Comments on: Indian IPL Teams Now Worth More than English Premier League Clubs

By: Chris Devonshire-Ellis

Chris Devonshire-Ellis — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:18:05 +0000

@Arnav, thanks for those figures, fascinating reading. However we don’t manipulate the amounts, and you’ve included only the top four most successful English teams. I may add that EPL teams also have a proven long term fan base, which IPL teams have yet to develop. Whichever way you look at it, the financial value of IPL teams has grown tremendously in a very short period. – Chris

By: arnav

arnav — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:49:18 +0000

Youre figures about the premier league clubs are wrong and misleading. Firstly, chelsea was bought for 190 million usd in 2003, u cannot compare those to the 2011 figures of the ipl teams. Also if u check the valuation of the clubs they are almost double then most ipl team, if not more. And the liverpool sale had a background story which you have not mentioned. Forbes had valued it at 822 million usd at that time, it was taken over at that price due to different circumstances.

If you wanted to publish facts these would have been your figures:

Here’s how Forbes values some of the top EPL teams currently (US$ Millions):

Manchester United – $ 1800 m
Arsenal – $ 1200 m
Liverpool – $ 1050 m
Chelsea – $ 764 m

While, just the brand valuations of the current IPL franchises looks as follows (US$ Millions):

Kolkata Knight Riders – 42.1
Mumbai Indians – 41.6
Rajasthan Royals – 39.5
Chennai Super Kings – 39.4
Delhi Daredevils – 39.2
Royal Challengers Bangalore – 37.4
Kings XI Punjab – 36.3
Deccan Chargers – 34.8

I know where your coming from but this manipulation of figures to prove a point is not the way to go about it.

By: Jagrati

Jagrati — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:25:44 +0000

EPL is running from 1888 and IPL is just 2-3 years old…..EPL is much better, IPL is nothing in front of it and also EPL is more famous around the world and is played by almost every country

By: harshit

harshit — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:23:19 +0000

one thing to be noted is that ipl has started just 2-3 years back whereas various football clubs and entities are present for so long. ipl will grow with time and indian economy and audience has enough strength to challenge any world based league or sport single-handedly…

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:41:19 +0000

I agree that Test cricket is the “real thing”.

20/20 however seems to be bringing in the crowds and also apparently a lot of mullah

Cheers,
Carlos.

By: Chris Devonshire-Ellis

Chris Devonshire-Ellis — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:14:20 +0000

The IPL format with limited overs is almost guaranted to make most matches reach a thrilling finale, obviously the concept suits a TV audience very well. the last season saw matches played just after the English Premiership soccer matches had been played, meaning guys were speaning the full half day in the pub with mates, watching Premiership on the TV first, then IPL directly after. Alomost a double header. Its certainly a great way to boost ad revenues, no wonder the IPL is rolling in money. However no all are happy; most of our Indian employees are keen cricketers and regard the IPL as a kids version – if you want REAL cricket, they suggest, it still doesn’t get any better than a test match stretched out over five days….but for sure the TV version of IPL is here to stay. – Thanks Chris

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:05:53 +0000

Chris,
On a recent holiday in the US, I was on a Cosmos Tour which included several Englishmen and Australians. Quite a number of them followed IPL fervently. They knew much more about the players (like Pollard and Morgan) than I did (I am from Bombay).
Cheers,
Carlos.

By: rahul

rahul — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:44:03 +0000

ipl is getting bigger than epl but pakistanis are getting jealous because they were snubbed in ipl auction.cricket was nothing but ipl has given a new image.

By: Chris Devonshire-Ellis

Chris Devonshire-Ellis — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:17:27 +0000

Well it’s Mumbai Indians vs. Chennai Super Kings in the final of the IPL, to be played this Sunday. Some expectations of the highest ever TV viewing audience in India. Let’s see what happens. Dezan Shira & Associates have offices in both Mumbai and Chennai so we have some inter-offcie rivalry going on at present.

By: rajesh.k.c

rajesh.k.c — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:16:12 +0000

Coming years will prove the power of indian economy on the basis of IPL .This is true, defenitly you all are going to compare