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The ordinary general meeting of FC Luzern is emotional. The great absentee: Bernhard Alpstaeg.
Around 1200 people found their way to the Swissporarena for the ordinary general meeting of FC Luzern on Thursday evening. Including no fewer than 274 shareholders of the Central Swiss club.
They witnessed how the board of directors around the quartet Stefan Wolf, Josef Bieri, Laurent Prince and Ursula Engelberger-Koller was unanimously re-elected. Another item on the agenda provided for the election of the President. In this case, too, Wolf was confirmed in office to thunderous applause and chants.
I don’t know what would happen to the club if Alpstaeg went it alone.
Alpstaeg does not appear
The Lucerne AGM was characterized by a fan march, with which the FCL supporters set an example against the plans of majority shareholder Bernhard Alpstaeg. Alpstaeg, who did not appear at the regular AGM, intends to have the entire Board of Directors voted out at the forthcoming extraordinary general meeting of FCL Holding AG.
This is to the displeasure of the club and its supporters and contrary to recent sporting developments. “I don’t know what would happen to the club if Alpstaeg went it alone. We have received a lot of feedback from partners and sponsors who would withdraw if this scenario were to happen,” said Wolf on Thursday after the regular AGM. The president considers it difficult to continue working with Alpstaeg after recent events, but Wolf does not want to rule this out: “I’m open to looking for a conversation.”
The holding company’s extraordinary general meeting, which was initially also scheduled for Thursday evening, had been postponed at short notice the day before. The new date has not yet been determined.
3.2 million loss
The club also announced that FCL was down CHF 3.2 million in the 2021/22 season.
Thanks to the return of the fans in the second half of the season and thanks to a transfer surplus of CHF 2.4 million and additional income from the sold-out international match between Switzerland and Bulgaria in November 2021, the loss was less than half as high as initially feared.