Name change? You’re welcome, but without us! Slovan is considering a radical step – Pravda

Last week they announced a lucrative contract, this time they are threatened with the departure of their most famous tenant. Photo: TASR, Dano Veselský Ondrej Nepela Winter Stadium. Ondrej Nepela’s winter stadium will be named Tipos Aréna. This follows from the September decision of the Bratislava city deputies, who approved the signing of a three-year contract between the city of Bratislava, the capital’s Physical Education and Recreational Facilities Administration (STaRZ) and the national lottery company Tipos. The income from the lease will cover the operation of the stadium and the support of young people playing sports. It is a sum of 200,000 euros without VAT per year. The contract between the interested parties is to be valid until September 30, 2025. Read more Hundreds of thousands for commercialization. What will the Ondrej Nepela Winter Stadium be called? The hockey club Slovan Bratislava also commented on the change of the name of the stadium. The most famous and longest tenant, who wrote history in the famous arena for 80 years, did not hide his dissatisfaction. Bratislava, the capital of the Slovak Republic, and STaRZ, which manages the winter stadium, managed to make a difference in the world of sports marketing and the so-called “naming rights” of partnerships, a really unusual and at the same time, unfortunately, completely incomprehensible step. To name a sports arena without any participation of a sports club, which brings a significant part of the sports and marketing product to this arena with its matches and overall activity. As the main tenant of this arena since June 2011, he has paid several million euros in rent and services connected with the use of the arena to the city budget. Read more Slovan hockey players confirmed their sovereignty. Posledný Trenčín lost again Apart from this – to put it mildly – very unconventional way of dealing with the relationship between the marketing rights to the home stadium and the main tenant and product holder, this decision and the subsequent actions of STaRZ can seriously threaten the ability of HC Slovan Bratislava to continue to stay at the Ondrej Nepela Winter Stadium in the position of the main tenant,” the Bratislava club’s extensive opinion states. Slovan’s main sponsor is another betting company – Niké. After buying the club in the summer of 2020, the latter paid off all obligations to the city, according to the club’s aforementioned opinion, and currently settles them on time. Slovan wrote that The new management was informed about the lease of the advertising name of the arena a year and a half ago. However, an agreement was never reached. “Among the applicants for the advertising name of the arena were several companies, e.g. a multinational technological leader in the processing of global payments by payment cards, which in the tender process would be prepared to pay the city around 400,000 euros per year, i.e. twice the published amount, for the right to use the advertising name of the arena. Read more Horror intro, another loss. Slovan bids farewell to the Champions League without a point Unfortunately, representatives of our club failed to reach any meaningful agreement with representatives of the city and STaRZ on the division of this income, and STaRZ also rejected the club’s proposals to launch a tender procedure for renting the advertising name of the arena, which, in the opinion of Slovan’s shareholders, would it was possible to obtain better conditions for the reward for renting the name of the arena and, ultimately, more financial resources for the city budget and thus for the residents of Bratislava,” the Bratislava team’s opinion reads. The most successful Slovak hockey club is thus considering its options. Read more The war in Ukraine also affected Košice. Steel workers leave their home “Slovak Bratislava appreciates the contribution of TIPOS, the national lottery company, to support Slovak sports. Thanks to Tipos, the citizens of Slovakia can be proud of several Slovak Olympians and representatives in many sports. Unfortunately, Tipos must be aware of the circumstances under which it acquired the marketing right to use the advertising name of the Ondrej Nepela Winter Stadium. In this context, Slovan Bratislava unequivocally declares that it will continue to play its home matches at the Ondrej Nepela Winter Stadium and not at the Tipos Arena.”