A state agency runs 153 stadiums — and recovers less than 30% of the cost from users

Rationale

The Nemzeti Sportinfrastruktúra Ügynökség (NSÜ) is the agency created to own and operate the state's accumulated stadium and sport-facility stock — roughly 153 state sports properties were placed under its asset management when it was established.[^2] The agency is, in the most direct sense, evidence of the underlying problem rather than a solution to it: a dedicated state agency to operate sport venues exists because the state has acquired and built a stock of sport venues large enough to require one. The chapter's own figures show the structural shape — 58,005.4 millió Ft of expenditure against 17,126.0 millió Ft of rental and utilisation revenue, a venue portfolio recovering under 30% of its cost from the market. A privately owned arena or stadium is expected to cover its operating cost from event income, rental, and hospitality; a portfolio recovering 30% is a portfolio held for reasons other than its market viability, with the gap charged to general taxation. The honest classification is to wind down the agency in parallel with the underlying activity — divest the venue stock to commercial operators, municipalities willing to fund their local facilities from local revenue, or the clubs that use them — rather than to keep a permanent state agency operating a permanently loss-making portfolio. The five-year horizon reflects that orderly divestment of a large property portfolio is a multi-year process, not a single-cycle action; museum activity (187.4 millió Ft) and any heritage-listed venue are carved out for separate handling.