Premier League owners: All you need to know about them

The English Premier league is the premier sports league in the world for a reason. Not only is the footballing action a notch above almost all other leagues, but it also attracts the world’s leading business barons. 

The owners of Premier League clubs are some of the richest people in the world. From Abramovich to Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, we take a look at the owners of the clubs playing in the Premier League.

The clubs have been arranged in alphabetical order.

AFC Bournemouth – Maxim Demin

Owner of newly promoted Premier League team AFC Bournemouth, Maxim Demin is a Russian businessman who lives in Switzerland. The Russian first became co-owner of the club in 2011 before taking full ownership of the club in 2013.

Maxim Demin spent around £25 million to get Bournemouth to the Premier League. In 2015, he sold a 25% share in the club to Peak 6 Investments, although he still remains the majority shareholder of the Cherries.

Demin is in the petrochemical industry and he owns the company Wintel Petrochemicals Limited. Extremely reclusive, the Russian tycoon is yet to ever give an interview to the English media. Demin is one of the main reasons why Bournemouth are currently playing in the Premier League.

Arsenal – Stan Kroenke (Arsenal Holdings Plc)

The largest shareholder of the Premier League giants Arsenal is American Enos “Stan” Kroenke. As of June 2015, Kroenke owns 41,698 shares (67.02%) and Red & White Securities own 18,695 shares (30.04%).

Red & White securities is owned by one of the richest people in the world, Alisher Usmanov. Arsenal is among the most valuable football clubs in the world with the Deloitte Money League ranking them as the seventh most valuable club in the world.

Kroenke owns a number of sports team across the world with the Colorado Rapids and Los Angeles Rams some of the other famous teams he owns. The American was estimated to be worth around USD 8 billion by Forbes in 2016.