Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin buy into Liverpool FC in record $7.1 billion deal

Jeff Bezos and Eduardo Saverin, two of the world's wealthiest men, have bought into Liverpool Football Club, joining a billionaire consortium that has acquired roughly 30% of the Premier League giant from Fenway Sports Group at a record valuation of approximately $7.1 billion.

The deal, confirmed by FSG on Friday, is structured through 1892 Holdings, a consortium led and managed by businessman Amit Bhatia, the son-in-law of Indian steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal. Bhatia is joined by the Mittal Family Trusts, K5 Sports and EE Capital, the family office of Eduardo and Elaine Saverin. Eduardo Saverin co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg before relocating to Singapore, where he has built a broad technology investment portfolio.

Bezos, the Amazon founder and world's third-richest person, is the lead investor in K5 Sports, a fund within K5 Global. This marks his first investment in a sports team. Bezos will not take a seat on the expanded Liverpool board. Bryan Baum of K5 Sports and Elaine Saverin of EE Capital will both join the board, as will Bhatia, who becomes Liverpool's new vice chairman.

As a condition of the deal, the consortium holds an option to become Liverpool's majority shareholder at a valuation of around $8 billion within the next 12 months, a detail that transforms what reads as a minority stake transaction into a potential full change of control.

The $7.1 billion valuation sets a record for a soccer club investment, topping James Ratcliffe's 2024 purchase of a minority stake in Manchester United at an enterprise value of around $5.8 billion. It also represents a staggering return for FSG, which acquired Liverpool in 2010 for £300 million, approximately $476 million at the exchange rates of that time.

FSG will retain majority ownership and operational control of the club. The closing of the deal remains subject to regulatory approvals. Corestone Capital Advisors introduced the two sides and helped facilitate the transaction.

FSG president Mike Gordon said Liverpool has always been built on decisions made with the club's long-term interests in mind. "That approach continues to attract interest from respected investors and business leaders around the world," he said.

The investment brings together names whose commercial and technological reach extends well beyond sport. Bezos built Amazon into the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. Saverin's EE Capital has been an active investor across Southeast Asian technology. Bhatia brings direct sports governance experience, having previously been a major shareholder and boardroom figure at Queens Park Rangers before selling his shares earlier this month.

Liverpool won the Premier League in the 2024-25 season but finished a disappointing fifth last season, 25 points behind champions Arsenal. Andoni Iraola took over as head coach during the rebuild and begins his first full Premier League campaign with a third of the club now in new hands.

The deal is the latest and largest example of billionaire capital flowing into elite European soccer, a market that has attracted sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms and some of the world's most prominent technology investors over the past three years as club valuations have accelerated sharply.