Peter Coates is the owner and Chairman of which football club in the Premier League?
"the 2005–06 season Stoke Holding and Peter Coates once again started discussions regarding the sale of the club to the latter. On 23 May 2006, the Coates family through a Bet365 subsidiary company completed the purchase of Stoke City F.C. for £1.7 million. A further £3.3 million was paid to have the Icelandic debts cancelled. Shortly afterwards, Tony Pulis was reappointed. The golden shares were also removed. At the end of the 2007–08 season Stoke finished Second in the Championship gaining automatic promotion to the Premier League. Speaking at the Football Governance Inquiry in March 2011, he said: ""I am"
"in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. University scholarships and theatre donations have also been offered. In July 2015 Coates was appointed as vice-chairman at Stoke City where his father is chairman. John Coates (businessman) John Fitzgerald Coates (born January 1970), is an English businessman and joint chief executive (CEO) of online gambling company Bet365. He has been listed in the ""Forbes"" magazine’s 29th annual rich list, with an estimated personal fortune of $1.3 billion (roughly £850 million). John Fitzgerald Coates was born in January 1970, the son of Peter Coates, chairman of Stoke City F.C. and director"
"John Coates (businessman) John Fitzgerald Coates (born January 1970), is an English businessman and joint chief executive (CEO) of online gambling company Bet365. He has been listed in the ""Forbes"" magazine’s 29th annual rich list, with an estimated personal fortune of $1.3 billion (roughly £850 million). John Fitzgerald Coates was born in January 1970, the son of Peter Coates, chairman of Stoke City F.C. and director of Bet365. He attended Bristol University where he studied Law. He lives near Stoke-on-Trent with his wife and two children. Coates studied law at Bristol University and started his career as an attorney. In"
"and failed to make another Premier League start under Poyet. After the manager was sacked and replaced by Dick Advocaat, Coates became more involved. He played every minute of Sunderland's run of five unbeaten games that kept them from relegation with a game to spare. On 1 July 2015, Sunderland announced that they had signed Coates on a permanent four-year deal for an undisclosed fee reported to be in the region of £2 million. He scored an own goal on 1 November as the team lost 6–2 away to Everton. On 28 January 2016, Coates signed for Sporting CP on"
"and sell Barclays Premiership clubs Wigan and Everton. However, on 20 December 2007 it was announced that the Mittal family had purchased a 20 per cent shareholding in Queens Park Rangers football club joining Flavio Briatore and Mittal's friend Bernie Ecclestone. As part of the investment Mittal's son-in-law, Amit Bhatia, took a place on the board of directors. The combined investment in the struggling club sparked suggestions that Mittal might be looking to join the growing ranks of wealthy individuals investing heavily in English football and emulating similar benefactors such as Roman Abramovich. On 19 February 2010, Briatore resigned as"
"chairman and moved to the position of honorary president. He was replaced in the role of chairman by Salah Nooruddin. His tenure as president was short lived, however; he was sacked on 26 July 2013, apparently due to a dispute over payment for his private jet. Being married three times, Bates currently resides in Monaco with his third wife, Suzannah. He has five children. Ken Bates Kenneth William ""Ken"" Bates (born 4 December 1931) is a British businessman, football executive and hotelier. He was involved in forming the Premier League, the development of Wembley Stadium and is the former owner"
"in the Championship, their star performers Wayne Brown, Jamie Cureton, Richard Garcia and Chris Iwelumo all left the club citing a ""lack of ambition"" as their reason for wanting to leave. Cureton left for Norwich City for £750,000, prompting manager Geraint Williams to break the club's record transfer fee twice on the same day by signing Mark Yeates from Tottenham Hotspur and then spending £300,000 on Milton Keynes Dons' foward Clive Platt. The following day, England legend Teddy Sheringham also signed for the club. Over the summer, Robbie Cowling took over as chairman from Peter Heard, who stepped down after"
"to sell a 50% stake in the club to Singapore–based billionaire Peter Lim, the owner of Valencia CF. Despite the promising start, a dip in form during December resulted in only 4 wins from the following 11 matches which saw the team fall behind Darlington 1883 at the top of the league. As a result, Power was sacked in January 2015 after 18 months in the role. Owners Paul Scholes and Phil Neville acted as caretaker managers for the subsequent match against Kendal Town, before announcing the arrival of the new managerial team of Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley. Johnson"
"the total wage bill of Stoke City F.C., the Premier League football club owned by Bet365. In January 2000, Coates purchased the domain name Bet365.com. While working in a temporary building on a car park near one of her shops, she spent a year creating a new online betting site. Bet365.com was launched in 2001. The business borrowed £15 million from RBS against the family's betting shop estate. In 2005 these shops were sold to Coral for £40 million which also paid off the loan to RBS. Bet365 has grown into one of the world's largest online gambling companies, with"
"Ken Bates Kenneth William ""Ken"" Bates (born 4 December 1931) is a British businessman, football executive and hotelier. He was involved in forming the Premier League, the development of Wembley Stadium and is the former owner and chairman of football clubs Chelsea and Leeds United. Bates spent five years as chairman of Oldham Athletic during the 1960s and also had a spell at Wigan Athletic. In 1982, he purchased Chelsea for £1. During his tenure, he helped the club win a long-running battle with property developers who were attempting to evict them from their Stamford Bridge home. By the end"
"Godstone Golf Club (on a site formerly used as Crystal Palace's training ground). Noades, who was a non-smoker, died from lung cancer on 24 December 2013 in Purley, London. He was 76. Ron Noades Ronald Geoffrey Noades (22 June 1937 – 24 December 2013) was an English businessman, best known for his investments in football clubs. He was the chairman of Southall, Wimbledon, Crystal Palace and finally Brentford. The first club owned by Noades was non-league Southall. Noades then took over Wimbledon, who were elected to the Football League in 1977. They won promotion from the Fourth Division in only"
"$2 billion in revenues and facilitating $45 billion in bets in the year through March 2016. The company also owns a majority stake in Stoke City Football Club. In 2015, Bet365 moved its headquarters to Gibraltar because of its favourable regulations. Coates still runs the company alongside her brother, and co-CEO, John Coates. Coates is the majority shareholder with 50.01% of Bet365. Her personal fortune is estimated at $5.1 billion, as of February 2018. In 2017, Coates was criticised for paying herself £217 million, with Mike Dixon, CEO of Addaction, saying ""It cannot be right that the CEO of a"
"the Premier League by 2015, and after a poor run of form the following season, his replacement Antonio Conte led Chelsea to another Premier League victory in 2017. The following season, they won their 8th FA Cup beating ""the big six"" rivals Manchester United, 1-0. On the 13th of July Chelsea F.C. announced the sacking of Antonio Conte as manager, with Napoli manager Maurizio Sarri his replacement. In 1896, Henry Augustus ""Gus"" Mears, football enthusiast and businessman, along with his brother, Joseph Mears, purchased the Stamford Bridge Athletics Ground in Fulham, West London, with the intention of staging first-class football"
"behind only Manchester United and Newcastle United in terms of highest average attendance for any football club in the United Kingdom. Celtic are currently managed by Brendan Rodgers and won their seventh successive league title in April 2018. The Bank of Scotland informed Celtic on 3 March 1994 that it was calling in receivers as a result of the club exceeding a £5 million overdraft. Expatriate businessman Fergus McCann, however, wrested control of the club from the family dynasties which had controlled Celtic since its founding, purchasing the club for a reported £9 million. According to media reports, McCann took"
"might not go on to higher education"". ""England score listed first, score column indicates score after each Scholes goal."" Manchester United England U18 Individual Paul Scholes Paul Scholes ( ; born 16 November 1974) is an English former footballer who played his entire professional career for Manchester United. He is currently co-owner of Salford City and a television pundit for BT Sport. At club level, he won 25 trophies including 11 Premier League titles (more than any other English player) and two Champions League titles. Born in Salford and brought up in Langley, Middleton from infancy, Scholes excelled in both"
"Chelsea have invested in third party ownership via Mendes and Kenyon, a practice banned by the Premier League. Chelsea declined to comment on the accusations. Peter Kenyon Peter Kenyon (born 1954 in Stalybridge, Cheshire) is a British businessman who has served as the chief executive of English Premier League football clubs Manchester United and Chelsea, where he has been involved in contentious transfer dealings. Kenyon was educated in Tameside at West Hill School and King's School, Macclesfield. Kenyon was a director and chief executive of sportswear firm Umbro. In 1997, Kenyon took up the role of deputy chief executive at"
"was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to football as part of the Queens birthday honors list. Noel White Noel White BEM (born 16 December 1929) is a retired businessman, football club chairman, director and administrator from the North West of England. He is one of the founding architects of The Premier League and is Life Vice President of The Football Association. White and Swales Ltd was founded in Altrincham by Noel White and Peter Swales in 1955. They initially sold Sheet Music, Records, Musical Instruments and Accessories before moving into the flourishing market of television rentals. They had"
"Cravenettes. Fulham F.C. Fulham Football Club () is a professional association football club based in Fulham, West London, England. Founded in 1879, they currently compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football, following their promotion from the EFL Championship in the 2017–18 season. They are the oldest football team from London to play in the Football League. The club has spent 27 seasons in English football's top division, the majority of these in two spells during the 1960s and 2000s. The latter spell was associated with former chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed, after the club had climbed up from"
"Noel White Noel White BEM (born 16 December 1929) is a retired businessman, football club chairman, director and administrator from the North West of England. He is one of the founding architects of The Premier League and is Life Vice President of The Football Association. White and Swales Ltd was founded in Altrincham by Noel White and Peter Swales in 1955. They initially sold Sheet Music, Records, Musical Instruments and Accessories before moving into the flourishing market of television rentals. They had by this time opened a total 15 branches in Cheshire and South Manchester. Following the sale of White"
"changed its name from the ""FA Premier League"" to simply the ""Premier League"" in 2007. The Football Association Premier League Ltd (FAPL) is operated as a corporation and is owned by the 20 member clubs. Each club is a shareholder, with one vote each on issues such as rule changes and contracts. The clubs elect a chairman, chief executive, and board of directors to oversee the daily operations of the league. The Football Association is not directly involved in the day-to-day operations of the Premier League, but has veto power as a special shareholder during the election of the chairman"
"Fawaz Al-Hasawi Fawaz Mubarak Al-Hasawi (born 25 October 1968) is a Kuwaiti businessman and was the owner and chairman of Nottingham Forest Football Club. Fawaz Mubarak Al-Hasawi is a Kuwaiti businessman who was chairman of Nottingham Forest F.C. from December 2012 until May 2017, succeeding his cousin Omar Al-Hasawi. The club itself was bought in the summer of 2012 by the Al-Hasawi family. Between 2010 and 2012, Fawaz was president of Qadsia SC, one of the largest sporting clubs in Kuwait. His tenure was a successful one, with the club winning two Kuwait Premier League titles and two Emir Cups"
"and one UEFA Super Cup. Chelsea's regular kit colours are royal blue shirts and shorts with white socks. The club's crest has been changed several times in attempts to re-brand the club and modernise its image. The current crest, featuring a ceremonial lion rampant regardant holding a staff, is a modification of the one introduced in the early 1950s. The club have the sixth-highest average all-time attendance in English football, and for the 2017–18 season at 41,280.<ref name=""14/15 attendances""></ref> Since 2003, Chelsea have been owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. In 2018, they were ranked by ""Forbes"" magazine as the"
"including payments through the affiliate programme are carried out under that name. Chairman Peter Coates also has the same position at Stoke City and in May 2012 bet365 signed a three-year contract with the club to become shirt sponsors. In April 2016, the company became the new title sponsors for the club's stadium for the next six seasons, replacing fellow local enterprise the Britannia Building Society. In the summer of 2016, bet365 also signed shirt sponsorship deals with Bulgarian clubs Ludogorets Razgrad and Slavia Sofia for the upcoming two seasons. bet365 was founded in 2000 in a portakabin in Stoke-on-Trent"
"£150,000 on his 15%, while Briatore bought 54% for £540,000 through a British Virgin Islands registered company, Sarita Capital. In addition, Briatore and Ecclestone were believed to have promised £5 million in convertible loan facilities to help buy players and have covered £13 million of debt, in a total commitment to the club of around £20 million. At the time of purchase, the remaining 31% of shareholders turned down the offer of 1p a share. On 20 December 2007, it was announced that the family of billionaire Lakshmi Mittal had purchased a 20% shareholding in the club from Flavio Briatore."
"the top seven remains unchanged from the end of December. West Bromwich Albion, Stoke City and Middlesbrough are in the relegation places all on 21 points at the bottom of the Premier League. Wolverhampton Wanderers, Reading and Birmingham City continue occupy the top three positions in the Championship. 2 February 2009: Robbie Keane returns to Tottenham Hotspur after six months at Liverpool for a fee of £12million. 8 February 2009: Portsmouth terminate the contract of Tony Adams after 14 weeks as manager. Paul Hart is appointed caretaker manager. 9 February 2009: Chelsea terminate the contract of Luiz Felipe Scolari after"
"had bought the club. On 7 November 2007, Briatore completed his takeover of QPR together with Ecclestone. He served as the club's chairman. In December 2007, Briatore and Ecclestone were joined as co-owners of QPR by multi-billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, who bought 20% of the club. Following Briatore's ban from FIA, the Football League requested that FIA provide details of its investigation. The Football League could force Briatore out of QPR under rules that stipulate a club owner must be a ""fit and proper person"". The Football League also has the power to ban owners who have been banned from another"
"seventh most valuable football club in the world, at £1.54 billion ($2.06 billion) and in the 2016–17 season it was the eighth highest-earning football club in the world, having earned €428 million. In 1904, Gus Mears acquired the Stamford Bridge athletics stadium with the aim of turning it into a football ground. An offer to lease it to nearby Fulham was turned down, so Mears opted to found his own club to use the stadium. As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club;"
"from supporters before the league tie with AFC Wimbledon. The fans had been unhappy with the trio who they had blamed for the resignation of vice-chairman Mike Parker earlier in the week. The news was broken to supporters when chairman John Fenty addressed them. Furneaux stood down with immediate effect on 9 March 2011. Furneaux died on 2 December 2014, aged 79. Peter Furneaux Peter Furneaux (12 October 1935 – 2 December 2014) was an English football club chairman and investor. He previously held the position of Executive Director at Grimsby Town where he was twice Chairman. Grimsby born Furneaux"
"act and look and sound like global commercial citizens. That's what we do."" and ""The idea that there's a clutch of clubs who'd want to go away and do something different feels less likely now than at almost any time."" The list of Premier League club owners includes Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who owns Chelsea, and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who owns Manchester City. Manchester City recently announced the first Chinese investment in an English Premier League club with China Media Capital taking a stake in their parent company, City Football Group. Scudamore has also overseen the international"
"Ron Noades Ronald Geoffrey Noades (22 June 1937 – 24 December 2013) was an English businessman, best known for his investments in football clubs. He was the chairman of Southall, Wimbledon, Crystal Palace and finally Brentford. The first club owned by Noades was non-league Southall. Noades then took over Wimbledon, who were elected to the Football League in 1977. They won promotion from the Fourth Division in only their second season as a Football League club, although they were relegated after just one season. He then entered tentative talks with the Milton Keynes Development Corporation with a view to relocating"
"Premier League for one season in 1999–2000. The club experienced a further one season stint in the top division of English football during the 2006–07 season, under Aidy Boothroyd's management; eight years in the Championship followed. Watford secured promotion in 2014–15, and have competed in the Premier League since the 2015–16 season finishing 13th, 17th and 14th respectively. Watford is owned by the Pozzo family, which also owns Udinese Calcio in Italy and previously Granada CF in Spain. Sir Elton John, who owned Watford during both of Graham Taylor's successful periods as manager, served alongside Taylor as the club's joint"
"Champions League and the Premier League, Spalletti was fired on 11 March 2014. A week later, the club announced they had negotiated a two-year deal with André Villas-Boas, who himself had been released a few months prior after a disappointing stint as manager of English side Tottenham Hotspur. In the 2014–15 Europa League, Zenit were eliminated in the quarter-finals by eventual champions Sevilla. In May 2015, Zenit won the Russian Championship, the first championship title under Villas-Boas and the team's fifth-ever on the eve of its 90th anniversary celebration. Zenit then defeated Lokomotiv Moscow in the 2015 Russian Super Cup"
"the Premier League and ordered to pay the Blades compensation over five years. Wigan Athletic, in their second year in the top flight, narrowly avoided relegation on goal difference. Leading goalscorer: Didier Drogba (Chelsea) – 20 After losing their first four games, Sunderland looked ominous for a second relegation. The surprise appointment of Roy Keane by rookie chairman Niall Quinn paid off and they surged up the table, losing just one of their final 20 games to clinch promotion as champions. Keane's former Manchester United colleague, Steve Bruce also took Birmingham City back into the Premier League, ensuring that they"