NFL Revenue Reportedly Passes $23B in Latest Fiscal Year, Teams to Receive $416M

The NFL had an extremely profitable season in 2024.

Per Sports Business Journal's Ben Fischer, CFO Christine Dorfler told owners and executives at league meetings last week that the league brought in more than $23 billion in total revenue in the just-completed fiscal year.

Teams were also told they will receive a $416 million distribution from the league’s national media, sponsorship and licensing revenue. That figure is up 8.9 percent from last year's $382 million.

The $416 million teams will receive is also significantly more than the record $279.2 million salary cap for the 2025 season.

Fischer noted that the numbers the Green Bay Packers will report this summer "may account for this distribution differently" and shouldn't be compared to those reported by the NFL.

According to Fischer, Dorfler warned that growth in the future could become more difficult for several reasons. Because the league is entering the third year of its media rights package, "steep growth will be hard to come by without something big happening."

Though there's no immediate plan for how the league will generate growth in the coming years, there are a handful of ideas in the works that could come to fruition. The biggest is the prospect of an 18-game schedule.

The NFL can also opt out of many of its current broadcast deals after the 2029 season and could potentially get much more lucrative deals if it is playing an 18-game season by then. One thing standing in the way of the 18-game schedule is the current collective bargaining agreement, which expires in 2031.

According to Fischer, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in 2010 set a goal of hitting $25 billion in total revenue by 2027. While the league could be heading for a few years with little growth, that goal is still well within reach.