More than $50m in RFF revenues

The Romanian Football Federation (RFF) made $50.059 million in total revenues (ROL and foreign currency) throughout 1990-2002, according to a RFF report on its financial resources and how they were used. The report shows the revenues in question were derived from various sources such as qualifying and participating in the World Cup final tournaments (1990, 1994 and 1998) and the Euro 1996 and 2000 final tournaments, for which RFF collected $17,869 million. The cession of the advertising rights and of the rights to broadcast the games of the national teams on TV got the Romanian Football Federation another $13.167 million in gross revenues during the same time. It also got $8.196 million from transfers of Romanian players to teams abroad and collected $4.627 million from the sponsorship deals concluded during the thirteen years. The Federation report also mentions that chairman Mircea Sandu’s income throughout 1990-2002 was worth $360,510, i.e. 0.6% of the total RFF revenues. The Romanian Football Federation got a one million dollar grant through FIFA’s GOAL, which was aimed at building the Mogosoaia Football Centre. UEFA in its turn contributed $376,000 for this project. Mediafax