Arsenal has won 13 English league titles, third-most all time behind the 20 for both Liverpool and Manchester United, but it has been 22 years since the Gunners last raised the Premier League trophy. Now, the club is on the verge of ending that drought.
Arsenal sits five points ahead of Manchester City, who have a game in hand, and both teams are playing their season finale on Sunday. Kalshi has Arsenal trading at 86% chance of winning a title, up from 47% a month ago. The club has also punched its ticket to the Champions League final on May 30 against Paris Saint-German; Arsenal has never won the European competition.
An Arsenal crown or two would continue a stunning sporting run for owner Stan Kroenke. And Arsenal isn’t the only Kroenke-owned team near a title right now; the Colorado Avalanche are one of the last four standing in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Avalanche are the Cup favorites, according to FanDuel.
Kroenke has accumulated the most valuable portfolio of assets in team sports, worth $23 billion, according to Sportico’s most recent team valuations. In addition to Arsenal and the Avalanche, his Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE) holdings include the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams, the NBA’s Denver Nuggets, MLS’ Colorado Rapids and National Lacrosse League’s Colorado Mammoth.
The Rams ($10.43 billion) rank as the third most valuable sports team in the world behind the Dallas Cowboys ($12.8 billion) and the Golden State Warriors ($11.33 billion).
Kroenke, who will turn 79 in July, bought his first stake in a sports team in 1995—a minority interest in the Rams that helped Georgia Frontiere move the team from Los Angeles to St. Louis. In 2000, he added the Nuggets, Avalanche and their arena—Pepsi Center, since renamed Ball Arena—to his roster for $450 million. A decade later, Kroenke exercised his right to buy the 60% of the Rams he didn’t already own in a deal that valued the team at $750 million. He bought the Rapids in 2004, and shortly after started buying shares in Arsenal, becoming the sole owner in 2018.
Winning on the field is not new for Kroenke. During the first six months of 2022, the Rams, Avalanche and Mammoth all won their respective league championships. A year later, the Nuggets captured their first NBA title.
Since taking full ownership of Arsenal, Kroenke and his son Josh have looked to impart a common DNA across all teams in the KSE organization, sharing best practices on the sporting and business side. KSE’s training and analytics staff swap information liberally, and the U.S. team employees gather every summer for a summit (during that time, Arsenal is typically on an exhibition tour, with European soccer having almost no offseason).
Rams head coach Sean McVay and Arsenal manger Mikel Arteta have built a friendship during their KSE tenures; both took over their respective teams in their 30s and led franchise turnarounds. McVay joined Josh and Kevin Demoff, KSE president of team & media operations, at the Champions League semifinal second leg against Atlético Madrid at Emirates Stadium.
On the business side, Arsenal has played a pair of exhibition matches at the Rams’ SoFi Stadium home. Visit Rwanda’s eight-year Arsenal sleeve sponsorship will expire after this season, but the country’s tourism board tapped the Rams last year in a multiyear sponsorship. KSE is exploring more ways to expand the business connections across clubs.
Kroenke was a pioneer in the multi-team ownership model across leagues that has picked up in recent years, as David Blitzer, Josh Harris, Jimmy Haslam, John Henry, Rogers Communications and others have expanded their team assets.
The success of Arsenal’s 2025-26 season won’t mean the club sitting out the summer transfer window. “Between us, we are building something very special and, wherever this month of May takes us, there will be no standing still when the season ends,” Stan and Josh wrote in a Monday letter to fans, indicating potential moves.
The Kroenkes’ winning streak likely still has some legs. The Rams are the favorites at almost every sportsbook to win next year’s Super Bowl.