No habla Espanol - the NZFC bitch fight

 

You can prove that the money paid to the Phoenix to pay the national coaches salary came from the World Club money can you?

 

Trillion Trust grants to Auckland City Football Club since 1 August 2005 (by financial year 1 August to 31 July):

 

2005/06 - $372,116

2006/07 - $333,542

2007/08 - $451,445

2008/09 - $505,641

2009/10 - $481,640

 

During the six months from 1 August 2010 to 31 January 2011 ACFC has received a further $297,792 from the Trillion Trust.

 

Total grants by the Trillion Trust to Auckland City Football Club 1 August 2005 - 31 January 2011 = $2,442,176

 

Source: Trillion Trust Grant Listings

 

 

How is he hiding?  You know his name, everyone can see it on his profile.  Hardly hiding.

 

THis is a key point.

 

The question about why an amateur football club needs that much money would still seem to be valid.

I'm with JordyBean.  If it's legal and above board, good luck to them.  Other clubs in NZ should up their game.

 

Assumption one: players like Mully aren't playing for free.

 

Assumption two: seeing as DIA have cleared them, they must be getting paid for legitimately gaming-machine funded work.

 

There are lots of things that they could be doing - including coaching, football in schools programmes, and even administration roles can be funded by gaming machine trusts.

 

The club could even be getting funding to reimburse significant expenses like rent and travel costs.

 

Whatever it is the club clearly have a close but not over the line relationship with Trillion.

 

Waitakere have a similar relationship with Cuesport I believe.

 

Is there a single NZFC franchise that is NOT doing what ACFC are doing?

 

TW are - they get NZCT money and they use some of it to pay Stu and some of it to pay Gilly and some of it to pay players.

 

They just don't get nearly as much as ACFC do.

 

I have no idea why.  But that doesn't mean any of it is illegal or dodgy.

 

 

 

 

Do a register search on "Auckland City FC", or indeed any other NZFC franchise or football club you want to. It's all there.

 

By the way, all I am doing is posting publicly available information from the Incorporated Societies Register and the Trillion Trust website.

 

I have not inferred or implied anything, and definitely not that there's anything illegal going on.

 

If anything, what I find interesting about this is the extent of ACFC's reliance on a single gaming trust (aside from those "boom" years where they have received significant CWC prize money) and their ability to extract significant sums from that trust, relative to that trust's approved purposes. I am not expressing an opinion on that either way, however. As Smithy says maybe it simply illustrates how other NZFC franchises should be attempting to position themselves.

 

Trillion Trust is a nationwide trust so perhaps other NZFC franchises should be applying to them? After all, if ACFC does not have any kind of "special" relationship with Trillion Trust (as has been confirmed by the DIA) then one would expect at least some of those applications to be successful.

 

 

Is it clear though? DIA investigates laws they are responsible for.  That does not include NZFC regs.

Strictly speaking trusts funds use is questionable across large parts of sport.  One set of law changes has already sent people scurrying for cover, another could shut it off completely.

 

Good point Smithy.

 

Increase in Auckland City Football Club's personnel expenses over the last three years (from ACFC's published accounts):

 

2007/08  $369,907

2008/09  $471,670

2009/10  $743,550

 

Obviously a big increase. It would be good to know how that breaks down and where the money goes so that other NZFC franchises could learn from that and model themselves on ACFC "best practice".