Saturday was a good day for Gino Pozzo.

Around lunchtime, he watched Watford, the English second-tier club owned by his family, win 2-0 away at Brighton. Afterwards, during the drive from England’s south coast to London, he heard the news that Fulham had upset Middlesbrough in a 4-3 thriller. The result meant that Watford will definitely be playing in the Premier League next season. By dinner time, another one of the Pozzo family’s clubs, Udinese, had defeated Milan 2-1 in Serie A, assuring itself another comfortable mid-table finish.

He will have to wait until Monday night and the visit of the Pozzos’ third club, Granada, to Valencia in Spain’s Liga to know if it truly was a perfect weekend. But this one was already pretty good.

The Pozzos aren’t the only multi-club owners around. Red Bull, the energy drink company, owns clubs in Major League Soccer (New York Red Bulls), Austria (Red Bull Salzburg) and the German second division (RB Leipzig). The City Football Group comprises Manchester City in the Premier League, New York City in MLS and Melbourne City in Australia’s A-League, as well as a minority share in Japan’s Yokohama Marinos.

Belgian investor Roland Duchâtelet owns a controlling stake in no fewer than six football clubs in five countries, mostly in the lower leagues, except for Belgium’s Standard Liege and Hungary’s Újpest. And Matthew Benham, owner of English Championship side Brentford, joined their ranks when he acquired Danish club Midjtylland a year ago.