Prague 3 has agreed with FK Viktoria Žižkov regarding our stadium. He has to pay crowns a year Soccer | Sport | Pražská Drbna
The City Hall of Prague 3 has agreed with the Viktoria Žižkov football club on the terms of the lease agreement for the stadium in Seifertova Street. The club should lease the stadium for 30 years for a symbolic crown per year and at the same time have a pre-emptive right in case the city district decides to sell it. The mayor of Prague 3 Jiří Ptáček (TOP 09) and the chairman of the board of directors of the club Milan Richter confirmed this to the journalists. According to the mayor, the city council will vote on the contract at the beginning of next year.
Thursday, September 9, 2021, 9:00 AM
Prague’s Drbna has launched a series of interviews with mayors. We talked with the mayor of Prague 3, Jiří Ptáček (TOP 09), about the condition in which they took over the town hall in 2018, about what they had achieved during its change to …
In January last year, the club was bought by businessman Martin Louda, who then tried unsuccessfully with the town hall to negotiate the purchase of the stadium. This year, he sold the event to the Chairman of the Board of Directors Milan Richter and to the members of the Board of Directors Jiří Rýv. Due to the poor condition of the club’s stadium, he threatened to lose his second league license, but eventually obtained it.
The management of Prague 3 was negative about the possibility of selling the stadium on the grounds that the club did not provide a sufficient guarantee that the stadium and the land on which it is located will be permanently used for sports. According to representatives of the town hall management, they would prefer a long-term lease. According to Ptáček, the town hall finally agreed on this with the new owners of the club. “We are in shoes with a football club, we have agreed conditions, ” he said.
Five months of negotiations
Richter confirmed that. “The contract was created on the basis of four-month, five-month work and negotiations,” he said. The draft agreement provides for a thirty-year lease for symbolic rents and investments of 25 million crowns by the city district in the reconstruction, by the end of next year. The contract includes guarantees that the stadium will continue to perform its existing sports function. If these conditions are met, the club will also gain a pre-emptive right in case the city district decides to sell the stadium in the future.
The draft agreement will be dealt with by the city district representatives next week, but according to Ptáček, it will not be voted on yet because the details need to be finalized. With regard to the pre-emption right, according to him, the Prague City Hall will also have to agree. The mayor added that although the lease agreement can only be approved by the city council, he expects to submit it for approval by the deputies. According to him, they should vote on it next year.