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.
Marco Squinzi – $1B – Sassuolo Calcio
Son of Giorgio Squinzi, Marco is an Italian businessman and entrepreneur based in Milan. He and Veronica, who is Marco’s sister were appointed co-CEO of the MAPEI in July 2019, following the death of their father, who had taken over the business in 1984. The Italian company produces many different products for the construction sector, including chemical goods.
Just like the tragic death of Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, after the death of his father Giorgio Squinzi in 2019, he became the owner of the Sassuolo Calcio club alongside his sister and his cousin. His father had bought the club back in 2003 and managed to take them to the top of Italian football.
Enrico Preziosi – $1.1B – Genoa
Enrico Preziosi, born 18 February 1948 in Avellino, Italy, is an Italian businessman and sports executive, and the founder and largest shareholder of Giochi Preziosi. He is the former president and owner of the Italian football club Genoa. Previously he held the same positions in Saronno, Como and was a minority shareholder in other football teams.
In September 2021, Enrico Preziosi sold his entire stake in the Genoa club to US venture 777 Partners, which already owns a 6% stake in the Spanish club Sevilla. In the summer of 2003, Preziosi took over the Italian club and saved it from bankruptcy. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
Antonio Percassi – $1.3B – Atalanta
A former player for Atalanta and Cesena, after hanging up his boots he devoted himself to the business world. He manages brands such as KIKO, Gucci, Starbucks and Victoria’s Secret through Odissea Srl.
Following the death of president Cesare Bortolotti in the 1990-91 season, he became president of Atalanta, a club in which he had long played. He made extensive use of marketing strategies, image, and fan relations, investing heavily in both the acquisition campaign and, more importantly, in the youth sector, which had been revived with the arrival of Mino Favini from Como.
He stepped down during the 1993-94 season, after a disastrous championship that led the Nerazzurri team to Serie B: he was replaced by Ivan Ruggeri. He was back at the head of the club on 4 June 2010, replacing Ivan’s son Alessandro Ruggeri. He bought the stadium from the city in the summer of 2017.
Tony Bloom – $1.5B – Brighton & Hove Albion
In 2009, the mysterious businessman Tony Bloom became the owner of the Brighton & Hove Albion club, which was promoted to the Premier League that year. A Business Insider report on Bloom pegged his wealth at around $1.5 billion. He is said to have put some £200 million into Brighton – including £93 million for the move to a new stadium in 2011.
Bloom is a poker legend nicknamed The Lizard. He founded the gambling syndicate StarLizard early this century, a company estimated to make profits of around £100 million a year. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
John Elkann – $2B – Juventus
Until this year, John Elkann had always remained on the sidelines according to the Forbes list and this is the first time that the owner of Exor and Juventus has been added to the list of richest football club owners in the world. On 28 April he appointed his cousin Andrea Agnelli as president of Juventus Football Club.
Florentino Pérez – $2B – Real Madrid
A graduate in civil engineering and brought up in a cult of work, Florentino Perez is from a middle-class family (his father owned a pharmacy) and was able to get rich mainly through entrepreneurship and his political connections. His meeting with Juan de Arespacochaga was decisive in the growth of his empire; the Franco leader, ex-mayor of Madrid, introduced him to the construction lobby. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
Mike Ashley – $2.4B – Newcastle United
Mike Ashley dropped out of school at 16. With a loan from his parents, he opened his own sports shop in Maidenhead just two years later. He built up the Sports Direct chain into a company with 400 shops.
Ashley bought Newcastle United in 2007 for around £135 million, thus earning himself a place in the list of richest football club owners in the world. The fans are not happy with Ashley’s 14-year reign. In recent years, the results have improved. Rafael Benitez became manager of the club and was rewarded with first place in the British first division in the 2016-2017 season.
However, in the 2017-18 season things were not good and although the club managed to stay in the Premier League, however the lack of investments on new players and the fact that Ashley wanted to sell the club, resulted in the resignation of Benitez in 2019.
Stephen Lansdown – $2.5B – Bristol City
Stephen Lansdown is the co-founder of the Hargreaves Lansdown financial services company. As a sports fan, he has made investments in the clubs Bristol Rugby, Bristol Flyers (basketball) and Bristol City (football) and has a place in our list of richest football club owners in the world.
He launched the Hargreaves Lansdown investment service from his living room in 1981. He then sold 4.7 per cent of the company for £47.2 million in April 2009. He used this to finance the redevelopment of the Ashton Gate, Bristol City’s stadium. The work was completed in 2016. The club is currently playing in the EFL Championship (first division in England).
John Henry – $2.8B – Liverpool
Liverpool has been owned since 2010 by the Fenway Sports Group, which in turn is mainly owned by billionaire John W. Henry (71). The American has become rich through trading corn and soybeans and has developed a lucrative sports empire. Henry is best known in the United States as the owner of the baseball club Boston Red Sox and NASCAR team Roush Fenway Racing.
However, the Fenway Sports Group does not belong to Henry alone. An impressive list of investors is looking to cash in on the sports empire. The most notable name on the list is definitely NBA star LeBron James. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
Farhad Moshiri – $2.9B – Everton FC
Farhad Moshiri was born in Iran into a wealthy family. After the revolution in his country, he emigrated to England and is now chairman and major shareholder of USM, a Russian holding company with its hands in everything from metallurgy and mining to telecommunications, technology and the Internet.
Moshiri and his business partner Usmanov were co-owners of Red & White Holdings, which owned 14.65% of Arsenal FC. In 2016, Moshiri sold his stake in Arsenal FC to buy a 49.9% stake in Everton FC. Previously, Moshiri was in contact with the then majority owner Bill Kenwright for 18 months.
At the time of the takeover, Moshiri said “There has never been such a level playing field in the Premier League as there is now. Bill Kenwright has taught me what it means to be an Evertonian and I really look forward to working with him to help Everton succeed in the future. ”
Everton FC has spent more than €500m on new players since Moshiri took over. In 2018, Moshiri raised his stake to 68.6%, and one year later to 77.2%. USM is the namesake of Everton’s training ground USM Finch Farm since January 2017.
Peter Lim – $3B – Valencia
The business tycoon has built his empire from scratch. He was the son of a fish merchant, he lived in a council house with his parents and 7 siblings for the first few years of his life and to pay for his education, he had to work a lot of part-time jobs as a waiter, taxi driver and cook.
He is now an entrepreneur interested mainly in medicine and palm oil, and in football: he is president of Valencia and Salford City. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
Renzo Rosso – $3.3B – Vicenza
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.
Lai Guochuan – $3.8B – West Bromwich Albion
The Chinese businessman Lai became rich through construction and property development. More recently, he has been more active in private investment projects.
In 2014, the purchase of the club West Bromwich Albion was arranged through an asset manager, which made him another Chinese in the list of richest football club owners in the world. The best performance of Lai with West Bromwich was tenth place in the Premier League. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
Dan Friedkin – $4.1B – AS Roma
Born into a wealthy family, the president of Roma has a great passion for aviation. Following his graduation from Georgetown University, he went on to run his father’s company of the same name, which was responsible for selling Toyota in the USA.
At the end of negotiations that began in the fall of 2019 and were interrupted in the early spring of 2020, Roma announced on August 6, 2020, that an agreement had been reached for the Friedkin Group to acquire the shares of AS Roma SPV, LLC (86.6% of the total shares), marking the end of the James Pallotta era as president of Roma.
The Friedkin Group obtained the majority stake in the Italian club for $591 million, with the requirement to make a public bid for the remaining shares, and Dan Friedkin thus became the 25th president in the history of the Capitolini.
Gao Jisheng – $4.2B – Southampton FC
The Chinese entrepreneur Gao Jisheng is currently the majority shareholder of Southampton Football Club, having bought an eighty per cent stake in the St Mary’s club in 2017. To buy the stake in the club, Gao invested around £210 million. He purchased the shares from Katharina Liebherr, who had previously inherited Saints from her late father Markus in 2010.
Liebherr family had bought the club in 2009 after it had gone into administration. The Liebherr family currently still holds a 20 % stake in the Saints. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
Paul Singer – $4.3B – AC Milan
In 2018, AC Milan ended up in the hands of the Elliott Management Corporation, a New York-based investment fund established by Paul Singer. The 77-year-old Singer became rich by, among other things, purchasing the debts of companies and countries in trouble and then making a profit on them. He managed to do that with countries such as Peru, Congo and Argentina.
Singer acquired Milan because the previous owner, Chinese businessman Li Yonghong, was not able to meet the repayment of a loan of 330 million euros granted by Singer. Yonghong had used the money from that loan to buy the club from Silvio Berlusconi. Since then, the American has invested heavily in Milan, most likely in order to sell the club for a large profit, as usual.
Glazer Family – $4.5B – Manchester United
The Glazer family earned their money from real estate, financial services and investments, which included investment in sports clubs. Family patriarch Malcolm Glazer died in 2014. He purchased the Tampa Bay Buccaneers football team in 1995. He became the owner of the Manchester United football club eight years later for a sum of 790 million pounds.
Some of the supporters of Manchester United complain that the club has too many debts. However, under the reign of the Glazer family, Manchester United has won the Premier League five times and the Champions League once. Since Malcolm Glazer’s death, the family empire has been run by his sons Avram and Joel Glazer, who operate as co-chairmen.
Joe Lewis – $5.3B – Tottenham Hotspur
The 84-year-old Londoner Joe Lewis made his fortune as a currency speculator, most notably when he worked with George Soros to get the pound out of the European Monetary System in 1992. Today, Lewis is living in the Bahamas for tax reasons and is the chief investor of the Tavistock Group. He has interests in property development, numerous restaurant chains and the oil and gas industry, to name a few.
He is also the developer of Lake Nona near Orlando in Florida, a huge landscaped residential area with a large golf resort. The Netherlands national football team stayed there during the 1994 World Cup. Lewis is a major shareholder in Tottenham Hotspur through another investment company, the ENIC Group. The other shareholder is the current chairman of the club, Daniel Levy.
Saputo Family – $5.7B – Bologna
The Saputo family is originally from Sicily, and Emanuele ‘Lino’ Saputo made the decision to leave Italy and find his fortune in Canada. With Saputo Incorporated now being the largest producer of dairy products in North America, the Saputo patriarch was right on the money.
Joey Saputo is part of the group of American entrepreneurs, led by Joe Tacopina, who acquired the Bologna football club on 14 October 2014. His appointment as chairman of the Rossoblu was made official in December 2014. Following some disagreements with Tacopina and the latter’s departure on 20 September 2015, he continued to lead the club alone. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha – $6B – Leicester City
Aiyawat Srivaddhanaprabh is a Thai businessman and chairman of Leicester City Football Club in England, the youngest son of Wichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who was the owner of a duty-free shop, the largest in Thailand named King Power. At the moment, he is working as the chairman and CEO of King Power. Aiyawat also served as Vice-President of Leicester City between 2010 and 2018. Forbes magazine ranked Aiyawat and his family at 290th of the world’s richest person rankings.
In the 2010/2011 season, Aiyawat started with the club at the age of 25, when his father acquired a 51% stake in Leicester City Football Club, amounting to approximately 20 to 30 million pounds. He and his father were able to lead Leicester City to its greatest success as Premier League champions in the 2015–16 season.
Mohammad Reza Zonouzi – $6B – Tractor S.C.
Another middle eastern and the second Iranian to make it to our list of the richest football club owners is Mohammad Reza Zonouzi. So, the questions is, who is Mohammad Reza Zonouzi? Well, he is a shareholder, manager and owner of several companies in the manufacturing, service and banking sectors in Iran and also the owner of the Tractor S.C., which is amongst the most popular football clubs in Iran.
Zonouzi is known as one of the wealthiest Iranians and while his total fortune is not known to the public, but there were reports in 2011 that Mohammad Reza Zonouzi net worth is of $12 billion, but because of the economic downturn in Iran, it is said that his total fortune had declined in the recent years.
Since purchasing the Tractor football club which plays in the Iranian Premier League, he had made some high profile signings, including the three captains of the Iranian national team and the famous British coach John Toshack, however, other than a Hazfi Cup win, his team has so far failed to win any silverware. More recently, there are also some reports that Zonouzi is planning to sell the club.
Guo Guangchang – $6.4B – Wolverhampton Wanderers
As with many wealthy Chinese, Guo Guangchang is involved in real estate and his company Fosun International is also doing well in the asset management and entertainment sectors. The company bought the Wolverhampton Wanderers club in 2016. The purchase cost an impressive £46 million ($62 million) for a club that finished 15th in the just-ended season.
Dmitry Rybolovlev – $6.7B – AS Monaco
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.
Coates Family – $6.9B – Stoke City
When Peter Coates was fourteen, he abandoned school. He went on to do his military service and worked his way up to regional manager of a catering chain until he started his own catering company. In particular, he took care of the food supply for football clubs and events.
His daughter Denise was just as brilliant an entrepreneur when she started the bet365 betting shop in a small office. Some 21 years later, this branch of the family business now serves a huge share of the global betting market. Needless to say, it is the shirt sponsor of Dad’s club, Stoke City, a decent Premier League side. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
Robert Kraft – $6.9B – New England Revolution
Not only does Macht Group CEO Robert Kraft own the MLS team New England Revolution, but he also used to own the San Jose Earthquakes. Furthermore, the American billionaire, who has business interests in sports, manufacturing and real estate, is one of the owners of the NFL team New England Patriots.
Indeed, he was amongst those who were considering a takeover bid for Premier League club Liverpool in the mid-2000s, and he continues to consider England’s top division a compelling investment target even now. So don’t be surprised if you see him in the English Premier League in the near future.
Rocco B. Commisso – $7.2B – Fiorentina
As the son of Calabrian emigrants, Rocco Commisso may be a little misleading with his polite manner and his smile, but he is a true expert in the business world: throughout his life, he has worked in finance and telecommunications. At the moment, Mediacom is the eighth most profitable cable TV company in America. Not bad, okay? Since the summer of 2019, he has become the new owner of the Italian club Fiorentina.
Zhang Jindong – $7.4B – Inter Milan
The owner of Inter Milan remains one of the richest people in the world, despite his recent troubles and he deserves a place in this list of richest football club owners in the world. His estimated personal wealth is 7.4 billion dollars. He is the founder and majority shareholder of Suning.com, which is one of the most important Chinese companies operating in the retail sector.
He holds 100% of Suning Holdings Group, which is active in real estate, retail, media and entertainment, investment, sports and financial services, and is devoted to serving over 600 million customers worldwide with over 280 000 employees. According to Forbes, Zhang is the 339th richest man in the world.
Silvio Berlusconi – $7.6B – Monza
He became the owner of Milan on 20 February 1986. More than 35 years later, after becoming the most successful president in the history of football, the Milanese entrepreneur is still among the richest in the world. His personal fortune is $7.6 billion and he is now looking to bring Monza to Serie A. He is the 327th wealthiest man on the planet, according to Forbes. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
Shahid Khan – $8B – Fulham FC
US naturalised Pakistani businessman and sports executive, is the co-owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars in the National Football League (NFL) and Fulham in the English Premier League with his son Tony. After graduating, he was hired by Flex-N-Gate, an automotive supply company. He went on to establish Bumper Works on his own in the same industry, successfully developing new types of bumpers.
He bought out his former company in 1980, and in 1987 became the sole supplier of bumpers for Toyota pick-up trucks in the United States and in 1989 became the sole supplier of all bumpers for Toyota in the United States. From then on, the company has grown to 64 plants worldwide with 64,000 employees.
Stan Kroenke – $8.2B – Arsenal FC
The American entrepreneur Kroenke has a whole army of clubs under his belt. In addition to London football club Arsenal, he also owns clubs in American football, basketball and baseball. All of these fall under the flag of the Kroenke Sports and Entertainment company. He began buying shares in Arsenal in 2007, and a year later he took over the club completely.
In contrast to many other rich club owners, Kroenke has spent relatively little money on acquiring players. This created bad blood among the Arsenal supporters, who blamed him for a lack of club love and ambition. Kroenke’s trophy cabinet at Arsenal is not very full with four FA cups. His estimated wealth is around eight billion euros.
Dietmar Hopp – $10B – TSG Hoffenheim
While Hoffenheim is not a world-class football club, but its owner Dietmar Hopp is a powerful businessman in the software and data processing industry and is a co-founder of SAP SE.
It is said that Dietmar Hopp, who has invested almost 400 million euros in Hoffenheim, is criticised by football fans in Germany, but he has particularly distinguished himself in the search for a vaccine against the coronavirus in 2020 and he has a place in our ranking of richest football club owners in the world.
Hopp is disliked by ultras and fans of other Bundesliga clubs as someone who has had his sporting success purchased. This is partly because he has been able to get an exception to the 50+1 rule in Germany, intended to prevent a single investor from holding a majority stake in a club.
Philip Anschutz – $10.1B – LA Galaxy
Another American in our list of richest football club owners in the world has interests in telecommunications, oil, railways and the entertainment industry. Just like Kroenke, as well as founding the Los Angeles Galaxy, he is the owner of other clubs such as the Los Angeles Kings (NHL) and owns a third of the Lakers (NBA) and the entire Staples Center where the yellow and violets play.
He also knows how to convince top European players such as David Beckham, Robbie Keane and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to come and play for his LA Galaxy. Wealth? He has around 10.1 billion. Anschutz is the 224th wealthiest person on the planet. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego – $12.9B – Mazatlán
The owner of Grupo Salinas is the 3rd richest man in Mexico. His main investment sectors are telecommunications and retail. He is also the founder of the Fundaciòn Azteca, which deals with social issues and raises funds for other humanitarian foundations.
He owns Mazatlán, a new first division club founded on June 2, 2020, and derived from Monarcas Morelia. Salinas has a personal wealth estimated by Forbes at $12.9 billion, which places him as the 166th richest man in the world.
Roman Abramovich – $14.5B – Chelsea FC
The well-known Russian businessman bought Chelsea in the summer of 2003. The club has since gone on to win five English Premier Leagues, five FA Cups, three League Cups, two Community Shields, a Champions League and two Europa Leagues. This was all thanks to the more than 2 billion invested by Abramovich over the years.
His business interests have ranged from oil to gas: in 2013 he sold Sibneft to Gazprom for 13 billion. Abramovich’s personal wealth now stands at $14.5 billion (142nd in the world). However, there are some rumors that he is on the verge of selling the club.
Nasser Al-Khelaifi – $19B – Paris Saint-Germain
The former Qatari tennis player is considered to be the most powerful man in French football. He bought the French club Paris Saint-Germain in 2011 and transferred top international players to Paris for a lot of money. The most sensational transfer is that of the Brazilian Neymar, who moved from Barcelona to PSG for the record sum of 222 million euros, however, this year Al-Khelaifi was able to sign Lionel Messi too.
Starting in 2013, Paris Saint-Germain has won the French championship for many years. In addition, they have won the French Cup many times under Khelaifi, whose wealth is estimated at 19 billion dollars. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
Agnelli Family – $19.1B – Juventus FC
The Old Lady has been in the hands of the Agnelli family since 1923, who is best known as the family behind car manufacturer FIAT. Officially, Juventus is a part of Agnelli’s parent company Exor, of which, for example, Ferrari is also a subsidiary. The Exor headquarters is conveniently located in the Netherlands for tax purposes.
Currently, the main engine of Juventus is Andrea Agnelli. The 45-year-old Italian is responsible for the club’s image on behalf of the family. At the moment, Andrea is the Chairman of the club and was previously chairman of the European Club Association (ECA).
Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan – $20B – Manchester City
Officially, Manchester City is part of the City Football Group, a group that owns all or part of the shares of ten football clubs. These include, in addition to City, the Belgian Lommel, Girona from Spain and Troyes from the French Ligue 2.
The ultimate main shareholder is 50-year-old Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is a member of the royal family of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Through a maze of investment companies, Sheikh Mansour holds shares in a large number of companies, evidently with the aim of further increasing his already considerable fortune.
Dietrich Mateschitz – $26.9B – RB Leipzig
He co-founded Red Bull, in which he owns 49% of the shares. His primary strategy for promoting the energy drink to the world was to sponsor extreme sports, and in 2004 he created his own Formula 1 team. Mateschitz decided to go into football in 2005 and 2006 and purchased Austria Salzburg and MetroStars, rebranding them as Red Bull Salzburg and New York Red Bulls.
He established RB Leipzig in 2009, which is the only team that can today compete with Bayern Munich. Dietrich has a personal fortune of $26.9 billion, making him the 56th richest man in the world. Stay tuned to know more about the richest football club owners in the world.
François Pinault – $48.5B – Stade Rennais
As a surprise to many in this ranking of richest football club owners in the world, the French multi-billionaire is the chairman of Kering. The company is active in the fashion industry and has luxury brands such as Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen and Gucci. Mr Pinault also owns Artemis, a holding company that formerly bought Converse (now owned by Nike), Samsonite and the Christie’s auction house.
In 1998 Pinault became the owner of Stade Rennais, better known as Rennes which plays in Ligue 1. His personal wealth is $48.5 billion and, as a result, he is also the 25th richest man in the world. However, the 85-year-old Frenchman has never seen his club win the Ligue 1 championship. Maybe there is a bright future in store for this club if Pinault is prepared to dig a little deeper.
Carlos Slim- $62.8B – Real Oviedo
Here is the ‘gold medallist’ among the world’s richest football club owners in 2021. The wealthiest man on the planet between 2010 and 2013, he was born in Mexico City in 1940. He is the president of America Movil, the largest telecommunications company in Latin America. Since 2012 he has been the owner of Real Oviedo (Spanish Segunda División) when he almost saved the club from bankruptcy by pouring two million euros into the company coffers.
He also has two other teams that play in the Mexican league, called Pachuca and León. Currently, he has $62.8 billion in assets, making him the 16th wealthiest man in the world according to Forbes.
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