Quote (ampoo @ 5 Jun 2017 23:51)
that kind of transformation does not happen here, only when a club has a potent long-term sponsor and i havent ever heard that some club would loan money to do that, i am almost shocked to hear such a thing ^^
sounds weird, but its some kind of being in the right place at the right time thing here
the sponsor that paid us back then vanished after a season, everyone except the homegrown players was gone and we got relegated twice in 3 years
that same guy went to a different club, two promotions in a row and they dropped back when he left again :lol:
regarding normal sponsoring for amateur clubs...it feels like times have changed a lot when you speak the older guys
especially middle class and local companies, that were happy to throw a few thousand into their local team are now fighting for every cent on the market
yeah, sunday league football can attract quite a crowd here, the team i mentioned earlier that got promoted to 4th level has had 800-1000 people on average
i played for that club in the u19 and even we had something like 400-500 per game
in the city most clubs always have some people attending, aside from wags and friends ^^
and outside the big cities its almost tradition for many to go to the local sunday league club for beer, food, company etc
but clubs have been complaining in recent years that fewer people are coming
and from next year onward i think its getting worse with the kick-off times in bundesliga at 1.30 pm on sundays (sunday noons had no games on purpose for the sake of amateur football)
i can only speak for hamburg, but when they have a sunday noon game, who will then go to our games?
at my club, easily three quarters wouldnt come or perhaps watch that game in our club house
it really sucks that grinding more and more money out of professional football will have an effect on those who just want to have some fun
Yeah, that sounds bad. Sucks for the clubs in the smaller tiers :/
About the whole loaning thing, to me it makes sense... if for whatever reason you can't find enough sponsors to gain enough money to become a pro club, then you can just use the money you are going to get from La Liga for being in Segunda. I mean, if they're missing let's say 1M€ to become a pro club, then they know that by the end of the season the league will have paid them over twice that amount, so they can just go temporarily in debt or ask an outside financial source to just loan them the amount. In the 4th level where you have to make a transition from amateur to semipro then I guess you just have to rely on sponsors since clubs won't make much money from the league anyway. But like I said, it's very hard for an amateur club to promote in the 5th level, because there will always be semipro clubs to compete with and they will have far better squads.