Professional sports are one of the most lucrative businesses in the world. Individual teams in the top sports leagues can be worth billions of dollars. The owning of a professional sports team has come to be a status symbol among the mega rich. A number of the world’s billionaires have chosen to spend their money on buying sports teams. From the NBA to the English Premier League, and from the NHL to the NFL, some of the world’s richest have stakes in the biggest teams across the globe.
Here are the top 10 richest sports billionaires in the world.
| Rank | Name | Net Worth |
| 1. | Steve Ballmer | $93.5 billion |
| 2. | Mukesh Ambani | $91.4 billion |
| 3. | François Pinault | $36.3 billion |
| 4. | Daniel Gilbert | $18.8 billion |
| 5. | Dietrich Mateschitz | $16.2 billion |
| 6. | David Tepper | $15.5 billion |
| 7. | Robert Pera | $13.8 billion |
| 8. | Philip Anschutz | $13.3 billion |
| 9. | Steve Cohen | $12.1 billion |
| 10. | Masayoshi Son | $11.7 billion |
