Liverpool’s owners, Fenway Sports Group, are said to be considering Getafe as their latest option for establishing a multi-club organization.
FSG has been seeking to expand their football portfolio beyond Liverpool for some time, although previous interests in the French club Bordeaux and the Spanish team Málaga did not progress into any formal agreements.
According to The Telegraph, FSG is now looking into the possibility of acquiring Getafe to complement their management of Liverpool.
However, they do not intend to reach the extent of Manchester City, which serves as the flagship club of the City Football Group, encompassing 12 teams across four continents.
Michael Edwards, FSG’s chief executive of football, is eager to take on a role that goes beyond just Liverpool, and it is believed that this was a significant factor in his return to the organization last summer.
In the broader football landscape, multi-club operations are becoming increasingly prevalent.
In addition to the well-known Red Bull network, Chelsea’s owners, BlueCo, completed a takeover of the French club Strasbourg in 2023, while Edu departed from his position as Arsenal’s sporting director in anticipation of joining Evangelos Marinakis’s group, which includes Nottingham Forest, Olympiacos, and Rio Ave.
Getafe is located near Madrid and has spent all but one of the last 21 seasons in La Liga.
They experienced a brief relegation at the conclusion of the 2015–16 season but returned to the top division after just one year in the second tier.
Getafe finished 13th in La Liga in the 2024–25 season, marking five consecutive placements in the bottom half, although they achieved a fifth-place finish as recently as the 2018–19 season and have qualified for European competitions three times.
Considering that the club has been a fixture in La Liga for such an extended period, it may come as a surprise that it did not exist in its current form prior to 1983.
A previous Getafe club was dissolved at the end of the 1981–82 season, and two other local teams—including one that was originally a supporters’ club for Real Madrid—merged to form the current Getafe CF.