The CSD publishes the proposal for the distribution of 16 million euros in aid to the clubs of the Women’s Football League
The CSD published the Proposal for a Final Resolution of the aid to clubs and Sports Limited Companies participating in the new LPFF
- The clubs and SAD of the new Professional League now have ten days to determine whether they accept the distribution of the 16 million European funds destined for the improvement of the facilities to adapt them to the competition
- The Council’s resolution comes just one year after the Steering Committee unanimously declared the First Women’s Football Division to be a professional
- José Manuel Franco: “We were told there would be no professional league and there is one. We were told that we would not achieve unanimity, and we did. We are creating something very big between the institutions, the clubs, the players, the media and the spectators.”
Madrid, 15 June 2022. The Higher Sports Council (CSD) published yesterday the Proposal for a Final Resolution of the grants to clubs and Sports Limited Companies (SAD) participating in the new Professional Women’s Football League (LPFF) worth 16 million euros, to undertake the structural improvements necessary for the competition, from the European funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
The proposal for the distribution of funds comes after the call for aid by resolution of the Presidency of the CSD (published in the BOE on 14 February) and after a process in which the applications submitted have gone through a Valuation Committee, a Proposal for a Provisional Resolution and a Minutes and Reports.
Since the publication of the Final Motion for a Resolution yesterday afternoon, clubs and SAD now have 10 days to determine whether to accept them.
This announcement comes just one year after the CSD Steering Committee unanimously approved the professional league qualification for the top female football category. This cataloguing, which has allowed the creation of the LPFF, requires the implementation of a set of measures that guarantee quality standards, 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 league.
The president of the CSD, José Manuel Franco, said: “They told us there would be no professional league and there is one. We were told that we would not achieve unanimity, and we did. We are creating something very big between the institutions, the clubs, the players, the media and the spectators.” Franco recalled that the League already has president, Beatriz Álvarez Mesa, and predicts a “historic” 21-22 season. “The aid of 16 million will contribute to this”, he concluded.
With this investment, which is part of the Social Plan of the Sports Sector of the European funds, the clubs of the LPFF will be able to build, adapt and maintain projects such as the replacement of artificial grass by natural grass and its maintenance, works of expansion and improvement of stands, parking and dressing rooms, annexed facilities of training and training of sportspeople –such as gyms and nurses–, areas for media and television broadcasts and improvements in the field of energy efficiency, among others. Of the total amount, EUR 15 million will go towards construction costs and EUR 1 million towards maintenance costs.
Distribution of aid between the sixteen clubs and SAD of the LPFF
Support for maintenance costs to SAD
Support for maintenance costs to Clubs
Aid for adaptation and improvement of facilities to SAD
Aid for adaptation and improvement of facilities to Clubs
