The club’s women’s team also faces disbandment.
Municipal football club Metallurg (Zaporozhye) Due to a sharp reduction in funding, it is forced to optimize its structural divisions.
As mentioned earlier, at the last session of the Zaporozhye City Council, when adopting the budget for 2024, deputies significantly cut funding for the KP MFC Metallurg. The club budget was reduced by 14.5 million hryvnia. In view of this, the club is forced to start the process of disbanding the second team – Metallurga-2. Contracts with some football players were also terminated, and the staff of football school coaches was being reduced.
In addition, at the end of the season will be disbanded Metallurg women’s team.
In parallel with this, IFC Metallurg and the city authorities are looking for partners who are ready to “develop professional football in Zaporozhye and be co-owners of the club,” which declares its openness to cooperation with potential investors and sponsors on transparent terms.
Let us remind you that the current budget of the Zaporizhzhya club is 48.8 million hryvnia per year. More than half of this amount – 27.1 million – is intended for maintaining the club infrastructure.
According to the results of the first part of the 2023/24 season, Metallurg took sixth place in Group B of the First League, four points behind the position that gives the right to participate in the Championship Group (for fighters for promotion in class). The Cossacks will begin the spring segment of the championship as leaders of the Survival Group – 25 points, +11 points from the zone of transition matches.
Metallurg-2 finished the first part of the season in tenth place in the Second League, gaining 16 points in 16 matches.
The Metallurg women’s team takes last place in Group B of the First League, having lost all eight matches.
Source: Sportarena
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