The management of Kladno terminated the lease contract for the municipal stadium to the Kladno hockey club, or to the Hokej Kladno company, whose director is Jaromír Jágr. The reason is non-fulfillment of contractual obligations. It will not affect the current season.
The city pays all the operating costs of the extra-league stadium. The Kladno management is ready to negotiate a new contract, Vít Heral, spokesman for the Kladno town hall, said when asked by ČTK. According to the server sport.cz the contract was originally valid until 2032.
“The notice period is three months and starts running on November 1. However, it will not end before the last championship competition of one of the youth teams or the extra-league senior team is finished. The course of this season is not in any way threatened,” said Heral.
The decision to terminate the current contract was made at a city council meeting at the end of October. The city decided to take this step after the club did not fulfill its contractual obligations.
According to the server, in the summer, Jágr asked the city to waive the repayment, which the city council took note of, but did not agree to at the meeting. The club did not respond to the subsequent reminder.
According to the now-terminated contract, the Kladno club must pay two million crowns to the city annually. The city pays around 30 million crowns for the operation of the stadium, also contributes 8.5 million crowns to the youth and covers other expenses. The stadium was recently repaired for approximately half a billion crowns. In March of this year, Kladno’s management decided not to provide the A-team with a subsidy of five million euros this year, which is still suspended.
It is not yet clear when the new contract could be concluded and what the terms will be. “I cannot predict, however, the city management is of course ready for negotiations,” added the spokesman for Kladna.
