the Conflict on a new landsholdsaftale between Dansk Boldspil-Union (DBU) and the players on the Danish herrelandshold, which is represented by Spillerforeningen, was a costly affair for fodboldforbundet.
In connection with the presentation of the financial statements for the year 2018, informs DBU, that the conflict cost the lives of fodboldforbundet 10-12 million dollars.
As a result of the conflict favoured Denmark in september up in an alternate in Slovakia with a team consisting of players from 2. division, Appreciation and futsallandsholdet – the so-called vikarlandshold.
The three major items of expenditure in the conflict, which makes that the DBU end up losing tens of millions of dollars. It says the DBU’s constituted director, Kenneth Reeh, to Ritzau.
– in Compensation for Slovakia, lost commercial revenue, and extra-legal assistance is the first nine million. So, there have been additional følgeting that do not really klumpes together.
– It does, we get up around 11 million dollars for the conflict, he says.
the Slovaks are compensated for, to testkampen lost his athletic eligibility, which made the fight pointless for local spectators. The fares were dumped from 26 and 16 euro for a euro per piece. 6432 spectators took advantage of the offer.
the Settlement of the fight with a vikarlandshold adds up to 1.7 million dollars, said DBU’s constituted director, Kenneth Reeh, to Ritzau.
Vikarlandsholdet took the bar against Slovakia. Photo: Lars Poulsen
– It cost us 1.7 million dollars extra to implement the struggle in terms of, if we don’t have to put up with vikarlandsholdet. It covers mainly the compensation of Slovakia, who did not get the opponent, as they had expected we would put up with, he says.
at the same time had to DBU to give the sponsors a discount on more than two million dollars as a result of the conflict, says Kenneth Reeh.
– We have commercial partners who, as a result of konfliktperioden not received the value they had anticipated. We have compensated. It has been more rabatforhandlinger than it has been in legal battles, said DBU director.
Overall, comes DBU out of the financial year 2018 with a better result than expected. The accounts show a minus of ten million crowns, which is better than the budgeted deficit of 15 million dollars.
the financial Statements satisfy, however, not DBU, which had unexpected high revenue as a result of herrelandsholdets results at the WORLD cup and in the Nations League.
– Overall, regnskabsresultatet less satisfactory, as the improvement on the five million dollars has been obtained after non-budgeted one-off revenues from the WORLD cup 2018 and the Nation’s League in a total of 30 million dollars is indtægtsført, sounds it in the accounts.
Had DB been landsholdskonflikten in addition, was fodboldforbundet come out of the financial year with a surplus.
– If you look at the individual elements, so we had to got the profit, if we had not had the conflict, ” notes Kenneth Reeh.
the DBU expects a deficit of a million dollars for the financial year 2019.
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