Foreign ownerships in Italian Football

Robert Platek has bought a majority stake in Spezia and there are now seven Serie A clubs with foreign ownerships.

From Left: Inter Manager Antonio Conte, AC Milan Manager Stefano Pioli and AS Roma Manager Paulo Fonseca. Photo of Conte: Claudio Villa - Inter/Inter via Getty Images. Photo of Pioli: Marco Luzzani/Getty Images. Photo of Fonseca: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images

The American businessman announced to have completed Spezia’s takeover today.

“We are happy for the acquisition of Spezia Calcio,” the statement from the Platek family read.

“Serie A is the elite and for some time we have been looking for an opportunity to partner with an Italian club whose mission, ethos and ethics we appreciated.”

Platek is the seventh foreign owner in Serie A, but there are many more in lower divisions such as Serie B and Serie C.

Serie A sides Inter, Milan, Parma, Bologna, Fiorentina and Roma have foreign owners and the same is true of historical clubs in lower divisions such as Venezia, Pisa, Como and Padova.

According to Football-italia - Find out which Italian clubs are run by foreign businessman.

CLUB	OWNER	COUNTRY
League:	Serie A
Bologna FC	Joey Saputo	Canada
Fiorentina	Rocco Commisso	USA
Inter Milan	Suning	China
AC Milan	Elliott	USA
Parma FC	Kyle Krause	USA
AS Roma	Dan Friedkin	USA
Spezia	Robert Platek	USA
League:	Serie B
Pisa	Alexandre Knaster	Russia
Venezia	VFC Newco	USA
League:	Serie C
Como	Sent Entertainment	Great Britain
Padova	Joseph Oughorlian	France
Triestina	Mauro Biasin	Australia