Foreign ownership is reshaping Italian football with almost 25% of professional clubs now controlled by overseas investors, the majority coming from the USA. Serie B side Monza have become the latest Italian club controlled by foreign owners, as New York-based venture capital firm Beckett Layne Ventures confirmed on Thursday that they had acquired an 80% stake in the Brianzoli.
As reported by TMW, nearly 25% of professional Italian football clubs are now owned by foreign investors, and most of them come from the USA. Over half of Serie A clubs are now under foreign ownership. Among them are giants like Milan, Inter and Roma. In total, American investors hold controlling stakes in eight teams at the top level of Italian football.
