Football, a business present in the stock market. For decades, football has left the sentimental factor aside and has drawn up its strategy from a business point of view. Such was the exponential growth of this sport that business that already At the end of the 1990s, several of the main European clubs made the leap to the parquet floor..
Although Most of the football teams whose value fluctuates on the main stock exchanges are EuropeanThere are several cases outside the Old Continent, such as the Chinese Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao or the Mexican Club América, among others.
These European clubs are spread unevenly across the world’s stock markets: Ajax Amsterdam and Borussia Dortmund fluctuate on the Frankfurt stock exchange, while Galatasaray FC, Besiktas, Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor do the same on the Istanbul stock exchange. In Spain, Intercity FC is present on the BME Growth; in Lisbon, Porto FC, Sporting de Portugal and Benfica; and in Milan, Lazio FC and Juventus Turin. Manchester United FC and Celtic Glasgow are also present, among others.
Euronext Amsterdam y Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Ajax Amsterdam, which plays in the Eredivise, and Borussia Dortmund, which plays in the Bundesliga, are the two football teams whose value fluctuates on Euronext Amsterdam and the Frankfurt (Germany) stock exchange, respectively.
The Dutch team was he first team to be listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchangealso known as Euronext Amsterdam. On May 11, 1998, it entered the stock market with an opening value of approximately 13.80 euros. Currently, its shares are traded at approximately 10.30 euros.
For its part, Borussia Dortmund went public in 2000 The company’s shares currently have a nominal market value of 3.63 euros, while its market capitalisation is around 500 million euros. Its peak was in October 2018, when it reached 1 billion euros. It is the only German football team that is listed on the stock exchange.
Borsa Istanbul (Bist)
Galatasaray FC, The Turkish team from Istanbul is listed on the stock exchange in Istanbul, alongside Besiktas, Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor. Its shares are currently trading at around 8.62 Turkish liras (0.24 euros) per share. Its market capitalisation is around 9.245 billion Turkish liras (260 million euros).
BME Growth
Intercity CFa team from Alicante that plays in the First Federation, went public in 2021, being one of the most recent clubs to fluctuate on the trading floor. It became a pioneer in the Spanish scene, being the first, and until now the only Spanish sports club to be listed on the stock exchange. Currently, the market value of its shares is around 0.031 euros and 0.029 euros.
London Stock Exchange
Tottenham Hotspur FC was the first football team in the world to officially make its move to the courtin 1983. Its shares range between nine pounds (10.70 euros) and ten pounds (11.95 euros) per share, while its market capitalisation amounts to 650 million pounds sterling (773 million euros).
For its part, Celitc Glasgowa Scottish team based in the Parkhead area, which is also listed on the London Stock Exchange, began doing so in 1995, and is the only one in his country. Its shares are currently valued at between £138.6 (€165) and £147 (€175), making it one of the clubs with the highest share prices on the continent.
Euronext Lisboa
Oporto FC The club entered the stock market in 1989, trading on the Euronext exchange in Lisbon alongside Sporting de Portugal. Its shares fluctuate between 1.03 euros and 1.7 euros. Sporting de Portugal entered the stock market that same year and its shares are valued at around 0.945 euros.
In 2007, Benfica followed in the footsteps of the other two big Portuguese clubs, betting that its value would fluctuate on the market in the Portuguese capital in 2007. Currently, its capitalisation is just under 75 million euros and its shares are valued at around three euros.
Euronext Paris
Olympique Lyon FC is the only football club to have entered the French parquet (since 2007). It is one of the few football clubs listed on the stock exchange and one of the most important in Ligue 1, having managed to win for seven consecutive years between 2001 and 2008. The Frenchman Jean-Michel Aulas is its largest shareholder, although since 2016 it has shared ownership with the Chinese group IDG. Currently, the price of its shares is close to two euros per share.
Financial Times Stock Exchange Milano
There are two Serie A clubs listed on the Italian stock market, although until 2022 there were three. Lazio FC was the first Italian club to be listed on the stock market, in 1995. Up to twenty million shares were put on the market at a price of 5,900 Italian lire at the time, which corresponds to 3.05 euros today. The shares have now fallen to 0.73 euros.
Juventus of Turin went public in 2001, becoming One of the first clubs to take to the court in the 21st century. Today, its shares are trading at between 2.24 euros and 2.28 euros.
For its part, AS Roma began to fluctuate on the Milan Stock Exchange in 2018, although four years later, in 2022, it left the stock marketafter the club yellow and red formalized its exclusion from the Stock Exchange following the Public Acquisition Offer (OPA) promoted by the current American owners, the Friedkin Group.
New York Stock Exchange
Although there is no club in Major League Soccer (MLS) that has made the leap to the court, Manchester United FC, de la Premier League, I enter on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012.
Its owners at the time, Joel and Avram Glazer, are Americans, so they decided to take the plunge on the stock market in their home country. Jim Ratcliffe, the English billionaire and current owner of the Old Trafford club, has not announced any changes in this regard.
Its shares are currently trading at sixteen dollars. It has also closed the last few months with a market capitalization of around 2.7 billion dollars, with almost 170,000 shares in circulation.
Rest of bags
Denmark has five publicly traded teams: Aalborg Boldspilklub, AGF Aarhus, Brondby IF B, Parken Sport and Silkeborg. Sweden and Macedonia also have their own clubs that have made the leap to the market: the Swedish AIK Stockholm and the Macedonian Teteks ad Tetovo. In the first case, it is the holding company AIK Fotboll AB that is listed on the Swedish stock exchange, Nasdaq Stockholm, under the symbol AIK.STwhile Teteks ad Tetovo does the same on the Macedonian Stock Exchange.
Besides, Guangzhou Evergrande Taobaoin China, began trading on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2015, becoming the First Asian team to go publicIts shares are priced at around 0.16 Chinese yuan (0.020 euros).
Club América, based in Mexico City, is added to the list, which entered the market under the company name Ollamani on last February on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). It became the first Mexican soccer team to have its value fluctuate on the stock market. The shares have an initial price of 2.59 Mexican pesos (0.15 euros), one of the lowest on the BMV.
