year was mainly due to a 3.6% rise in league revenue last season, to an average of $286 million per team, from $276 million in 2011. Five teams posted double-digit gains in value: the Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Houston Texans, Atlanta Falcons and St. Louis Rams. This is the seventh consecutive year that the Cowboys, who recently signed a $500 million, 25-year naming rights deal with AT&T, are the most valuable NFL team.
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