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.
Being the son of a family of doctors, Rybolovlev left the medical career he had started in order to pursue a business career. He founded an alternative medicine company with his father in 1990 and was able to take advantage of the economic downturns of the last years of the USSR and earned his first million dollars. In 1995, he began to invest all his efforts in potassium and even went so far as to buy an island in Greece to keep his daughter happy.
Following initial attempts to buy Dynamo Minsk and Manchester United, Rybolovlev, after a failed approach in April 2011, became the majority shareholder of AS Monaco on 23 December 2011 with 66% of the club and the remaining shares being held by Prince Albert II of Monaco, chairman of the board of directors and president of the club. By doing so, he got himself a place in this list of richest football club owners in the world.
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