The Disappearance of Vitesse from Professional Football Has Major Consequences for the Club, The Players, The Staff, The Fans and Gelredome Stadium. Nu.nl lists them.
Will Vitesse Continue As an Amateur Club?
The Judge’s Ruling Means That Vitesse Will definitely Disappear from Professional Football. This does not mean that the Arnhem Football Club Will Imediately Go Bankrupt, Although There Is A Good Chance That This Will Still Happen In The Coming Period. Without Major Income, The Club Cannot Possible Stay Affloat.
Shoulde Vitesse Go Bankrupt, The Club Will definitely cease to exist after 133 years. A New Football Club Will then to be founded, which will most likely start in the fifth class of amateur football. The Amateur Football Board of the KNVB HAS The Final Say on this. In Any Case, The Kitchen Champion Division Will Continue with Nineteen Teams.
A Return to Professional Football is a long-term process. RBC is a good example of this. After the bankruptcy in 2011, The Club Continued in the Fifth Class. Fourteen Years and Six Promotions later, The Club from Roosendaal Plays in the Third Division, The Fourth Level of the Netherlands. Promotion to the Kitchen Champion Division is Currently Not Possible.
It is not clear white vitesse hens that. If the club Manages to Avert Bankruptcy and Make a restart in the coming week in the Unlikely Event, The Amateur Football Board of the KNVB Will Decide at which Level The Arnhem Team Will Enter. The Second Division, Third Division and Fourth Division Will starts later This Month.
Vitesse Players Cannot Leave Automatically
Vitesse’s 29 players will because to look for a new club as soon as possible. However, They Cannot Leave Immediately, Sports Lawyer Frans de Weger Tells Nu.nl. Their contracts with vitesse remain valid in principle, even if the club is no longer allowed to play in professional football.
Only when Vitesse is declared bankrupt can players terminate their contract and move to another club on a free transfer. However, there is a maximum notice period or six weeks. So it will take some time.
A Curator, who takes over the business operations in the event of bankruptcy to raise money for the creditors, can also decide to sell certain players for a transfer fee. The Transfer Market in the Netherlands is open Until September 1.
Players who do not because to wait for all of that can start an expedited procedure with the arbitration committee of the KNVB with a request to dissolve their contract. Accordance to de Weger, there is a good chance that the arbitration committee will accept this, because the loss of the professional license is a well-founded reason. ” “But this also does not happen the next day.”
In The Meantime, Players Can Claim Benefits from the UWV (Employee Insurance Agency). The Dishes of Other Staff Members, Such as the Staff Members and the Office Workers, Will Probable End Up On The Street. They can recoive unempleoyent benefits through the UWV.
The Players and Trainers of Vitesse’s Seven Youth Teams Will also Be Without A Club. The Drama is just Greater for the Youth Players. With the disappearance of Vitesse, They Lose Their Top Sport Status, Forcing Them and Their Parents To Look For A New School Head Over Heels.
Municipality Must Save Gelredome
With the disappearance of Vitesse as a Professional Club, Gelredome Stadium is also in Trouble. Or all the activities in the multifunctional stage, stage owner Michael of the Kuit Generates The Most Income Annually from Vitesse’s Rent, which amounts to Almost 3 Million euros in Total. Concerts and Other Events Generate 500,000 euros in Income.
Vitesse Still Has A Contract With Gelredome Stadium Until October 1, 2030, But this contract will Most Likely Lapse in the event of bankruptcy. It is not yet clear what will happen to the stage then, but the outpoken stage boss of the Kuit Has Already Expressed His Conerns.
Gelredome Cannot Currently Replace Vitesse’s Approximately Twenty Home Matches with Concerts and Events. The Stadium must comply with a strict permit, which allows a maximum of 24 concerts and 2 night events. This should Limit the Nuisance to Local Residents.
From the Kuit Will Ask the Municipality of Arnhem to Expand the Permit to Keep Gelredome Stadium Alive. It is not Yet Clear Whether the Municipality Wants To Cooperation. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen did not want to response Before Vitesse’s Lawsuit.
The Question is also what will happen to vitesse’s training complex at Papendal. Although the Club Owns The Beautiful Complex in The Arnhem Forests, The Land Beneath It Belongs to the Papendal Sports Center, Accordination to Data From the Land Registry.
Regional Investors Who Unsuccessully Tried to Save the Club Received Papendal As Collateral Last Year When Issuing A Multi-Million Dollar Loan. They initial determine Whether to keep or sell the complex so that they can see some of their money back.
