Market cap of NFTs from soccer clubs on November 30, 2022

Out of the big soccer clubs worldwide that offer fan tokens, Paris Saint-Germain's market cap was over 20 million U.S. dollars higher than that of FC Barcelona. Fan tokens from the Catalan club became especially popular in April 2021 after they were listed on crypto trading platform Binance - explaining the sudden growth in market cap around that time. The market cap increase for PSG is less clear, although there have been reports that Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi received "a large amount of" cryptocurrency fan tokens as a signing on fee at the French club. Regardless, fan tokens - or NFTs issued by sports clubs that grant owners special perks or give them (limited) ownership over their favorite team, and can be bought and traded like cryptocurrencies - became increasingly popular in 2021. This development originally started in Italy to spread to Spain and Turkey, with AS Roma and Manchester City becoming the latest clubs to join in this trend.