Futbolekonomi- 19 May 2019 According to Tuğrul Akşar's statement, Turkish football was in debt, therefore, these clubs lost their financial health. The most important deficiency of Turkish football is the lack of corparate governance which is the reason that Turkish football clubs are not well managed and controlled... 

We share the explanations of Tuğrul Akşar below. 

 

The total debts of Turkish football clubs have reached TL 14.5 billion (approximately $ 3 Billion).  The total revenues of the clubs are TL 3.5 billion (approx. $ 570 Million) with total losses at around TL 6 Billion (approx. $1Billion)

 

In the last 1.5 years debts of Turkish football clubs have increased about TL 5 Billion (approximately $ 850 Million) because of the economic crises in the Super League, which means, the lost of the Turkish football clubs have increased about $ 850 Million. 

Under these conditions, clubs do not seem to be able to solve their own financial problems because, there are big gaps between total revenues and expenses.

In my opinion, the project of debt restructuring will not succeed due to some basic problems which are as follows: 1) The interest rate of restructuring will be higher than the interest rates of the old debts. Old rates of the debts are between 15% and 20% on average. The restructuring rates will be around 30%, this means a 50 percent increase in their financial costs. 2) The economic crisis weakened their ability to creatw collateral thus all their assets are pledged to the banks. In this case, it is not easy to create new collateral. 3) This project is actually intended to save the big four clubs (Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Trabzonspor) due to the fact that 86% of total club debts belong to these four clubs.

We need to find new solutions for their financial problems. We have to make long-term plans for their financial structures.  We therefore need to develop long-term and strategic solutions to solve the financial problems of these clubs. It is not possible to solve problems without generating new sources of income in the League as cash flows are insufficient, shareholders' equity is negative, their debts are more than their income and their accumulated losses are, as stated above, about TL 6 Billion. 

 

However, TFF (Turkish Football Federation) wants to overcome these problems with short-term solutions which rather than solving the financial problems, actually make it worse.

 

The risen indebtedness in the Super League has decreased the competitive power of Turkish football clubs against their European rivals.

To sum up, TFF’s project is not sustainable for Turkish football in the long-term. TFF comes with palliative alternatives for the clubs in the Super league. At the end of this process the competitiveness of Turkish football will suffer.

 

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