Charlton Athletic’s American ownership group has placed the club on the market just three years after completing their takeover at the Valley.
The ownership consortium, led by Gabriel Brener under the banner of Global Football Partners, has engaged Oakwell Sports Advisory to find a buyer for the south-east London club.
A successful sale would make the incoming party Charlton’s fifth owner in just six years, highlighting the turbulent ownership history at the Valley.
In a sales deck sent to potential investors and seen by the Guardian, Oakwell describes Charlton as “the last remaining football club upside opportunity in London.”
Oakwell also claims that Charlton would provide new owners with an opportunity for five to ten times equity growth through promotion to the Premier League, commercial expansion and investment in women’s football.
The advisory firm is well connected in sports ownership circles, having facilitated the deal that led to Bournemouth owner Bill Foley buying Premiership rugby club Exeter Chiefs, and is also helping the Rugby Football League secure external investment.
Global Football Partners, operating in the UK through their subsidiary SE7 Partners, paid around £15 million for Charlton in 2023 and will be seeking several times that figure after investing in the stadium and training ground.
The club returned to the Championship for the first time in five years in 2025 by winning the League One playoff final at Wembley, while the women’s team were also promoted to WSL1 last season.
Charlton’s location in south-east London is considered an attractive selling point, and the Valley is a modern stadium with a capacity of 27,000, though the club do not own the ground, which belongs to former owner Roland Duchâtelet.
Having considered alternative sites, Charlton extended their lease on the Valley until 2040 last year, providing some longer-term stability for any prospective buyer.
The club has been through a chaotic ownership period since fans forced Duchâtelet out in 2020, when the club changed hands three times in rapid succession.
Duchâtelet sold Charlton to East Street Investments for just £1 in January 2020, but the consortium led initially by former football agent Matt Southall collapsed amid in-fighting and an acrimonious court case.
Danish-American businessman Thomas Sandgaard subsequently rescued the club later that year before selling to Global Football Partners in 2023.
Nathan Jones’s side have since consolidated their Championship status, with the club’s upward trajectory forming a central part of Oakwell’s pitch to potential investors.
Charlton declined to comment on the sale process.