Forbes revealed 2021 Most valuable NFL teams on Thursday, August 8th. Once again it was Dallas Cowboys led the teams with $6.5 billion valuation.
According to Forbes, despite NFL’s 20% drop in revenue during the pandemic-impacted 2020 season, to an average of $381 million per team and the drop in operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) plummeted to an average of $7.1 million a team, from $109 million the previous season. The value of the average team shoot up 14%, to $3.48 billion, the biggest gain in five years.
According to the report, The national media rights payout to each of the league’s 32 teams is going to increase from $220 million this season to $377 million in 2032. And that’s not even counting the Sunday Ticket deal with DirecTV, worth an average of $1.5 billion annually through 2022.
The increase in media rights payout is mainly down to NFL’s new deal signed in the March. The deal worth $111.8 billion ($112.6 billion including the ESPN payment for extending Monday Night Football a year through 2022 and money received from broadcasters for additional regular-season and playoff games); that represented an 82% average annual increase over the current deals.
Forbes 2021 NFL Team Valuations, courtesy of Forbes
1. Dallas Cowboys
Value: $6.5 billion
One-Year Change: 14%
Owner: Jerry Jones
Operating Income: $280.4 million
2. New England Patriots
Value: $5 billion
One-Year Change: 14%
Owner: Robert Kraft
Operating Income: $142.4 million
3. New York Giants
Value: $4.85 billion
One-Year Change: 13%
Owners: John Mara, Steven Tisch
Operating Income: -$12.5 million
4. Los Angeles Rams
Value: $4.8 billion
One-Year Change: 20%
Owner: Stanley Kroenke
Operating Income: $37.2 million
5. Washington Football Team
Value: $4.2 billion
One-Year Change: 20%
Owner: Daniel Snyder
Operating Income: $25 million
6. San Francisco 49ers
Value: $4.175 billion
One-Year Change: 10%
Owners: Denise DeBartolo York, John York
Operating Income: -$45.4 million
7. Chicago Bears
Value: $4.075 billion
One-Year Change: 16%
Owner: McCaskey family
Operating Income: -$3.6 million
8. New York Jets
Value: $4.05 billion
One-Year Change: 14%
Owner: Johnson family
Operating Income: $8.4 million
9. Philadelphia Eagles
Value: $3.8 billion
One-Year Change: 12%
Owner: Jeffrey Lurie
Operating Income: -$25.9 million
10. Denver Broncos
Value: $3.75 billion
One-Year Change: 17%
Owner: Pat Bowlen Trust
Operating Income: $8.2 million
