Blocked investments, paralyzed capital, but luxury sport goes ahead »CSM Bucharest receives a record budget in 2025
Article by Andrei Crăiţoiu – published on Friday, April 04, 2025, 23:29 / Updated on Friday, April 4, 2025 23:29
The capital's budget for 2025 was approved on Thursday evening by the General Council of Bucharest, with 38 favorable votes. CSM Bucharest, the club funded by the administration led by Nicușor Dan, will receive in 2025 almost 13 million euros, according to the information obtained by the Sports Gazeta.
The City Hall of Bucharest has proposed, for this year, a budget worth 2.2 billion euros. The budget was approved by the General Council in the second attempt.
Bucharest has a budget! Nicușor Dan: “It is a budget of damage”
Even though the meeting was tense and marked by numerous amendments, the capital's budget was adopted with 38 favorable votes.
Nicușor Dan, the general mayor of the capital, said: “It is a minimal budget, which ensures the functioning of the services and which has very little money for investments. It is a damage budget, which does not leave much money for development.”
Nicușor Dan, current general mayor of Bucharest
According to Forbes, Nicușor Dan pointed out that, within two years, the capital's budget was diminished by 30%. He criticized the “unfair” distribution of the funds between the General City Hall and the City Halls, adding that, for this reason, The year 2025 will be “a lost year” for Bucharest, and many projects needed for the city have been postponed.
Record: 13 million euros is the CSM Bucharest budget in 2025!
Even under these conditions, the budget of the capital includes a special chapter dedicated to the Municipal Sports Club Bucharest.
According to information published by gsp.rothe initial budget of the SCM for 2025 was 58,820,000 lei, the equivalent of 11.76 million euros.
However, following an amendment requesting an additional, the final amount allocated to the club reached about 13 million euros – more precisely, 12,940,000 euros.
This represents the largest budget allocation ever received by CSM Bucharest from the General City Hall. The biggest budget that CSM Bucharest in recent years was in 2022, when the club has benefited from about 11.76 million euros!
34 million eurosIt is the budget that the Ministry of Defense allocated to Steaua București. From this amount 2 million euros, I go to the football section. The remaining 32 million euros reach the other 32 sections of the club
For comparison, in 2024, the total budget of the club for all sports sections was about 11.5 million euros, most of the funds being directed to the women's handball team.
23 million eurosIt is the budget that the Dinamo Sports Club has allocated for 2025. Even if the amount is much lower than the rivals in Ghencea, the performances of “Stefan cel Mare” are more important than the red-blue
Cristina Neagu has the highest salary: 20,000 euros/month
In June 2024, Gazeta Sporturii revealed exclusively the salaries collected by the handball players from CSM Bucharest.
According to the documents consulted, the players were paid last season with amounts between 2,000 and 20,000 euros per month, and the contracts provide the full payment of salaries, regardless of whether the athletes meet their objectives or not.
Cristina Neagu was the highest paid players, with a monthly salary of 20,000 eurosfollowed by Grace Zadi (16,612 euros), Crina Pintea (13,147 euros), Elizabeth Homigie (11,850 euros) and Monika Kobylinska (10,964 euros).
I was expecting to be a vain through my coming to CSM Bucharest, but I did not expect to talk so much about this public money, about salary. He was shocking, especially in the first year. What fault did I have as a sportswoman? I had signed a contract with a handball club, I wanted to play handball and do it best and help the team. I didn't set up where the money came from
Cristina Neagu, CSM player Bucharest
The salaries of all players annually meaning approximately 2,600,000 euros.
Iancu Guda, about the teams financed from public money: “It is difficult to attract investors so”
Iancu Guda is an economic analyst who has become well known. Extremely passionate about football, he is aware of the movements in the championship, with the accounting of the clubs and the behavior of their owners. Currently, Iancu Guda has a financial show at Antena 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px8_jm5gdr4
CSM Bucharest hopes to end Four!
The women's handball team from CSM Bucharest will play the tour of the quarterfinals of the Champions League against the Team Esbjerg band on April 20, from 3:00 pm. The return is scheduled on the move, on April 27, from 5:00 pm.
If he manages to cross Team Esbjerg, CSM Bucharest will qualify for the Final Four tournament in Budapest, a phase of the competition that he has not reached since 2018.
For Cristina Neagu, this is the last chance to win the Champions League with CSM Bucharest, as the current season is the last of her career. The player announced his withdrawal from the professional handball at the end of this season.
