Fingal The Latest Club To Fall Into Financial Trouble

Aritricity League Premier Division side Sporting Fingal have become the latest club to fall into financial difficulty only weeks before the new season of Airtricity League season starts. The club who will share Dalymount Park with Bohemians, who themselves are in financial dire straights released the following statement this afternoon.

Sporting Fingal has been seeking to restructure over recent months ahead of the 2011 campaign.

It had developed what it believed to be a viable business plan on a reduced and prudent scale having secured new investors and some sponsors.  A number of commitments which would be crucial to its viability have, in very recent days, not materialised.

The club has regretfully, for the first time since it’s inception in 2007, not been in a position to pay players’ wages at this point and are urgently attempting to resolve the issue.

The FAI and the players’ union, PFAI, have been informed of the situation.

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