Mittal richest in British football

Thursday, 08. October 2009 - Arunava Chaudhuri

The latest 'Rich List of British football' was released today by FourFourTwo with Indian business tycoon Lakshmi Mittal the richtest man in professional British football.

Mr. Mittal jumped into the top spot as a 20% owner of west London side Queens Park Rangers FC, who play in the second tier of English football, the Championship.

With his net worth at £18.4 billions (appro. Rs. 1,37 trillion - 1 followed by 12 zeros) Mr. Mittal moved past Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan from the Abu Dhabi royal family, who had been in the top spot last year.

Interesting to note is that many of the owners of English football clubs, not only in the Premier League, are foreign owned and many have recovered some of their losses from the financial downturn.


Top 10

1. Lakshmi N. Mittal £18.4bn (Queens Park Rangers)
2. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan £17bn (Manchester City)
3. Roman Abramovich £7.8bn (Chelsea FC)
4. Joe Lewis £2.5bn (Tottenham Hotspurs)
5. Stan Kroenke £2.079bn (Arsenal FC)

6. Denis O'Brien £1.73bn (Celtic FC)
7. Malcolm Glazer and family £1.5bn (Manchester United)
8. Bernie Ecclestone £1.466bn (Queens Park Rangers)
9. Alisher Usmanov £1.3bn (Arsenal FC)
10. Lord Grantchester and family £1.2bn (Everton FC)


Places 11 to 20

11. Lord Ashcroft £1.1bn (FC Watford)
12. Dermot Desmond £1bn (Celtic FC)
13. Mike Ashley £900m (Newcastle United)
14. Randy Lerner £800m (Aston Villa)
15. Mohamed al-Fayed £650m (Fulham FC)

16. Tom Hicks £500m (Liverpool FC)
17. George Gillett £500m (Liverpool FC)
18. Sir David Murray £450m (Glasgow Rangers)
19. The Walker family £400m (Blackburn Rovers)
19. Peter Coates £400m (Stoke City)
19. Marcus Evans £400m (Ipswich Town)
19. David Sullivan £400m (Birmingham City)