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 as a consequence of newer golf equipment with greater monetary assist changing them within the prime divisions – some trendy examples embrace RB Leipzig, TSG Hoffenheim, and VfL Wolfsburg.
Now a former Bundesliga membership is on the point of going out of existence all collectively as KFC Uerdingen information for insolvency.
KFC Uerdingen have been as soon as a daily identify throughout the Bundesliga and a pair of. Bundesliga all through the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties earlier than dropping barely additional down into the third division and past.
Now enjoying within the fourth tier of German soccer (Regionalliga West), the membership can not pay its workers or gamers and appears set to exit of enterprise.
was made by the membership on Monday night explaining the scenario.
Initially of the marketing campaign, KFC have 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 sometimes clashed with followers and board members.
The latest drama got here after their derby match in opposition to 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 truly 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 in opposition to MSV Duisburg, Schalke 04, and Dortmund to call however just a few.
Nonetheless, it now appears set to probably shut its doorways for the final time.
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