List of current NFL franchise owners

The following is a list of current National Football League franchise owners.

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Terry Pegula, co-owner of the Buffalo Bills.

Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys.

Clark Hunt, chairman of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Zygi Wilf, majority owner of the Minnesota Vikings.

Franchise	Owner	Year
Arizona Cardinals	Bill Bidwill‡1	1972
Atlanta Falcons	Arthur Blank†1	2004
Baltimore Ravens	Steve Bisciotti†1	2004
Buffalo Bills	Kim and Terry Pegula	2014
Carolina Panthers	Jerry Richardson2	1993
Chicago Bears	Virginia Halas McCaskey†‡3	1983
Cincinnati Bengals	Mike Brown‡3	1991
Cleveland Browns	Jimmy Haslam	2012
Dallas Cowboys	Jerry Jones	1989
Denver Broncos	Pat Bowlen†6 (Bowlen Family Trust)	1984
Detroit Lions	Martha Ford†	2014
Green Bay Packers	Green Bay Packers, Inc. (governed by a Board of Directors)5	1923
Houston Texans	Robert C. McNair†2	1999
Indianapolis Colts	Jim Irsay‡	1997
Jacksonville Jaguars	Shahid Khan	2012
Kansas City Chiefs	Clark Hunt‡3	2006
Los Angeles Rams	Stan Kroenke1	2010
Miami Dolphins	Stephen M. Ross†	2008
Minnesota Vikings	Zygi Wilf†	2005
New England Patriots	Robert Kraft	1994
New Orleans Saints	Tom Benson	1985
New York Giants	John Mara (50%)4 Steve Tisch (50%)	2005
New York Jets	Robert Wood Johnson IV	2000
Oakland Raiders	Carol and Mark Davis (mother and son)†‡	2011
Philadelphia Eagles	Jeffrey Lurie	1994
Pittsburgh Steelers	Dan Rooney3	1988
San Diego Chargers	Alex Spanos† and family1,6	1984
San Francisco 49ers	Jed York‡1	2009
Seattle Seahawks	Paul Allen	1997
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Bryan Glazer, Edward Glazer, Joel Glazer and Darcie Kassewitz‡	2014
Tennessee Titans	Amy Adams Strunk‡3	2013
Washington Redskins	Dan Snyder†	1999

† Majority or plurality owner, rather than outright owner.
‡ Family ownership of club has been passed on/split by descendant(s) of previous owner.

Bidwill, McCaskey, Brown, Ford, Irsay, Hunt, Mara, Davis, Rooney, Glazer, Smith, 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 Original owner of franchise.
³ Child/heir of original owner of franchise.
⁴ Grandchild/heir of heir of original owner of franchise.
⁵ Public corporation with a grandfathered exception to current NFL ownership rules. Mark H. Murphy represents the team as President and CEO.
⁶ This owner is not active in day-to-day operations.

• Kansas City Chiefs: Clark Hunt, one of four co-owning siblings, represents the team in league affairs.
• Tennessee Titans: Tommy and Susie Smith, Amy Strunk, and Kenneth Adams IV split ownership, with Strunk as chairwoman.

Ownership restrictions

The NFL forbids religious groups, governments, and non-profit organizations owning a team. The NFL 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 publicly traded. 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 are only permitted to own major league baseball, basketball and hockey teams if they are in the NFL team's home market, or are not located in other NFL cities. Soccer has been exempt from these restrictions since 1982, when the league lost a lawsuit challenging them filed by the original NASL stemming from the investments of Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt and 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.

See also

• History of the NFL Commissioner