Skip to main content

Investment and English Football

English Football has always attracted wealthy businessmen for investment. Undoubtedly English Football is becoming increasingly important for business honchos to take interest in it. So we have found out the top four investors of English Football.

Let’s have a quick look!!

1: Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour – £20 billion
Sheikh Mansour has a stake in Virgin Galactic, Daimler, and Sky News Arabia. He also just happens to be the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates. But City is not the only club Sheikh Mansour owns, as he controls Melbourne City, New York City, Atletico Torque, and has a minority stake in Yokhoma F. Marinos through City Football Group.

2: Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich – £8 billion
An oil, gas, and metals oligarch, Abramovich made £10 billion when he sold a 73% stake in Sibneft to Gazprom in 2005.
Since Abramovich became owner of Chelsea, the West London club has enjoyed an unprecedented era of success thanks to five Premier League titles, four FA Cups, three League Cups, one Champions League trophy, and one Europa League title.

3. Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke – £5.8 billion
Stan Kroenke developed is wealth having established the commercial real estate empire called Kroenke Group and the Kroenke Sports & Entertainment.

4. Stoke City owners the Coates family – £5 billion
Peter Coates left school at 14-years-old in 1952. After National Service, he became regional manager at a restaurant chain before founding a catering firm that served football grounds.
The Coates family fortune hit fever pitch in 2000 when Peter's daughter Denise set up bet365 in a portacabin. Now one of the world's leading online gambling platforms, bet365 own and sponsor Stoke City, with Peter Coates the club's chairman.

With such whooping investments in English Football, the arena is big in the days to come. Popular clubs like Manchester United, Liverpool etc are also in  this big league comprising of renowned investments. We hope that English Football attracts more fans,  bigger investors and outshines all.




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Yoga

Wrestling requires immense physical and cardiovascular strength and stamina. Yoga eases pain and reduces injury especially for wrestlers who often suffer from shoulder and knee injuries. Increasing shoulder flexibility as well as lower back, hamstrings, chest, and the cervical spine help reduce suffering and injury for wrestlers. Physically, yoga also improves strength, balance, and flexibility. Wrestling is all about focusing on the moment and anticipating the next. Yoga impacts a wrestler’s ability to focus on the present moment. In addition, yoga increases the ability to focus and concentrate. Wrestling on its own cultivates and promotes humility, holding the head high at the end of wins and losses. Yoga increases the wrestler’s ability to stay humble and encourages “work ethic” by stressing the importance of practice and progress, not perfection. In my next blog I will provide a list of Yoga Poses beneficial  for you all.
Post a Comment
Read more

Corporate Investment of Indian Football

India, with its rising population is a country where nearly 50% of the population are below the age of 25 and more than 60% are below the age of 25 which clearly indicates a rising vibrant population in the days to come. At present almost 350 million Indians are under 15 years of age which provides adequate prospects for growth and development of various sectors. Football is the second most popular sport in the country. With the taking place of the Indian Super League (ISL), the youth of the country on a broader context started developing a genuine interest about Indian Football. Reliance Foundation one of the largest business conglomerates of the country initiated their investments in football since then and it kept on changing tracks both at premiere and grassroots level. According to TAM viewership data during the FIFA World Cup 2010, a whopping 20 Million viewers watched the global football tournament in India, which was a 35% rise from FIFA World Cup viewership in 2006. You...
3 comments
Read more

“GULLY” sports of India

India is a country where a person can play different game in every day. The traditional ‘gully’ sports are ‘Kancha’, ‘Gilli Danda’, ‘Pitthoo’, ‘Kho Kho’, ‘Langra Tang’, ‘Lattu’ and Fight of the Kites. The games are quite popular till the date as the young kids are engaged in playing those games. Most of the sports are team game and it requires skill of the players to play the game in a very smooth manner. There are rules and regulations for every single game which are to be followed by the players, but the rules are quite simple. The games can be played by both girls and boys, to meet the number of players they can also play together. The kancha is the game of marbles where the object of playing is to collect as many as you can by striking the opponent’s marbles.  The marbles are easily available in any locality which is the only object in the game. These marbles are very cheap in cost and it can be easily afforded by the small kids. The Gilli Danda is the game of team wher...
Post a Comment
Read more