Real Madrid General Director tells La Liga to chop funding for ladies’s soccer

Real Madrid General Director tells La Liga to chop funding for ladies’s soccer



Real Madrid and La Liga are by no means in need of variations of opinion, and very often these disputes flip authorized. This week Los Blancos newest grievance comes within the type of funding for Liga F, the ladies’s league.

According to ReliefReal Madrid General Director Jose Angel Sanchez informed La Liga President Javier Tebas “It’s an excessive amount of. We have to chop it,” though the adjective they used was ‘spat’. The incident occurred on the Assembly of Clubs, and noticed loads of dialogue from the opposite members of the assembly. ‘JAS’ as he’s identified additionally had a member of the Real Madrid authorized group with him at La Liga’s places of work.

This season La Liga contributed €8m to Liga F, a part of a five-year funding package deal value €40m, of which that is the third yr. The first two noticed contributions of €6m, and the latter two will see €10m contributions from La Liga’s total revenue. La Liga consists of 42 golf equipment between Primera and Segunda, of which solely 13 are represented in Liga F, however unanimously the opposite golf equipment are in settlement for the funding. It needs to be famous that Real Madrid are a kind of golf equipment concerned in Liga F.

Liga F have suffered some monetary setbacks in recent times, with former sponsor Finetwork failing to hold out their fee. The league additionally earns cash via TV rights with DAZN, and €20m per yr from the Ministry for Sport (CSD). They are additionally awarding €19.5m over that interval for tasks to help the event of ladies’s soccer. The suggestion is that Real Madrid aren’t completely happy given the squeeze that’s being placed on their accounts, past what is going on with Liga F.

Real Madrid have been criticized up to now for his or her lack of funding for the ladies’s group, with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid spending far more and earlier on their girls’s groups. In 2019, Real Madrid bought an already current girls’s membership within the Spanish capital known as CD Tacon, after which modified their title to Real Madrid Femenino. They had been one of many final high groups in Europe to inaugurate a girls’s group, and positively appears a wierd level to take a stand on, for a membership that boasted an revenue of greater than €1b final season.