basketball chair CSKA Andrey Vatutine explained in an interview with what the costs of performances in rented palaces entail and admitted that in the next two years he will have to come to terms with it.
Currently, CSKA rents four locations in different parts of Moscow. According to Vatutin, the club’s expenses for hosting home matches in other venues are comparable to the budgets of provincial teams in the VTB United League.
— To what extent has the absence of your own gambling palace poisoned your life?
“This is a serious and, unfortunately, long-term problem. First, statistically, after the demolition of USC CSKA, we did not win a single title. But this thesis is more about the spirit, from a material point of view, homelessness costs us too much. CSKA is obliged to rent four sites: Megasport, where the main team plays, Dynamo Sports Palace on Lavochkina Street for a youth project, Basket Hall in Krylatskoye, which is a training base for the base, as well as offices at VEB-arena. In addition to logistical inconveniences, problems with operational communication, as well as simply difficulties with the club, let’s say, “partnership”, the total cost is about 200 million rubles. Of these, 110 million are net rents plus the organization of 26 home matches: light, sound, security, stewards. As a result, a match at Megasport costs us 5 million rubles.
I don’t have verified data to compare with European club spending, but with a high degree of probability I will assume that no one in the Euroleague spends so much on rent and home games. These expenses, inevitable in dear Moscow for a club without its own hall, are comparable to the budgets of some provincial teams in the VTB United League. Now we cannot completely abandon Megasport, because the Basket Hall in Krylatskoye has an order of magnitude less space for advertising media, which does not allow sponsorship contracts to be concluded. There are almost no “floor” spectator seats, boxes, parking lots, many spectator facilities, and the cost of rent is less than one and a half million. On a seasonal scale, this does not solve our problems.
When a room appears that will allow us to combine all our locations, we will save at least half of the costs and can use the funds to develop the club or acquire players. Alas, for at least the next two seasons, we will have to bear these costs and be in the role of the homeless. There is no alternative,” Vatutin said in an interview with .
CSKA’s long-term home arena “USZ named after A. Ya. Gomelsky” was commissioned in 1979 and demolished in 2022. At the moment, a new sports hall is being built on the same location.
Source : MatchTV
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