3rd league: Türkgücü stops playing immediately – sports

Türkgücü Munich has to stop playing in the third division. The club announced this on Thursday via its insolvency administrator. According to the German Football Association (DFB), Türkgücü is no longer able to meet its current payment obligations and thus economically maintain the game operations until the end of the season. The club is thus the first to be relegated from the third division.

On January 20, the Munich team filed an application to open insolvency proceedings, and the club has now announced that it will no longer be able to play the remaining seven games in the third division.

“Further maintenance of the game operation would only have been possible by providing new capital from a third party. The expected income from the game operation until the end of the season cannot cover the running costs by a long way,” managing director Max Kothny is quoted in the press release. “Despite intensive efforts in the past few weeks, unfortunately no new investor could be found.”

The withdrawal has consequences for the league. According to the DFB rules of the game, all previous games are canceled and no longer included in the table – which has an impact on the fight for promotion, among other things. 1. FC Saarbrücken, who won both games against Türkgücü, lost six points. Only one point is deducted from TSV 1860 Munich.

Manuel Hartmann, who is responsible for match operations at the DFB as managing director, said on DFB.de, it is “negative for the entire league and the competition if a club is eliminated during the season.” The fact that there are now shifts in the table is “not an optimal solution” for Hartmann. But the competition “would also be distorted if all games that the club no longer played were automatically rated for the respective opponents”. According to Hartmannn, the DFB is “self-critical” about the insolvency and will “of course check whether mistakes were made in the approval process”. Hartmann explained that Türkgücü’s personnel expenses for game operations had risen from originally three to five million euros.

The future of Türkgücü is unclear. Whether the club will continue playing in the coming season and if so, in which league is not yet clear.

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