The £10bn shame of West Ham co-owners David Sullivan and Daniel Kretinsky has been exposed in the new Sunday Times Rich List for 2026.
West Ham are fighting to avoid a disastrous relegation and, if they drop, the east London club would be falling off the Premier League gravy train at the worst possible time.
Being in the top flight is worth a minimum of £120-150m per year to clubs.
West Ham are at serious risk of losing that with two games to go.
Astonishing net worth of West Ham duo Kretinsky and Sullivan revealed
It comes after the Hammers announced club record losses of £104m at the end of February with a further big deficit exceeding £80m forecast for their next accounts.
West Ham also owe a staggering £196m to other clubs in transfer instalments. Only four clubs owe more.
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Hammers fans have been protesting for new owners all season long with the club’s financial mismanagement one of their biggest grievances against David Sullivan, fellow co-owner Daniel Kretinsky and the board.
Karren Brady suddenly left the club recently, just weeks after calling for everyone at West Ham, from the board to the supporters, to rally together to avoid relegation.
Brady was in charge of the day-to-day running of West Ham and officially departed with the club in a worse financial state than when she first arrived under Sullivan and David Gold 16 years ago.
While the Hammers may be in a perilous financial situation, their owners certainly aren’t.
Now the new Sunday Times Rich List 2026 has exposed the £10bn shame of West Ham’s mega rich duo Sullivan and Kretinsky.
West Ham’s owners – who have recently upped their holding to over 40 per cent each – are yet again officially two of the 150 richest people in the country.
Owners worth £10bn as West Ham face financial turmoil
Kretinsky is by far and away the wealthiest person at West Ham with a new net worth listed at £8.185bn.
That has seen Kretinsky drop two places in the rich list this year from 22nd to 24th.
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Meanwhile, Sullivan and family have dropped six places on the list from 143rd to 149th with a worth of £1.1bn.
It means the worth of West Ham’s owners, when factoring in the wealth of fellow shareholders – including the Gold family and Albert ‘Tripp’ Smith – touches £10bn.
That makes West Ham’s owners among the top six wealthiest in the Premier League.
Yet here West Ham are struggling financially and facing the prospect of a fire sale of top players this summer, regardless of what division they are in next season.
Kretinsky actually jumped 11 places on the list to 22nd last year and his wealth is said to have increased by around £350m despite slipping two places.
Including assets, Kretinsky’s net worth is actually thought to be nearer to £13bn.
Some Hammers fans hoped Kretinsky upping his stake was a precursor to the ‘Czech Sphinx’ launching a full takeover to buy out Sullivan.
But Sullivan responded by matching Kretinsky’s stake as the pair bought up some of the Gold family’s shares.
The Rich List exposing the astonishing wealth of the club’s owners will only add to fan discontent and pressure on Sullivan and Kretinsky to invest their own money into the club to address the financial situation – which they confirmed is an option when announcing losses at the end of February.
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