Vice-president of the Premier League Markiyan Klyuchkovsky called options for financing the reconstruction and repairs of Ukrainian stadiums.

"This is a difficult question. Today, most stadiums are in state or municipal ownership. Accordingly, even if clubs have the means, the question here is whether they can do this and also want to do this by investing not in their own facility. We need to look for mechanisms for combining interests, so that it would be beneficial for both sides, "Klyuchkovsky said in an interview for Football. ua.

"You can invest in these stadiums a lot of money for their maintenance, improvement, but this will not change the fact that this is an old stadium where the viewer will not be comfortable watching football simply because he is so designed. Spectators are not protected from rain, snow, sun, there are no comfortable conditions. Therefore, these stadiums are a kind of transition stage. We focus on ensuring that in the strategic perspective we have a new infrastructure, new stadiums built, or radically reconstructed existing arenas ".

"In fairness, we must understand that we are not talking about the fact that every stadium should cost $ 400 million. There are many examples in Europe, in small cities, where small arenas are built with a budget of 15-20 million. The second format is construction for public funds. This is what we were going to Euro-2012. But here the question is how much the state can afford this expense ".

"The third option is a hybrid. In our opinion, the latter option is the most promising. This combination of state, municipal and private interests. When each of these three contributors contributes. For example, a city can allocate land, the state - to provide tax relief, a private investor - builds its stadium ".

"There is one problem here. The stadium, no matter how it was built, the stadium cup itself - a loss-making facility. Football matches, especially in our realities, it does not generate enough revenue to pay back itself. Therefore, the stadium must be combined with commercial objects. It can be a shopping and entertainment center, a cinema, office centers. In Europe and around the world this is very successfully combined and operated. For example, in the same Switzerland ".

Read on Football. ua full version of the interview with the vice-president of the Premier League Markia Klyuchkovsky.