List of English football club owners

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. All figures are listed in millions rather than billions. For example, £1,000m would be one billion (1,000,000,000) pounds. Only shareholders with a significant interest (above 10%) are listed.

Premier League

Club	Owner(s)	Estimated combined net worth	Source of wealth
Arsenal (more information)	E. Stanley Kroenke (66%)[1] Alisher Usmanov (30%)		Kroenke Sports Enterprises Metal and mining, investment
Bournemouth	Maxim Demin[2] [3]	£100m ?	Petrochemicals trading Seven Developments
Burnley	Mike Garlick (49.3%) John Banaszkiewicz (27.55%)[4]	£55m[5] ?	Michael Bailey Associates Freight Investor Services
Chelsea (more information)	Roman Abramovich[6]	£8,100m[7]	Oil and industry
Crystal Palace	Steve Parish Martin Long Joshua Harris David S.Blitzer Jeremy Hosking Stephen Browett	£45m £75m £2,000m £1,000m £193m[8] £85m	Tag Worldwide[9] Churchill Insurance Apollo Global Management Blackstone Group Marathon Asset Management Farr Vintners
Everton (more information)	Farhad Moshiri (49.9%) Bill Kenwright CBE Jon Woods	£240m[8] £33m[8] ?	Steel and energy Theatre production Planet Hollywood Ocean Software
Hull City	The Allam Family[10]	£317m[11]	Allam Marine
Leicester City	The Srivaddhanaprabha Family[12]	£2,200m[13]	King Power International Group
Liverpool (more information)	John W. Henry[14]	£1,580m[15]	Fenway Sports Group
Manchester City (more information)	Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (87%) Government of China (13%)	£20,000m[8]	Oil and industry investment Government
Manchester United (more information)	The Glazer Family[16]	£3.700m[17]	First Allied Corporation, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Middlesbrough	Steve Gibson	£135m[8]	Bulkhaul Limited
Southampton	Katharina Liebherr	£3,000m[18]	Inheritance
Stoke City	The Coates Family[19]	£2,400m[20]	Bet365
Sunderland	Ellis Short[21]	£2,360m[22]	Lone Star Funds, Skibo Castle
Swansea City	Stephen Kaplan & Jason Levien (68%) Swansea City Supporters Trust (21.1%)[23]	? ?	Memphis Grizzlies and DC United Investment trust
Tottenham Hotspur (more information)	Joe Lewis (70.6% of 85% holding company) Daniel Levy (29.4% of 85% holding company)[24]	£4,900m[25] ?	Tavistock Group ENIC Group
Watford	Gino Pozzo[26]	£120m	Businessman
West Bromwich Albion (more information)	Guochuan Lai (87.8%)[27]	£1000m +	Investment
West Ham United (more information)	David Sullivan (51.1%)[28] David Gold (35.1%) Straumur Investment Bank (10%)	£400m[8] £250m[8] ?	Daily Sport, Sunday Sport Gold Group International Straumur Investment Bank

Football League Championship

Club	Owner(s)	Estimated combined net worth	Source of wealth
Aston Villa (more information)	Dr. Tony Xia[29]	£920m[30]	Recon Group
Barnsley	Patrick Cryne	£32m[8]	iSOFT[8]
Birmingham City (more information)	Carson Yeung (25.43%) Liu Xingcheng (11.27%)[31]	? ?	Grandtop International Holdings ?
Blackburn Rovers	Balaji & Venkatesh Rao (99.9%)	£500m[8]	Venkateshwara Hatcheries Group
Brentford	Matthew Benham (96%)[32]	?	?
Brighton & Hove Albion	Tony Bloom (75.61%)[8]	£50m[8]	Online Gambling, Real Estate, Property, Land Development & Investments
Bristol City	Stephen Lansdown	£2,000m[33]	Hargreaves Lansdown
Burton Albion	Ben Robinson
Cardiff City	Vincent Tan (51%)[34]	£1,045m[35]	Berjaya Group
Derby County	Mel Morris [36]	£400m [37]	King
Fulham (more information)	Shahid Khan[38]	£4,500m[39]	Flex-N-Gate Corp (automobile parts manufacturer)
Huddersfield Town	Dean Hoyle	£154m[8]	Card Factory
Ipswich Town	Marcus Evans	£625m[8]	Marcus Evans Group
Leeds United	Massimo Cellino (75%) Hisham Ahmed Al Rayes (21%)[40]	£750m [41] ?	Eleonora Sports Ltd Gulf Finance House, BSC
Newcastle United (more information)	Mike Ashley	£5,600m[42]	Sports Direct International
Norwich City (more information)	Delia Smith and Michael Wynn-Jones (53%) Michael Foulger (15%)	£23m[43] ? ?	Food industry Publishing Poultry
Nottingham Forest	The Al Hasawi Family[44]	£1,400m	Al-Hasawi Group
Preston North End	Trevor Hemmings CVO (51.4%)[45][46]	£550m[8]	Blackpool Tower, horse racing, investment, Northern Trust, Sportech[47]
Queens Park Rangers (more information)	Tony Fernandes (66%) Lakshmi Mittal (33%)[48]	£650m[49] £15,800m[50]	Air Asia, Tune Group ArcelorMittal
Reading (more information)	Narin Niruttinanon (50%) Sasima Srivikorn(25%) Sumrith Thanakarnjanasuth (25%)[51]	£?
Rotherham United	Tony Stewart 49%[52][53] J Stewart 46% R Stewart 5%	£140m	Lighting industry
Sheffield Wednesday	Dejphon Chansiri		Thai Union Group
Wigan Athletic	Dave Whelan	£190m[8]	DW Sports Fitness, JJB Sports
Wolverhampton Wanderers	Fosun Group	£4,500m[54]	Investment

League One

Club	Owner(s)	Estimated combined net worth	Source of wealth
Bolton Wanderers	Eddie Davies CBE	£40m[8]	Strix[8]
Bradford City
Charlton Athletic	Roland Duchatelet (95%)[55]		Staprix NV
Chesterfield	Dave Allen
Colchester United	Robbie Cowling[56]	£20m[8]	JobServe
Coventry City	Joy Seppala & Dermot Coleman[57]	? ?	Sisu Capital
Crawley Town	The Executors of Bruce Winfield's Estate[58]		Freight transport and inheritance from marketing services[59]
Crewe Alexandra	N. Hassall (32% of 60% holding company) D. Potts (23% of 60% holding company) RJ Rowlinson (25%)[60]	? ? £20m[8]	? ? The Rowlinson Group
Doncaster Rovers	John Ryan Dick Watson (26%)[8] Terry Bramall CBE [61]	£28m[8] ? ?	MYA Cosmetic Surgery Construction[8] Keepmoat[62]
Fleetwood Town	Andrew Pilley (98%)[63]
Gillingham	Paul Scally
Leyton Orient	Franceso Becchetti[64]		Energy Group
Millwall	John Berylson Richard Smith[65]	£135m ?	Chestnut Hill Ventures ?
Milton Keynes Dons	Pete Winkelman[66][67]		InterMK Group
Notts County	Ray Trew		Contracting Solutions Group, private companies
Oldham Athletic	Simon Corney (97%)[68]	?	?
Peterborough United	Darragh MacAnthony	?	Property Investment
Port Vale	Norman Smurthwaite (100%)	£30m+[69]	Property
Rochdale	Chris Dunphy		?
Scunthorpe United	Peter Swann and family	£340m[70]	Retail; live entertainments; horse racing
Sheffield United	Abdullah bin Musa'ed (100%)[71]	£120m[8] ?	Property Oil
Swindon Town	MNC Group (99%)
Walsall	Jeff Bonser[72]	?	?
Yeovil Town	John Fry (46.9%) Norman Hayward (45.1%)[73]	?	? Property

League Two

Club	Owner(s)	Estimated combined net worth	Source of wealth
AFC Wimbledon	Wimbledon Football Club Supporters' Society (The Dons Trust)		Supporters Trust
Accrington Stanley	The Styring Family (12%) Accrington Stanley Supporters Fund (12%) Peter Marsden (10%)[74]	? ? ?	? Investment trust ?
Blackpool	Owen Oyston (80%) Valeri Belokon (25%)	£80m[8] £150m[8]	Publishing, Media & Estate Agency Finance, Media, Food Industry & Mining
Bristol Rovers	Dwane Sports (92%)	?	Banking and tourism
Bury	Save Our Shakers Trust (63.8%) The Bury F.C. Supporters Society Ltd (Forever Bury) (11%)[75]	? ?	Investment trusts
Carlisle United (more information)	A. Jenkins (37% of 93% holding company) J. Nixon (18%) S.Pattison (18%) The United Trust (25.4%)	? ? ? ?	Pioneer Foods Businessman (retired) Carlisle Glass Investment Trust
Cambridge United	Grosvenor Fund Management Grosvenor Group Owned by the Duke of Westminster and family		Property
Cheltenham Town	Paul Baker
Exeter City	Exeter City FC Supporters' Trust - Trust Ownership Working Group		Supporters Trust
Grimsby Town	John Fenty (42.91%) Mike Parker (22%) The Mariners Trust (14.13%)[76]	£14m[77] ? ?	Five Star Fish Entrepreneur Supporters Trust
Hartlepool United (more information)	Ken Hodcroft[78]	?	Increased Oil Recovery
Luton Town	Luton Town Football Club 2020 LTD
Mansfield Town	John Radford
Morecambe	Peter McGuigan
Newport County	Les Scadding		EuroMillions lottery winner
Northampton Town	David Anthony Cardoza Anthony Michael Cardoza Deborah Jones Trustees of Stuart Wilson[79]
Oxford United	Ian Lenagan
Plymouth Argyle	James Brent
Portsmouth	Pompey Supporters Trust
Shrewsbury Town	Roland Wycherley[80]	?	?
Southend United	Ron Martin[81]		Property
Stevenage	Phil Wallace (91%)[82]	£45m[8]	Lamex Food Group
Wycombe Wanderers	Wycombe Wanderers Trust		Investment trust

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