Like all sectors of activity, French football has also benefited from state aid to deal with the health crisis linked to Covid-19. Very largely impacted financially, the clubs were nevertheless able to count on the support of the government. With this in mind, at its last general meeting, FootUnis took stock of what professional football had taken for almost two years.
The club union thus estimates the amount paid at 835 million euros, including €647 million from the Plan guaranteed by the State and €148 million in direct aid over three seasons (2019-2020, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022). ). Sums which, as indicated The Team, do not take into account the various exemptions from charges or aid paid for fixed costs (estimated between €50 and €100 million) as well as the second ticketing aid which would amount to €40 million for football. In total, the world of football will therefore have received just over a billion euros from the State out of the eight allocated to French sport as a whole.
