List of NFL franchise owners


The following is a list of current National Football League franchise owners:
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FranchiseOwnerYear
acquired
Arizona Cardinals Estate of Bill Bidwill‡62019
Atlanta Falcons Arthur Blank†12004
Baltimore Ravens Steve Bisciotti†12004
Buffalo Bills Kim and Terry Pegula2014
Carolina Panthers David Tepper2018
Chicago Bears Virginia Halas McCaskey†‡21983
Cincinnati Bengals Mike Brown‡21991
Cleveland Browns Jimmy and Dee Haslam2012
Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones1989
Denver Broncos Joe Ellis, trustee62019
Detroit Lions Sheila Ford Hamp†‡2020
Green Bay Packers Green Bay Packers, Inc.41923
Houston Texans Janice McNair and family†‡22018
Indianapolis Colts Jim Irsay‡1997
Jacksonville Jaguars Shahid Khan2012
Kansas City Chiefs Clark Hunt and siblings‡22006
Las Vegas Raiders Carol and Mark Davis †‡2011
Los Angeles Chargers Dean Spanos2018
Los Angeles Rams Stan Kroenke12010
Miami Dolphins Stephen M. Ross†2008
Minnesota Vikings Zygi Wilf†2005
New England Patriots Robert Kraft1994
New Orleans Saints Gayle Benson2018
New York Giants John Mara 3
Steve Tisch 		2005
New York Jets Robert Wood Johnson IV5 and Christopher Wold Johnson‡2000
Philadelphia Eagles Jeffrey Lurie1994
Pittsburgh Steelers Art Rooney II1,3 and family 1,2,32017
San Francisco 49ers Denise DeBartolo York and Jed York‡12009
Seattle Seahawks Jody Allen, trustee62018
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Bryan Glazer and siblings‡2014
Tennessee Titans Amy Adams Strunk 22013
Washington Football Team Dan Snyder†1999

† Majority or plurality owner, rather than outright owner.

‡ Family ownership of club has been passed on/split by descendant of previous owner.

Benson, Bidwill, McCaskey, Brown, Irsay, Hamp, Hunt, Mara, Davis, Rooney, Glazer, Smith, Spanos, York, and Adams-Strunk represent ownership that has been longer than year listed, as teams have been owned by their families longer than listed.
1 Owner held stake prior to this date.

2 Child/heir of original owner of franchise.

3 Child/heir of heir of original owner of franchise.

4 Public corporation with a grandfathered exception to current NFL ownership rules. The team is governed by a Board of Directors, and Mark H. Murphy represents the team as President and CEO.

5 Currently inactive.

6 Currently held in trust/estate after death of previous owner.
The NFL forbids religious groups, governments, and non-profit organizations owning a team. The NFL requires a controlling owner to hold at minimum a 30% stake in the team and forbids ownership groups of over 24 people, or any publicly traded corporations from purchasing NFL teams; one team, the Green Bay Packers, is exempt from this under a grandfather clause and is owned by shareholders. The Houston Texans are also grandfathered in for their home county-the Harris County, Texas government-which owns 5% of the team, as the rule forbidding governments from owning a team became effective in 2007. The NFL's constitution also forbids its owners from owning any other professional football teams, except for Arena Football League teams located in the NFL team's home market. In addition, the controlling owners of NFL teams were previously only permitted to own major league baseball, basketball and hockey teams if they were in the NFL team's home market, or were not located in other NFL cities. Soccer has been exempt from these restrictions since 1982, when the league lost a lawsuit filed by the original NASL stemming from the investments of Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt and Elizabeth Robbie, the wife of Miami Dolphins owner Joe Robbie in NASL teams; as a result, NFL owners have owned teams in MLS in other NFL markets. In October 2018, the NFL owners voted to relax the cross-ownership rule, allowing controlling NFL owners to own other professional teams within NFL markets. The league also informally requires prospective owners to have relatively liquid assets and positive cash flow; having a majority of one's wealth invested in real estate, for example, is grounds for rejection.