Atletico Madrid’s Marcos Llorente celebrates scoring his aspect’s third objective throughout a Champions League opening section soccer match between Atletico Madrid and Union Saint-Gilloise in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.
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MADRID — Atletico Madrid is about to come back beneath American possession.
Apollo Sports activities Capital, an asset administration firm, will turn into the Spanish membership’s majority shareholder early subsequent yr, Atletico introduced on Monday. No monetary particulars had been disclosed.
Chief govt Miguel Ángel Gil and president Enrique Cerezo will keep of their positions to make sure “continuity of imaginative and prescient and management,” the 2 events stated in a joint assertion.
Gil’s place at Atletico has elevated its affect in soccer, as he’s a member of the manager committees at each the influential European Soccer Golf equipment group and UEFA.
The assertion additionally stated the deal for Atletico “just isn’t a part of a multi-club management possession technique.”
“The funding by ASC will reinforce the membership’s place amongst soccer’s elite and help its ambition to ship long-term success for tens of millions of followers worldwide,” Atletico and Apollo stated. “As long-term buyers, ASC and the prevailing shareholders will accomplice with Atlético de Madrid’s administration to boost the membership’s monetary power, sporting competitiveness and neighborhood influence.”
Apollo Sports activities Capital has additionally invested within the Madrid Open and Miami Open tennis tournaments.
The corporate stated it “intends to speculate further capital to help the membership’s long-term plans, together with additional funding in Atlético de Madrid’s groups and in main infrastructure tasks” resembling Ciudad del Deporte, a sports activities and leisure district adjoining to its Metropolitano Stadium residence.
Atletico, coached by Diego Simeone since 2011 and at present fourth in La Liga, is an 11-time Spanish champion, most not too long ago in 2021. The workforce reached the Champions League closing in 2014 and 2016, dropping to Actual Madrid each instances.
Rob Givone, portfolio supervisor at ASC, described Atletico — based in 1903 — as “considered one of Europe’s nice sporting establishments.”
Earlier buyers in Atletico have included Chinese language conglomerate Wanda, which offered its stake to Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer’s Quantum Pacific Group.
