Match Fees

Match Fees

Lately, I have spoken to many players who tell me they have been offered or recieve an amount of money per game they play plus free gear etc for the coming season. Is this quite prevalent in Wellington club football or does it just apply to the larger Central League teams? Is this practice legal in the competition rules? Where do these clubs get the money to be able to offer such deals?

I dont get paid and I dont blame the club for not wanting to pay me.

I heard that Greg Uhlmann went to Eastern Suburbs and said that he'd play for them if they gave him $40k....

I meant boots, gloves etc.

 I know that its been happening in CL footy since the early 70s and I can tell you that one Wellington club (in the 80s ) hired a private plane to fly a player in and then back home each Saturday.On top of this,he was to recieve a four figure sum at the end of the season. Three years later , a Taranaki club offered him the same deal,but he declined. Accy Stan2007-12-11 06:07:59

1-2K for a CL Player is fine.....but Graham Little and Geoff brown getting 20K odd is rubbish for the region.

most playerz in NL auckland clubs were getting paid ..when i say most i mean the top 2 or 3 in each club..I know that Dean dodds was on at least 400 per game at glenfield, everyone gets boots etc and no fees trackies , but 400 per game?? and wat prizemoney is there at the end?? jack sh iite .

No wonder then that US1 told their clubs to pull out of Northern League. That is the admin decision of the year because finally greedy players can't dictate to clubs up there. Fair enough to supply free gear and boots but cash payments to players that can send a club to the wall? Given the standard, what a waste. If players are good enough and had an ounce of ambition they should try their luck with an NZFC franchise, not try to fleece a local club in whatever local winter league.

If a fraction of the money that is alleged to be chucked around by the North Shore clubs had been spent on an NZFC side they would be title contenders.

Ridiculous.

its not like it doesnt happen in the CL or wellington/south regions  there leagues are no better than NL, also wat FED 1 did was the worst thing ever but now those same clubs will ask for dispensation to play in the auckland Comp rather than make long ass trips to north force etc to play 2nd div sides...

I am sure just about every player in the CL is getting paid. Some more than others.

Except in Taranaki.

Oh right yeah Central League.... Sorry
Agent 472007-12-11 18:29:28

I get paid not to play

Why didn't I think of that...

I get paid to cut oranges.

Unfortunately, they pay me in leftover oranges.

I think the CL has to have a set pay structure. Maybe something like,

The figures some clubs are rumoured to be paying, and the figures players are asking for are completely over the top.

(However, I always take these amounts with a little pinch of salt, because a couple of years ago, I heard what Stop Out was rumoured to be paying certain players, and I knew the reality ) .

None the less, I have very strong doubts about whether the game can sustain players being paid at the third level or below in the footballing pyramid.  (CL & NL - third level down, Wellington Premier fourth level).  After all, what do paying players add to the club (apart from a big wage bill).  You win the Central League - a five minute wonder, and a prize of what? (3 soccer balls I believe).   Sign a big name player on a weekly payment of $800 - how many paying customers does it add to the gate?

I'm not talking about the players signed to play, and work for clubs coaching juniors or whatever.  This is a different story, as long as they are doing the job - it is not just a sinecure.  But the so-called Marque players swanning around the game locally, when we can't even afford the Marque.  I seriously believe if it isn't controlled the future of the game is in jeopardy , considering what some of the older juniors are expecting  as they move into senior football.

 

Paying players is supposed to be a secret. After all most of the money is probably coming out of the Juniors and they wouldn't like that! SportZone2007-12-24 18:56:50

Yes they didn't like paying for their gear or their subs for that matter. They start them young over there!

Just remember the players being paid are bigger than the game.

I am a strong believer that football is a team game so all squad players should be paid equally - the rate being determined by; gate-takings minus all costs of putting them on the pitch, subscriptons if excused, payments to be also shared equally among those working to keep the club going. I agree with earlier postings that payments are crippling clubs - especially with NZ Soccer and the Federations racking up fees to exorbitant levels, then charging clubs and players for any service that they DO use - and simultaneously sucking up a great deal of the available pokie trust money.

If you take most CSL team they don't have gate takings and most do not pay players as such. It is a big effort by all clubs to stay a float in this tight market of sponsorship or should I say hand outs from gaming machines. But the squeeze will come to the point where all club will have go back to old fashioned fund raising at the malls with raffles sausage sizzlies etc.