Fenway Sports Group has agreed to sell roughly a third of Liverpool to a consortium fronted by Jeff Bezos, in a deal that hands the Amazon founder a stake in the reigning Premier League champions without putting him on the club's board.
The buying group, formally named 1892 Holdings after Liverpool's founding year, is led by the British-Indian businessman Amit Bhatia, son-in-law of steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, ONE reported. Bhatia will become Liverpool's new vice-chairman and join an expanded board, while Bezos's investment vehicle, K5, takes a financial position without a seat at the table.
Also in the group are Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder, and his wife Elaine, investing through their family office EE Capital, along with trusts tied to the Mittal family. K5's Bryan Baum and Elaine Saverin are expected to join the board alongside Bhatia.
The stake sold is close to 30% of the club, according to the reporting, valuing Liverpool at somewhere between £5 billion and £6 billion — figures that translate to roughly $7 billion to $7.45 billion and make this the largest single investment ever made in a football club, eclipsing Sir Jim Ratcliffe's 2024 purchase of a stake in Manchester United, which valued that club at around $5.8 billion.
Fenway Sports Group, which bought Liverpool outright for £300 million back in 2010, will keep majority ownership and day-to-day operational control of the club. The American group first opened talks over outside investment earlier this year as it weighed how to fund the club's next phase of growth without ceding command.
Crucially, the new investors have also secured an option to buy out FSG entirely and become Liverpool's controlling owners within the next 12 months, at a valuation understood to be in the region of $8 billion — a mechanism that leaves open the possibility of a full change of control down the line even as FSG insists it intends to stay on.
FSG president Mike Gordon framed the move as strengthening rather than diluting the club's direction. "Liverpool was always built thinking beyond one season," he said, adding that the new partners' experience "will complement the strong foundation already here."
Bhatia, for his part, struck a similar note of continuity. "We are investing because we deeply believe in Liverpool and its leadership, and expect to support the club's continued success," he said.
The deal is still subject to regulatory approvals and standard closing conditions, and reporting on both sides of the Atlantic has stressed it does not come with a promise of fresh transfer funds — the investment is structured as ownership capital, not a war chest for Arne Slot's squad.
For a club that went from a £300 million takeover to a valuation north of £5 billion in sixteen years, the arrival of one of the world's richest men as a passive shareholder is another marker of how far the Premier League's financial ceiling has risen — and of how much appetite remains among global capital for a stake in England's most successful clubs.
