Real Madrid have usurped Manchester United as the most valuable football club on the planet for the first time since Forbes magazine began their rankings in 2004.The Red Devils have sat at the top of the list for nine years in a row but Jose Mourinho's men are now worth $135 million more (€103m) at $3.3 billion (€2.429bn), while Sir Alex Ferguson's side sit second in the business magazine's most valuable club list. Barcelona are perched comfortably in third -$565m (€434m) behind United but $1.274m (€978m) ahead of fourth-placed Arsenal - and rose 99 per cent in value over 12 months.
Bayern Munich fill out the top five having made the Champions League final last season as well as finishing second in the Bundesliga. Their value is sure to rise further in next year's rankings with the added interest of Pep Guardiola as coach, not to mention their triumph in this season's Bundesliga and a potential treble of trophies. AC Milan are the top-placed Serie A side in
sixth and the highest-placed club to be valued below the €1bn mark this year. However, they are also the only club in the top 10 which have
gone down in value over the last 12 months.
Chelsea's Champions League-winning season
saw maintain their place in the list and boost
their value by 18%, not so contrasting to the
team below them, Juventus, who saw their
value rise by 17% after returning to Scudetto-
lifting ways in 2012.
Manchester City rose from 13th to 9th in
Forbes' list after winning the Premier League
last season and qualifying for the Champions
League for the second successive campaign.
An English team not faring as well are
Liverpool, who were fourth in April 2008 but
find themselves 10th five years later as they
continue to suffer from not competing with
the European elite.
Outside of the top 10 sit Europa League
quarter-finalists Tottenham in 11th,
Bundesliga side Schalke in 12th, Champions
League semi-finalists Borussia Dortmund in
13th, Italian giants Inter in 14th and
Olympique Lyonnais in 15th.
The final five in the list are South America's
sole entrants Corinthians in 16th, Walter
Mazzarri's Napoli in 17th, German side
Hamburg in 18th, Olympique de Marseille (who
dropped 18% in value, the biggest drop in the
top 20) in 19th and Newcastle United perched
20th.
Interestingly, despite being considered one of
the most valuable clubs in the world, Paris
Saint-Germain fail to make the top 20, while
La Liga's top-three duo are the only Spanish
sides to make the list.
1st REAL MADRID
Last year: 2nd
Value:
€2.532bn 76%
2nd
MANCHESTER
UTD
Last year: 1st
Value:
€2.429bn 42%
3rd BARCELONA
Last year: 3rd
Value:
€1.995bn 99%
4th ARSENAL
Last year: 4th
Value:
€1.017bn 3%
5th BAYERN MUNICH
Last year: 5th
Value:
€1.005bn 6%
6th AC MILAN
Last year: 6th Value: €725m 4%
7th CHELSEA
Last year: 7th Value: €691m 18%
8th JUVENTUS
Last year: 9th Value: €533m 17%
9th
MANCHESTER
CITY
Last year: 13th
Value: €529m 56%
10th LIVERPOOL
Last year: 8th Value: €500m 5%

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Jose Mourihno and Cristiano Ronaldo are very good investments. Man U shouldn't have sold CR7 for less than 150. Barca is now valuing Messi above 400. And Chelsea should have given Drogba the 2-year contract he demanded.