By Jaroslaw Adamowski
April 30 – With several foreign-based investors reportedly eyeing acquisitions of a number of Polish football clubs, a new story has broken on the planned take over of Flota Swinoujscie by a Portuguese investment group.
Over the past several years, the club has attracted interest from numerous foreign investors, including groups from the Netherlands and Turkey, reported local daily Glos Szczecinski. However, this time the interest in the club is said to be more serious, with an unnamed Portuguese investor holding talks with the city of Swinoujscie, located in the country’s north-western Western Pomerania region, on purchasing the club.
Flota currently plays in the I Liga, the second tier of Poland’s professional football league. Swinoujscie is the club’s main sponsor, with an annual allocation of about PLN 2 million (€500,000) earmarked for Flota in the city’s budget. Compared with its competitors in the Liga I, the club has a relatively small budget. Despite this, Flota finished third in the 2010/2011 season, and fourth in the 2012/2013 season, with the first two Liga I teams promoted to the Ekstraklasa, Poland’s top tier.
According to the information obtained by the daily, the Portuguese investor aims to transfer a number of promising foreign footballers to Flota for training purposes.
Set up in 1957, Flota was previously a military sports club in communist times. The club’s stadium in Swinoujscie has a capacity of some 4,500, including 3,070 seats. The facility was partly modernised in 2010.
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