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Royal Football Fund

Royal Football Fund
Private
Industry Sports investment
Founded Dubai, UAE (2013 (2013))
Headquarters Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Key people
Sukumar Nair
Pradeep Chandra
Samir Jain
Maulik Parekh
Antonio Perini
Manish Agarwal
Services Sports investments
Revenue Increase US$ 5.1 billion (2016)
Owners Sulaiman Al-Fahim
Wilhelm Kayque G. Saldanha
Akram Ojjeh Jr
Parent United Investment Bank Limited, Al-Fahim Group, Cerberus Capital Management, TAG Group
Subsidiaries F.C. Copenhagen
Mumbai City FC
United Investment Bank Limited
Abu Dhabi United Group
CB Gran Canaria
Al Sadd SC
Website royalfootballfund.com

Royal Football Fund is a sports investment company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, associated to the United Investment Bank Limited and Al-Fahim Group.

On 2009, it was reported that Al-Fahim had signed a deal to take over the English Premier League club Portsmouth.

During the Mubadala Senior Leadership Forum, Al-Fahim became friends with Wilhelm Kayque G. Saldanha, son of a Russian billionaire shareholder of Gazprom, which had the same desires to buy football clubs. G. Saldanha is the main investor of Mumbai City FC.

In 2013, the company buy Paris FC, parisian club that already merged with the giant PSG, owned by Nasser Al-Khelaifi.

Is a football franchise in Mumbai, Maharashtra, plays in the Indian Super League. Owned by Wilhelm Kayque G. Saldanha, Ranbir Kapoor and Bimal Parekh.

In April 2016 it was announced the Royal Football Fund as a new investor of the Spanish basketball club based in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

On December 19, 2016, the Royal Football Fund acquired Al Sadd SC, the club from Qatar, in order to enhance the club until the World Cup 2022.

In March 2017, the holding company acquired 58% of the Danish club.


In November 2008 Al Fahim was honored with a gold medal of excellence from HM Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, The King of Malaysia, for his work supporting Equestrian activities worldwide. Al Fahim was honored with this distinction during the FEI World Endurance Championship 2008 in Malaysia.


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