Famous 10 Football Clubs History

“The Barcelona born Juan Padrós was one of the founders of Real Madrid and its first official president. Along with his brother Carlos and other former members of the ‘Foot Ball Club Sky’, on the 6^th of March 1902 he founded the ‘Madrid Foot Ball Club’, which was the original name of Real Madrid.

The Spanish giants are not owned by any corporation, individual, or consortium. Instead, fans can purchase membership in the club. Members are known as “Socios” and pay a small per-year fee of €150 for membership. Once an individual has been a member for 50 years, the membership fee is waived. –

Cristiano Ronaldo

Ronaldo Nazario

Luis Figo

Kaka

Karim Bezema

Roberto Carlos

Vinicius JR

Camavinga

Nacho Fernandez and many more.

also known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The club was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, Catalan, German, and English footballers led by Joan Gamper

In a unique twist that sets Barcelona Football Club apart from many other football giants, the club is owned by its fans, known as “Socios.” This distinctive ownership model grants a voice to the supporters, allowing them to participate in key decisions through a democratic voting process

Lionel Messi

Inesieta

Xavi

Neymar JR

Luis Suarez

Robert Lewandowski

Ronald Araujo

Ander Ter Stegen

Joao Cancelo

AC Milan was founded as Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club in 1899 by English expatriate Herbert Kilpin. The club claims 16 December of that year as their foundation date, but historical evidence seems to suggest that the club was actually founded a few days earlier, most likely on 13 December.

RedBird bought Italian soccer champions AC Milan last August 2022 in a 1.2 billion euro deal that also involved the owners of the New York Yankees baseball team.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Kaka

Paulo Maldini

Ruud Guilit

Andrea Pirlo

Franco Baresi

Oliver Giroud

Rafeal Leao

Christian Pulisic

Theo Hernandez

The team is based in the city of Milan. Inter was formed by a breakaway group of players from the Milan Cricket and Football Club (now known as AC Milan) who wanted their club to accept more foreign players.

Chinese Suning Holdings Group is the current majority stakeholder and owner of Inter Milan after securing a deal to purchase 68.5% of the club in 2016. As part of the deal, Hong Kong-based private equity firm LionRock Capital also holds a 35% stake, alongside other minority shareholders.

Javier Zanneti

Lautaro Martinez

Marcus Thuram

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Ronaldo Nazario

Samuel Eto’o

city of Naples

Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli (pronounced [ˈnaːpoli]), is an Italian professional football club based in the city of Naples that plays in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. They are the reigning champions of Italy, having won the Serie A title in the 2022–23 season.

Napoli’s owner is Aurelio De Laurentiis

Diego Maradona

Victor Oshiemen

Kvaratskhelia

Giovanni Di Lorenzo

Juventus was founded as Sport-Club Juventus in late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo d’Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, among them Eugenio Canfari and Enrico Canfari. It was renamed as Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later. The club joined the 1900 Italian Football Championship.

About 53% of Exor is owned by the Agnellis, whose patriarch, Giovanni Agnelli, founded the automaker Fiat. He acquired Juventus in 1923. The holding company has a market cap of over $21 billion.

Paul Pogba

Cristiano Ronaldo

Paulo Dybala

Adrien Rabiot

Gleison Bremer

Paris Saint-Germain Football Club was founded in August 1970 after the merger of Paris Football Club and Stade Saint-Germain. PSG made an immediate impact, winning promotion to Division 1 and claiming the Division 2 title in their first season.

Bought by Qatar Sports Investments.

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, has been PSG’s owner since 2011 through Qatar Sports Investments (QSI). PSG’s Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi in 2021. QSI acquired a majority stake in June 2011 and then became the club’s sole owner in March 2012.

PSG’s some good players-

Lionel Messi

Kylian Mbappe’

Antoine Grezieman

Neymar Jr

Ronaldino

Edison Cavanni

Donnaruma

Founded in 1880 as St. Mark’s (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894

Manchester City’s owner, Sheikh Mansour, has predominantly amassed his personal wealth from his International Petroleum Investment Company. He has also been the United Arab Emirates deputy prime minister and minister of the presidential court.

Man City’s players-

Erling Halland

Kevin De Bryune

Julian Alvarez

Phil Foden

Riyad Mahrez

Sergio Aguero.

was founded in 1900 and has become Germany’s most famous and successful football club. Almost all of Bayern’s success has come since the 1960s. Bayern Munich was formed when members of the MTV 1879 Munich sports club broke away to form their own club.

The predominant ownership of Bayern Munich rests with its members, represented by FC Bayern München e.V., which possesses a 75% stake in Bayern Munich AG. The remaining 25% is evenly divided among three corporate giants – Adidas, Allianz, and Audi – with each holding an 8.3% share.

Bayern Munich’s some good players-

Harry Kane

Robert Lewandowski

Alphonso Davies

Manuel Neur

was founded following a dispute between the Everton committee and John Houlding, club president and owner of the land at Anfield. After eight years at the stadium, Everton relocated to Goodison Park in 1892 and Houlding founded Liverpool F.C. to play at Anfield.

Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Limited (LFC) belong solely to Fenway Sports Group LLC, managed by the dynamic duo of John Henry and Tom Werner. It’s an ownership structure with a shared vision for the club’s success.

Liverpool FC’s  some good players-

Mohamed Salah

Darwin nunez

Virgil Van DIJK

Cody Gakpo

Allison Becker

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-Diyan V Sarkale