Niners Nation
The San Francisco 49ers have generally been one of the most valuable franchises in the NFL, and that hasn’t changed in 2025. In their annual NFL valuations, Sportico ranked the 49ers as the fifth-most valuable franchise in the league, stemming only behind the Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Rams, New York Giants, and the New England Patriots.
The 49ers came in at an $8.6 billion valuation, which is a 25 percent increase from 2024, while maintaining their top-five ranking.
According to Sportico’s Kurt Badenhausen, the 49ers led the NFL in ticket sales for the third consecutive year, generating $176 million in net gate receipts from general seating and club seating after local taxes, outpacing the Cowboys and other teams by $40 million.
Here’s the full Top 10 with valuations in 2025:
1. Dallas Cowboys: $12.8 billion
2. Los Angeles Rams: $10.43 billion
3. New York Giants: $10.25 billion
4. New England Patriots: $8.76 billion
5. San Francisco 49ers: $8.6 billion
6. Philadelphia Eagles: $8.43 billion
7. Miami Dolphins: $8.25 billion
8. New York Jets: $8.11 billion
9. Las Vegas Raiders: $7.9 billion
10. Washington Commanders: $7.47 billion
Inside the top 10, the 49ers had the third-highest one-year value change at 25 percent, trailing only the Rams and the Patriots, who each saw a 34 percent growth in valuation from 2024.
A major change in the NFL this past year was allowing teams to have institutional investors, which finally came about 12 months ago. And the early returns have been clearly positive, with the average NFL team now being worth $7.13 billion, about 20 percent higher than in 2024.
The 49ers saw this happen, as a group of investors bought a 6.2 percent stake earlier this year at an evaluation of $8.6 billion, which broke a record set last year when a minority stake in the Eagles was sold at an $8.3 billion evaluation.
“The 49ers have sold 6.2% of the club at an $8.6B valuation, sources said, setting a high-water mark for sports team valuations. The deal was one of four minority team stakes approved by owners today at the league meeting outside Minneapolis,“ Sports Business Journal’s Ben Fischer wrote in May. ”Before the San Francisco deal, the highest known valuation of an NFL club in a completed transaction was $8.3B for the Eagles late last year. None of these deals approved [back in May] affect operating control of the franchises.
“The new LPs in San Francisco include: 3.1% to Vinod Khosla, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and managing director of Khosla Ventures, and his son, Neal, CEO and founder of a health tech firm Curai; 2.1% to Bessemer Venture Partners partner Byron Deeter and his wife, Allison, and 1% to ICONIQ Capital partner Will Griffith and his wife, Calla. CEO Jed York and his family would still control about 91% of the 49ers.”
However, from a net profit standpoint, the 49ers did rank last at $80 million, despite being first in ticket sales, which Sportico connected to the team’s high...
