A ranked list of the richest NFL owners in the league as of now

A ranked list of the richest NFL owners in the league as of now

Lenah Ann
updated at April 12, 2023 at 8:22 PM

Due to the NFL's dominance of American sports, owning a club is a no-loss scenario. Statistics indicate that the richest NFL owners are bagging more coins. The average NFL club is valued at billions because of the league's soaring team values.

What NFL owner has the highest net worth?
A ranked list of the richest NFL owners in the league as of 2023. Photo: Kevin Sabitus (Modified by author)
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The fact that you need to have considerable financial resources and several zeros in your bank account to buy an NFL club is a well-known fact. These are some of the NFL's wealthiest owners based on net worth.

Who are the richest NFL owners?

According to recent data analysis, the richest NFL owners have been ranked based on their respective net worth. You will find a ranked list from the least richest NFL owners to the wealthiest from the compiled list below.

15. Janice McNair

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Janice Suber McNair makes her way along the sideline before the football game against the Kansas City Chiefs at NRG Stadium on 18 December 2022 in Houston, Texas. Photo: Ken Murray
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  • Team: Houston Texans
  • Net worth: $4.2 billion

Following Robert Bob McNair's death in 2018, Janice McNair, her late husband's widow, acquired 80% of the Houston Texans. Bob sold Cogen Technologies to Enron for $1.5 billion in 1999. It ended up being the biggest privately held energy co-generation firm in the world at the time.

14. Glazer family

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Malcolm Glazer the principal owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers watches the game against the San Francisco 49ers at Raymond James Stadium on 21 November 2004 in Tampa, Florida. Photo: Eliot J Schechter
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  • Team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  • Net worth: $4.7 billion

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were bought in 1995 by real estate and business tycoon Malcolm Glazer. In addition to owning Manchester United, The Glazers sold their shareholding in the club in 2021. Glazer had a wide range of investments at the time of his death in 2014. His family took over ownership of the team.

13. Kim and Terry Pegula

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Terry and Kim Pegula celebrate with Black River Entertainment, Pegula Sports & Entertainment, and the Buffalo Bills on 10 October 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. Photo: Rick Diamond
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  • Team: Buffalo Bills
  • Net worth: $5.7 billion

Terry Pegula had success in the fracking sector. He paid Royal Dutch Shell $4.7 billion in 2010 to purchase the majority of the assets of his business, East Resources. Kim and Terry married in 1993 and paid $189 million to acquire the Buffalo Sabres in 2011. In 2014, they outbid parties led by the late President Donald Trump and Bon Jovi to acquire the Buffalo Bills for $1.4 billion.

12. Steve Bisciotti

Richest NFL owners of all-time
Steve Bisciotti looks on during warmups before the game between the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Ravens on 23 October 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. Photo: Patrick Smith
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  • Team: Baltimore Ravens
  • Net worth: $5.7 billion

In 1983, Steve founded what is now known as Allegis Group with his cousin Jim Davis, a fellow millionaire. Together, they grew into the biggest staffing company in the United States. Following the consent of NFL owners, Biscotti bought 49% of the Baltimore Ravens in 2000. He had the option to buy the remaining 51% from Art Modell for $325 million in 2004 under the terms of the agreement, which he did.

11. Woody and Christopher Johnson

Least richest NFL owners
Christopher Meloni speaks with New York Jets Owner Woody Johnson at the New York Jets vs San Diego Chargers game at The Meadowlands on 6 November 2005 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Photo: Al Pereira
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  • Team: New York Jets
  • Net worth: $6.3 billion

The New York Jets are owned by Woody and Christopher Johnson, two businessmen. They are the successors of the Johnson & Johnson Empire and Robert Wood Johnson's great-grandsons.

10. Arthur Blank

Richest NFL owners as of 2023
Arthur Blank owner of the Atlanta Falcons walks on the sideline prior to a game against the Washington Commanders at FedExField on 27 November 2022 in Landover, Maryland. Photo: Rob Carr
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  • Team: Atlanta Falcons
  • Net worth: $7.2 billion

In 1978, after being let go from their positions at a local hardware shop, Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus co-founded Home Depot. Blank bought the Atlanta Falcons for $545 million in 2002 after he left his position as co-chairman of Home Depot in 2001.

9. Stephen Ross

Richest NFL owners have been ranked
Owner Stephen Ross of the Miami Dolphins looks on prior to the game against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field on 6 November 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Photo: Michael Reaves
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  • Team: Miami Dolphins
  • Net worth: $8.3 billion

Before establishing Related Companies as an affordable housing developer in 1972, Stephen Ross worked as a tax attorney. $60 billion worth of assets have been created or purchased by Related. Ross owns the Miami Dolphins and many restaurant franchises, including Equinox Fitness and SoulCycle.

8. Robert Kraft

Least richest NFL owners
Owner Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots gives a thumbs-up before a game against the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium on 18 December 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: Ethan Miller
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  • Team: New England Patriots
  • Net worth: $8.3 billion

Growing young, Robert Kraft worked as a newspaper salesman. Later, he became wealthy as the owner of the paper and packaging businesses Rand-Whitney and International Forest Products. In 1994, he paid $172 million to buy the New England Patriots.

7. Shahid Khan

Richest and poorest NFL owners
Shad Khan during Tony Boselli's Ring of Excellence ceremony at halftime against the Houston Texans at TIAA Bank Field on 9 October 2022 in Jacksonville, Florida. Photo: Courtney Culbreath
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  • Team: Jacksonville Jaguars
  • Net worth: $8.5 billion

An auto Parts Company located in Illinois, Flex-N-Gate was acquired in 1980 by engineer Shahid Khan. The firm today has 69 factories and more than 26,000 people globally. His one-piece truck bumper design was crucial to his success. In 2012, Khan acquired the Jacksonville Jaguars.

6. Jerry Jones

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Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, on the field before a game against the Indianapolis Colts at AT&T Stadium on 4 December 2022 in Arlington, Texas. Photo: Wesley Hitt
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  • Team: Dallas Cowboys
  • Net worth: $9.1 billion

Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys owner, gained notoriety as an oil wildcatter after investing his first million in the sector in the 1970s. Jones continues to engage in Dallas retail and residential real estate developments in addition to drilling prospects.

5. Stan Kroenke

Richest NFL owners of all-time
Owner of the Los Angeles Rams Stan Kroenke holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy after Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium on 13 February 2022 in Inglewood, California. Photo: Kevin C. Cox
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  • Team: Los Angeles Rams
  • Net worth: $10.7 billion

In addition to owning the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids, and Arsenal Football Club in England, Stan Kroenke is a real estate tycoon. He is married to Ann Walton, the late Bud Walton's daughter, and together they possess more than 1.5 million acres of ranch land spread across the United States and Canada. He also owns around 60 million square feet of real estate.

4. Hunt family

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The Hunt brothers at Victory Night 1984, a Republication gathering of dignitaries and celebrities, hosted by the Hunt Brothers on 6 November 1984 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Photo: Getty Images
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  • Team: Kansas City Chiefs
  • Net worth: $15.3 billion

One of the wealthiest families in America is that of the Hunts. Lamar Hunt, one of H.L. Hunt's 14 children, is the father of Kansas City Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt. The family is still involved in real estate and the oil and gas industries. Additionally, they have a small ownership in the Chicago Bulls and the MLS team FC Dallas. Lamar Hunt participated in the American Football League's founding.

3. David Tepper

Who are the richest NFL owners?
David Tepper looks on in the second quarter during the game between the Charlotte Hornets and the New Orleans Pelicans on 21 March 2022 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo: Jacob Kupferman
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  • Team: Carolina Panthers
  • Net worth: $15.8 billion

David Tepper purchased the Carolina Panthers for $2.8 billion in 2018. Tepper is a manager of hedge funds, and his hedge fund company, Appaloosa Management, oversees assets worth around $13 billion.

2. Jody Allen and Paul G Allen Trust

Richest NFL owners have been ranked
Jody, former Portland Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen's sister prior to the Portland Trail Blazers taking on the Denver Nuggets on 23 October 2019 in Portland, Oregon. Photo: Abbie Parr
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  • Team: Seattle Seahawks
  • Net worth: $20.3 billion

Other wealthy owners on the list are Jody and Paul Allen. Besides NFL and relatable activities, Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and had ownership shares in Portland Trail Blazers, Seattle Sounders, and Seattle Seahawks. As of 2023, Jody is the Seahawks' chairperson with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion.

1. Walton of the Walton-Penner ownership group

  • Team: Denver Broncos
  • Net worth: $59 billion

The Walton-Penner ownership group now owns the Denver Broncos. The Broncos will have their first new owners in 38 years thanks to the partnership of the Walmart heir Rob Walton, Greg Penner, and Carrie Walton-Penner, as well as limited partners Mellody Hobson, Condoleezza Rice, and Lewis Hamilton.

Richest NFL owners as of 2023
Greg Penner, Condoleezza Rice, Rob Walton, Mellody Hobson and Carrie Walton-Penner photographed at the UCHealth Training Center in Centennial, Colorado on 10 August 2022. Photo: Hyoung Chang
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Since the deal was finalised, Walton has been regarded as the NFL's most prosperous owner in terms of wealth. According to Forbes, Walton is twice as wealthy as any other NFL ownership group, with a net worth of $59 billion.

What NFL owner has the highest net worth?

The NFL is a very profitable investment, even after the global epidemic. Franchise values increased when people flocked back to stadiums for the 2021/22 season as the COVID-19 outbreak subsided. The NFL is once again the most lucrative league in sports because of team values, which increased from the previous season.

Some allege that the richest owner in the NFL could be Jeff Bezos, but as of right now, Walton of the Walton-Penner ownership group has that honour. With a net worth of around $500 million, Oakland Raiders owner, Mark Davis, is allegedly NFL's least richest owner.

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Lenah Ann is a Kenyan-based content creator with 2 years of experience. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Mass Media and Communication from Dedan Kimathi, Kenya in 2021.