It was always a thorn in the side of real traditionalists, club crests and club names are sacred to die-hard fans everywhere. When Mevlüt Arslan joined Wiener Neustädter SC with his insurance company in the summer of 2021, the joy of many supporters was ending. Now, almost two years later, this is over: “MAV” has disappeared from the logo and also from the name, the time of the “1. MAV Wiener Neustadter SC”.
For CEO Rainer Spenger, the collaboration with Arslan, who was also part of the board, was “a big misunderstanding”. The cooperation between the company and the association would have gone differently than both sides had imagined. NÖN tried to reach Arslan, but failed several times, and the promised callback was still a long time coming at the time of going to press.