Flavio Becca

Flavio Becca (born 18 June 1962) is a Luxembourgish real estate investor and owner of Swift Hesperange, a Luxembourgish professional football club. He was previously the owner of Leopard Trek, a professional cycling team, until Trek took over ownership in 2014. He was also the owner of Belgian football club Royal Excelsior Virton, before selling the club to N'Golo Kanté in 2023.

Biography Becca is the son of Italian immigrants, he grew up in Hesperingen and lives in Luxembourg. Becca was described by The Guardian daily newspaper as a "real estate mogul". In 2019, Becca entered into discussions with the 1. FC Kaiserslautern, as he aimed to invest in the German football club.

Career Flavio Becca started supporting the Luxembourg football team F91 Dudelange in the 1990s. Dudelange won the Luxembourg championships when he was in charge. The professional cycling team Leopard Trek was established in 2011 by Becca and his business, Leopard SA. He also started talking to 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 2019 because he wanted to invest in the German soccer team. Prior to Trek assuming control of Leopard Trek in 2014, he was also the owner of the professional cycling team. He is the head of the Promobe Group, which is a significant player in the residential real estate development sector, offices, and the tertiary sector in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Becca invested in Olos, a €600 million real estate development fund that would later become the focus of a contentious legal dispute in 2014 over the division of assets with his co-investor. Becca asserted that he controlled 90% of the investment vehicle's underlying value, which his business partner contested because the arrangement called for an equal 50:50 split. Becca's tale has a recurring theme of a land grab with a bitter outcome. He designed a national sports stadium in Luxembourg with an attached shopping centre in the early 2000s. Livingen's plan was rejected by the then Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Junker, and shopping centre builder Rollinger, which had placed its faith in Becca's leadership as the principal developer, sued him.

Rollinger had good reason to believe in Becca: the elusive businessman had tight ties to prominent politicians and government officials in Luxembourg. Additionally, the planning department used unfair competition as a reason to rule against him when they handed down their final decision that he possessed the majority of the property on which the new stadium was to be constructed. It turned out that one of Becca's companies owed the state bank BCEE a sizable sum of money as well, much of which would have been used to fund the stadium since Becca didn't have the cash on hand for the project. While the nation's politicians may have shielded him to prevent his insolvency and the subsequent loss to state coffers, the successful stadium idea went a step too far into the spotlight. Before his eyes, Becca's network of supporters broke down.