Tom Brady is out at Birmingham City. The club confirmed on Monday that the seven-time Super Bowl winner had ended a three-year association as minority owner and chair of the club’s advisory board, with no explanation given and no word on what happens to his 3.3% shareholding.
Birmingham sit top of the Championship on goal difference, with 29 points from 15 matches after a 2-1 home win over Swansea on Saturday. Brady’s departure comes with the club in its strongest position since the Knighthead Capital Management takeover that brought him in.
The 49-year-old joined in August 2023, shortly after retiring from the NFL, when Knighthead, co-founded by his friend and business partner Tom Wagner, bought Birmingham out of League One. Brady was pitched as a figure who would help shape the club’s approach to health, nutrition and recovery, and his involvement was documented in the Amazon Prime series Built in Birmingham: Brady and the Blues, which covered a brief, chaotic spell under Wayne Rooney that ended in relegation.
“Sincere gratitude” and silence
The club’s statement, carried by multiple outlets, was short.
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“Birmingham City Football Club expresses its sincere gratitude to Tom Brady for his involvement with and unwavering support for the club over the last three years,” the club said.
Birmingham added that Brady’s “experience and passion” had been “truly amazing” and said it would build on that foundation “from the training ground to the Birmingham community”. Why he is leaving, what happens to the 3.3% shareholding and whether Brady keeps any informal advisory role were not addressed.
Wagner, who chairs the club, is unaffected. Brady also retains his minority stake and advisory role with the Las Vegas Raiders in the NFL.
A stadium project without Brady’s name on it
Birmingham’s recovery on the pitch has run alongside a far larger off-pitch play. Knighthead has committed to a Sports Quarter on a 48-acre site in the east of the city, anchored by a new 62,000-seat stadium, with a reported £3bn earmarked for the project and completion targeted for the early 2030s.
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Chris Davies, who took charge for the 2024-25 season and guided Birmingham to a Football League record of 111 points on their way out of League One, is the manager now charged with turning Championship form into Premier League promotion. His side finished 10th in the Championship last season before the current run to the top of the table.
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