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Bundesliga soccer team 1. FC Union Berlin expects financial losses of ten million euros in the 2020 calendar year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Nevertheless, club president Dirk Zingler told the “Berliner Zeitung”: “We will master the crisis in the Union family together.
Everyone contributes to this, our members, the spectators who have bought season tickets, our sponsors, our banks and partners. "
Union President Dirk Zingler
Source: dpa-infocom GmbH
For the Eiserne it paid off “that we didn't take our silverware out of the showcase on our way to the Bundesliga,” said Zingler.
Accordingly, income from viewers, sponsorship, catering or other club-owned rights belong to the association and "now form a high hidden reserve".
It is an advantage for the Köpenicker that they only got promoted last year.
"That is why we can certainly deal with this crisis a little more economically than clubs that have been in a top division spending structure for years," said Zingler: "We had even lower expenses, but already higher income."
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But the situation with ghost games and little prospect of a quick recovery remains difficult for Union too.
Large parts of the income have been missing since March.
“As an entrepreneur, you can't prepare for something like that.
You can build up reserves, work sustainably, which is often required, and build up reserves for bad times.
But as a company you cannot expect that you will be missing large areas of your income for an uncertain time, "said Zingler and added:" That is dramatic. "
If the situation does not change, a salary waiver by the professional team of coach Urs Fischer is again an issue.
"If the exclusion of viewers should continue, we will certainly sit down," said Zingler: "I don't want to do something like this for political reasons, but only for objective reasons."