Hockey Pirates, who are experiencing a fairytale return to the first league, are awaiting trial

The request was made by Martina Jinochová Matyášová, who is the insolvency administrator of the joint-stock company Piráti Chomutov. She is in bankruptcy at the time. The claim is made against the parent club – the registered association of the same name. It is headed by businessmen who decided to save Chomutov hockey after the colossal collapse caused by the previous owner. The request of the administrator is “as a right to the issuance of financial performance from the transfer of players from the Piráti Chomutov club according to the contracts concluded between third clubs and the Piráti Chomutov association.”

However, the association considers the claims to be unjustified and has submitted a procedural defense in this sense. His position was explained by the chairman Daniel Badinka also at the last meeting of the Chomutov council.

“The insolvency administrator invented a lawsuit against the association, where she constructs a claim for the sale of player rights, which we carried out when we entered hockey. We don’t agree with that,” he said. “We negotiated with her, we wanted to conclude an out-of-court settlement. The final amount for us was a million crowns and this is where it got stuck. The creditor’s committee for the joint-stock company did not agree on this, and de facto we are threatened with a court case with an unclear result,” summarized Badinka.

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The members of the creditors’ committee are the city of Chomutov, its company Kultura a sport Chomutov and the company International Trade Services. The committee met for the first time in January this year, with the administrator participating. There he confirmed his rejection of the out-of-court settlement.

According to the administrator, neither a sum of millions nor a long-term court proceeding is the ideal solution. She assumed that the city would find a solution that would be more favorable for creditors, and she also visited the councilors. She reminded that the support of sports in Chomutov is a matter of regional politics. “It is permanently manifested in the form of subsidies and financial contributions to youth sports as well as to professional adult sports,” she said.

A pirate story

The Pirate’s Way is one big story. He is accompanied by fame, a fall and a subsequent effort to return to the hockey elite. Chomutov hockey players experienced four extra-league seasons under the ambitious leadership of Jaroslav Veverka. But in 2019, they fell to the first league. It was then that the crisis and the inability to pay off the obligations of the then leadership became fully apparent. It also owed players wages.

And the slide continued. The pirates were subsequently relegated to the amateur regional league. Their management changed three times. But with the new leadership, which consists of local patriots and entrepreneurs, it is slowly clawing its way up. He straightened out the management, attracted player legends from Litvínov to the team and eventually really broke into the first league.

Due to previous financial problems, the club has also struggled with reduced financial support from the city in recent years. In her glory days, she made up to 12 million crowns a year. In recent years it has been at most 2 million for the A team. The youth have slightly higher support, although not as much as the club would have imagined. Most recently, he applied for a non-program subsidy for sports training of children and youth from 4 to 19 years of age exceeding 11 million crowns. The representatives gave them 6.1 million at the last meeting. 32 of the 33 representatives present raised their hands for them.