{"id":726623,"date":"2026-08-03T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726623\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:04:10","slug":"charlton-up-for-sale-again-as-us-owners-look-to-cash-in-after-three-years-charlton-athletic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726623\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlton up for sale again as US owners look to cash in after three years | Charlton Athletic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlton\u2019s US owners have put the club up for sale just three years after taking over at the Valley. The ownership group is understood to have engaged Oakwell Sports Advisory to find what would be the club\u2019s fifth owner in the past six years.<\/p>\n

In a sales deck sent to potential investors, which has been seen by the Guardian, Oakwell describes Charlton as \u201cthe last remaining football club upside opportunity in London\u201d. Oakwell also claims that Charlton would provide new owners with an opportunity for five to 10 times equity growth through promotion to the Premier League, commercial expansion and investment in women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n

Oakwell did the deal that led to the Bournemouth owner, Bill Foley, buying the Prem rugby club Exeter Chiefs<\/a> this summer, and is helping the Rugby Football League to secure external investment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Charlton\u2019s location in south-east London is a plus, while the Valley is a modern stadium with a capacity of 27,000, but the club do not own the ground, which belongs to the hated former owner Roland Duch\u00e2telet<\/a>. Having considered looking at alternative sites, last year Charlton extended the lease on the Valley until 2040.<\/p>\n

Charlton have repeatedly changed hands since the fans forced out Duch\u00e2telet<\/a> in 2020, when the club had three owners in quick succession. Duch\u00e2telet sold Charlton to East Street Investments<\/a> for just \u00a31 in January 2020, but the consortium led initially by the former football agent Matt Southall collapsed amid in\u2011fighting and an acrimonious court case, with the club eventually bought by the Danish-American business Thomas Sandgaard<\/a> later that year. In 2023, Sandgaard sold Charlton to a group of five US investors called Global Football Partners (GFP) led by Gabriel Brener via their UK subsidiary, SE7 Partners.<\/p>\n

Under GFP, Charlton returned to the Championship for the first time in five years in 2025 by winning the League One playoff final<\/a> at Wembley, while the women\u2019s team were promoted to WSL1 last season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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GFP paid around \u00a315m for Charlton three years ago but, having invested in the stadium and training ground and seen Nathan Jones\u2019s side consolidate the club in the Championship<\/a>, will be looking for several times that figure. Charlton declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlton\u2019s US owners have put the club up for sale just three years after taking over at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}