France: €107m in ticketing compensation, including €48m for football clubs and €40m for rugby clubs

News Tank Football - Paris - News #201785 - Published on 07/12/20 at 15:44
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€48m for football clubs (44.9%), €40m for rugby clubs (37.4%), and €4m in total for basketball, handball, volleyball, and ice hockey clubs (3.7%), plus €15m for the organizers of major sporting events (14%) is the distribution, "according to the estimates gathered to date by the Ministry in Charge of Sport" for the €107m of funds in compensation for ticketing losses, announced Jean-Michel Blanquer, French Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports, and Roxana Maracineanu, Minister Delegate in Charge of Sport, on 04/12/2020.

The aid ceiling has been set at €5m per structure/entity, specified the two ministers.

"The objective is to make a first payment in December 2020, then to pay the balance in 2021" (J-M Blanquer and R. Maracineanu, Ministers)

Behind closed doors at Groupama Stadium, the stadium of Olympique Lyonnais - ©  OL
• "The President of the Republic (Emmanuel Macron Président de la République @ Présidence de la République (Élysée)
 ) announced €400m in additional aid dedicated to the sports sector…

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