Turki Alalshikh's net worth amid Southampton, Millwall and Bristol City takeover links | OneFootball

The Saudi boxing promoter has been linked with several Championship clubs over the course of 2025, so here's how much he's estimated to be worth.

Saudi boxing promoter Turki Alalshikh has been linked with several Championship clubs throughout the course of 2025.

With the glittering riches of the Premier League just one good season away, Championship clubs are starting to attract greater interest from the ultra-wealthy.

Sheffield Wednesday, for example, may be hopelessly adrift at the foot of the table and already staring relegation in the face, but when they were put up for sale by their administrators at the end of October, there was still enormous interest in buying the club.

One name that has popped up repeatedly throughout the second half of 2025 as being potentially interested in owning a Championship club has been Turki Alalshikh.

The Saudi boxing promoter has been linked to both Millwall and Southampton, but it's Bristol City with whom he's been most closely connected, with reports that he even paid a visit to Ashton Gate for a tour of the club's facilities and held talks with the club.

Alalshikh ended up confirming that he would not be proceeding with a bid for the Robins, but that position could yet change in 2026, so here's what he's estimated to be worth.

Turki Alalshikh is estimated to be worth a cool £2.1 billion

Estimating anybody's net worth is seldom a precise science, but a report by CEO Today has estimated Turki Alalshikh's net worth as of 2024 to be $2.8 billion, or £2.1 billion.

Alalshikh's rise started through the Saudi government, for whom he worked in the Ministry of Interior and the Emirate of Riyadh. As Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA), he’s been a key architect of Vision 2030, the government's plan to diversify Saudi Arabia’s economy beyond oil.

But he also has interests beyond this mega-project. He's been involved in boxing and other combat sports, including professional wrestling and UFC, and in 2024 he bought The Ring - one of the most respected publications in boxing - for around $10 million.

And were he to buy into English football, it wouldn't be the first time he's owned a football club. In 2019, he bought the Spanish club UD Almeria, which he owned until 2025, and he's also had involvement in Egyptian football.

Turki Alalshikh's previous record in football is best described as "mixed"

In August 2019, Alalshikh bought the Spanish Segunda División side UD Almeria. Following a radical overhaul of the club's behind-the-scenes operation, Almeria were promoted to La Liga in 2022, but the club struggled in the Spanish top-flight and were relegated after two years. Alalshikh sold the club in May 2025, with the team having just finished sixth in the Segunda División.

His interest in Egyptian football was somewhat more fleeting. He bought the Al Assiouty Sport football club in the summer of 2018, changing their name to Pyramids FC and moving them to Cairo. But his involvement in the club was highly controversial within Egyptian football and he withdrew his investment after just a few months.

Alalshikh's name has been linked with a number of clubs since he sold Almeria, but it was with Bristol City that he became most closely connected. It was reported in September that he could have an interest in buying the Ashton Gate club, but dismissed these himself on the social media platform X. The following month, the Bristol City CEO Tom Rawcliffe confirmed that talks had taken place.

It was also reported during the summer that the former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan had 'recommended' Sheffield Wednesday to Alalshikh, and subsequent reporting indicated that Prince Abdullah bin Mosaad Al Saud, the former owner of Sheffield United, may have put him off pursuing an interest in the Hillsborough club.