FORBES: Red Bulls are 5th Most Valuable Team in MLS

By: Dave Martinez | September 9th, 2008

In their inaugaral valuation of Major League Soccer, the Red Bulls rounded up the top five most valuable teams in the league.

Here is how they stand, per Forbes:

Value: $36 million

Revenue: $10 million

Operating Income: -$4.5 million

The Red Bulls hope their days as a small fish in the big New York sports pond will be over once they begin play at Red Bulls Arena in Harrison, N.J., next year. The Austrian energy drink giant is betting big on a turnaround: paying $150 million for the team, its naming rights and construction costs since 2006.

The top five are as follows:

1 - LA
2 - TFC
3 - Chicago
4 - Dallas (really?!?!)
5 - Red Bulls

Dead last? Kansas City (San Jose is not included in this list)

So what do you think of their position at 5th? Or their negative operating income? Share, share, share . . .

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• BMatthews |  September 9th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

  
  
  

  1- They have Becks and Landycakes (now with nuts!). No shock there.
  2- Canadians don’t have options.
  3- Really? I guess that makes sense, they win things and Toyota park is pretty sweet (so I hear).
  4- If you said which team from Texas is here I’d say Houston. Its way closer to Mexico (I guarantee that Hispanic population correlates well with financial value…and no I don’t have time to figure this out) and they’re champs back to back.
  5- Red Bull should be 3rd at worst, but the team just hasn’t won anything. Its actually pretty embarrassing that NYRB doesn’t make money hand over fist (Praying Harrison draws fans).

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• Dave Martinez |  September 10th, 2008 at 5:26 am

  
  
  

  I was shocked by Dallas as well. And I agree whole heartedly that RBNY should be somewhere in the top three. TFC, I understand. LA and their cakes with nuts, understandable. But the Fire? Dallas? NY trumps them by name alone. Hopefully, next year, this list will include a bump for the energy drinkers.

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• mike. |  September 10th, 2008 at 5:57 am

  
  
  

  Go L.A. and Toronto! Not too shabby for two LAST PLACE TEAMS!!

  That’s right.

  I went there.

  ^_^>

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• Dave Martinez |  September 10th, 2008 at 6:10 am

  
  
  

  Mike - you made me openly chuckle at work. 3 pts!

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• Melissa |  September 10th, 2008 at 8:59 am

  
  
  

  You know, a friend who worked over at Gap Corporate explained a lot of how companies are valued and it’s all pretty speculative and their actual financial worth is just a leetle bitty part of the whole criteria. With that in mind, the list makes more sense cause you can say #1 Beckham, #2 crazy obsessive fans #3 uh, yeah, I got nothing #4 huh?

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