Red Qian Ku (richer than Manchester United) Which sports club has the richest money in the world? The United States is the most developed country of professional sports in the world, and new york is the financial center of the world, so the richest man in the club should be in this city. Unfortunately, the richest clubs are not the new york Knicks in the NBA, the new york Rangers in the NHL, the new york Yankees in the MLB, or even the New York Giants or the Washington Redskins in the NFL. It's not even on the east coast of the United States. This professional sports club is the richest man with total assets as high as $654.38+453 million, on the other side of the Atlantic. It is located in Manchester, a remote northwest city in England, with a population of only 2.5 million. Yes, it is Manchester United, known as the "Red Devils". Today, the name Manchester United is familiar to all women and children. From Reykjavik to Cape Town, from Osaka to Bangkok, from Shanghai to Dubai, Manchester United supporters have spread all over the world, and the "Red Devils" have gathered wealth as fast as their expansion. On March 29th, the authoritative American magazine Forbes published the latest issue of the list of the most valuable football clubs and players. Manchester United topped the list for the fourth consecutive year and continued to defend the supremacy of football with a huge advantage of 40% ahead of the runner-up Real Madrid. Even more amazing is that Manchester United's total assets have surpassed the richest man in the NFL, the Washington Red Man, and officially become the richest professional sports club on the planet. There is no denying that Manchester United is a commercial miracle. In the history of modern football, no club is as legendary as Manchester United, and so far no club has been able to establish such a huge business empire. Some people may think that in the past 40 years, Manchester United under the leadership of Edwards and his son has lost some traditional virtues of football and turned into a commercial machine that takes making money as the highest interest and alienates fans, but no one can deny its great success. Edwards can build Manchester United into a huge enterprise, and there is one factor that cannot be ignored, that is, at 199 1, he listed Manchester United shares on the London stock market. English football club has always been a joint-stock system, and all shares are owned by the boss and some club officials and are not for sale. However, Edwards' listing through Manchester United allowed ordinary fans and enterprises to participate in the operation of Manchester United, which enhanced the comprehensive asset value of the club, increased the construction cost of the team and expanded related businesses. Edwards then divided Manchester United into three subsidiaries, one specializing in selling team souvenirs, one catering and the other Manchester United Football Club. The mission of the club is pure, which is to build Manchester United into a top team in the world with the financial assistance of these subsidiaries. The other two subsidiaries are independently committed to expanding their business scale. The three links are very harmonious. After Edwards resigned as chairman, Manchester United can still develop steadily, which has a lot to do with their solid business foundation for many years. 1992 Since the establishment of the Premier League, Manchester United has won the most titles, surpassing Liverpool to become the overlord of England. 1993, won Manchester United in cantona and regained the top English league title after 26 years. 1999 defeated bayern Munich to be crowned the European champion, and the "red devils" became famous for a time. This also gives the club an excellent platform, so various sponsorship contracts are a lot of income for Manchester United: in 2000, they had a sponsorship contract with Nike of 654.38+303 billion pounds, from which they could earn 30 million pounds a year, while Vodafone, the main sponsor of the front jersey chest advertisement, had a contract with Manchester United of 36 million pounds for four years. As early as April 2004, the market value of Manchester United in the London stock market had reached $654.38+0.2 billion, far exceeding the price of $654.38+0 billion that media tycoon Murdoch wanted to buy Manchester United. In the 2002-2003 season, Manchester United earned 26 million pounds just by selling jerseys. In addition, Old Trafford Stadium has 68,000 seats, and tickets for every game can be sold out. After Roman Abramovich entered Chelsea, Manchester United's first position in the world was threatened by the oil ruble. The board of directors decided to continue to expand the Old Trafford Stadium and increase the number of seats to 75,000. Obviously, this will bring a lot of money to Manchester United. Glazer and CEO david gill seem to be doing better than the Edwards. They signed a four-year contract with American International Group (AIG), the main sponsor of New Jersey's chest advertisement, worth 56.5 million pounds, which is a big step forward from the previous contract. Glazer, a shrewd American businessman, only saw three key words-football, Premier League and Manchester United. The data of Forbes sports list clearly shows that the current development momentum of football far exceeds that of any other professional sports, and the Premier League is the richest. Besides Glazer, American investors such as Gillette and Hicks are also buying other English football clubs. It is undeniable that the overall expansion of football is an important internal cause of Manchester United's rise. Manchester United's occupation of the richest throne not only brought vanity to football, but also surprised Americans with the energy of football clubs. The richest new york Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA do not have a market value of more than 600 million US dollars, and they are not in the top five in football. While Toronto Maple Leaf and new york Wanderers, which ranked highest in NHL, had only $300 million, a little less than Lyon, which ranked 12 in football. Only football, and football belong to the same family, can guide the country. The top 65,438+06 teams in the NFL are all worth more than $800 million. Together with the top five teams in football, among the 22 clubs with a value of more than 800 million dollars in the world, only the new york Yankees play football without feet. A mature and healthy club must constantly collect money and find new growth points. From the season of 1996/97, Deloitte, an internationally renowned accounting group, began to publish quarterly income reports of European football clubs. Deloitte report is the most authoritative economic white paper in the field of football at present, and its figures will reflect the strength of football's wealth collection more intuitively than Forbes' wealth list. Among the top 20 Deloitte reports, Premier League clubs still occupy 8 seats. Last season, the total revenue of the Premier League reached 2 billion euros, accounting for 40% of the total revenue in Europe, surpassing the sum of Ligue 1, Bundesliga and La Liga, and its proportion in the European football economy is still increasing. By next season, because the new broadcast contract comes into effect, the total revenue of the Premier League will exceed 2.5 billion euros, approaching the 50% mark. Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and Manchester United are the four most profitable sports clubs in the world, and the annual income of any one of them exceeds that of the NFL's Washington Redskins. Football is obviously the fastest-earning industry at present, and the new york Yankees (US$ 277 million) with the highest income in MLB can only rank seventh in football, behind the sixth Chelsea. At the same time, last season, ten football clubs earned more than the new york Knicks (65.438+85 billion US dollars), and sixteen teams earned more than the Toronto Maple Leafs (65.438+0.65438+0.9 billion US dollars) with the highest income in NHL. Forbes and Deloitte's two figures have clearly made people understand the value of football. The high-level European professional football league and the growing public and commercial interests have made the development of football enter a fast lane, and Manchester United is the fastest one in the lane. Snowball has been rolling bigger and bigger, and the rolling speed has already exceeded people's imagination. 1February 6, 958, Manchester United suddenly encountered unexpected troubles at its peak. A plane full of football talents crashed in Munich, which was a great tragedy in the history of modern football. Since then, the Red Devils have entered a long dormant period. Half a century later, the Red Devils came to power with a brand-new attitude, and the power of football capital was unstoppable. Stand up. If you hate Manchester United's Forbes football wealth list, the team's national assets 1 Manchester United England 14.53 2 Real Madrid Spain 10.36 3 Arsenal England 9. 15 4 Bayern Germany 8.38 5 AC Milan Italy 8.24 6 Especially. Ventus Italy 5.67 7 Inter Milan Italy 5.55 8 Chelsea England 5.37 9 Barcelona Spain 5.35 10 Schalke 04 Germany 4.7 1 (unit: USD 100 million). Deloitte's annual wealth list ranks team countries 05-06 04-05 1 Real Madrid Spain 2.922 2.757 2 Barcelona Spain 2.59 1 2.079 3 Juventus Italy 2.5 12 2.294 4 4 Manchester United England 2.426 2.464 5 AC Milan Italy 2.38. 7 2.340 6 Chelsea England 2.2 10 2.208 7 Inter Milan Italy 2.06610.772 8 Bayern Germany 2.04710.895 9 Arsenal England10.924/kloc-0.