Funding and marketing a football club

[Karl]

Funding and marketing a football club
published: Wednesday | October 1, 2008




I MUST have missed a zero, or probably two. It may sound a bit weird, but that's exactly how I felt when I read this quote: "He sold me 40 per cent of the football club for $4 million".

That declaration, made by Wayne Ebanks as he sought to put some definition to the ownership rift regarding Clarendon Premier League club Sporting Central Academy and its Brancourt home facility, originated on the website JamaicaWin.com and appeared in yesterday's edition of The Gleaner.

Funding and marketing a football club

[Karl]

I would hazard a guess that the total value of the 12 NPL Clubs should presently be somewhere in the region of J$2,400,000,000.00. Averaging somewhere in the region of J$200,000,000.00 per club.

The expenditure to properly 'run' each club each season should be somewhere in the region of a 'guesstimate' of $60,000,000.00 - $100,000,000.00. (Properly run...including offseason travelling and playing/preparing against as good quality teams as can be found)

Based on my 'talent abounds' belief...with a 'good management model & structure', coaches and not 'mar-ers' each club should be widely profitable in today's world player market...but...