The famous SportsPro magazine in its july issue had published the Top 200 world's valuable sporting properties. The youngest among the list is IPL which is a 2 year old event is unbelivelbily ranked 6th in th list, worth $ 1.6 billion. Unsurprisingly the FIFA world cup occcupies 5th position with a value of $ 1.7 billion. Being just 1 position down to FIFA world cup is a very big achievement for IPL.
The top four places are filled by the American sporting properties:
National Football League (NFL) at $ 4.5 billion. It is followed by Major League Baseball (MLB) at $ 3.9 billion, the National Basketball Association (NBA) at $ 3.35 billion and Nascar stock car racing at $ 1.9 billion.
The Ferrari Formula One team (7th) at a value of $ 1.55 billion is followed by Manchester United Football Club (8th) at $ 1.495 billion. Dallas Cowboys (10th), with the NFL team valued at $ 1.278 billion.