Foreign ownership nears dominance of Big 5 club landscape, US investors lead the influx
April 1 – Just under 40% of the 96 teams in Europe’s Big 5 leagues are controlled by a foreign owner. The English Premier League has 16 clubs under foreign ownership, ten of them owned by US investors.
A report by the Football Benchmark team says that the attraction of owning a major team in these leagues says that the increase in non-domestic ownership has been “prompted by a variety of factors: some owners regard the clubs as prestige assets,
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