Who owns football

NFC North. NFC South. NFC West. AL East. AL Central. AL West. NL East. NL Central. NL West. West Ham United Wolves. Bloom, 51, is a professional poker player and sports bettor with a long association with Brighton. He has been chairman of the club since and oversaw their promotion to the Premier League for the first time in 34 years during the season.

Benham, 52, is a lifelong Brentford fan and watched his first game at the age of He also owns Danish club FC Midtjylland. Unbeknownst to fans, as a "mystery investor" he propped up the club in when it became the first professional team in London to be owned by its fans.

His full takeover has seen Brentford promoted to the Premier League in the playoffs and a string of encouraging results - including a draw with Liverpool and win over West Ham. Along with his business partner and fellow West Ham owner Gold, he worked in the porn industry for several decades. They made a number of big changes, including a new manager, chief executive and sporting director, on top of several player signings. It saw Villa achieve their longest winning streak in the season and them re-promoted to the Premier League.

Parish made his money in computer graphic design and was once earmarked to appear as a dragon on Dragons' Den. Pozzo, 55, is an Italian multi-millionaire businessman, who bought Watford alongside his father from previous owner Laurence Bassini in June Although he has very little contact with the players, he is often seen at Watford's training ground and studies analytics of the players' performance. Despite this, the club went bust and was forced to start again in the lowest tier of Scottish football.

Rangers proud history of sporting success was broken by financial mismanagement. In the UK, football clubs can be bought and sold like second-hand cars. Johnstone believes that Germany, where almost all clubs are fan owned, offers a better model. Fan ownership means that German supporters have a much stronger voice in the way the game is run than their English or Scottish counterparts.

As well as the money involved, success in football brings with it prestige and it is also a very reliable way to elicit good will from the public at large. So it is no surprise that the game has become an attractive investment prospect for many millionaires and billionaires across the world.

Click here for richest Premier League club owners. The sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia purchased an 80 per cent stake in Newcastle in October to complete a takeover that had been blocked by the Premier League just six months before. The Public Investment Fund has made major investments in companies and projects around the world, including the United States, Russia, India, France and Brazil among others.