Al-Ittihad Al-Youm learned that the FIFA budget deficit of 14 million dirhams in 2018 was caused by the president's failure to renew most of the main sponsors of their contracts with the federation.

It is expected that this deficit will be discussed during the Ordinary General Assembly No. 4 of the Football Federation, which is scheduled to be held at the Marriott Hotel in Jeddah.

In addition to the lack of renewal of the sponsors of their contracts in the increase of the financial deficit of the Union, it is also less so to the amounts allocated by the Union of the budget of a number of first-class clubs, in order to participate in the amateur league following the withdrawal of a large number of participation because of their inability .

In the past three years, the club has spent about 45 million dirhams on amateur clubs, and the national teams from friendly preparation camps, friendly matches and others, especially the first team, have the lion's share of the annual budget of the Football Federation.

The source revealed that only the main sponsors remain, besides Dubai Sports Channel, that the financial contracts with these sponsors constitute the main resource on which the ball depends on the support of the budget.

He pointed out that the financial deficit of the Union has nothing to do with the suspension of financial support allocated to the Union by the General Authority for Sport against the backdrop of the subject of dual sports positions.

According to the official website of the Football Federation, only two of the club's sponsors are named as sponsors in the official website of the federation, Etisalat and Dubai Sports Channel.

Alongside Etisalat and Dubai Sports, the list of sponsors of the Football Association has been a large number of institutions and companies, including Al Hilal, Bruges and Al Wadi Al Akhdar, as well as Adidas, which was previously signed by the Football Association in 2014 to sponsor national teams. , Including the first team.

Although the success of any consortium is by its ability to increase its financial resources, the current board of the FA has not been able since its election in 2016 to attract any major new sponsors to support its budget except for the partnership with Dubai Sports.

The Football Association faces a major problem in persuading a number of sponsors, key partners and supporters to continue their relationship. There has also been no new initiatives by the Football Association to enter new sponsors on the list of partners and increase its sources of financial income.

It is noteworthy that the Union receives annual financial support from the General Authority of Sport of 57 million dirhams, but was finally frozen by the Commission because of the crisis that resulted from the duplication of sports positions because the three members of the Federation of the ball occupy other positions in their clubs as well as their membership in the Board of Directors the ball.

On the other hand, the General Assembly of the Football Union is considering 15 items, including the budget of the Football Federation, amendments to some regulations and the statutes of the Football Federation, and some amendments to the regulations of the Union's judicial committees.

Talk about the salary ceiling

It is expected that some clubs will raise in the General Assembly today, a number of topics in the event of the approval of the Football Association to do so, including the abolition of the ceiling of salaries of players after more than one club submitted this request to the General Assembly.

The clubs said that this is due mainly to the futility of the implementation of this decision or to make some fundamental amendments to it, in addition to the demand of some clubs to increase the number of foreign players in the Gulf Arab League to six players instead of four, as well as to address the causes of fiscal deficit in the budget of the Football Union, The salaries of the employees of the Football Federation increased to six million dirhams during the year 2017-2018, despite the reduction in the number of union employees during the last period.

- «The Commission» froze, finally,

AED 57 million

Annual progress of the Union

Because of a crisis

Double positions.

- Only the main sponsors of the Football Association remain Etisalat and Dubai Sports Channel.