City Football Group
| Type | Holding company |
|---|---|
| Industry |
Sports Sports services |
| Founder(s) |
Isaac Yew Clover Yio |
| Owner(s) |
YI Group (90%) Howard Jones (2%) Kenchiro Hajima (6%) FGC Capital (2%) |
| Employees | 983 |
| Subsidiaries |
Daas City FC (100%) East Coast United (10%) UPB-MyTeam FC (100%) Pretaling Daya City (100%) Academia Dragao FC (100%) BNDN FC (100%) |
City Football Group Limited (CFG) is a holding company that administers association football clubs. The group is owned by two organisations; of which 90% is majority owned by the YI Group. Another 10% is held by minority shareholders following the collapse of Krasnovlac.
History
Founded in 2022, City Football Group was founded by Isaac Yew and Clover Yio to create a global football entity.
The group first purchased Daau City FC in 2021 under the name of Isaac Yew and was soon transferred to the City Football Group. They then opted to purchase Belaov City in the same year. Cezero Negrata was also transferred under the holding group later that year. Phinbellan side UPB-MyTeam and Liga Mataba challengers Pretaling Daya City were also acquired by the consortium for a combined Cr 2.5m.
The club would release all its assets in Krasnovlac following the collapse of the nation, combining a loss of Cr 21m due to the expenses of Belaov City and their respective development sides. The facilities were sold for an undisclosed fee to the local government and confirmed the group's departure from Krasnovlac. By 2024 the group would then sell 90% of rights to the Cezero Negrata license to businessman Adam West for another undisclosed fee and kept 10% to the group. The club was renamed to East Coast United and remained as a partnership club to CFG. The group purchased B League 1 side BNDN FC for Cr 8.2m as they looked to enter the Banhnamese market.
The Group had a minor investment from former DAFA President Howard Jones and TON GC founder Kenchiro Hajima. FGC Capital owned by Dauian Politburo member Ismail Hassan also injected funds to purchase 2% shares of the group.
Feud between CFG and Kea
Principles and Interests
Youth and Player Development
As one of the founding targets, one of the group's ultimate target was to improve youth facilities around Eura. Academies such as the Daau City Football Group Academy and the Krasnovlac City Football Group Academy have been founded in their respective countries.
The group is renowned for selling talented youth players for high prices and buying them at a low price when they're young. This prompted the founders to go on and purchase smallter clubs around the globe, for example Cezero Negrata in the Daau League was purchased.
Collaboration between clubs
One of the core philosophies of City Football Group since its inception has been the mutual supporting of clubs through combined scouting and player sharing. While virtually all large clubs operate an international scouting network, financial demands make it impossible to access local knowledge in foreign countries to the same extent as a domestic club could. CFG clubs therefore provide invaluable services to each other by using their own local scouting networks to share information on players between clubs. With their combined knowledge, the group advertises that it has extensive information on half a million players around the world. Possessing such a network then allows the local clubs to sign players early in their development, safe in the knowledge that the range of clubs CFG owns means that they can be placed at any of a number of sides as their development continues and the need for other challenges arises.
Staff
- Isaac Yew - Owner
- Clover Yio - Co-owner
- Ibrahim Yew - Daas City Chairman
- Jacob Solgraad - Pretaling Daya Chairman
- Jonas Nielsen - BNDN Chairman
- Daisuke Kai - UPB Chairman
- Sunjie Zhao - Academia Dragao Administrator
CFG Owned Clubs
Academia Dragao
Academia Dragao is a CFG owned football academy for players up to 18 years old to compete in the Liga Draguti 2. The academy serves as a feeder club to Daas City and Pretaling Daya, in partnership with Liga Draguti side Clujtch CFR.
Banh Nao Dong Nai FC
Bought under an agreement with the Banh Nam Football Association, BNDN FC became the first foreign owned club in Banh Nam and was reportedly given a budget of Cr 30m over 4 seasons to grow the club. Jonas Nielsen was named as the club chairman
Daas City FC
CFG would purchase Daau City Council FC in 2021 and it would be renamed to Daau City Football Club and then Daas City Football Club. Ibrahim Yew (brother of Isaac Yew) would be voted as club chairman.
The then manager Jorge would be sacked two months in due to poor results and the club's board of directors and chairman were changed within a month. Pipi Rodriguez would be hired as manager and is still serving as manager till the start of the 2023-24 season where Markus Nielsen was hired as manager for the Super League side. Following the CFG acquisition of the club, Daas City has won 2 domestic trebles in a row from the 2022-23 season to the 2023-24 season with more predicted to come. The club's domestic success propelled an entry ticket into the FMF Champions' League and thus an increase in funding from CFG.
CFG would make the call to hire young Dauian manager Gavin Bee as Markus Nielsen switched to a technical director role at the club, however unable to retain their title winning streak as they fell short to Daau United in the 2024-25 season. Further investment was redirected to Banh Nao Dong Nai FC as CFG pledged to continue their spending on Dauian youth development with Daas City.
East Coast United
Cezero Negrata would be transferred under CFG in 2021 to further improve football in Daau. The club currently has won 1 Southern Seragaan League title and has been promoted to the Daau League as of 2022.
CFG sold the club to Dauian businessman Adam West in the summer of 2024, rendering the club as a partner club with the group.
UPB-MyTeam FC
UPB-MyTeam was sold to CFG for Cr 500k in September 2022 with the club being the first Dauian owned club in Phinbella.
Pretaling Daya City
Pretaling Daya City was acquired by CFG in September 2022 alongside UPB-MyTeam as the group's roadmap into Mataba. The team has since signed multiple former Daas City players and will look to challenge the league.
