The address of FC Shakhtar president Rinat Akhmetov to UFF president Grygoriy Surkis
15-11-09 14:04:51
Dear Grygoriy Mykhailovych!
The main for Ukrainian football game of the year takes place on November, 18 at Donbass Arena. On this day it will be decided if our representative team will go to World cup to SAR or not.
Everybody understands that our national team requires powerful support of fans. But UFF has established incredibly high prices for tickets. I have been telling several times and I repeat again that the supporters were treated, to put it mildly, badly. Moreover, we are facing the risk to see an empty stadium during this principally important match.
Having established incredibly high prices for tickets, you want to earn at Donbass Arena overall 36 mln hryvnyas (4,5 mln USD according to National Bank rate). Consider, that UFF earned on the matches of Ukrainian representative team in Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv around 300 thousand USD each.
Grygoriy Mykhailovych, I offer you a real way out of this situation. FC Shakhtar is ready to buy from UFF all 50 thousand attendance places for the match between Greece and Ukraine at the price 1,5 mln USD. It’s more than you earned from all home matches of World Cup-2010 qualifying round from all stadiums altogether.
| Категория | Количество мест | Стоимость ФФУ | Общая стоимость ФФУ | Стоимость ФК "Шахтер" |
Общая стоимость ФК "Шахтер" |
| Категория 5 | 19106 | 200 | 3 821 200 | 20 | 382 120 |
| Категория 4 | 15646 | 400 | 6 258 400 | 25 | 391 150 |
| Категория 3 | 9133 | 600 | 5 479 800 | 40 | 365 320 |
| Категория 2 | 2094 | 800 | 1 675 200 | 50 | 104 700 |
| Категория 1 | 969 | 2 000 | 1 938 000 | 75 | 72 675 |
| SILVER Club (Classic) | 1114 | 4 500 | 5 013 000 | 210 | 233 940 |
| SILVER Club (Premium) | 1069 | 4 500 | 4 810 500 | 370 | 395 530 |
| GOLDEN Club | 317 | 7 000 | 2 219 000 | 700 | 221 900 |
| PLATINUM Club | 375 | 8 000 | 3 000 000 | 850 | 318 750 |
| DIAMOND Club | 258 | 8 000 | 2 064 000 | 1 200 | 309 600 |
| ИТОГО | 50081 | 36 279 100 грн. | 2 795 685 грн. | ||
| 4 592 291 $ | 353 884 $ |
We will offer Ukrainian supporters the tickets at the price they are sold for Shakhtar matches in Europa League. Starting from 20 hryvnyas. Pay attention to the difference in prices of UFF and Shakhtar.
You see, that having paid to UFF 1,5 million USD, Shakhtar will be able to earn, if sells all tickets at Donbass Arena, altogether something around 353 thousand USD. The lacking money, namely 1 million 147 thousand USD will be covered by our club.
Those supporters who have already bought tickets for UFF too high price will get price difference reimbursed.
Grygoriy Mykhailovych, I am looking forward to your reply in the nearest hours. There is practically no time to correct the situation.
Rinat Akhmetov, FC Shakhtar president
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League Table
| P | TEAM | PLD | W | D | L | F:A | PTS |
| 1 | Dynamo | 20 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 41:8 | 52 |
| 2 | Shakhtar | 20 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 54:12 | 51 |
| 3 | Metalist | 20 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 38:16 | 47 |
| 4 | Dnipro | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 31:25 | 33 |
| 5 | Kryvbas | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 18:19 | 31 |
