Business
UE Cornellà
Football Club — Messi's role: Owner / 100%. Acquired Apr 2026 (5th-div Catalan).
Last updated 4 August 2026 · Sourced public estimates
Estimated value
SourceHypebeast / UECVerifiedUndisclosed
Football Club
Messi's role
SourceHypebeast / UECVerifiedOwner / 100%
Ownership / position
Confidence
Verified
on the valuation
At a glance
- Entity
- UE Cornellà
- Type
- Football Club
- Role
- Owner / 100%
- Value
- UndisclosedSourceHypebeast / UECVerified
- Status
- Acquired Apr 2026 (5th-div Catalan)
- Source
- Hypebeast / UEC
In April 2026 Messi acquired 100% of Unió Esportiva Cornellà, a fifth-division Catalan club on the outskirts of Barcelona, for an undisclosed sum. It is the first football club he has owned outright.
Financially the deal is immaterial next to a $1.1 billion fortune — a fifth-division club is a rounding error. Strategically it reads as infrastructure: a talent pipeline and community asset in the region where he was formed, and a foothold in club ownership ahead of retirement (his Inter Miami package separately carries an equity option). We list the club at Undisclosed value rather than inventing a price.