December 19, 2021 at 4:45 PM by Thomas
They are for the majority, owned by single individuals, some are in the hands of an investment fund (LOSC) or states, (ESTAC and PSG), otherwise a group of several shareholders (RC Strasbourg); here is for the synthesized table, owners of French Ligue 1 clubs, this 2021-2022 season.
Stade Rennais has the richest owners in international sport
All these leaders are not egalitarian on financial heritage. France has this particularity of having the richest individual football club owner on the planet, in the person of François Pinault and his family. At the head of the Kering group, centered in the world of luxury and fashion, they are based on a fortune estimated by Forbes, in 2021, to 43 billion euros.
From Pinault to McCourt at OM, six billionaires in Ligue 1
From Pinault to Rennes, to Frank McCourt at OM, Ligue 1 counts six billionaire owners or estimated as such. Knowing that there are necessarily subtleties, as for example in Troyes or at PSG, which are both under the governance of state funds (the United Arab Emirates for the promoted and Qatar, in Paris ); we then put the two sovereigns of each country and their estimated fortune in the press.
PSG and ESTAC have sovereign wealth funds, the investment LOSC. And ASSE is for sale
There is no one-size-fits-all. The fortunes of owners of Ligue 1 clubs, to be found in the full table on page two, are estimates that we have identified from several sources: Forbes, Bloomberg, The team, Challenge, Money, Celebrity Net Worth Where The echoes. Currently, at least one club AS Saint-Etienne is officially for sale, those who run it looking for buyers with more resources than they have. Recently, Angers SCO would also be. Because the crisis has raised several limits in French football and expressed the need for new liquidity, so that France and its football elite, remain somewhat competitive.
The fortune of the owners of the clubs of the Ligue 1 season 2021-2022
| Last name | Club | Estimated fortune |
|---|---|---|
| Pinault family | Rennais Stadium | € 43 billion |
| Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (City Group) | ESTAC Troyes | € 26.8 billion |
| Jim Ratcliffe (INEOS) | OGC Nice | € 13.2 billion |
| Dmitry Rybolovlev | AS Monaco | € 5.8 billion |