Charlie Methven

Managing Director at Mount Pleasant Football Academy

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Charlie Methven is the former Executive Director of Sunderland AFC and CEO of Charlton Athletic FC. A former national newspaper columnist with the Daily Telegraph and Marcomms Agency chairman, Methven's career in football started with Advisory roles at Arsenal, Oxford United and Tottenham Hotspur. He moved in to football's C-Suite world at Sunderland between 2018 and 2022, and Charlton from July 2023 to March 2025, before stepping down to accept a new role running Mount Pleasant FA, the leading club in the Caribbean region with a large residential elite academy. Outside of football, Methven has also been an adviser to McLaren F1, the Jockey Club, the Bahrain Grand Prix and the government of Qatar in the run-up to the 2022 World Cup.