No spectators in the stadium before september.
This is what is waiting for super League clubs, according to Mette Frederiksen, to come up with new announcements on Monday evening in connection with the country’s coronakrise.
Commitments to extend forsamlingsforbuddet up to 10. may and ban large gatherings until 1. september. Of which fans of the battens to matches.
It comes undeniably to be of great importance for the Superliga clubs ‘ financial situation, when in several months can’t make money on ticket sales and the second on match days. Therefore B. T. asked some of the clubs about how the prospect of zero spectators to make them economic.
Silkeborg IF
At the central jutland club are you annoyed with the prospect of a lack of income on match days, and therefore hope the club then, also, that the government is ready with a helping hand.
“This sucks! It comes, of course, cost us money, when there are spectators in the stadium. We hope hjælpepakkerne is being extended to the larger organizers, as we are a part of. We are in the queue together with them, organising festivals,” says the club’s executive director, Kent Madsen.
He also explains that although it is a small club, who do not have the bulk of its revenue in the tilskuerfronten, then it is something they will be able to make:
“It means that we are going to take from the economic reserves. Fortunately, we have just presented a nice profit, so we have a certain resilience, but of course it comes to pulling teeth out on us.”
Hobro IK
to the North of Silkeborg, comes the loss of income on match days, also to put its mark in the budget.
“Like all other companies, then we come also to be hit hard when one of our primary sources of revenue, which among other things is that people come in the stadium are affected. It is serious,” says the club’s head of sales director, Jimmie Nielsen.
the Club also hope that the government’s stimulus measures are extended, so there may be little financial help to retrieve the path, while the transfer window is closed:
“It is clear that if we do not sell football players, as spectators, of course, an important source of income, which has an important meaning to our existence.”
Lyngby BK
to the East of both the little belt and the great belt comes the empty grandstands also play a big role when kampdagene being without time, neither the stadionboder or ticket sales.
“We do not have an overview of it yet, but it comes then to mean something. Of course it does. We also have a lot of sponsors who have paid for to get up and see some matches. And it is clear that when we usually would put a lot of crowns for a fight against either FCK or Brøndby, then it comes to mean something for our economy,” says Andreas Offers, is the ceo.
on Tuesday decided the organization of division, that League season must be completed and færdigspilles in august, when one considers that it is realistic to complete the season without spectators.
Consequently, you have now presented three scenarios for how the Danish Superliga and the Danish cup can be played to completion.
