Unlike football clubs whose budgets depend mainly on TV rights, professional rugby teams have built their economic model on “stadium revenues” (ticketing, boxes, partnerships).
Since the start of the crisis, the clubs have therefore been in great financial difficulty.
Thomas Lombard, General Manager of the Stade Français Paris, gives a more than worrying inventory: “
The situation is critical.
Since February and our last home game against La Rochelle, we haven't had a single income.
It's been seven months without any money coming in, except for TV rights, which are not significant compared to other sports, and re-engagement of partners.
It is insufficient…"
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All the more so with the strengthening of sanitary measures (games behind closed doors after 9 p.m.), the future darkens even more.
“Intermediate measures are being taken.
And then a week or ten days later, we take the real measure.
We are in discomfort
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