Inside Wayne Rooney’s real estate portfolio: the former Man Utd football player and Birmingham City manager grew up in Liverpool council housing – and now has multiple properties around the world
- The football star and his wife Coleen have been together since they were teens, and the couple have four children together; they’ve owned homes in Barbados, Florida, Maryland and Portugal
- Rooney’s Cheshire mansion is his primary home and includes a full-sized football pitch – although when it was being built, it was jokingly compared to a supermarket by local residents
Wayne Rooney has come a long way from the tiny Liverpool council home he grew up in, with the football icon now calling several houses around the world home.
The star 39-year-old star is worth an eye-watering US$170 million according to Celebrity Net Worth, and has an impressive property portfolio.
From mansions that “resemble supermarkets” to holiday homes abroad in the US and the Caribbean, here is a look at some of the countries Rooney owns homes in.
Cheshire, England
The crown jewel in Rooney’s property collection is reportedly his Cheshire mansion. The six-bedroom family home for the star, his wife Coleen and their four kids was built from the ground up at a cost of around US$25 million, according to local paper Cheshire Live.
It includes a football pitch, an indoor swimming pool, two fishing lakes, a cinema, a wine cellar, a snooker room and a massive garage for Rooney’s luxury car collection, per UK media.
The home has not been without controversy, with the star reportedly not being allowed to install floodlights because of the mansion’s rural location, according to the Derby Telegraph. The manor was also jokingly compared to a Morrisons supermarket megastore for its boxy appearance when photos of it being built first appeared online, per the Manchester Evening News.
It is also reported to have two separate lifts, one for the family and another for guests, as well as a panic room.
The panic room was reportedly a special request after a 2016 break-in at the family’s previous US$7.5 million home in Prestbury, Cheshire, noted Metro UK.
The Prestbury home, where the Rooney family lived for well over a decade, had six en suite bedrooms, an indoor swimming pool, a cinema, a triple garage and a golf simulator. It sold for US$4.6 million in 2022, per UK media.