NFL Football Is Back: Who Has The Best Credit Stats?

ALLENTOWN, Pa., Sept. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Creditsafe, the world's most-used supplier of online company credit reports, today released interesting insight into the financial stability of the 32 teams in the National Football League. What started off as a little office fun, transformed into a project to identify whether or not there was a correlation between off-field interests and on-field success. Looking at the relationship between a team's total number of Super Bowl wins and its credit rating, the study revealed the team with the greatest number of Super Bowl wins does not have the best credit rating.

To date, the Pittsburgh Steelers have the greatest number of Super Bowl wins followed by the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers. According to Creditsafe's research, despite the Pittsburgh Steelers' six Super Bowl Championships and the Dallas Cowboys' five, it takes both organizations much longer to pay their bills than the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers, who also have five Super Bowl wins, pay their bills on or before the due date.  By contrast, the Steelers pay their bills an average of four days beyond the due date, while the Cowboys pay their bills an average of 47 days past the due date (this is second only to the San Diego Chargers paying 65 beyond terms).

"In some sports such as baseball we see a direct link between the number of championships and the financial health of the organization. The New York Yankees are the most winning team in baseball and they also pay their bills the fastest resulting in the top credit rating," explained Matthew Debbage, CEO of Creditsafe USA and Asia. "With football, this simply isn't the case."

The Creditsafe study looked at the three most popular sports in the United States — basketball, football and baseball. The only sport where the number of championships correlates to the financial health of the team is baseball. "In basketball, the team with the greatest number of championships—the Boston Celtics—pays its bills on time but has a credit rating of less than 25," explained Debbage. "Clearly being at the top of the sport, doesn't guarantee having the top financials."

In looking at the three sports, the one with the highest credit rating is baseball with an average rating of 54.45 across all of the teams in the league.  This is followed by football with an average rating of 42.07 and basketball with an average rating of 36.57.

Creditsafe's global database is one of the most rapidly expanding in the industry and also one of the most comprehensive. Each day over 200,000 users around the world leverage the company's database. Creditsafe's database is updated over a million times a day with information gathered from thousands of sources. In 99.9% of the cases, reports requested by customers are delivered instantly.  Over forty percent of Creditsafe's customers, leverage the company's internationally reporting capabilities.

About Creditsafe:

Creditsafe is changing the way business information is used by providing high quality data in an easy to use format that everyone in an organization can benefit from. As the most used supplier of online company credit reports globally, Creditsafe has over 200,000 customers accessing world class business intelligence on more than 230 million companies worldwide.

Privately owned and independently minded, Creditsafe was launched in Norway in 1997 and is today the fastest growing company in the credit information sector. Globally, Creditsafe employs over 1,500 people and has 16 offices across 12 countries including the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and the USA.  In 2013, the Creditsafe Group opened offices in the U.S. under the name Creditsafe USA. Its U.S. operations are headquartered in Allentown, Pa. with another facility in Phoenix, AZ.

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