Colorado Rapids

The money at Colorado Rapids: what it pays its players, what it is worth and who owns it, and what it is paid. The club's games, rosters and history are at soccerstats.us.

Pay

Payroll by season

season players total pay highest paid pay
2026 30 $14,127,613 Paxten Aaronson $2,228,063
2025 30 $14,631,857 Paxten Aaronson $2,228,063
2024 28 $14,435,426 Kevin Cabral $1,950,000
2023 33 $14,496,437 Kevin Cabral $1,800,000
2022 32 $10,570,955 Gyasi Zardes $1,550,000
2021 34 $9,890,085 Younes Namli $1,271,000
2020 28 $7,659,405 Younes Namli $1,171,000
2019 28 $8,599,994 Tim Howard $2,475,000
2018 29 $9,741,571 Tim Howard $2,475,000
2017 26 $8,256,505 Tim Howard $2,475,000
2016 27 $8,662,788 Tim Howard $2,575,000
2015 29 $5,050,909 Kevin Doyle $1,170,000
2014 29 $3,514,300 Edson Buddle $325,000
2013 30 $3,500,513 Marvell Wynne $285,000
2012 28 $3,381,886 Conor Casey $400,000
2011 30 $3,173,079 Conor Casey $400,000
2010 25 $2,710,114 Conor Casey $350,000
2009 25 $2,430,120 Pablo Mastroeni $300,500
2008 29 $2,515,950 Christian Gómez $430,000
2007 29 $2,281,303 Pablo Mastroeni $298,000

Pay is guaranteed compensation where the source gives it and base salary where it does not. Total pay sums it across every player on record that season.

Transfers

season player from to move fee up to kind reported sources
2026 Lucas Herrington Colorado Rapids Hull City out $17M $23M cash 1
2026 Rafael Navarro Colorado Rapids Saint Louis City SC within MLS $12M $12.25M cash 1
2026 Morgan Whittaker Middlesbrough Colorado Rapids in $10.7M — cash 1
2026 Sayed Abu Farkhi Maccabi Tel Aviv Colorado Rapids in $6M — cash 1
2026 Cole Bassett Colorado Rapids Portland Timbers within MLS $2.65M $3.7M cash 1
2026 Georgi Minoungou Seattle Sounders Colorado Rapids within MLS $2M — allocation money 1
2026 Lucas Herrington Brisbane Roar Colorado Rapids in $1M — cash 1
2026 Dante Sealy CF Montréal Colorado Rapids within MLS — $2.5M allocation money 1
2025 Djordje Mihailovic Colorado Rapids Toronto FC within MLS $8M $9M cash 1 2
2025 Paxten Aaronson Eintracht Frankfurt Colorado Rapids in $7M $8.5M cash 1 2
2025 Josh Atencio Seattle Sounders Colorado Rapids within MLS — $1.6M allocation money 1
2025 Ted Ku-DiPietro D.C. United Colorado Rapids within MLS — $1.4M cash 1
2024 Moïse Bombito Colorado Rapids OGC Nice out $7.7M $10.7M cash 1 2
2024 Djordje Mihailovic AZ Colorado Rapids in $3M — cash 1
2022 Kellyn Acosta Colorado Rapids Los Angeles FC within MLS $1.1M $1.5M allocation money 1

Fees paid and received, as reported; nearly all are press estimates. Every transfer on record.

Value & ownership

Valuations

Forbes Sportico $20M $50M $100M $200M $500M 2008 Forbes: $31,000,000 2013 Forbes: $76,000,000 2015 Forbes: $105,000,000 2016 Forbes: $110,000,000 2017 Forbes: $135,000,000 2018 Forbes: $155,000,000 2019 Forbes: $190,000,000 2023 Forbes: $350,000,000 2024 Forbes: $400,000,000 2025 Forbes: $415,000,000 2026 Forbes: $450,000,000 2021 Sportico: $370,000,000 2022 Sportico: $400,000,000 2024 Sportico: $460,000,000 2025 Sportico: $475,000,000 2026 Sportico: $480,000,000 2026 2024 2022 2020 2018 2016 2014 2012 2010 2008 2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 1996

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Estimated value by year, with any expansion fee and sale, on a logarithmic scale: each gridline step is a doubling or more. A line joins only consecutive years, so a year with no list is a gap.
season publisher rank value revenue operating income sources
2026 Forbes 28 $450,000,000 $50,000,000 -$8,000,000 1 2
2026 Sportico 28 $480,000,000 $47,000,000 — 1 2
2025 Forbes 29 $415,000,000 $42,000,000 -$8,000,000 1 2
2025 Sportico 27 $475,000,000 $45,000,000 — 1 2
2024 Forbes 29 $400,000,000 $38,000,000 -$5,000,000 1 2
2024 Sportico 28 $460,000,000 $42,000,000 — 1 2
2023 Forbes 28 $350,000,000 $33,000,000 -$5,000,000 1 2
2022 Sportico 27 $400,000,000 $33,000,000 — 1 2
2021 Sportico 27 $370,000,000 — — 1 2
2019 Forbes 24 $190,000,000 $18,000,000 -$5,000,000 1 2
2018 Forbes 23 $155,000,000 $18,000,000 -$6,000,000 1 2
2017 Forbes 19 $135,000,000 $19,000,000 -$6,000,000 1 2
2016 Forbes 20 $110,000,000 $16,000,000 -$4,000,000 1 2
2015 Forbes 18 $105,000,000 $15,000,000 -$3,000,000 1 2
2013 Forbes 15 $76,000,000 $18,100,000 -$2,900,000 1 2
2008 Forbes 8 $31,000,000 $11,000,000 -$2,200,000 1

Estimates, not sale prices. Forbes values the team alone, its revenue and operating income are for the season before the list; Sportico includes the team's real estate and related businesses. Every club's valuations.

Ownership

operator from to note sources
Anschutz Entertainment Group 1995 2003 1 2
Kroenke Sports & Entertainment 2003 present 1 2
year seller buyer stake price club valued at note sources
2003 Anschutz Entertainment Group Kroenke Sports Enterprises — — — terms not found 1

Every club's ownership, sales and expansion fees.

Revenue

Sponsorships

sponsor named seasons a year in all note sources
Dick's Sporting Goods Dick's Sporting Goods Park 2007– $2,000,000 — about $2M a year 1

Figures are as reported, mostly press estimates; one in grey italics is worked out from the other figure and the deal's length. Seasons are the first and last the deal covers. Sources are numbered links to the reports. Every club's sponsorships.