The CSD approves grants worth 16 million for the improvement of the facilities of the Women's Football League

• The BOE today publishes the CSD resolution calling for aid to clubs and SAD participants in the highest category of women’s football to undertake the structural improvements needed for the competition, from the European funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan

• The economic investment reaches 16 million euros and represents “another step in the dignification of football and women’s sport through the improvement of its infrastructures”, in the words of the president of the CSD, José Manuel Franco

Madrid, February 16, 2022. The Official State Gazette (BOE) has today published the extract of the Resolution of the Presidency of the Higher Sports Council, which calls for support to clubs and Sports Limited Companies (SAD) participating in the highest category of women’s football, worth 16 million euros, so that they can undertake the structural improvements necessary for the competition, from the European funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.

This is an investment within the framework of the Social Plan of the Sports Sector, which will be aimed at the construction, adaptation and maintenance of the infrastructures necessary for the development of the competition of the highest category of women’s football. The deadline for submitting applications to interested entities is thirty working days from today’s publication in the BOE, and the execution period will cover from 1 February 2020 to 31 December 2023.

With this investment “we are facing a milestone and another step in the dignification of football and women’s sport through the improvement of its infrastructures”, says the president of the CSD, José Manuel Franco. The Secretary of State for Sport also recalls that the figure of 16 million euros for the improvement of facilities is part of a match of 32 million for the professionalization of women’s football, one of the “great goals of the Council in this legislature”, and that it is part of the “firm and constant commitment of the Government with equality in sport and, specifically, with women’s sport”.

Standards of quality, equality and sustainability of the women’s league

The qualification of professional league to the competition of the highest category of women's football, granted on June 15, 2021 by the Steering Committee of the CSD -which will allow the creation of the National Women's Professional Football League (LNFFP)-, requires the implementation of a set of measures that guarantee standards of quality, equality and sustainability of the competition. Among these measures are the necessary infrastructures and equipment that must be available to the entities that integrate and compete in the LNFFP.

As stated in the BOE, the projects eligible for this aid include expenses such as the replacement of artificial grass by natural grass and its maintenance, works for the expansion and improvement of stands, car parks and dressing rooms, related training and training facilities for sportspeople –such as gyms and nurses–, areas for media and television broadcasts and improvements in the field of energy efficiency, among others.

This economic investment comes after the negotiation with all the clubs and sports companies participating in the LNFFP for the approval of unique statutes governing the entity in charge of managing the Women’s League. After reaching an agreement unanimously between all the entities, it only remains to establish the final date of the Steering Committee that will approve them definitively.