Spanish football with foreign money: 33% of the clubs depend on owners from other countries

• This is how Sporting de Gijón passed into the hands of a Mexican group: 42 million, a journalist and many unknowns

Eight out of twenty

in the

and

also counting the

.

of Spanish

football clubs belong, for the most part, to

.

A figure that has not stopped growing in recent years and now marks a new record with the landing of US

and

at the offices of

,

and

.

The Asturian team, which is now owned by the

group in exchange for

euros, is the latest protagonist of a constant that has not stopped since millionaires like

or

arrived at

and

more than one of each.

Almost histrionic characters that ten years later will end up sitting in court denounced by the organizations that one day dreamed of becoming

teams .

The two of them were the beginning of a movement that was

at first , with

and

, but now, with his exceptions, he is more logical and calm, more professional.

There are

, fewer star signings and more long - term work looking to lay foundations and

.

According to a study by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, foreign investment in Spanish sport broke its record figure in 2021, reaching

, nine times more than in 2020. An amount of which football is the main recipient.

The American group

put 120 million to enter, although not with a majority, in the shareholding of

;

, the company of Chinese billionaire

, injected 50 million into

, a club he has owned since 2016;

while a few months ago the American investment fund

took over 51% of

, a club now chaired by

, who also has part of

along with

.

Foreign owners soccer

Three promotions with foreign capital

During the 21-22 academic year,

were the five clubs with foreign ownership.

Those from Mestalla are the most mediatic, the result of the constant controversy surrounding the figure of

a businessman from Singapore and owner of the club since 2014. He has won a Copa del Rey, but the eternal construction of the New Mestalla, the bad relationship with the fans and the string of coaches that have been burning on the bench leave a black decade for the chés.

Granada, Espanyol, Mallorca and Elche

represent this more balanced side of foreign capital.

The first two, with the Chinese

and Yansheng, have reached the Europa League, while the last two, owned by the American

and the Argentine

, have stabilized in the First Division.

Coincidence or not, next season three clubs whose ownership is based beyond our borders will join the League.

They have promoted the

of

, advisor to the court of

;

's

and

Girona

, one of the clubs that are part of the

, the

society .

,

,

, recently bought by the Mexican

and his company

, will remain in Second

;

, still in the

hands of Al Thani awaiting sale and

owned by Mexican

.

In addition, since the First RFEF

has risen , whose largest shareholder is the Qatari group

.

But foreign money is not only used to take over the properties of the clubs, but also feeds the budgets of the teams, being an important part of the shareholding, as is the case of the Americans Ares Management and

, of the Israeli

, in the

.

Something similar is also happening in

, where

, an investment group from the

, is waiting for the opportunity to gain space from

and

, the other two parts of the Nervión property.

Madrileños and Sevilla players were third and fourth in the last league, just behind

, the only clubs in the League, along with

, which are not public limited sports companies and

.

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