By Jaroslaw Adamowski
June 10 – The Czech football association (FACR) is considering a plan to transfer oversight of the top tier to a new entity, according to Miroslav Pelta, chief executive of FACR.
The project to separate the two entities will be discussed further at a meeting with club owners from the top two divisions of the country’s professional football league, reported local daily Mlada fronta DNES.
Dusan Svoboda, head of the country’s Football League Association (LFA), said that, in principle, the FACR is an organisation with a political background, while managing the daily operations of the league necessitates an approach focused primarily on business activities.
A report drafted for the Czech football authorities and obtained by the newspaper points to several benefits arising from setting up an entity with the sole purpose of managing the top league.
These include increases in revenue from the sale of broadcasting and advertising rights for the league, and ensuring a more effective role in supporting the clubs’ marketing and promotional efforts.
A structure which is similar to the one proposed by Czech officials is employed in neighbouring Poland, where the Polish Football Association (PZPR) is separated from the company which manages Ekstraklasa, the country’s top league.
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