Top 10 Richest Soccer Club Owners

In a recent issue of FourFourTwo magazine, it is reported that Chelsea’s billionaire owner Roman Abramovich has been toppled from the summit of the Football Rich List.
 
Abramovich is not spared from the global financial meltdown. He has lost £3bn in the recession and is now worth £7bn. That is less than half the wealth of the new man at the top of the list.  Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, estimated to be worth £15bn now occupied the top spot.

There are 11 billionaires and 25 new entries in the Top 100.  FourFourTwo researched and published the Football Rich List annually.

Some of the new entries are foreigners – like Sheikh Mansour and the new No.2 Lakshmi Mittal, who has joined Formula 1 entrepreneurs Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore in investing in QPR.  The new England manager Fabio Capello is also a new entry.  He is worth an estimated £25m with a £6m a year contract and a £10m private art collection.

In the top 10 richest soccer club owners, we have 2 owners having £1.1b jointly occupying the 10th spot in the Rich List.

The Top 10 + 10 richest soccer club owners on the Football Rich List are:

1. Shekh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nayan (Manchester City) £15bn
2. Lakshmi Mittal & family (QPR) £12.5bn
3. Roman Abramovich (Chelsea) £7bn
4. Joe Lewis (Tottenham Hotspur) £2.5bn
5. Bernie & Slavica Ecclestone (QPR) £2.4bn
6. Stanley Kroenke (Arsenal) £2.245bn
7. Alisher Usmanov (Arsenal) £1.5bn
8= Lord Grantchester & The Moores Family (Everton) £1.2bn
8= Dermot Desmond (Celtic) £1.2bn
10= Lord Ashcroft (Watford) £1.1bn
10= Malcolm Glazer & family (Manchester United) £1.1b
12. Simon Keswick (Cheltenham Town) £966m
13. Trevor Hemmings (Preston North End) £900m
14. Mike Ashley (Newcastle United) £800m
15. Randy Lerner (Aston Villa) £750m
16. Tom Hicks (Liverpool) £700m
17. The Walker Family (Blackburn Rovers) £660m
18. Mohammed al-Fayed (Fulham) £650m
19. Sir David Murray (Glasgow Rangers) £600m
20. Steve Morgan (Wolves) £400m