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Red Bull owns five football teams in Europe and the Americas, while Manchester City is the global leader of a consortium of 13 partner clubs. The French Ligue 1 team Strasbourg was purchased by Chelsea last month, making them the most recent major league team to enter the multi-club ownership market.
Are you familiar with Eagle Football Holdings, King Power International, INEOS, or Pacific Media Group? Additionally, they are ownership groups that own multiple clubs across the world.
While it makes sense that a large portion of the fan base concentrates on player acquisitions, coaching changes, and, come football season, on-field performance, the development of the game off the field is inspiring new ideas in the halls of power.
UEFA research earlier this year revealed that over 6,500 players were employed by teams associated with multi-club structures, which comprised more than 180 clubs globally (compared to fewer than 40 in 2012). Aleksander Ceferin, head of UEFA, stated in response to the revelation that regulations could need to change to let multi-club consortia to proliferate even further.
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“There is more and more interest for this multi-club ownership and we shouldn’t just say no [to] the investments, and for multi-club ownership,” Ceferin stated in March. “But we have to see what kind of rules we set in that case, because the rules have to be strict.”
Six clubs were admitted to European competition in the 2023–24 season by UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) last week, despite a possible conflict of interest arising from shared ownership.
models between Aston Villa and Vitoria Guimaraes, Brighton and Union Saint-Gilloise, and AC Milan and Toulouse. Should INEOS owner Jim Ratcliffe emerge victorious in his bid to acquire Manchester United from the Glazer family, UEFA will need to render a second decision about United’s eligibility to participate in European competition alongside OGC Nice and Lausanne, the other two clubs under INEOS’s ownership.
Likewise, in the event that Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani takes over as Old Trafford’s new owner, any connection between United and Paris Saint-Germain, owned by Qatar, will come under close examination.
