E14M BUDGET FOR FOOTBALL RESTART

MBABANE – For football to restart under COVID-19, teams have submitted a budget of E14 million.
The exact figure is E14 361 491.35.

This is contained in the report of the Premier League of Eswatini COVID-19 ad hoc Committee presented to the Premier League of Eswatini (PLE) Executive Committee on June 26, 2020 at Sigwaca House.
The PLE COVID-19 ad hoc Committee was set out to ascertain the current position and views of PLE teams towards the risk of COVID-19 and making an assessment of each member team.
The committee was further tasked to develop and formulate a mitigation strategy for consideration by the executive of the PLE.

risks

The committee had to determine or assess the risks faced by the PLE members in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. It had to engage the PLE members in order to establish suitable prevention strategies to safeguard all stakeholders to be adopted by all teams on the resumption of football under or post COVID-19.
The committee also had to establish the urgent support required by PLE members in light of the impact of the COVID-19 and the costs associated. It also had to engage PLE members to ascertain each member’s view on the viability or otherwise of resuming.

The basis was to establish the extent of the risks associated with each team and the preparedness to play under COVID-19 should football resume.
A total of 20 teams stated that they were not fully oriented to play under the new conditions and only 10 had the full complement of the required technicians to enable them to resume play.

over-crowded

Only six teams were found to have access to a clubhouse of which some were over-crowded. 24 teams had access to a training field and two were not sure if they would be allowed to use their leased training facilities.
The financial impact therefore escalated for the PLE due to these conditions. The rational was to establish the losses already incurred by member teams and the estimated budget for all the teams to operate under the COVID-19 environment stood at E14 361 491.35 and E4 577 146.96 respectively.

This amount excludes two teams whose budgets had not been received by the committee at the time of compiling this report.
The budgets vary from team to team and these were just estimated costs which may increase or be reduced.

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