How Norwich City’s owners Delia Smith and Mark Attanasio created a net worth of £567.8m

How Norwich City’s owners Delia Smith and Mark Attanasio created a net worth of £567.8m

The owners of Norwich City, Delia Smith, Michael Wynn-Jones, and Mark Attanasio, are trying to get the team back

into the Premier League.

The Canaries, who last played in the Premier League in 2022, are currently in their third season in the second level.

Given that Norwich had several campaigns in the top level while they were majority shareholders at Carrow Road,

Smith and Wynn-Jones will be eager to see their team return to the big time shortly.

The Athletic claims that despite joining the ownership group in September 2022 and acquiring an initial 18 percent

stake in the Norfolk team, Mark Attanasio has not yet been able to experience Premier League football with the

team.It has since been confirmed this month that Attanasio has become the majority stakeholder of the club, with

Smith and Wynn-Jones stepping down from their position on the board of directors, becoming honorary life

presidents.

Smith and Wynn-Jones have spent almost 30 years on the board at Carrow Road, meaning this is a momentous

period of change for the Championship side.

Per figures from Give Me Sport, the net worth of the club’s ownership group would put them 19th, if included in a list

alongside the Premier League’s 20 owners, ahead of Nottingham Forest’s Evangelos Marinakis and Brentford’s

Matthew Benham.

Here we take a look at the net worth of Norwich’s owners, and how they ended up becoming wealthy enough to own

a Championship side…

Delia Smith and Mark Attanasio’s net worth

According to the Mirror, Smith has been a part of Norwich since 1996, and her tenure is now coming to an end. In

August 2024, she most recently agreed to lower her ownership stake in the team to 10%.

The Canaries have played in the top division for seven seasons while she has owned the team, most recently in the

Premier League in 2022 under Daniel Farke and Dean Smith. Thorup is now responsible for getting them back to the

top tier as quickly as possible.

Smith and Wynn-Jones have a combined net worth of $36 (£27.8) million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

The two managed the team’s ascent to the top division, but in more recent years they have found it difficult to stay

competitive, which has forced outside funding to help the Norfolk team.

Attanasio first became involved with Norwich in September 2022 when he bought an 18% share in the team.

This has since risen to an approximately 85 percent stake in the Championship side, per the Mirror, with the

American becoming increasingly involved in the running of the Norfolk outfit.

It has been reported by the Associated Press, that the American businessman has a net worth of $700 (£540)

million.

How Delia Smith and Mark Attanasio made their money

After becoming well-known as a chef, Smith decided to pursue a career in journalism by writing for the Daily Mirror.

It was there that she met her husband, Wynn-Jones, who was then the paper’s editor.

Smith swiftly transitioned into a TV personality, landing her own program, Family Fare, in 1973. The show ran until 1975.

Smith is also the author of two dozen publications, including How to Cheat at Cooking, Delia’s Cakes, and One is Fun.

She has spent decades as a television personality, which has given her enough notoriety to be involved in football

ownership. She joined the team in 1997 after first purchasing a season ticket at Carrow Road.

The famous chef also had a publishing business as part of her work with Sainsbury’s, founding New Crane Publishing

in 1993 to work on their magazine.

Meanwhile, Attanasio is the co-founder of an investment firm, Crescent Capital Group, which was started in 1991.

This company was bought out in 1995, although he remained with the company as a senior partner and chief

investment officer.

He made his foray into the American sports ownership scene nine years later.

The Milwaukee Brewers are a baseball franchise that Attanasio bought and continues to own.

Following threats to relocate the team to Los Angeles, the 67-year-old recently finalised an agreement to renovate

their stadium at a cost of about $500 million to local taxpayers, according to the Associated Press.

Although he had previously sponsored Andy Warhol’s Milwaukee Art Museum, demonstrating an interest in the

neighbourhood where his baseball team plays, the Brewers and Norwich continue to be his two main investments at

the time.

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