Top 11 richest owners in football for 2023 ranked from Jim Ratcliffe at Manchester United to Newcastle’s Saudi billionaires
Football has transformed into one of the richest sports in the world, with numerous wealthy owners pumping billions into it every season.
From the Premier League to Major Soccer League, teams have some of the world's richest people financially supporting them — but which owners are the richest of them all?
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's £140m purchase of Chelsea in in 2003 started the modern phenomena of the rich pumping crazy amounts of cash into football clubs.
Now Newcastle, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have billions behind them.
Here, talkSPORT.com ranks the top 11 richest owners in football today in 2023 and details how those wealthy figureheads got to be part of the elite club transforming the game into a money making machine.
Worth £5.8bn as of November 2023, 60-year-old Jindong is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur.
He is the co-creator turned honorary chairman of Suning.com, a retail logistics companies and became majority stakeholder of Inter Milan in 2016, taking 68.55 per cent of the club.
Under their ownership, Inter have won just one Serie A title, with former boss Antonio Conte in 2021, and two domestic cups under current head coach Simone Inzaghi.
Qatari businessman Al-Khelaifi appeared twice on the ATP main tour, losing both clashes, but grew a relationship with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim as a result. He then became chairman of Qatar Sports Investments, who later bought PSG, and has £6.3bn at his disposal as of 2021.
Al-Khelafi became chairman and CEO of Ligue Un's Paris Saint-Germain in 2011. In his first full season, PSG won the French top flight for the first time since 1994 and made it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
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