Premier League President Scudamore, who is preparing to start the "39th Overseas Tournament", said that the Premier League is the first in the world, and Stern smiled. Stern, who has "divided the rudder" in the global preseason and regular season, said that the NBA is the world's number one league, and Gude smiled-in 2008, 30 teams in his North American football league had the highest average economic value in the world. This statistic is authoritative and comes from Forbes' annual sports wealth list. However, in the latest season of 2009, the list was released, and the ghouls who always believed that the world was olive-shaped might not be able to laugh. Even in the past year, the exchange rate of the euro against the US dollar fell by more than 15%, and the exchange rate of the pound against the US dollar plummeted by 25%. The market value of the 25 European teams in Forbes Football Fortune List still increased by 8%, and the turnover increased by more than 20%! For the four major American leagues whose market value and turnover have plummeted due to the financial crisis, the title of "World's No.1 League" has been surrendered to the European Champions Cup, and even the Premier League has enough strength to challenge Americans who once thought they were the world sports center.

The criteria for judging the most valuable football club include the sum of total turnover, fixed assets and assessed assets. By this standard, Manchester United topped Loneliness for the second year in a row with a market value of $65.438+$87 million, surpassing the second-ranked NFL team dallas cowboys by $270 million. If you count the exchange rate loss, this lead is as high as 700 million dollars! Even in terms of total turnover, Manchester United's $5120,000 far exceeds the richest man in the NFL, Washington Redskins ($327 million). In terms of revenue and profit, Manchester United reached $654.38+600 million last year, almost the sum of the top four NFL teams, dallas cowboys, Washington Redskins, New England Patriots and New York Giants.

There are 32 clubs, of which the market value of 19 exceeds 1 billion dollars, which is the key value of the NFL's claim to be the world's number one last year. But this year, among the top 25 football clubs in Forbes list, regardless of the exchange rate factor, eight clubs including Manchester United, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Bayern, Liverpool, AC Milan, Barcelona and Chelsea entered the "65.438 billion clubs". Their total turnover is close to $3.5 billion, and squeezing out the exchange rate bubble still equalizes the sum of NFL19 "10 billion clubs". The 25 clubs in Forbes list have 17 Champions League teams, and their total turnover also exceeds the sum of all 32 NFL teams. What's more, the overseas broadcasting fee of NFL is less than $300 million, and the overseas broadcasting fee of Premier League alone has already exceeded this figure. Every year, more than 6,543.8+billion overseas audiences regularly watch Premier League and Champions League matches. It is optimistically estimated that overseas income will account for at least 40% in the new three-year broadcast contract of Premier League. The financial crisis actually devalued the market value of the NFL by 20%, making the Champions League the most valuable league in the world.

Contrary to the Premier League and the Champions League, the NFL's overseas development plan has been frustrated year by year, and the NFL European minor league, which has been established in Europe, was forced to dissolve in 2007. The ambitious 17 overseas regular season plan also ran aground with the financial crisis. In the largest NFL in North America, overseas income only accounts for 5% of the total income. Even the NBA, which is the most profitable in overseas market development, earned less than $654.38+billion overseas in 2009. In 2008, the NBA, which seemed to be popular all over the world, had a market value of only 6130,000 dollars, and it was not ranked in the top 8 in the football list, which was equivalent to Juventus, which had just recovered a little. If we squeeze out the exchange rate bubble, it is basically the second-rate Tottenham level in the Premier League. Ironically, even if there are only nine teams listed in the Premier League, their total market value is as high as $6.3 billion and their turnover is $2.4 billion. What about NBA? After experiencing the historical peak last year, the total turnover of 30 teams was only $3.7 billion-less than half of the Premier League on average. This figure is undoubtedly frustrating for basketball fans who advocate the era of NBA globalization. In fact, even in North America, the market value of NBA is less than the NFL's 1/3, which is undoubtedly the third league. The Premier League alone ranks first in terms of overseas influence-its market value and turnover are more "global" than the NFL where North Americans play behind closed doors. If you count the Champions League, the highest competition in European football, even the NFL will be ashamed.

What makes Americans more nervous is that the fixed assets of the new stadium account for a considerable proportion in the NFL's market value evaluation, but this does not mean that they can get much new income from TV broadcasting fees and box office. On the contrary, look at the Premier League's data: Manchester City, which was acquired by Arabs, saw its turnover surge by 62% last year, which was a huge increase under the financial crisis. While Kuwaiti tycoons and Dubai Group are still planning to enter the Premier League, the market value of this football league with hundreds of millions of loyal audiences overseas is still on a straight upward curve, which is not the "39th round" of overseas competition that the Premier League plans to start when the new live broadcast contract is negotiated. 20 10 and even in the next three years, the leading edge of the Premier League will certainly continue to expand.

Is the first sport in the world football, basketball or rugby? Americans' own Forbes gave the answer. Although the NBA plays an increasingly important role in the post-80s generation, it is the European professional football led by the Premier League that really has global influence and the highest market value. The unprecedented financial crisis has further consolidated the advantages of the Premier League and "timely" weakened the competitiveness of NBA in trying to compete with the Premier League in the global market.