The benefits of having various types of football club ownership styles with modern examples.

[Cory Kris]

Association football has changed in lots of ways since its foundation.

A comparatively brand new type of soccer team ownership model that has emerged in the past few years is that of state-owned sovereign wealth funds. These are led by countries that generally wish to diversify their economies from a solitary dominant sector. Owning a football club not merely is an investment itself, but also can represent to the globe that the country is available for business in completely new sectors. The football groups on their own can gain because they generally have access to more funds than is usually open to an individual or a business. The club in which Yousef Al-Obaidly is a board member of, for instance, is one of the more successful clubs of the previous decade and brought a greater degree of competitive variety to the European stage.

There exists a large amount of discussion in soccer about who truly owns a soccer club. While the owners of a football club are the ones that lawfully are in control of the club, it's argued they are just custodians, and that the true owners are the fans because they possess the heart and soul of a soccer team. There are, however, groups that are literally owned by the fans. Some have a board of directors consisting of separate businesspeople and previous players, like Oliver Kahn, but most of the ownership is held by fans whom pay to be official club members. Corporations may possess shares of these groups too, nevertheless the fans are the ones which have the real deciding votes and prevent the club from having total outside ownership. Fan-ownership may avoid really extreme modifications from occurring that may take place under alternative ownership models, such as relocation to a different city or changing the club's name.

Plenty of professional football clubs are owned by other companies. Many individuals are football fans and that includes many people in the commercial world. They might have dreamed of becoming a football player or coach, and ownership will be the best chance of them to enter top level sport. Soccer is a very costly sport, rendering it hard to earn profits, but it is highly popular, so that the advertising possibilities are limitless. If a company could be connected with a soccer team, it is possible to reach fans all around the globe, and ownership is amongst the best methods to get it done. The ownership can be costly, nevertheless the company may make it back in sales of their products or services. Not many people outside of Thailand would know the name of the business owned by Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, but since their father led the business into purchasing a famous football club, their name is famous across the world.