CSD calls for EUR 2 million in aid to sports organisations affected by DANA

• “The Government of Spain is committed to the recovery of all sports spaces damaged by DANA because they are essential for the physical, social and emotional development of citizens,” said José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, president of the Superior Council of Sports (CSD).

Madrid, 13 March 2025.- The Official State Gazette (BOE) publishes on Thursday the call for aid, worth 2 million euros, with which the Higher Council of Sports (CSD) contributes to the repair, reconstruction and restitution of infrastructures, equipment or facilities that have been affected by DANA and are owned by private sports entities.

This aid may reach a maximum of EUR 100,000 per sport entity and shall be intended to cover the costs of the works to be carried out between 28 October 2024 and 31 December 2025 as a result of the damage caused by DANA.

The beneficiaries of this subsidy shall be private sports organisations included in the registers at state or regional level. Mainly, clubs and territorial federations that own infrastructures, equipment or sports facilities located in one of the 78 municipalities included in the annex to Royal Decree-Law 6/2024.

This call of EUR 2 million is part of the set of measures that the Government of Spain has articulated in the face of the consequences caused by DANA.

In the field of sport, the Spanish Government has also promoted a means of aid, aimed specifically at local entities, covering all the costs of the interventions necessary for the repair, reconstruction and restitution of 55 municipal facilities.

The intervention in these 55 sports centres is part of the plan for the reconstruction of municipal infrastructures, with a total of EUR 1,745 million, with which the Spanish Government will assume 100% of the cost of repairing 372 facilities. These also include municipalities and administrative centres, libraries and cultural centres, children's schools, social service centres, cemeteries and funeral services, markets and slices, protection centres and local police, transport facilities and welfare centres.

According to the president of the CSD, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, both measures underline “the firm commitment of the Government of Spain to the recovery of all sports spaces damaged by DANA because they are essential for the physical, social and emotional development of citizens”.

“With them, we are ensuring that sports activities can be re-accessible to all people, especially young people, who find in sport a way of growth and integration,” he said.

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A government committed to sport

Sport is at the heart of the DANA recovery process, not only because of the obvious benefits to the physical and mental health of the affected people, but also as an engine of social cohesion and economic reactivation. In disaster situations, sports practice provides a way to reconstruct emotional normality.

In addition, sport generates employment, boosts sectors such as tourism and hospitality and promotes values such as solidarity and resilience, which are fundamental in times of reconstruction. Therefore, the Government of Spain has prioritized the rehabilitation of affected sports facilities and the promotion of programs that use sport as a tool of integral recovery.

The Government of Spain has already given sport a prominent place during the pandemic. In fact, Spain was the only country in the European Union to include it as a tractor element in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, making EUR 300 million from NextBurnEU funds available to this sector. On this occasion, the importance which the Spanish Government attaches to sport has again become apparent.