Stabilizing the club economically, getting more people excited about it and further developing the infrastructure: These are the goals that Stefan Hofmann, chairman of FSV Mainz 05, formulated as the most important future tasks of the club at the Bundesliga club's general meeting on Sunday.
"We have to do everything we can to bring back the people we had in the stadium before Corona."
Mainz - Due to the lockdown and a complete season in empty arenas, a piece of the bond between fans and clubs was lost. The general development of football, including the discussion about a Super League, did the rest. Fighting against it is not easy. "But we have to do everything we can to reduce the reasons why someone does not come to the stadium," said Hofmann.
In the medium and long term, it is also about gaining new members and fans.
For a club like Mainz this is more difficult than for large clubs.
"Our starting points are regionality, proximity, emotional experiences," emphasized the chairman.
“We have to go out to schools and clubs in order to bind children and young people to our club.” According to the commercial director Jan Lehmann, the club kept its season ticket holders beyond the Corona crisis;
there was even a slight increase.
The development of the number of spectators in the four home games this season is encouraging - from around 11,000 at the start against RB Leipzig to almost 20,000 spectators last Friday against FC Augsburg.
"My goal for the next home game against Gladbach is 25,000," said Lehmann.
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The Mainz-based company ended the 2020/21 financial year with a loss of 10.2 million euros.
The minus was mainly due to declining ticket, transfer and sponsorship income.
“I think the numbers are good, even if they don't look like that,” said Lehmann.
"The operating expenses are covered by the proceeds, the account balance was usually above zero." Dpa
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