The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has invited the clubs of the First female Iberdrola who want me to broadcast their games this season openly to communicate their intention before this Tuesday, after the termination of the agreement by Mediapro.
The communication to the clubs has been made to “be able to carry out the issuance procedures by the Federation as soon as possible”, according to the organism, which recalled that “it has committed to reverting to the clubs all of the income that via sponsorship or via television broadcast generates this initiative “.
“The totality of the income obtained by this new initiative will be destined in a transparent way and in its entirety to the clubs,” he indicated before the offer to broadcast the meetings on TVE and the Footters platform.
The RFEF expressed itself this way days after confirming a halt in the professionalization process of Primera Iberdrola, due to the lack of consensus among the clubs to draw up its statutes, and after the termination of the television contract of Mediapro, which had the audiovisual rights of 13 of the 16 teams.
The organization detailed this Monday that this season the Superior Sports Council (CSD) and the RFEF make available to the First and Second women’s clubs a total of € 14,300,000-€ 9,700,000 for the First Iberdrola and 4,600 € .000 for the Second Division (Iberdrola Challenge) – and that of this amount a minimum of 9,150,000 is provided by the RFEF.
In a statement, in which he compares these contributions with the budgets and licenses of federations such as basketball (€ 17,600,000 and 376,352 licenses), golf (€ 10,600,000 and 376,352 licenses), athletics and handball (€ 9,800,000 and 89,470 / 90,336 licenses), the RFEF assures that “the financial aid and contributions from the RFEF and the CSD to the First Division of Women’s Soccer are enormous and not comparable to any other sport”.
“The totality of the annual budgets for sports such as Handball, Swimming, Canoeing, Sailing, Tennis, etc. with Olympic champions and World champions are considerably lower than the one being provided by the RFEF and the CSD exclusively to the First Women’s Soccer Division (€ 9,700,000). There is no other country in the world that allocates this same amount of money to the First Women’s Division (in fact, there is no country in the world that allocates even 10% of this amount) “, he underlines.
Also remember that to participate in the First Women’s Soccer Championship, no endorsement is required, as is the case in basketball (not qualified as professional by the CSD) with the amount of 13,500 euros, and that licenses for non-community players cost € 200. versus € 2,300 for basketball.
For the RFEF, in view of the more than 20 demands that the Association of Women’s Soccer Clubs (ACFF) has put against it in recent years, at this time the silence and lack of complaints from the RFEF and of the footballers’ union before “the unilateral rescission” by Mediapro of the television contracts in mid-August, since “it is not true that it was after knowing the lack of agreement with the statutes of the League.”
“We do know of the existence of some clubs that have requested help from the Association to sue the winning company, and that help has been denied. In total, there have been more than 20 lawsuits (including criminal ones) against the RFEF, when in the same period the RFEF has granted more than € 20,000,000 in aid to the teams of the First and Second Women’s Division and coincidentally 0 (ZERO) lawsuits against those who unilaterally terminate their contracts and who have contributed in that period to the clubs no more than € 4,500,000 “, he adds.