List of owners of English football clubs

This is a list of the current owners of English football clubs, as well as (in some cases) their estimated net worth and source of wealth. Only shareholders with a significant interest (above 10%) are listed.

Premier League
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Club Owner(s) Estimated
combined
net worth		 Source of wealth
Arsenal
(more information)		 Stan Kroenke (100%)[1] $10B[2] Wal-Mart, Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, Los Angeles Rams, Colorado Rapids, Colorado Avalanche, commercial real estate.
Aston Villa
(more information)		 Nassef Sawiris[3]
Wesley Edens		 $9.2B[4][5] Investment and Industry
Fortress Investment Group
Brighton & Hove Albion Tony Bloom (75.61%)[6] Online Gambling, Real Estate, Property, Land Development & Investments
Burnley ALK Capital (84%)[7] Investment consortium
Chelsea
(more information)		 Roman Abramovich[8] $12.9B[9] Oil and industry
Crystal Palace Steve Parish
Joshua Harris
David S. Blitzer		 $3.9B[10] Tag Worldwide[11]Investments
Everton
(more information)		 Farhad Moshiri (77.2[12])
Bill Kenwright CBE
Jon Woods		 $2B[13] Steel and energy
Theatre production
Planet Hollywood
Ocean Software
Fulham
(more information)		 Shahid Khan[14] $7.3B[15] Flex-N-Gate Corp (automobile parts manufacturer)
Jacksonville Jaguars
All Elite Wrestling
Leeds United Andrea Radrizzani (90%)
York Family (10%)[16][17]		 $450M[18] 49ers Enterprises, Leeds SPV LP paul mortimer £27,13
Leicester City The Srivaddhanaprabha Family[19] $5.9B[20] King Power International Group
Liverpool
(more information)		 Fenway Sports Group [21] $2.7B[22] Fenway Sports Group
Manchester City
(more information)		 Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan[23] $22B[24] Abu Dhabi United Group (100%)
Manchester United
(more information)		 The Glazer Family[25] $4.9B[26] First Allied Corporation, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Newcastle United
(more information)		 Mike Ashley $2.8B[27] Frasers Group
Sheffield United Abdullah bin Musa'ed[28] $255M Saudi Paper Manufacturing Co.
Southampton Gao Jisheng (80%)
Katharina Liebherr (20%)		 $4B[29][30] Lander Sports Development Co Ltd
Inheritance
Tottenham Hotspur
(more information)		 Joe Lewis (70.6% of 85% holding company)
Daniel Levy (29.4% of 85% holding company)[31]		 $6.2B[32][33] Currency Trading
West Bromwich Albion
(more information)		 Guochuan Lai (87.8%)[34] $2.8B [35] Investment
West Ham United
(more information)		 David Sullivan (51.1%)[36]
David Gold (35.1%)
Albert Smith (10%)		 $1.6B[37] Daily Sport, Sunday Sport
Gold Group International
GSO Capital Partners
Wolverhampton Wanderers Guo Guangchang [38]
Liang Xinjun
Wang Qunbin		 $9.14B[39][40][41] Fosun International[nb 1]

EFL Championship
Club Owner(s) Estimated
combined
net worth		 Source of wealth
Barnsley Chien Lee
Paul Conway
Grace Hung
Neerav Parekh
Billy Beane
The Cryne Family[42][43]		 $9.1B NewCity capital
Pacific Media Group
Pidilite Industries
Birmingham City Paul Suen (60.78%)
Wang Lei (5.28%)
Carson Yeung (6.51%)[44]		 $570M Birmingham Sports Holdings
Blackburn Rovers V H Group (99.9%) $860M Venkateshwara Hatcheries Group
Bournemouth Maxim Demin (75%)[45]

PEAK6 Investments (25%)[46]

 $110M[47][30] Petrochemicals trading
Seven Developments
Investments
Brentford Matthew Benham (100%)[48]
Bristol City Stephen Lansdown $2.5B[49] Hargreaves Lansdown
Cardiff City Vincent Tan (51%)[50] $770M[51] Berjaya Group
Coventry City Joy Seppala
[52]		 Sisu Capital
Derby County Mel Morris [53] $500m[54] King
Huddersfield Town Phil Hodgkinson $475M
Luton Town Luton Town Football Club 2020 LTD
Middlesbrough Steve Gibson $263M[55] Bulkhaul Limited
Millwall John Berylson
Richard Smith[56]		 $175M
 Chestnut Hill Ventures
Norwich City
(more information)		 Delia Smith and
Michael Wynn-Jones (53%)
Michael Foulger (15%)		 $30M[57] Food industry
Publishing
Poultry
Nottingham Forest Evangelos Marinakis[58] $650M Capital Maritime & Trading Corp
Preston North End Trevor Hemmings CVO (51.4%)[59][60] $720M Blackpool Tower, horse racing, investment, Northern Trust, Sportech[61]
Queens Park Rangers
(more information)		 Tony Fernandes (66%)
Lakshmi Mittal (33%)[62]		 $745M[63]
$18B[64]		 Air Asia, Tune Group
ArcelorMittal
Reading
(more information)		 Dai Yongge (90.29%) [65] Renhe Commercial Holdings Company Limite
Sheffield Wednesday Dejphon Chansiri Thai Union Group
Rotherham United Tony Stewart OBE (49%)[66][67]
Joan Stewart (46%)
Richard Stewart (5%)		 $180M Lighting industry
Stoke City The Coates Family[68] $3.1B[69] Bet365
Swansea City Stephen Kaplan & Jason Levien (68%)
Swansea City Supporters Trust (21.1%)[70]		 Memphis Grizzlies and D.C. United
Investment trust
Wigan Athletic International Entertainment Corporation Hotel, Property
Watford Gino Pozzo[71] $120M[72] Investment

League One
Club Owner(s) Estimated
combined
net worth		 Source of wealth
Accrington Stanley Andy Holt What More UK
AFC Wimbledon Wimbledon Football Club Supporters' Society (The Dons Trust) Supporters Trust
Blackpool Simon Sadler (96.2%) Asset Management
Bristol Rovers Wael al-Qadi (100%)[73] $30M[74] Banking and tourism
Burton Albion Ben Robinson (98%)
Charlton Athletic Thomas Sandgaard
Doncaster Rovers John Ryan
Dick Watson (26%)
Terry Bramall CBE

[75]

 MYA Cosmetic Surgery
Construction[6]
Keepmoat[76]
Fleetwood Town Andy Pilley (98%)[77] BES Group
Gillingham Paul Scally
Hull City The Allam Family[78] $325M[79] Allam Marine
Ipswich Town Marcus Evans Marcus Evans Group
Lincoln City Lincoln City Holdings Ltd (70%)
Milton Keynes Dons Pete Winkelman[80][81] InterMK Group
Oxford United Sumrith Thanakarnjanasuth
Peterborough United Darragh MacAnthony (50%) Kelgary Sports and Entertainment (50%)
Portsmouth Michael Eisner Media; former CEO of The Walt Disney Company; Tornante
Rochdale Andrew Kilpatrick
Shrewsbury Town Roland Wycherley[82]
Southend United Ron Martin[83] Property
Sunderland Stewart Donald[84]
Tranmere Rovers Mark Palios
Wycombe Wanderers Rob Couhig (75%)

Wycombe Wanderers Supporters Trust (25%)

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Supporters Trust

Bolton Wanderers Ken Anderson [85] $17M

League Two
Club Owner(s) Estimated
combined
net worth		 Source of wealth
Bradford City Stefan Rupp (77.5%) Investment
Cambridge United Paul Barry (80%) Adam Webb (10%) Mark Green (10%)[86] Hospitality and property
Carlisle United
(more information)		 Andrew Jenkins (37% of 93% holding company)
John Nixon (18%)
Steven Pattison (18%)
The United Trust (25.4%)		 Pioneer Foods
Businessman (retired)
Carlisle Glass
Investment Trust
Cheltenham Town Andy Wilcox
Colchester United Robbie Cowling[87] JobServe
Crawley Town The Executors of Bruce Winfield's Estate[88] Freight transport and inheritance from marketing services[89]
Crewe Alexandra Norman Hassall Hassall (32% of 60% holding company)
Daniel Potts[90]		 The Rowlinson Group
Exeter City Exeter City FC Supporters' Trust - Trust Ownership Working Group Supporters Trust
Forest Green Rovers Dale Vince
Hector Bellerin[91]
Grimsby Town John Fenty (42.91%)
Mike Parker (22%)
The Mariners Trust (14.13%)[92]		 $18M[93]

 Five Star Fish
Entrepreneur
Supporters Trust
Leyton Orient Eagle Investments 2017 Ltd
Mansfield Town John Radford
Morecambe Bond Group Investments Limited (82% major shareholder
Newport County Newport County AFC Supporters Trust Supporters Trust
Northampton Town David Anthony Cardoza
Anthony Michael Cardoza
Deborah Jones
Trustees of Stuart Wilson[94]
Oldham Athletic Abdallah Lemsagam
Plymouth Argyle Simon Hallett (97%) business
Port Vale Synsol Holdings Ltd Debenture Loan (4m)
Salford City Peter Lim (40%)
Phil Neville (10%)
Gary Neville (10%)
Nicky Butt (10%)
Paul Scholes (10%)
Ryan Giggs (10%)
David Beckham (10%)		 $2.5B
Scunthorpe United Peter Swann and family $445M[95] Retail; live entertainments; horse racing
Stevenage Phil Wallace (91%)[96] Lamex Food Group
Swindon Town Lee Power
Walsall Leigh Pomlett

Notes
  1. The direct parent company of the club was W.W. (1990) Limited, which was acquired by Prestige Century Holdings Limited; Prestige Century was a subsidiary of Fosun Management Holdings Limited; Fosun Management Holdings was a subsidiary of Fosun International; Fosun International, a listed company of Hong Kong, is a subsidiary of Fosun International Holdings, which was majority owned by Guo Guangchang, Liang Xinjun and Wang Qunbin


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