Next week, the Danish Super League in football resumes after almost 3 months of break due to corunavirus. Unfortunately without spectators at the stadiums \u2013 but better late than never and better with second best solution than no solution. However, the best thing about playing the remaining two rounds of the basic tournement, the \u201cTop-6-play\u201d and relegation tournement, is that league clubs now have the opportunity to receive the remaining 2\/3 of the annual TV-revenue \u2013 an amount of more than DKK 275 million, which is the existential revenue base for virtually all the super league clubs. The remaining matches will also answer three important questions: Who wins the Danish Championship, who qualifies for the \u201cTop-6-play\u201d and who will be the three relegators?<\/p>\n
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Close connection between salary budgets and sporting results<\/strong><\/p>\nAnalyzes from both international and Danish football over the past decades have shown that there is a clear correlation between players\u2019 wages and sporting results. The Danish Institute for Sport Studies (IDAN) has shown that staffing costs of Super League clubs can explain more than 4\/5 of sporting results since the turn of the Millennium. In conclusion, the clubs that, over time, can maintain the highest salary budget for players, coaches, healthcare staff and administration, just wins the most. However, it is far from all Super League clubs that have been equally skilled and effective in managing their financial resources. Some clubs, such as FC Nordsj\u00e6lland, FC Midtjylland and Hobro IK, have been sporting significantly performing, while other clubs such as Br\u00f8ndby IF, OB, AGF and AaB have underperformed over the past five seasons.<\/p>\n
PARKEN Sport & Entertainment A\/S is much different from FCK<\/strong><\/p>\nThere are currently only two candidates for the Danish Championship 2019-2020: FC Midtjylland and FC Copenhagen. Over the past 20 seasons, FCK has been absolutely superb in Danish club football with a total of 12 Danish Championships and only one season (2017-2018) has the club not won medals. FCK is also the only Danish club with success in international football with repeated participation in both Champion League and Europa League group tournements since the turn of the Millennium. It is TV-revenue from these tournaments and not least PARKEN Sport & Entertainment A\/S\u2019 \u201cside business\u201d in the form of the holiday centers \u201cLalandia\u201d, which has created financial resources for player purchases \u2013 and thus also labor costs \u2013 which is a nice piece over the nearest competitors. However, based on the financial resources available to the club\u2019s sporting management, FCK\u2019s sporting results in the Super League over the past 5 years have not been impressed \u2013 rather, on the contrary. It has turned into 3 Danish Championships , but winning the FCM this year\u2019s championship, which in my opinion is most likely, FCK has actually underperformed in the Danish Super League in relation to the club\u2019s financial resources. By contrast, FCM has outperformed the Super League since its incumbent Matthew Benham, who also owns the English Championship club Brentford, in 2014 acquired the majority of FCM\u2019s shares in the event of a looming bankruptcy. The \u201cWolves from the Heath\u201d won the year after the club\u2019s first championship, which was recovered in the 2017-2018 season. And today, in my opinion, the club is also a big favorite to win the club\u2019s third championship and thus the fifth medal in just 6 seasons. In addition, the club has also outperformed the transfer market with the sale of players such as Pione Sisto, Aleksander S\u00f8rloth and Paul Onuachu. Talent development at the club\u2019s academy has throughout the history of FCM been one of the club\u2019s core services. And this with great success, as the academy has developed players such as Simon Kj\u00e6r, Winston Reid and Erik Sviatchenko.<\/p>\n
FC Nordsj\u00e6lland is clearly the best at buying, developing and selling players<\/strong><\/p>\nFC Nordsj\u00e6lland has also been extremely skilled at developing talents through the Super League for sale to foreign clubs. In 2015, the club was acquired by an investor group \u2013 \u201cThe Pathway Group Limited\u201d \u2013 including Tom Vernon, who had previously started in the football academy \u201cRight to Dream\u201d in Ghana. The purpose of the collaboration is for FCN to be self-sufficient with players from FCN\u2019s local community clubs and, not least, young players from Africa who will use the Super League as a springboard for a career in the major European leagues. This has been very successful, as FCN has just been awarded top marks \u2013 the \u201chighest international class\u201d in Danish Football Association\u2019s licensing system. Like the FCM, the club has made a lot of money in recent years \u2013 more than 250 million DKK \u2013 on transfer income, including on players like Emre Mor, Mathias Jensen, Andreas Skov Olsen and Mikkel Damsgaard. Transfer income in both FCN and FCM has also \u201coffset\u201d significant operating deficits in the two club\u2019s accounts. At the same time, it is impressed that every season FCN has qualified for the \u201cTop-6-play\u201d. I think that will be the case this season as well, with FCN being my favorite for the bronze medals.<\/p>\n
\u201cTradition clubs\u201d underrepresent, both on the field and in the accounts<\/strong><\/p>\nHowever, there are also super league clubs such as Br\u00f8ndby IF, OB, AGF and AaB, which has underperformed in the past five seasons in relation to the financial resources of the clubs. The reasons for this fact are diverse and complex: \u201cPoor\u201d buying and selling of Danish \u2013 and especially foreign \u2013 players, lack of quality and continuity among players, coaches, sports directors and the board, weak talent development strategy, declining spectator and sponsor interest and much, much more . Especially Br\u00f8ndby IF has been a really bad business both sporting and financial. It is only astronomical financial \u201cdonations\u201d of 50-80 million DKK annually from the main shareholder Jan Bech Andersen, who has kept the club \u201cabove the water\u201d. Wage costs have been towering compared to most other super league clubs and over the past decade, the club from \u201cthe Western part of Copenhagen\u201d has been without Danish Championships and \u201conly\u201d won two silver medals and three bronze medals.<\/p>\n
Other traditional clubs in Danish football such as AGF, OB and AaB have also had very poor results in recent years. The football pride of Funen \u2013 OB \u2013\u00a0 already has two remaining matches in the basic game with no chance of qualifying for \u201cthe Top-6-play\u201d. Despite one of the league\u2019s highest budgets, OB has only managed to qualify once among the Top-6 teams in the past five seasons. In terms of sporting results, only AGF performed poorly during the same period. However, \u201cThe Whites from Fredensvang\u201d surprisingly everything and everyone with an impressive half season in the fall of 2019, when the team finished in a 3rd place. AGF\u2019s start in spring 2020 was \u2013\u00a0 with a draw against Hobro at home and defeat to Silkeborg \u2013 anything but flashy. Just a draw in the postponed match against Randers FC, however, will secure AGF a place in \u201cthe Top-6\u201d, which has not happened in the past 8 seasons. \u201cA swallow does not make a summer, however,\u201d so in my opinion, the AGF should qualify for \u201cthe Top-6-play\u201d at least 3 out of 4 seasons going forward from the club\u2019s financial resources. The same expectation should be given to North Jutland\u2019s football pride \u2013 AaB \u2013 which, after Danish Championships in 2008 and 2012, has had a very difficult time achieving results stability. The club has been without medals for the past five seasons and the battle for the last place in the Top-6-play\u201d may well accrue to Randers FC \u2013 at the expense of AaB. Randers FC, which is actually one of the clubs that, based on a relatively modest economy, has shown great sporting stability as a super league club over a number of years.<\/p>\n
Esbjerg fB, Silkeborg IF and Hobro IK look like three relegations<\/strong><\/p>\nPerhaps the biggest dramas in the Danish Super League 2019-2020 await in the relegation tournement, with the entire 3 clubs becoming \u201cbuck\u201d. Among the relegation candidates is Hobro IK, who has actually outperformed markedly sporting with the past 6 seasons, with the club having the supremely lowest budget of all Super League clubs. The club\u2019s salary costs this season make up only 1\/10 of clubs like FC Copenhagen, Br\u00f8ndby IF and FC Midtjylland. However, I do not think Hobro IK \u2013 and Silkeborg IF \u2013 avoid relegation this season. And then another traditional club \u2013 Esbjerg fB \u2013 has to show far better games in the remaining matches to avoid the last relegation spot. The consequences for all three relievers will be a loss of revenue \u2013 primarily in the form of TV money and sponsorships \u2013 of 30-40 million DKK. This knowledge is also known in clubs such as AC Horsens and S\u00f8nderjyskE, which can also jeopardize relegation.<\/p>\n
Based on the economic development, in both Danish and international football, everything indicates that very few league clubs in the coming seasons will become richer and richer, while the \u201cpoor\u201d clubs will get more and more difficult \u2013 in result over a whole season \u2013 to surprise and challenge the most money-laden competitors. That is why I believe that the battle for Danish Championship in football in the coming years alone will be a matter between FC Copenhagen and FC Midtjylland. Then the rest of the super league clubs have to fight for the bronze medals or\u2026. relegation.<\/p>\n
You can find more information about finances in Danish Super League clubs and international top clubs on the following website:<\/p>\n
Steen Houman\u2019s blog \u2013 https:\/\/steenhoumann.com
\nThe Danish Institute for Sport Studies \u2013 https:\/\/idan.dk
\nOff the Pitch \u2013 Football, Business and News \u2013 https:\/\/offthepitch.com\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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