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FFO™ — FOOTBALL FAMILY OFFICE

The wealth foundation built before the wealth arrives.

A private advisory and capital platform operating at the intersection of football, destination real estate, and family office structuring — for the athletes building the game's next era.

FOOTBALL DESTINATION REAL ESTATE FAMILY OFFICE CAPITAL
The gap

Why now.

No sport manufactures fast, young wealth the way football does — and almost nothing exists to protect it the moment it lands. Agents negotiate the contract. Brands run the campaign. The property decision that will shape the next twenty years gets made by whoever happens to be in the room.

That gap is widest in the women's game, where participation and commercial value are moving faster than the advisory relationships decades in the making on the men's side. It's why Football Family Office (FFO™) starts there. The platform serves men's and women's football alike — the women's game is simply where arriving early still means something.

128,694
Professional footballers worldwide
+30%
Growth in female players, 5yr
£16.5bn
Premier League rights cycle
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Not an agent. Not a generalist.

An agent is paid to close the next deal — the contract, the transfer, the boot deal — not to structure what happens to the money afterward. A generalist wealth manager can build a stocks-and-bonds portfolio, but rarely has off-market property access, developer relationships, or any real understanding of a playing career's specific rhythm: transfer windows, image rights, a handful of peak-earning years that may not repeat.

FFO™ does neither job. It does the one in between — institutional-grade real estate structuring, built around how a footballer actually earns, holds, and moves, backed by the same family office discipline and developer access used for every Drayton Family Office client.

"Every family office begins somewhere. We work selectively with the athletes building one from the ground up."

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How it actually works

Built for the players who don't have one yet.

Football Family Office (FFO™) exists for athletes building their first family office relationship from nothing — not replacing one that already exists. Through APP™, Drayton Family Office becomes that first advisor — direct, discreet, principal-led, sized to a first acquisition today, with the same relationship expected to grow into a full portfolio over time. The mandate then flows into LUXEIQ™, the same infrastructure matching every family office mandate to developer listings, exactly as it would for any other client.

The relationship — APP™

Where a family office actually begins.

FFO™ runs on the same trajectory APP™ already applies to every Drayton Family Office client — the same principal, the same discretion, the same institutional standard, scaled to a first acquisition with the expectation it grows into a full portfolio. See APP™ for the complete methodology.

Where it operates

Active across football and destination real estate.

📍 United Kingdom🇬🇧

England

The home of the modern game — Premier League and Women's Super League, the most mature football wealth market in the world.

📍 North America🇺🇸

United States

NWSL and MLS — both leagues drawing accelerating investment on either side of the game, building toward the 2026 World Cup.

📍 Europe🇪🇸

Spain

La Liga and Liga F, alongside DarGlobal's Iberian footprint — two of Europe's deepest football economies and an established developer partner in the same market.

📍 Middle East🇦🇪

United Arab Emirates

Dubai — home market for DarGlobal and Atoll Estates, and the base for Interluxe Capital's RERA-licensed operations.

📍 Indian Ocean🇲🇻

Maldives

Atoll Estates' destination-asset stage — the family office portfolio end of the trajectory, not the first acquisition.

Founding partners

Already on the pitch.

DarGlobal
Where it begins — first acquisition

London-listed international luxury developer. Branded residences and golf-anchored communities across the GCC, Europe and beyond, including accessible off-plan structures and payment plans suited to a first property, not only flagship towers.

Atoll Estates
Mid-career through to legacy portfolio

Abu Dhabi-based developer of Zamani Islands, the Maldives' first superyacht marina destination. Managed investment suites from $1M offer a realistic mid-career entry point; private estates and mansions from $25M sit at the top of the family office portfolio stage.

Get involved

Begin a conversation.

FFO™ works selectively with clubs, federations, former players and developers building toward the same future. A limited number of founding partner positions remain.

Request a private conversation All enquiries handled directly by Tessa Drayton, in absolute confidence.
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