Seahawks sale: When NFL owners will vote on new ownership group

It's now set in stone that the Khosla family could officially become the new owners of the Seattle Seahawks on Aug. 26.

After it had earlier been reported that the league had told owners to leave that date open for a potential meeting to approve the sale, ESPN was the first to report on Tuesday that Aug. 26 has been officially set as the day for the vote.

The meeting is set for Atlanta. That date is two weeks before the Seahawks will open the regular season on Sept. 9 at home against the New England Patriots, who they beat in the Super Bowl in February.

A league source confirmed the setting of the date of the meeting to The Seattle Times.

The meeting will include other NFL business.

But the main topic will be the approval of the sale of the team from the Paul G. Allen Estate to the Khosla family, with Neeru Khosla as the controlling owner. The sale will need the approval of 24 of 32 owners.

The news of the date being set seems to indicate all has gone smoothly since it was announced on Saturday that the Allen Estate had reached an agreement to sell the team to the Khosla family for $9.612 billion.

The deal is being reviewed by the NFL's Finance Committee, chaired by Clark Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Assuming the finance committee forwards the sale to the ownership group - as the official setting of a meeting would indicate is expected to happen - the actual vote may be anticlimactic.

Each of the last four sales of NFL teams to new owners - Washington in 2023, Denver in 2022, Carolina in 2018 and Buffalo in 2014 - were approved unanimously.

Another reason it is expected the sale will likely be approved easily is that the Khosla family was approved as a minority owner (3.1% stake) in the San Francisco 49ers a year ago. The family will have to sell that stake.

The finance committee will also review the names and backgrounds of the limited partners. Those names have yet to be revealed, but that group is expected to in part include some other members of Silicon Valley tech companies.

Vinod Khosla made much of his reported estimated net worth of roughly $14 billion by Forbes Magazine through Bay Area venture capital funds and co-founding Sun Microsystems.

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This story was originally published July 14, 2026 at 4:56 PM.