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World championship finalists ranked by first top-flight football league title

Football clubs with a transfer value of at least $100 million are included in the list. Football is known as the most popular sport in the world and the football clubs with the highest transfer values have millions of fans. Several winners of the FIFA Club World Cup, the world championship for football clubs, are in the list. A few clubs in the list are non-European. The best European clubs benefit a lot from the UEFA Champions League, the European championship for football clubs. The UEFA Champions League is the continental club championship with the highest prize money. Numerous UEFA Champions League matches were watched by hundreds of millions of television viewers from all over the world.

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* Capital: Accra
* GDP per capita: $1,000
* Population: 30 million

Sports clubs with an average home league attendance of at least 20,000

* Address: Shijiazhuang
* Country: China
* Capacity: 60,000
* Opened: 30 July 2017
* Main use: Football
* Tenants: Shijiazhuang Ever Bright (football)

Extra stadium info – Hebei Olympic Sports Centre Stadium

Shijiazhang Ever Bright use the Hebei Olympic Sports Centre Stadium, which is also used for athletics, for home games. They were founded under a different name. Shijiazhang Ever Bright drew an average attendance of 25,000 in 15 home games in their first-ever domestic top-flight football league season. They became one of the first Chinese sports clubs with 100,000 followers on their main social media page.

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* Address: Asaba
* Country: Nigeria
* Capacity: 22,000
* Opened: 2018
* Main use: Football
* Tenants:

Extra stadium info – Stephen Keshi Stadium

The stadium, which is also used for athletics, is named after Stephen Okechukwu Keshi. He was a football player and a football manager. Stephen Keshi played numerous matches for the national football team of Nigeria.

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* Address: Pachuca
* Country: Mexico
* Capacity: 27,000
* Opened: 14 February 1993
* Main use: Football
* Tenants: CF Pachuca (football)

Extra stadium info – Estadio Hidalgo

Tenants Club de Fútbol Pachuca are the tenants of the stadium. They are nicknamed Los Tuzos (The Gophers). CF Pachuca were founded in 1901 under a different name by English emigrant miners. In 1999, they were crowned Mexican football champions for the first time in their history. In 2002, CF Pachuca won the North American championship for football clubs for the first time in their history. They played various FIFA Club World Cup matches.

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* Address: Székesfehérvár
* Country: Hungary
* Capacity: 14,000
* Opened: 21 November 2018
* Main use: Football
* Tenants: MOL Vidi (football)

Extra stadium info – MOL Aréna Sóstó

Tenants MOL Vidi Football Club were founded in 1941 under a different name. They won the Hungarian top-flight football league in 2011 for the first time in their history.

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* Address: Changchun
* Country: China
* Capacity: 38,000
* Opened:
* Main use: Football
* Tenants: Changchun Yatai (football)

Extra stadium info – Changchun Stadium

The stadium is known as the home of football club Changchun Yatai. They were founded in 1996. In 2006, Changchun Yatai finished fourth place in their first-ever Chinese top division season. One year later, the club won the Chinese top-flight football league for the first time in their history. Changchun Yatai became the first sports club from Jilin with 1 million followers on their main social media page.

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Social media

Sports clubs with at least 10 million followers on their main social media page

Football champions

Football clubs with at least one FIFA Club World Cup title