Premier League owners: All you need to know about them

Manchester City – Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (City football group)

The deputy prime minister of United Arab Emirates, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, also known as Sheikh Mansour, hails from a moneyed family with a fortune of about $500 billion. Mansour is also the step-brother of the incumbent president of the UAE, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

He is the head of the Supreme Petroleum Council, and a part of the board of directors of International Petroleum Investment Company, besides possessing shares in Virgin Galactic, a commercial spaceflight company. In 2008, he bought Manchester City for a whopping $1.5 billion. If that wasn’t enough, he also launched his MLS club, New York F.C. in 2015.

Sheikh Mansour tops this list of Premier League owners by a mile, with an estimated net worth of $31.5 billion.

Manchester United – Glazer family

Malcolm Glazer who passed away at 85, was an American-Lithuanian businessman. He was the founding chairman of First Allied Corporation (FAC), a company owning several shopping centers across the United States. Moreover, he has stakes in Tonka and Harley Davidson.

In 1995, he bought the NFL franchise, Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Under him, the Buccaneers won their first Super Bowl Championship in 2003. In the same year, Glazer purchased about 28% shares in Manchester United, hence gaining the controlling power. By 2005, he went to acquire 100% stake in the club. Increase in debt, however, meant that he had to take the club back to the share markets, in 2012, to raise funds.

The Glazer family net worth is valued at $4.5 billion.

After Malcolm Glazer passed away, the club is now run by Joel and Avram Glazer.