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Sports Franchise Valuations Interactive Database
Explore Sportico's interactive database, which includes revenue and valuation data for six seasons.
NHL Team Valuations Ranking List: From Maple Leafs to Blue Jackets
The average NHL team is worth $2.43 billion, according to data compiled by Sportico. The Toronto Maple Leafs rank first at $4.8 billion, while the Columbus Blue Jackets rank last at $1.5 billion. Below are the values of the league’s 32 franchises, whose collective worth is $77.8 billion. To derive the fair market value of the […]
NHL Team Values 2026: Leafs Lead, Average Up 160% in 5 Years
The NHL’s Sun Belt expansion was cannon fodder for league critics for 20 years. The Los Angeles Kings were the sole southern club before the influx started in 1992 with the arrival of the expansion Tampa Bay Lightning. Expansion or relocated teams followed in Miami, Dallas, Nashville, Raleigh and Las Vegas. These teams typically floundered […]
Is This the Year the NHL’s $10 Million Ice Ceiling Falls?
A record 29 NHL players will have a cap hit of more than $10 million this season, up from 17 last year, according to Spotrac. Those eight-figure earners on the ice are spread across 18 of the league’s 32 teams, meaning one of the most interesting streaks in sports is in jeopardy of being broken. […]
Sporticast: Why Do NHL Season, MLB Playoffs Start on Same Day?
On the 591st Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including a jam-packed pro sports day on Tuesday. The NHL’s regular season starts with five games, which overlaps with the start of MLB’s playoffs that same day. Two series in the WNBA playoffs […]
Antitrust the Process: Senate Passes Protect College Sports Act
The Senate has passed the Protect College Sports Act (PCSA), adopting a measure that would give the NCAA its long-sought antitrust exemption while creating a uniform national standard for how college athletes can be paid and how long they can play. Late Monday night, following a series of amendment considerations, the Senate voted 77-22 to […]
FanDuel’s Parent Can’t Buy a Break
FanDuel parent Flutter Entertainment’s vision for diversifying its gambling portfolio through investments in India and Brazil has fallen apart, costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars in projected revenue. India passed legislation curtailing online wagers last year, spoiling the value of gaming powerhouse Junglee after Flutter had paid $237 million to acquire 95% of […]
Islanders Selling Stakes in NHL Team at $3 Billion Valuation
The New York Islanders reached an agreement to sell roughly 15% of the NHL franchise to a handful of investors at a $3 billion valuation, according to three people familiar with the details. The club previously announced venture capital investor David Shuman as a new investor. The other investors were not immediately known, including one […]
As Lockout Brews, This MLB Playoff Has More Than a Title at Stake
Enjoy this MLB postseason. There’s no guarantee there will be one next year—and if there is, it could look pretty different. At 11:59 p.m. ET on Dec. 1, the league’s collective bargaining agreement will expire. There’s widespread expectation an owner-imposed lockout will follow, one that will likely threaten at least part of the 2027 season. […]
Thanks LeBron: 76ers Sign One of NBA’s Richest Jersey Patch Deals
All eyes will be on the Philadelphia 76ers this season with the arrivals of LeBron James and Jaylen Brown. And fans will see a new logo on the team’s jersey, as the club and Bloom Energy disclosed a multiyear partnership. The agreement is the second-biggest jersey patch deal in the NBA, according to two people […]
Cap on College Coach Cash Crashes Congress’ PCSA Debate
If the Protect College Sports Act would restrict earnings opportunities for college athletes, will college coaches face the same treatment? Given that limiting college athlete compensation would help stabilize college sports, the same should be true of coaches’ compensation. The spending war for coaches is arguably more costly than the spending war for athletes. As […]
The MLB Lockout Now Runs on Private Equity
Today’s guest columnist is Chris Koras, partner and head of sports at Working Capital Partners. In December 2022, I flew to the Dominican Republic to break a year-long contract stalemate. Our firm represented Rafael Devers. The Boston Red Sox had sent ownership and front-office executives to settle the negotiation directly with the player, hoping relationship […]
WNBA Playoffs Conclude Historic Season That Almost Didn’t Happen
The WNBA playoffs begin Sunday with virtually every mega-star in the league fighting for a championship, from perennial contenders like A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart to the young generation of supernova talent including Paige Bueckers, Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. The playoffs will conclude an eventful 2026 season fans at one point worried would either […]
Kalshi Split Widens With 6th Circuit Ruling on Sports Event Contracts
The likelihood that the U.S. Supreme Court will review the legality of prediction markets operating under federal law rose Friday, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled against Kalshi in its litigation with sports gambling regulators from Tennessee and Ohio. The decision deepens a conflict among the federal circuits, with the […]
Club Sportico: The NFL’s Todd Robert Bowl Was Just the Beginning
Last week, Sportico published its ranking of highest-paid NFL coaches. The list included both Harbaughs: brothers Jim and John. There were also two Kevins: O’Connell and Stefanski. But the name repetition on NFL sidelines doesn’t stop there. Last Sunday’s game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Cleveland Browns was the first game in NFL […]
Sportico Transactions: Moves and Mergers Roundup for Sept. 25
Welcome to Sportico’s transactions wire, a weekly rundown of personnel, partnerships and products across the sports business industry. PERSONNEL RAJ Sports Announces Mike Whitehead as CEO RAJ Sports announced Mike Whitehead as its first chief executive officer alongside the establishment of an expanded and formalized executive leadership structure. In the new role, Whitehead, who joined […]
The Cowboys Don’t Want to Own Other Sports Teams
The owners of the world’s most valuable—and most profitable—sports team are not interested in expanding their portfolio to include more franchises. “We’re football [only],” Dallas Cowboys co-owner and COO Stephen Jones said on the latest episode of Sportico Sports Business Presented by Endava. “We’ve had those opportunities and we just feel like the Cowboys are […]
Man City Found Guilty of Breaking Premier League Financial Rules
Manchester City FC—the eight-time champion of the English Premier League—will face potential relegation, points deduction, fines or other types of discipline after an arbitration commission said it broke league rules to obtain an unfair advantage over rival clubs. According to The Athletic, an arbitration commission held on Friday that Man City violated EPL financial fair play regulations and refused […]
ESPN Unlimited on YouTube TV Has at Least One Limit
YouTube TV’s integration of ESPN Unlimited content brought thousands of live events and studio shows to the platform, in YouTube’s endless efforts to gather sports content in one place. But one long-running program didn’t make the move. Despite listings for NFL Primetime Presented by Mucinex, ESPN’s Sunday evening NFL recap show isn’t viewable on YouTube […]
The NFC East Is Inescapable … Because That’s Where All the TVs Are
The Germans have about 30 different words that are designed to convey subtle variations on the theme of “autumnal melancholy,” and one of their true bangers is “Herbststimmung.” Despite the agreeable consonance of that first syllable, this mouthful does not translate to “people on the internet are mad at Kirk Herbstreit’s dog again;” rather, it […]
Pat Ryan Jr., Northwestern’s Stadium Prince, Polishes the New Family Jewel
EVANSTON, Ill. — It’s just after 8 a.m. on a bright blue morning earlier this month, and Pat Ryan Jr. is greeting yet another reporter in a conference room inside Welsh-Ryan Arena, the Northwestern University basketball venue named—like so much else on NU’s suburban Chicago campus—for his family. Over the last year, this particular room […]
LSU’s Tiger Tale Gets Hearing in Oregon State Players Union Bid
Oregon State University, fighting an effort by members of its women’s basketball team to unionize through the Oregon Employment Relations Board (ERB), is trying to argue that athletics is much less influential at OSU than at other schools. And one of the other schools it has specifically sought to contrast itself with is LSU. The […]
Cowboys Eye Star-Like Development Around AT&T Stadium
The Dallas Cowboys’ $2 billion real estate development at The Star, the team’s practice facility in Frisco, Texas, is the envy of sports teams around the country. Now the world’s most valuable sports franchise is looking to run a similar playbook at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Speaking on the latest episode of Sportico Sports Business […]
Sporticast: It’s Fat Bear Week. Where Are the Chicago Bears?
On the 590th Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including Sportico‘s recent list of the highest-paid players in the NFL. First, however, they talk about Fat Bear Week. The viral creation from Alaska’s Katmai National Park & Preserve allows people to vote […]
‘We Blew It.’ Key Dem Hill Staffer Laments Party’s Role in PCSA Passage
There is a long line of people who harbor frustrations—if not outward contempt—for the Protect College Sports Act. But perhaps no one feels its expected passage in the Senate as acutely, or as personally, as Peter Mills. “What has happened in the Senate says so much about what burned me out there,” said Mills, who […]
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