{"id":303629,"date":"2026-02-18T03:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303629\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T03:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:55:09","slug":"birmingham-citys-us-owners-complete-takeover-of-womens-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303629\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City’s US owners complete takeover of women’s team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birmingham City’s owners have completed the purchase of the women’s team, with England and Blues legend Karen Carney part of several independent investors involved in the deal.<\/p>\n

Shelby Companies Limited (SCL) are a subsidiary of Knighthead Capital Management – an investment firm co-founded by Blues chairman Tom Wagner.<\/p>\n

They bought a controlling share of the Championship club in July 2023 before increasing that to a full takeover last November.<\/a><\/p>\n

They have now acquired a 97% stake in the women’s side.<\/p>\n

The remaining 3% has been taken up by a group of “prominent female business leaders and global professional sporting icons” including 144-cap Carney and three-time US Open tennis champion Kim Clijsters.<\/p>\n

In a statement,, external<\/a> the club said the deal “will elevate the focus on the women’s team” and “deliver on the stated ambition to compete at the highest levels in the women’s game”.<\/p>\n

They added there would be “no immediate changes to staffing or football operations” following the takeover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City’s owners have completed the purchase of the women’s team, with England and Blues legend Karen Carney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-303629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}