List of owners of English football clubs

A list of all owners with a significant interest (a stake above 10%) within English football clubs: including their estimated net worth and sources of wealth.

Premier League

ClubOwner(s)Estimated
combined
net worth
Source of wealth
Arsenal
(more information)
Stan Kroenke[1]$12.9B[2]Commercial property
Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
Walmart
Aston Villa
(more information)
V Sports[3]$17.9B[4][5]Investment and Industry

Fortress Investment Group

Comcast[6]

Bournemouth William P. Foley[7]$1.6B[8]Fidelity National Financial

Vegas Golden Knights

Brentford Matthew Benham[9]$280M[10]Gambling firms
Brighton & Hove Albion Tony Bloom (75.61%)[11]$1.3B[12]Online Gambling, Property, Land Development & Investments
Chelsea
(more information)
Clearlake Capital Group (Behdad Eghbali and Jose Feliciano)

Todd Boehly

Hansjorg Wyss

Mark Walter[13][14]

$15.8B[15][16][17]Investment consortium

Los Angeles Dodgers

Crystal Palace Steve Parish (10.74%)
Josh Harris (18%)
David Blitzer (18%)

John Textor (40%)[18][19]

$5.5B[20]Private equity
Everton
(more information)
Farhad Moshiri (94%)[21]$2.9B[22]Steel and energy
Theatre production
Fulham
(more information)
Shahid Khan[23]$7.9B[24]Flex-N-Gate Corp (automobile parts manufacturer)
Jacksonville Jaguars
All Elite Wrestling
Ipswich Town Gamechanger 20 Ltd.American Pension Fund
Leicester City The Srivaddhanaprabha Family[25]$3.5B[26]King Power International Group
Liverpool
(more information)
John W. Henry

Tom Werner[27]

$9.8B[28]Fenway Sports Group
Manchester City
(more information)
Abu Dhabi United Group (81%)[29]

Silver Lake (18%)

China Media Capital and CITIC Group (1%)[30][31]

$16.8B[32][nb 1]Sovereign wealth

Investments

Manchester United
(more information)
Glazer Family (51.75%)[33][34]

Sir Jim Ratcliffe (27.7%)

$24.9B[35][36]First Allied Corporation, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Ineos Group

Newcastle United
(more information)
Public Investment Fund (80%) (state-owned)
RB Sports & Media (14%)
PCP Capital Partners (6%)
$620B[37][nb 2]Sovereign wealth
Nottingham Forest Evangelos Marinakis$620M[38]Capital Maritime & Trading Corp
Southampton Sport Republic (80%)[39]
Katharina Liebherr (20%)
$1.3B[40]United Group
Inheritance
Tottenham Hotspur
(more information)
Family of Joe Lewis (60%)
Daniel Levy (25%)[41]
$5.8B[42][43]Currency Trading
West Ham United
(more information)
David Sullivan[44]
Daniel Kretinsky
Vanessa Gold[45]
$10.3B[46][47][48]Daily Sport, Sunday Sport
EPH
Wolverhampton Wanderers Guo Guangchang[49]
Liang Xinjun
Wang Qunbin
$6.9B[50][51][52]Fosun International[nb 3]

EFL Championship

ClubOwner(s)Estimated
combined
net worth
Source of wealth
Blackburn Rovers Anuradha Jitendra Desai

Banda Venkatesh Rao

Banda Balaji Rao[53]

$2B[54]Venkateshwara Hatcheries Group
Bristol City Stephen Lansdown$2.6B[55]Hargreaves Lansdown
Burnley Alan Pace (50.38%)ALK Capital LLC
Cardiff City Vincent Tan (51%)[56]$750M[57]Berjaya Group
Coventry City Doug King (100%) [58]YELO Enterprises, RCMA Capital
Derby County David Clowes[59]£252m[60]Property development
Hull City Acun IlıcalıAcun Medya
Leeds United York Family[61][62][63]$5.1B[64]San Francisco 49ers, DeBartolo Corporation
Luton Town Luton Town Football Club 2020 LimitedSupporter-owned
Middlesbrough Steve Gibson$263M[65]Bulkhaul Limited
Millwall John Berylson
Richard Smith[66]
$175M[67]Chestnut Hill Ventures
Norwich City (more information) Delia Smith and

Michael Wynn-Jones (53%)

Mark Attanasio (18%)[68]

$30M[69]Food industry

PublishingPoultry

Oxford United Erick Thohir

Anindya Bakrie

Plymouth Argyle Simon Hallett (97%)Investment
Portsmouth Michael Eisner$1B[70]Media; former CEO of The Walt Disney Company; Tornante
Preston North End Trevor Hemmings CVO (51.4%)[71][72]$1.4B[73]Blackpool Tower, horse racing, investment, Northern Trust, Sportech[74]
Queens Park Rangers
(more information)
Lakshmi Mittal[75]$15.5B[76][77]ArcelorMittal
Sheffield Wednesday Dejphon Chansiri$575M[78]Thai Union Group
Sheffield United Abdullah bin Musa'ed[79]$200M[80]Saudi Paper Manufacturing Co.
Stoke City The Coates Family[81]$9.4B[82][83]Bet365
Sunderland Kyril Louis-Dreyfus (51%)

Juan Sartori (30%)

Stewart Donald (19%)[84]

$2.1B[85][86]Louis-Dreyfus Group
Swansea City Stephen Kaplan & Jason Levien (68%)
Swansea City Supporters Trust (21.1%)[87]
Memphis Grizzlies and D.C. United
Investment trust
Watford Gino Pozzo[88]$120M[89]Investment
West Bromwich Albion
(more information)
Shilen Patel

Kiran C. Patel[90]

$500M[91]Investment

League One

ClubOwner(s)Estimated
combined
net worth
Source of wealth
Barnsley Neerav Parekh
The Cryne Family
Julie Anne Quay
Chien Lee
$9.1B[92]NewCity capital
Pidilite Industries
Birmingham City Tom Wagner (45.6%)[93]Knighthead Capital Management
Blackpool Simon Sadler (96.2%)Asset Management
Bolton Wanderers Football Ventures (Whites) Ltd[94]$60M[95]
Bristol Rovers Wael al-Qadi (100%)[96]$550M[95]Banking and tourism
Burton Albion Ben Robinson (98%)
Cambridge United Paul Barry (70%)

Adam Webb (10%)

Mark Green (20%)[97]

Hospitality, technology and property
Charlton Athletic Charlie Methven[98]

Gabriel Brener

Joshua Friedman

Consultancy

Investments

Crawley Town WAGMI United LLC [99]Venture Capital
Exeter City Exeter City FC Supporters' Trust – Trust Ownership Working GroupSupporters Trust
Huddersfield Town Kevin M. Nagle$500M[100]Health Care and Pharmacy
Leyton Orient Eagle Investments 2017 Ltd$38M[95]
Lincoln City Lincoln City Holdings Ltd

Harvey Jabara

Mansfield Town John Radford$38M[95]
Northampton Town Kelvin Thomas
David Bower[101]
Peterborough United Darragh MacAnthony (50%)
Kelgary Sports and Entertainment (50%)
Reading
(more information)
Dai Yongge

Dai Xiuli[102]

$950M[95]Renhe Commercial Holdings Company Limited
Rotherham United Tony Stewart (49%)[103][104]
Joan Stewart (46%)
$180M[95]Lighting industry
Shrewsbury Town Roland Wycherley[105]$17M[95]
Stevenage Phil Wallace (91%)[106]$90M[95]Lamex Food Group
Stockport County Mark Stott[107]Property investment
Wigan Athletic Mike Danson[108]$1.63B[109]Media: GlobalData
Wrexham Ryan Reynolds
Rob McElhenney
Entertainment
Wycombe Wanderers Mikhail Lomtadze (90%)

Wycombe Wanderers Supporters Trust (10%)

$5.7B[110][111]Blue Ocean Partners II Limited


Supporters Trust

League Two

ClubOwner(s)Estimated
combined
net worth
Source of wealth
Accrington Stanley Andy HoltWhat More UK
AFC Wimbledon Wimbledon Football Club Supporters' SocietySupporters Trust
Barrow Tony Shearer (40%)
Paul Hornby (20%)
Kristian Wilkes (20%)
Mark Hetherington (10%)
Bluebirds Trust (10%)[112]
Bradford City Stefan Rupp (77.5%)$130M[95]Investment
Bromley Robin Stanton-Gleaves
Carlisle United
(more information)
Piatak FamilyLogistics
Cheltenham Town Simon Keswick (26%)

CTFC Investments Ltd (23%)

Paul Baker (20%)

Robins Trust (Cheltenham Town Supporters Society Ltd) (10%)[113]

Finance

Undisclosed

Insurance

Supporters Trust

Chesterfield Chesterfield Football Club Community TrustSupporters Trust
Colchester United Robbie Cowling[114]$55M[95]JobServe
Crewe Alexandra Norman Hassall Hassall
Daniel Potts[115]
The Rowlinson Group
Doncaster Rovers John Ryan
Dick Watson (26%)
Terry Bramall[116]
MYA Cosmetic Surgery
Construction[11]
Keepmoat[117]
Fleetwood Town Andy Pilley (98%)[118]$120M[95]BES Group
Gillingham Brad Galinson (major shareholder)[119]Property[120]
Grimsby Town 1878 Partners (63%)

The Mariners Trust (14%) Mike Parker (11%)[121]

Harrogate Town Irving Weaver[122]Property[122]
Milton Keynes Dons Pete Winkelman[123][124]$200M[95]InterMK Group
Morecambe Bond Group Investments Limited (80% major shareholder)
Newport County Newport County AFC Supporters TrustSupporters Trust
Notts County Alexander Reedtz
Christoffer Reedtz
Football Radar
Port Vale Carol Shanahan

Kevin Shanahan[125]

Synectics Solutions

Fintech and investments

Salford City
(more information)
Peter Lim (40%)
Phil Neville (10%)
Gary Neville (10%)
Nicky Butt (10%)
Paul Scholes (10%)
Ryan Giggs (10%)
David Beckham (10%)
$2.9B[126]
Swindon Town Clem Morfuni$200m[95]
Tranmere Rovers Mark Palios

Santini Group

Charted AccountantHolding Company

Walsall Benjamin BoycottTrivela Group LLC

National League

ClubOwner(s)Estimated
combined
net worth
Source of wealth
Forest Green Rovers Dale Vince
Héctor Bellerín[127]
$120M[95]
Sutton United Garry Otto

Nawaf Al Shammari

Investment group

See also

Notes

References