While Arsenal’s exit from the Champions League and missing out on the Premier League title to Liverpool have been a blow for the Gunners, the club’s now regular battles for silverware have contributed to a significant growth in valuation.
were beaten over two legs by Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals of the Champions League, meaning the long wait for glory in European football’s most prized, and most lucrative knockout tournament goes on.
But recent seasons have seen Arsenal edge closer to domestic and European glory, and that access to the major pots of Champions League prize money and the additional revenue, such as matchday revenue, has significantly improved the financial situation of the football club, with revenue up 55% from 2019, with 2024’s figure standing at a record high of £614m.
The return to being a force on the pitch has the knock-on effect of improving the overall value of the club which owner Stan Kroenke and his Kroenke Sports and Entertainment firm took a majority stake in back in September 2018 for a £1.8bn sum, has seen the club take up seventh spot on the global list, according to 2025 valuations from earlier this week.
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Sportico's valuation methodology takes into account various factors including historical sales, market size and interest, brand strength, on-field performance, lease terms, debt burden, additional obligations, and future economic expectations.
Arsenal leapfrogged their Champions League conquerors, PSG, in the list with a valuation for 2025 pegged at $4.49bn (£3.38bn) compared to the $3.91bn (£2.94bn) that it stood at 12 months prior on the same Sportico list.
That represented a year-on-year increase of £440m, almost 15%, and a rise of £1.58bn (88%) from when Kroenke acquired full control of the football club seven years ago. Recent seasons have accelerated that growth, and the in the near future will add to that valuation again.
Arsenal are an investible proposition despite some investors pulling back on putting money into European football of late due to macroeconomic factors and declining broadcast revenues in some markets.
The gains seen across the 2025 list were aided considerably by the strength of the British pound (up 6%) and the Euro (5%) against last year’s valuations.
Manchester United (£4.59bn) were knocked off top spot by Real Madrid (£4.92bn), with the Red Devils seeing an annual decline of 2%, something not helped by poor performance, major redundancies and an ageing Old Trafford still in need of a solid plan on when work will begin on a proposed new 100,000-seater stadium.
Of the other English clubs to be higher than Arsenal, Liverpool (£4.19bn) sat fourth while Manchester City occupied sixth spot (£3.89bn).
There is little sign of, or requirement for Kroenke and KSE to divest their interest in the Gunners, and with plenty of road left to travel, and the club focused on growing other areas of the business, such as the revamping and improvement of the Emirates to create new revenue streams, and removing reliance on broadcast revenues, room for growth exists, and clubs are looking at futureproofing themselves financially given the the changing dynamic of broadcast rights may impact things negatively in the longer term.
