Rico: Shels spending money they don't have

**CollegeTillIDie** · 09/02/2006, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

Thanks CTID - did you miss the 1,000 page thread on the origins of Dublin City or somehing.....?

Yes kinda did and as I have a life off Foot.ie I didn't have a spare three weeks to read it

**CollegeTillIDie** · 09/02/2006, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by OneRedArmy

Thats the benefit of being the club side of a multi-billion euro institution which is able to throw around a few scholarships a year.

If what you said were actually true we would have the biggest budget of any club in the EL. The truth of the matter is we are not bankrolled by the University. We have to source sponsors for all the scholarships awarded.
We are assisted in doing so by the Sports Department of UCD which has to find scholarship sponsors for a variety of sports. Over 90 scholarships are awarded across a range of sports about 10% of which would be for the male soccer teams. Given that gate receipts are only a small fraction of an EL club's budget an incredible amount of off field fund raising ventures take place to put the funding in place to keep the club afloat. Much like Derry City or any other EL club for that matter.