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Top 25 Professional soccer clubs worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,727 professional soccer clubs worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 62,936 professional contacts across them, including 9,667 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers professional soccer clubs worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for professional soccer clubs follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest professional soccer clubs worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,134 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Liverpool Football Club was founded in 1892 and is one of the world’s most historic and famous football clubs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,451 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en 1970, le Paris Saint-Germain est le club le plus titré de France et une référence du football européen, consacrée par sa victoire en Ligue des Champions de l’UEFA en 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arsenal Football Club exists to make our fans proud, wherever they are in the world and however they choose to follow us.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,943 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Manchester City FC was initially founded in 1880 as St Mark’s West Gorton and officially became Manchester City FC in 1894.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,725 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FENERBAHÇE SPORTS CLUB, founded in 1907 as a football club in Kadıköy, at the hearth of Istanbul.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,563 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1904, Sport Lisboa e Benfica is the most decorated club in Portugal, and one of the most decorated in Europe, with 83 official trophies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,378 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1897, Juventus is one of the most popular and successful football clubs on the planet, winning a host of domestic, European and international honours, as well as the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,323 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Sporting Clube de Portugal é a maior potência desportiva nacional e uma das maiores a nível internacional, com mais de 20 mil títulos conquistados, 30 taças europeias (em 5…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,211 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bayern Munich, FC Bayern, or simply FCB, is one of Europe's biggest and most successful sports clubs based in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 946 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “River Plate es el club más popular de la República Argentina, con más de socios, más de 20 millones de hinchas en el país y miles en cada rincón del mundo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 836 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FC Porto is an example of excellence, passion and winning spirit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 800 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Everton Football Club is one of world sport's most respected and revered names - a by-word for innovation and professionalism during the course of a glittering history which now…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 708 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bremner, Charles, Gray, Hunter, Charlton, Lorimer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 685 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At the heart and soul of London since 1895 West Ham United is a dynamic, fan-focused football Club constantly moving forward but always with an eye on the past.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 663 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PSV's primary objective attractive, attacking and ambitious football to play at national and European top level.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 642 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Santos Futebol Clube foi fundado por iniciativa de três esportistas da cidade, Francisco Raymundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos e Argemiro de Souza Júnior.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 594 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Miami is the future-a hyperglobal, yet local community fueled by intersection and interconnection.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 560 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nottingham Forest is an English professional football club based at the City Ground in West Bridgford, a suburb of Nottingham.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 533 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1908, Inter is recognised as one of the world's most successful football teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 529 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sediado em Belo Horizonte/MG, o Clube Atlético Mineiro nasceu em 25 de março de 1908, e é um dos clubes mais tradicionais do futebol sul-americano.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 503 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The LA Galaxy are Major League Soccer’s most successful club.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 502 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG is a subsidiary of the parent club, Eintracht Frankfurt e.V.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 490 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The main aspect of our business is the operation of a professional football club.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 477 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rangers Football Club is steeped in tradition, has rich and proud history and is a name that conjures up magical memories in the minds of thousands of supporters across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 459 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1875, Birmingham City Football Club is a proud, historic institution at the heart of English football and the city of Birmingham.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: professional soccer clubs. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names professional soccer clubs.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of professional soccer clubs, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name professional soccer clubs. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Professional soccer clubs worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among professional soccer clubs, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for professional soccer clubs are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “professional soccer clubs”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names professional soccer clubs), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among professional soccer clubs, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 9,667 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Professional soccer clubs by location
11 lists · largest firstEvery Professional soccer clubs list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Professional soccer clubs based in the United States193
- Professional soccer clubs based in France160
- Professional soccer clubs based in the United Kingdom143
- Professional soccer clubs based in Germany123
- Professional soccer clubs based in the Netherlands118
- Professional soccer clubs based in Spain69
- Professional soccer clubs based in Sweden53
- Professional soccer clubs based in Canada44
- Professional soccer clubs based in Brazil39
- Professional soccer clubs based in Norway36
- Professional soccer clubs based in Portugal33
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names professional soccer clubs, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many professional soccer clubs are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,727 professional soccer clubs worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Liverpool Football Club, headquartered in Oth, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most professional soccer clubs?
The United States leads with 193 companies, followed by France (160) and the United Kingdom (143). Every professional soccer clubs list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most professional soccer clubs?
London leads with 15 headquartered companies, followed by Madrid (8) and Barcelona (6).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 9,667 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,727 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.