Without money, nothing works in soccer. Anyone who doesn’t have millions can’t play at the top of the football business. Stay tuned as in this article of Gazettely, we will reveal the top richest football club owners in the world as of 2021. Stay tuned.
In the last few years, football has undergone a complete change of dimension thanks to because of money. Nowadays, it has become almost normal to see transfers taking place for unimaginable amounts of money or huge incomes like Neymar’s.
Football players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, have turned into marketing assets that can be bought and sold. Furthermore, the TV rights to obtain and broadcast championships and other competitions have become an area where the sums sometimes reach colossal sums.
The same applies to the financial strength of clubs… While most football fans think that the owners of Manchester City and PSG are the richest, the truth is quite different. While both clubs are, for example, ranked among the 10 most expensive squads in Europe, below we will take a look at the richest football club owners and there are a few surprises in this ranking.
Who are the richest football club owners in the world?
Although some of them own big European clubs, such as Roman Abramovitch with Chelsea or the Agnelli family who have owned Juventus since 1923 (and who have had the time to sell players sometimes at a high price), there are others who own more modest clubs. For example, Shahid Khan owns Fulham, which is playing in the English second division, or businessmen who have preferred to bet on MLS clubs rather than on top teams! If you are ready, let’s see who the richest football club owners in the world are.
Renzo Rosso is a luxury clothing entrepreneur. He runs his own holding company, Only The Brave, which operates brands such as Diesel (which he founded), Dsquared and Just Cavalli. He was the owner (through his holding company) of Bassano Virtus, the football club of the city of Bassano del Grappa, where he lives, between 1996 and 2018.
The club achieved the best results in its history under his management, first by winning a Serie D championship, then by establishing itself in Italian professional football and coming close to promotion to Serie B several times.
When Vicenza Calcio went bankrupt in May 2018, he acquired its assets at the liquidation auction and re-founded it by transferring the Bassano headquarters (which in turn was reborn independently of his group) to the provincial capital, with the new name L.R. Vicenza Virtus.
In their first year they finished 8th in Serie C and in 2019-2020, under the management of Domenico Di Carlo, they won the league with 61 points collected in 27 matches, 6 points ahead of Reggio Audace (the regular season was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic); Vicenza thus returned to Serie B after 3 years.
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