Charlton up for sale again as US owners look to cash in after three years

Charlton’s US owners person enactment the nine up for merchantability conscionable 3 years aft taking implicit astatine the Valley. The Championship’s ownership radical is understood to person engaged Oakwell Sports Advisory to find what would beryllium the club’s 5th owners successful the past six years.

In a income platform sent to imaginable investors, which has been seen by the Guardian, Oakwell describes Charlton arsenic “the past remaining shot nine upside accidental successful London”. Oakwell besides claims that Charlton would supply caller owners with an accidental for 5 to 10 times equity maturation done promotion to the Premier League, commercialized enlargement and concern successful women’s football.

Oakwell did the woody that led to the Bournemouth owner, Bill Foley, buying the Prem rugby nine Exeter Chiefs this summer, and is helping the Rugby Football League to unafraid outer investment, but has small caller past of completing shot transactions.

Charlton’s determination successful south-east London is simply a plus, portion the Valley is simply a modern stadium with capableness of 27,000, but the nine bash not ain the ground, which belongs to the hated erstwhile proprietor Roland Duchâtelet.

Having considered looking astatine alternate sites elsewhere, past twelvemonth Charlton extended the lease connected the Valley until 2040.

Charlton has repeatedly changed hands since the fans succeeded successful forcing retired Duchâtelet successful 2020, erstwhile the nine had 3 owners successful speedy succession. Duchâtelet sold Charlton to East Street Investments for conscionable £1 successful January 2020, but the consortium initially led by the erstwhile shot cause Matt Southall collapsed amid in-fighting and an acrimonious tribunal case, with the nine yet bought by the Danish-American concern Thomas Sandgaard aboriginal that year.

Then successful 2023, Sandgaard sold Charlton to a radical of 5 US investors called Global Football Partners (GFP) led by Gabriel Brener via their UK subsidiary, SE7 Partners.

Under GFP, Charlton returned to the Championship for the archetypal clip successful 5 years successful 2025 by winning the League One playoff final astatine Wembley, portion the women’s squad were promoted to WSL1 past season.

GFP paid astir £15m for Charlton 3 years ago, but having invested successful the stadium and grooming crushed and seen Nathan Jones’s broadside consolidate the nine successful the Championship, volition beryllium looking for respective times that figure.

Charlton declined to comment.