Manchester United listed as the most valuable football club - KPMG report

English Premier League club, Manchester United have been ranked as the most valuable football club in Europe moving clear of Spanish side, Real Madrid in a new report released by auditors KPMG.


United have been valued at €3.004 billion ahead of both Real (€2.895bn) and Barcelona (€2.688bn).  At the end of the 2015-16 season, KPMG had estimated Madrid and United as being worth €2.9bn.

Fourth on the list is Bayern Munich with a worth of (€2.367bn) while Manchester City completes the top five with a worth of (€1.909bn) making it the second highest-placed English team. 

Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Juventus and Tottenham Hotspur complete the top 10 respectively.

Manchester United in May announced projected full-year revenues of between £560 million and £570m and expected profits that could surpass their current record of £191.9m.

The Old Trafford club currently have 26 global sponsorship deals, including with kit manufacturer adidas, shirt sponsor Chevrolet, 20th Century Fox and Uber, as well as 10 regional sponsorship deals and 28 other media and financial partners.

KPMG, one of the world's four big auditing companies along with Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young, estimate that United are the first football club to break through the €3bn barrier for enterprise value.

The world's 15 most valuable football clubs:

1. Manchester United (€3.004bn)
2. Real Madrid (€2.895bn)
3. Barcelona (€2.688bn)
4. Bayern Munich (€2.367bn)
5. Manchester City (€1.909bn)
6. Arsenal (€1.882bn)
7. Chelsea (€1.524bn)
8. Liverpool (€1.260bn)
9. Juventus (€1.158bn)
10. Tottenham Hotspur (€978m)
11. Paris Saint-Germain (€948m)
12. Borussia Dortmund (€917m)
13. Atletico Madrid (€771m)
14. Schalke (€663m)
15. AC Milan (€504m)