A few of Germany’s most conventional and well-known golf equipment are sometimes suppressed to the decrease divisions of the footballing pyramid. That is partially on account of newer golf equipment with greater monetary assist changing them within the high divisions – some fashionable examples embody RB Leipzig, TSG Hoffenheim, and VfL Wolfsburg.
Now a former Bundesliga membership is getting ready to going out of existence all collectively as KFC Uerdingen information for insolvency.
KFC Uerdingen had been as soon as an everyday identify inside the Bundesliga and a couple of. Bundesliga all through the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties earlier than dropping barely additional down into the third division and past.
Now taking part in within the fourth tier of German soccer (Regionalliga West), the membership can now not pay its workers or gamers and appears set to exit of enterprise.
was made by the membership on Monday night explaining the state of affairs.
At the beginning of the marketing campaign, KFC had been already €600k in debt. This has since risen to over €1m with the ultimate end-of-season determine set to be round €2.2m – for a membership within the 4th tier that is past saving.
KFC’s homeowners haven’t helped the trigger and infrequently clashed with followers and board members.
The newest drama got here after their derby match towards MSV Duisburg.
The arrival of their shut neighbours noticed their highest attendance of the season and earned them over €10k in ticket gross sales.
Nonetheless, the cash was by no means really put into the membership and it’s unclear the place the cash went.
This abuse of funds on the conventional membership has been a recurring theme over a number of years and has lastly introduced the membership to its knees.
Based mostly within the metropolis of Kerfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia, KFC used to get pleasure from common derby matches towards MSV Duisburg, Schalke 04, and Dortmund to call however just a few.
Nonetheless, it now seems set to doubtlessly shut its doorways for the final time.
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