West Ham Joint Chairman Daniel Kretinsky net wealth has risen in the 2026 Sunday Times Rich list who says he is the 24th richest person in Britain with a net wealth of £8.185 Billion up from £7.79 Bn in 2025 and £6 Bn in 2024
Although his primary residence is in Prague, Czech Republic he does have a £65 million mansion in Hamstead Health where he is stays some of the time overseeing Royal Mail and other UK interests.
Billionaire Estimates Vary Widely
Forbes suggests his net wealth at £7.64 billion while the Bloomberg Billionaire index says his net wealth is closer to £9.05 billion
Euro business magazine ranks him the richest Czech, with a net worth of CZK 390 billion (£13.956 Billion)
The freshly minted Daniel Kretinsky
Sullivan Wealth is Dropping
Fellow West Ham Joint Chairman David Sullivan net wealth has dropped slightly from £1.168 billion in 2025 to £1.1 billion in 2026 dropping to 149th richest in the UK.
The remaining West Ham Joint Chairman Vanessa Gold and family have dropped out of the Sunday Times list which starts this year at £340m, David Gold’s estate was once valued at £650m but has decreased over the years with net value of David Gold’s estate revealed last year at £127,529,095
The secretive Albert ‘Tripp’ Smith main residence is in America and is not listed on the Sunday Times, Forbes or Bloomberg Billionaire Index raising doubt he is billionaire but certainly a rich investor with hundreds of millions of assets.
The problem seems to be that all of west hams share holders are speculators! They view WEST HAM UNITED as a business opportunity to make some money! We as season ticket holders and fans who have invested time ,money and our souls with our football club.Are so disappointed that none of them wants to invest in the first team playing squad ? We have shown that we can do very well with the right kind of players as we’ve won European silverware and have finished 6 th and 7 th in the premier league? We just need an investor who can see the potential in west ham? West ham are definitely a sleeping giant they have the most passionate fanbase in LONDON. The fans have been badly let down by the management of this club and they need to move aside and sell up to someone who cares and knows how to run a business?
Poor old Sully, you have to feel for him, life must be a struggle, maybe we should have a whip round, after all we would be nowhere without him, he saved our club and took us to a new level with so much success , we should be very grateful to him for all the fantastic times we have had, we have a lovely ground ( we don’t own ) fantastic training ground (we don’t own ) some ok players we can hardly afford, so we will have to sell of course, he is probably the most negative thing to happen to this club in my 60+ years of supporting…..