The government is going to create a fund to compensate clubs that have to play football without an audience in the coming weeks. 36 million euros will be made available to compensate for the consequences of the measures. About 25-30 million euros of this will end up in professional football. Clubs can declare the lost income to the fund until December 4.
That reports the US. Dutch BVOs will play without an audience until at least 4 December. If that period is extended, the new construction can serve as a ‘framework’ for the period after December 4th. Last season, the government already met the clubs through the NOW and TLV schemes. At that time, professional football was entitled to approximately 90 million euros. These regulations were lifted on 1 October, so a new construction had to be set up to minimize the consequences for the clubs.
Earlier this year it was already announced that Feyenoord loses about nine tons in turnover per home game in an empty stadium. The Rotterdammers were therefore in favor of postponing the competition. “It is of sporting importance that the games are finished with an audience,” said a Feyenoord spokesperson earlier this week. ESPN. ”For all clubs and certainly for Feyenoord, the audience is a twelfth man. Finally, there are financial and economic interests. A match without an audience quickly means a loss of nine hundred thousand euros for us. It’s going to be really hard this way.”
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