SFL License Watch Despite the Cup win, FC Wil's Super League license for next year is still in danger. The club managed to rid itself from Ukrainian investor Belanov, but the financial problems are still ever-present. Unless new sponsors can be found (the Cup win should help), the club will probably fail to get the Super League license and will be relegated... Grasshoppers would then get Wil's Uefa Cup spot.
Re: SFL License Watch The Basler Zeitung wrote that it would be unclear wheter Grasshoppers - the cup finalist - or FC Zurich - if they manage to hold 4th spot in the league - would get the UEFA Cup spot.
The NZZ begs to differ... Source: http://www.nzz.ch/2004/04/14/sp/page-article9J86J.html Wil needs about CHF 600,000 more to get the license and is in negotiations with foreign investors (hopefully no Belanov-esque investor)...
The SFL has identified 5 Super and Challenge League teams who have been violating the information policy in regards of giving accurate statements to the License Manger (Rolf Suter). It seems those five teams have been giving the League some wrong information about their financial health. Once the Disciplinary Commision reviews the cases, it will decide if it wants to press charges (the names of the clubs will then become public). Possible punishments: - up to CHF 20,000 in fines. - up to 12 points deduction from either the current season or the next one. - forced relegation
That was confirmed today by the SFL. They will announce who got the license (and who didn't) on Friday...
As of today (Wednesday) FC Wil is very confident that they will get the license for next year. Only two more days until we find out...
Swiss Financial Problmes again The FA just handed out their rulings and the three clubs will all be playing in Europe next season: YB Servette Wil http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=reu-switzerlandlicences&prov=reuters&type=lgns I think that the first two clubs have a good chance of getting their license while Wil is a little more iffy.
Re: Swiss Financial Problmes again According to this article in Le Matain: http://www.lematin.ch/nwmatinhome/nwmatinnewsdetail.html Baden, Delemont and Lucerne have also been rejected. If YB, Servette and Wil do not get their licenses, their European spots would fall to the next in order and send the teams down to the 1st league. There would then be three teams promoted from the CL to the SL and three from the 1st league to the CL. What a mess. I can't see YB and Servette going down, but the other four possibly.
It's not as bad as it looks at first glance... YB refused to let the SFL look at its books and used a third party (that angered the license commision). Servette and Wil need some more financial transparency, so they need to provide some better documentation. SFL president Peter Stadelmann expects all three clubs to get their license on appeal. As for the ChL clubs, I'm a bit worried about FC Luzern. They were the only ChL team last season to have an entire roster of full time professionals (expecting immediate promotion). The final license decision will be made by May 24th. PS: Can we merge this thread with the "SFL License Watch" one?
Servette, YB, Baden and Delemont got their license. Wil and Luzern have until Wednesday to make their case, otherwise it's bye bye to the 1. Liga...
Also, Servette will get three points deducted next season (because of questionable information submited to receive this year's license). FC Wil will get two points deducted for the same reasons...
Luzern and Wil ended up getting their license today. This means that Wil gets to participate in the Uefa Cup (oh boy ) and Delemont gets relegated for sure... (that's tough - falling from the NLA to the 1. Liga in two seasons)
Delemont has been in a freefall for the past two seasons. I know that when last winter they were forced to play the relegation/promotion round, the club cut a lot of its higher priced (see good) players and went with more local ones.