| Until the council sell the land at Portman Road ... 10:41 - Mar 6 with 3616 views | NotSure |
... then no owner will be interested in buying us.
I think this is what is stopping Evans selling the club. There can't be many other clubs with such a weird situation where the owner of the stadium doesn't own the land it's on! |  | | |  |
| Until the council sell the land at Portman Road ... on 15:42 - Mar 6 with 412 views | jeera |
| Until the council sell the land at Portman Road ... on 13:27 - Mar 6 by NotSure |
Wow that's good research.
I thought we were in a fairly unique situation but it seems lots of councils own the land and/or stadium. Guess the real reason he can't sell the club is because he wants his £100 million pounds back! |
Please stop making things up. |  |
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| Until the council sell the land at Portman Road ... on 16:06 - Mar 6 with 396 views | Guthrum |
| Until the council sell the land at Portman Road ... on 15:41 - Mar 6 by Oxford_Blue |
I doubt it’s an issue.
What is stopping the club being sold is the £6m a year loss it makes. |
That would rule out the sale of pretty much any club (below the very top end of the Prem). |  |
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| Until the council sell the land at Portman Road ... on 16:22 - Mar 6 with 388 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Until the council sell the land at Portman Road ... on 15:41 - Mar 6 by Oxford_Blue |
I doubt it’s an issue.
What is stopping the club being sold is the £6m a year loss it makes. |
Prospective owners would be well aware of the constraints on all football clubs too, wouldn't they? They'd know most clubs need owner financing to make them work.
I'd have thought we'd be a reasonably attractive proposition. Great facilities for a club in this division, both PR and training ground with a decent-sized support to boot. We are the makings of a PL club if someone could find the right formula. And as we fall lower we become cheaper with greater potential on return.
All depend on whether ME would want to sell us and his valuation, of course. He's already mentioned he's bounced back one or two prospective bidders because they didn't meet his valuation (I think). |  |
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| Until the council sell the land at Portman Road ... on 17:34 - Mar 6 with 363 views | ghostofescobar |
| Until the council sell the land at Portman Road ... on 13:20 - Mar 6 by Swansea_Blue |
(edit - added Ricoh arena.
Ok, done a bit of lunchtime homework for you good people. The OP was specifically talking about situations where land and stadium have different owners. That's hard to find out quickly, but finding ownership of the stadium is easy, so we can see how common it is for land/stadia to not be owned for the club (and therefore probably not a big deal, although smarty pants Phil has already confirmed this anyway so I've wasted my time). Bet here's the list anyway!
The list below are those where the club doesn't own the ground directly. I've included cases where the club owners may own grounds via another company, but it's not directly owned by the club itself (not sure if that's significant). IThe list may not be 100% accurate, depends on information from wiki and football-stadiums.co.uk.
PREMIER LEAGUE:
- London Stadium - Greater London Authority
- The Etihad — Manchester City Council
- Anfield — owned by club owners separately, Fenway Sports Group
- St James’ Park - Newcastle City Council
- King Power Stadium — owned by King Power International Group (club owners)
- Molineux — Wolverhampton City Council
- Falmer — The Community Stadium Limited (which I think is a separate company owned/part controlled by Brighton’s owners). Nb. Big lesson here for all clubs — old owners of previous ground, Goldstone Ground, sold the ground from under the club without lining up a replacement.
- Family Tinder Stadium — hard to confirm who owns Carrot Road, but think it’s the club (strangely, only ground with no info — probably helps with insurance scams  )
- Turf Moor - Turf Moor Properties Ltd (stadium ownership company set up by club’s co-Chairmen). Effectively club owned now — but was owned by another private company up until 2013/14.
- Vitality Stadium — sold to London-based property company, Stuctadene, in 2005 (presumably to raise cash) & now leased back. They were trying to buy it back in 2006, but seems they couldn’t agree a deal.
CHAMPIONSHIP:
- Hillsborough — owned separately by the owner, not the club
- Elland Road — Leeds only bought it back in 2017, held by parent company
- Pride Park — owned by owner Mel Morris
- City Ground, Forest — land owned by Council, stadium by club
- KCOM — owned by Hull City Council / KCOM
- Madejski — owned by RFC Holdings Ltd (whoever they are)
- Kirklees Stadium — shared ownership Huddersfield Council / Huddersfield / Huddersfield Giants
- Oakwell - owned by Barnsley Council
- The Den — owned by Lewisham Council
- Kenilworth Road — owned by Luton Borough Council
- Ricoh Arena, Coventry - Wasps Holdings Ltd. We all know what's been happening there.
LEAGUE 1:
- Stadium MK — owned by Inter MK, whose MD is also the MK Dons Chairman (Pete Winkleman) — not quite sure about how that ownership model all works
- FPR — council obvs
- London Road/ABAX/ Weston Homes Stadium— not sure, but Posh owners were trying to “buy back the ABAX Stadium from the local authority” in Jan 19.
- Kassam Stadium — owned by Firoka Group, the company of ex-owner of Oxford Utd, Firoz Kassam (he sold club in 2006 but retained ownership of stadium -something we wouldn’t want to see happen to FPR)
- Highbury Stadium (Fleetwood) - Wyre Borough Council [Post edited 6 Mar 2020 13:39]
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Quiet Friday?? Great research though. |  |
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