Mathare United Football Club to Face Relegation
The club has released a statement highlighting the financial constraints the club is going through.
The financial situation is as a result of external factors which kept reducing the revenue and raising the costs.
Through a statement release by the club through the founder and chairman Bob Munro, he highlighted below external factors:
- The FKF forced the expansion of the Kenyan Premier League(KPL) in February 2017
- The related super sport termination of their KPL contract in March 2017
- The necessary but difficult covid 19 suspension of KPL for five months in 2020
- The FKF hostile takeover of the Kenyan premier League in September 2020
- The fkf failure to pay clubs a fair share of the KPL broadcast/title rights revenue
- The FKF mismanagement of FIFA , GOK and sponsorships funds during 2018-21 seasons.
Mathare Utd didn’t show at Kasarani stadium to play against Bandari FC which made them 3 pts; currently they are at the bottom of the group with 11pts having conceded 59 goals and only scoring 18 goals.