Top 10 Most Valuable Sports Franchises

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1. Dallas Cowboys: $5.7 billion

2. New York Yankees: $5.25 billion

3. New York Knicks: $5 billion

4. Barcelona: $4.76 billion

5. Real Madrid: $4.75 billion

6. Golden State Warriors: $4.7 billion

7. Los Angeles Lakers: $4.6 billion

8. New England Patriots: $4.4 billion

9. New York Giants: $4.3 billion

10. Bayern Munich: $4.21 billion

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According to Forbes' Mike Ozanian, the average value of the 50 most valuable franchises in sports is up 9.9 percent from last year to $3.4 billion. That average value is a remarkable 55 percent higher than it was five years ago.

Each team in the top 10 has seen its value increase by at least 30 percent over the past five years, and the Warriors' value has gone up 147 percent.

Twelfth-ranked Liverpool (165 percent), as well the Los Angeles Rams (176 percent) and Manchester City (108 percent), who are tied for 13th, have gone up substantially as well.

Per Ozanian, NFL teams make up more than half of this year's top 50 with 26 teams on the list, followed by nine NBA teams, nine soccer teams and six MLB teams.

Soccer teams dominated the top of the list from 2010 to 2015, but the Cowboys broke that trend, and the Yankees have been No. 2 on the list in four of the past five years.