Who owns your club? The 20 Premier League money men! | talkSPORT
Arsenal
Owned by: Stan Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov
Nationality: American and Russian
How they made their money: Kroenke made his money through commerical property and retailing, he also owns NBA team the Denver Nuggets. Usamanov made his fortune in mining and investment but now has stakes in the media and telecommunications.
Worth: Stan Kroenke £1.1billion (2010) Usmanov £10billion (2010)
Aston Villa
Owned by: Randy Lerner
Nationality: American
How they made their money: Through his father's credit card company. Also owns NFL team Cleveland Browns.
Worth: £750million (2009)
Birmingham
Owned by: Carson Yeung
Nationality: Chinese
How they made their money: Ten years ago he was a struggling barber, thought to have made fortunes through stocks and casinos.
Worth: £150million (2009)
Blackburn
Owned by: Venky's Limited
Nationality: Indian
How they made their money: Chicken farming and poultry farming equipment.
Worth: £650million (2009)
Blackpool
Owned by: Owen Oyston and Valeri Belokon
Nationality: English and Latvian
How they made their money: Oyston made his money as an estate agent before investing in media companies. Belokon made his money through finance and media.
Worth: Oyston £105million (2009) Belokon £200million (2010)
Bolton
Owned by: Eddie Davies
Nationality: English
How they made their money: Kettle components including cords, controls and other devices to boil water.
Worth: £100miliion (2009)
Chelsea
Owned by: Roman Abramovich
Nationality: Russian
How they made their money: Oil, steel and mining.
Worth: £8.2billion (2010)
Everton
Owned by: Bill Kenwright, Robert Earl and Jon Woods
Nationality: English
How they made their money: Kenwright made his money as a West End theatre producer for shows including 'Blood Brothers' and 'Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat'. Robert Earl is the founder of Planet Hollywood restuarants and hotels. Jon Woods set up gaming company Ocean Softwares, which made titles for the original games consoles.
Worth: Earl £200milllion (2006), others unknown
Fulham
Owned by: Mohamed Al-Fayed
Nationality: Egyptian
How they made their money: Shipping and oil.
Worth: £650million in 2009. Has since sold Harrods to the Qatari royal family's investment company.
Liverpool
Owned by: Fenway Sports Group
Nationality: American
How they made their money: Through trading and foreign stock exchange, co-founder John W. Henry also owns baseball team Boston Red Sox and many sports grounds in the US.
Worth: £540million (2009)
Manchester City
Owned by: Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Nationality: UAE Abu Dhabi
How they made their money: Brother of the leader of Abu Dhabi, the family has a huge wealth due to oil resources from the country.
Worth: Family is thought to be worth around £425billion (2008)
Manchester United
Owned by: Malcolm Glazer
Nationality: American
How they made their money: Retail shopping centres, fish oil companies and hedge funds. Glazer also owns NFL team Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Worth: £1.6billion (2009)
Newcastle United
Owned by: Mike Ashley
Nationality: English
How they made their money: With sports clothing company Sports Direct International. Ashley owns brands such as Donnay, Kangol, Lonsdale and has stakes in Umbro.
Worth: £1billion (2010)
Stoke City
Owned by: Peter Coates
Nationality: English
How they made their money: Coates owns betting company Bet365.
Worth: £400m (2010)
Sunderland
Owned by: Ellis Short
Nationality: American
How they made their money: In banking and hedge fund management. Now owns Skibo Castle in Scotland, where Madonna got married.
Worth: £1billion (2011)
Tottenham
Owned by: Joe Lewis
Nationality: English
How they made their money: His company, called Tavistock, has its fingers dipped in many pies including oil, gas, pharmacutical, property and sporting events.
Worth: £2.7billion (2011)
West Brom
Owned by: Jeremy Peace (56% stake)
Nationality: English
How they made their money: Through equity banking and security, but he has worked with many other large companies.
Worth: £40m (2010)
West Ham
Owned by: David Sullivan and David Gold each have around a 30% stake and CB Holdings have 35%.
Nationality: CB Holdings are an Icelandic banking company. Both Gold and Sullivan are English.
How they made their money: Sullivan used to own Birmingham City and made his money through *********** publishing. Gold made his money through underwear chains (his daughter now runs Ann Summers), and also owned a pornographic magazine company and charter airline.
Worth: David Gold £525m (2010), David Sullivan £450m (2010)
Wigan
Owned by: Dave Whelan
Nationality: English
How they made their money: Former professional footballer with Blackburn and Crewe, Whelan set a group of supermarkets called Whelan's Discount Stores before buying JJB Sports, now one of the country's largest sports retailers. He also owns fitness clubs and Wigan's JJB Stadium.
Worth: £227m (2010)
Wolves
Owned by: Steve Morgan
Nationality: English
How they made their money: Through the house building company Redrow which he founded in 1974 and leisure group De Vere. He used to have a five per cent stake in Liverpool before buying Wolves in 2007 for the nominal fee of £10 and has since invested £30million in the club.
Worth: £400m (2010)
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