The club President also chairs the aforementioned commission and said that the deal also covered publicity on the backs of football players shirts and €3.5 million for the two clubs securing promotion each season.
The deal sees MEO “undertaking to broadcast the League 2 matches even if the respective platform has yet to be defined and with a clause that if these matches can be sold to Asian markets then clubs gain the right to 30 percent of any such revenues.”
Godinho explained that the commission had been holding out for €600,000 but that five clubs, Desportivo de Chaves, Farense, Académico de Viseu, Famalicão and Desportivo das Aves, had broken ranks and signed individual deals for €500,000.
The football club president added that negotiations had been complicated because MEO’s main rival, NOS showed no interest in taking on the league on the grounds it had already allocated its football broadcast budget. TPN/Lusa