Who Owns Arsenal?

Arsenal is owned by Stan Kroenke, the American businessman, recorded at Companies House as the person with significant control of Arsenal Holdings Limited since 5 October 2018 — the point at which he bought out the remaining shareholders and took the club private. Three holding companies sit between him and the club. Ownership verified 6 September 2026.

Who owns Arsenal?

The club is The Arsenal Football Club Limited (00109244), incorporated on 26 April 1910 as The Woolwich Arsenal Football and Athletic Company Limited — the original name, still on the register.

It is not independently owned. Its registered controller is Arsenal (AFC Holdings) Limited, and above that sit two more companies before the chain reaches a person.

Current owners and shareholding structure

The chain recorded at Companies House:

1. The Arsenal Football Club Limited (00109244) — the club
2. Arsenal (AFC Holdings) Limited (05659803) — 75%+ of shares and votes
3. Arsenal Holdings Limited (04250459) — 75%+ of shares and votes
4. Enos Stanley Kroenke — 75%+ of shares and voting rights, United States, notified 5 October 2018

Kroenke is recorded personally rather than through a corporate vehicle at the top, and his Companies House identity verification is complete — a detail that will become more common as the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act’s verification requirements phase in.

Kroenke Sports & Entertainment is the business through which his sporting interests are run, and holdings are reported at over 99% following the 2018 buyout. The register records his control; the residual percentage is a reported figure.

Key controlling people and entities

Stan Kroenke is the controlling owner. Josh Kroenke, his son, is co-chairman and involved in running the club, but is not a registered person with significant control — a familiar pattern where the person most visible in football coverage is not the person the register names.

Arsenal is also unusual among Premier League clubs in having no minority investor above the PSC threshold and no fan shareholding of any size. The Arsenal Supporters’ Trust holds a small number of shares, well below any level that appears on the register.

Ownership history

Arsenal spent most of its history with dispersed ownership among a small number of wealthy shareholders, and its shares traded rarely and at very high prices. Kroenke began building a stake in 2007 and reached majority control in 2011.

The decisive date is 5 October 2018, when his PSC entry was notified. That marks the compulsory purchase of the remaining shares — including Alisher Usmanov’s long-held minority stake — taking Arsenal from a company with outside shareholders to one under a single owner. Fans who held individual shares, some for decades, were bought out at that point.

Related clubs or investment group

Kroenke Sports & Entertainment holds a substantial portfolio of North American teams alongside Arsenal, including the Los Angeles Rams, Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche.

Those are held by the same owner, not by Arsenal, and they are in different sports and different competitions. Multi-club ownership rules — which restrict clubs under common control from meeting in the same competition — bite on clubs within the same football pyramid or European competition, so a portfolio spread across American sports does not raise the same issue that City Football Group’s football holdings do.

Sources and verification

Every link in the chain comes from the Companies House PSC register, with company numbers given at each step so it can be walked independently. A search for “Arsenal Football Club” returns thousands of companies, many unrelated, so matching by number rather than name matters here.

The reported ownership percentage above 99% is not a register figure — the PSC register records control in bands, and the top band is simply 75% or more. Companies House does not verify most filed information, though Kroenke’s own identity verification is recorded as complete.