Alexis Ohanian's £20m Chelsea women investment is a 'game-changing endorsement'

Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor has called Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian's £20m investment in the club a "game-changing endorsement".

Ohanian, who is married to tennis legend Serena Williams, has bought an 8-10% stake in the women's team, and stated an ambition to make it the "next global women's sports brand".

He is due to be at Wembley, with Williams, for Sunday's FA Cup final, where Chelsea are aiming for a domestic Treble.

Bompastor said Ohanian's investment will take Chelsea Women to another level, and the news would be an "extra motivation" for players and staff ahead of Sunday's game against Manchester United.

"This investment is a game-changing endorsement for women's game but also for young girls," she said.

"It just shows we are in a really great place but we still want to be an even better team, better club, and we want to be one of the best teams in the world.

"That means results on the pitch but also we want to be a model outside the pitch, we want to make sure that when young girls look at our team they just dream of being one of our players of the future."

Ohanian is no stranger to investing in women's sport - having been the largest shareholder in American club side Angel City FC until it was sold in 2024 for £192.3m, and founding a women-only athletics event named Athlos.

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