Stan Kroenke Net Worth

What Is Stan Kroenke's Net Worth?

Stanley Kroenke is an American businessman who has a net worth of $22 billion. That net worth makes Stan the richest person in Missouri. Stan Kroenke is best known for owning Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, the holding company of numerous sports teams throughout the US and UK. Through the company, he owns the English Association football club Arsenal F.C., the NFL's Los Angeles Rams, and the MLS's Colorado Rapids, among other teams.

Stan owns Sofi stadium in Inglewood, California. Both the Rams and the Chargers play at Sofi. It's also a popular live event location.

Kroenke created some controversy in 2021 when he was part of an aborted effort to end the traditional European football system.

He began his professional career in real estate, founding the Kroenke Group in the early '80s. The company focused on developing shopping centers and apartment complexes. After he married Ann Walton Kroenke, one of the Wal-Mart heirs, he also began developing Wal-Mart shopping centers. In the early '90s, he founded THF Realty, a development firm focused on suburban areas. In the mid-1990s, he shifted his focus to sports team ownership and launched Kroenke Sports Enterprises.

Early Life

Stan Kroenke was born Enos Stanley Kroenke on July 29, 1947, in Columbia, Missouri. He grew up in the tiny unincorporated community of Mora, where his father owned Mora Lumber Company. There, Kroenke had his first job sweeping the floor at the lumber yard. When he was 10, he was promoted to bookkeeping. Kroenke went to Cole Camp High School, where he played basketball and baseball and ran track.

Beginnings in Real Estate

In 1983, Stan founded the Kroenke Group, a real estate development firm specializing in apartment buildings and shopping centers. In 1991, he founded another real estate development company called THF Realty in St. Louis. Specializing in suburban development, particularly the building of retail shopping centers, the group has a portfolio valued at over $2 billion.

Kroenke Sports & Entertainment

Stan's biggest claim to fame is his sports and entertainment holding company, Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, which he founded in Denver, Colorado, in 1999. The company has ownership of five professional sports franchises and one association football club. Additionally, it has control over multiple stadiums, professional esports teams, television channels, magazines, websites, and radio stations. The company's sports holdings include the English football clubs Arsenal F.C. and Arsenal W.F.C.; the NFL's Los Angeles Rams; the NBA's Denver Nuggets; the NHL's Colorado Avalanche; the MLS's Colorado Rapids; the National Lacrosse League's Colorado Mammoth; the Overwatch League's Los Angeles Gladiators; and the "Call of Duty" League's Los Angeles Guerrillas.

On the real estate side of things, Kroenke Sports & Entertainment owns Ball Arena in Denver and co-owns Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City. In 2002, Stan purchased Denver's historic Paramount Theatre. As part of his ownership of the football club Arsenal, Kroenke also has ownership of its stadium, Emirates Stadium, in London. Meanwhile, on the media side of things, Kroenke Sports & Entertainment owns the regional cable and satellite television channel Altitude Sports and Entertainment. Through the channel, the company co-owns World Fishing Network and owns Outdoor Channel.

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St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams

In 1995, Stan Kroenke was an instrumental partner in the effort to move the NFL's Los Angeles Rams to St. Louis. As part of the move, he purchased a 30% minority stake in the team, which had been owned by Georgia Frontiere. Following Frontiere's death and a brief period of ownership by her heirs, Kroenke exercised his right of first refusal in 2010 to block a sale to billionaire Shahid Khan, instead purchasing the remaining 60% of the franchise to become the sole owner.

The relationship between the Rams and St. Louis began to fracture shortly after. Under the terms of the team's lease at the Edward Jones Dome, the facility was required to remain in the "top tier" of NFL stadiums. In 2013, after Kroenke's $700 million renovation proposal was rejected by city officials, the parties entered arbitration. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the Rams, allowing the team to convert their long-term lease into a year-to-year agreement, effectively granting Kroenke the legal leverage to explore relocation.

The Return to Los Angeles

In 2014, Kroenke privately purchased a 60-acre plot of land in Inglewood, California, later partnering with Stockbridge Capital Group to expand the site for a massive sports and entertainment complex. Despite a last-minute $1.1 billion stadium proposal from the City of St. Louis—known as National Car Rental Field—the NFL ownership voted 30–2 in January 2016 to approve the Rams' application to return to Los Angeles.

The relocation was a massive financial success for Kroenke. He oversaw the construction of the $5 billion SoFi Stadium, the most expensive stadium in sports history, which opened in 2020. This move culminated in on-field success when the Rams won Super Bowl LVI in 2022 on their home turf.

Legal Settlement with St. Louis

The relocation sparked a bitter legal battle. In 2017, the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County, and the Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority filed a lawsuit against Kroenke and the NFL, alleging breach of contract and a failure to follow the league's own relocation guidelines.

After four years of litigation and the threat of a trial that would have forced NFL owners to disclose private financial records, a historic settlement was reached in November 2021. Kroenke and the NFL agreed to pay $790 million to settle the lawsuit. While Kroenke initially disputed how the costs should be shared with other league owners, the settlement effectively closed the chapter on the team's controversial departure from Missouri.

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Arsenal and European Super League Controversy

Kroenke joined the board of directors of Arsenal Holdings in 2008 and was given a beneficial interest in over 18,594 shares. By 2011, he increased his shareholding to 62.89% and made an offer for the rest of the club at £11,750 per share. Later, in 2018, he made an offer of around £600 million, bringing his ownership of shares to over 90%.

Stan caused a significant deal of controversy in April 2021 when he sought to end the traditional pyramid system of European football by creating a closed European Super League, of which Arsenal would be a part. Following a major backlash, however, Arsenal and the five other English clubs involved in the plan reneged. Arsenal then protested and exhorted the Kroenke family to sell the club, which they refused to do.

Largest Landowner in the United States

Stan Kroenke has quietly become the largest individual landowner in the United States, a distinction he earned after decades of steadily acquiring vast ranch properties across the American West. His position at the top of the rankings was cemented in late 2025 with the purchase of nearly one million acres of New Mexico ranchland from the heirs of industrialist Henry Singleton, pushing his total U.S. landholdings to more than 2.7 million acres. That acquisition moved Kroenke ahead of longtime land barons such as the Emmerson family, John Malone, and Ted Turner.

Kroenke's portfolio now spans at least nine major ranches across multiple states and Canada, including the 560,000-acre Q Creek Ranch in Wyoming, the largest single ranch in the Rocky Mountains. Unlike land empires built around timber or development, Kroenke's holdings are primarily working cattle ranches, reflecting a long-term strategy focused on scale, conservation, and control of scarce Western land rather than short-term monetization.

Personal Life

While skiing in Aspen, Colorado, Stan met Walmart heiress Ann Walton; the two married in 1974. In 1995, they inherited a stake in Walmart when Walton's father passed away. Overall, Kroenke is relatively private about his life and seldom gives press interviews.

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