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- Rosenborg-Molde 3-1 (1-1)
THE BEST BATTLE under Åge Hareide keeps RBK’s dream of Europe 2021 alive. With points at Sandefjord in the final round of the series, that case will be clear.
It will help the mood, and maybe a little the economy too.
But the challenges at Lerkendal are bigger than small.
ROSENBORG BUDGET WITH a deficit of 8 million crowns by 2020. That was while they still had 92 million crowns in the bank, and no one had heard of Covid-19, much less the consequences of what became a pandemic.
On the way to 2021, the club fears that the deficit will approach NOK 60 million.
It is, to put it mildly, brutal.
– It shows that we are the best in Norway.
SPORTS MONEY Crisis Package 2 – Rosenborg has requested NOK 14.4 million as compensation for lost revenue – helps with this figure. It is uncertain whether the difference between budgeted and actual investment money from Norsk Toppfotball exacerbates the deficit (the payments that follow the position in the table).
When Tove Moe Dyrhaug raised concerns about this year’s figures in October, Rosenborg was ranked second in the Eliteserien, the place the club is used to budgeting for.
Anything worse than that, and the investment money falls successively from NOK 20.9 million for the second place, to 17.1 for the third place and 11.9 for the fourth place, therefore it can mean an additional million at least in Lerkendal.
Hopes for medals were dashed
WHY Liquidity is by no means a crisis in Lerkendal, Rosenborg is doing well so far. The sustainability of the club’s finances, on the other hand, is a challenge, especially if Europe 2021 is lost.
Rosenborg is Norway’s largest soccer club and has operating costs that no one else is close to, especially salaries.
Those who really have their ears to the ground in the Eliteserien, and I have it from various independent sources, say that Markus Henriksen only costs the club ten million crowns a year.
Cup Champions!
SHOULD ROSENBORG GO around they must be in Europe for four of the six seasons. They have been since 2015. That is why the club has money on the books. But from 2021, Europe will not be as lucrative for Norwegian clubs, if the league champion does not qualify for the Champions League or the Europa League.
So far, the cup winner and the two teams behind the league champion have played through the qualification for the increasingly lucrative Europa League.
As of 2021, the tournament for Norwegian teams is called the Europa Conference League.
The economy in it, no one to date can answer with other assumptions.
WHAT WE KNOW is that it will definitely be smaller than the Europa League. When UEFA expands international football with another tournament, it is to give smaller and lower-ranking nations better opportunities for group play.
Norway is one of these nations.
As in the Champions League and the Europa League, it is the money from television that pays for the party.
The lower you are in the ranking, the cheaper the product that sells.
WHEN IS That said, UEFA is adept at creating, developing and turning new tournaments into good sources of income. The Champions League is a gold mine. The Europa League generates more and more money. And the Nations League is also a formidable success.
In that sense, there is no reason to doubt that the Europa Conference League will also mean good finances when it is resolved.
