Madrid and Barça, with an uneven present in women’s football

Some already call it Classic, but the truth is that the history of the duel between Real Madrid and the women’s club has only just begun. With four meetings, two in which Madrid was still Tacon, this cross between the two most powerful clubs in Spain still has many battles to deal with in women’s football. For now, its first pages are stained Barça, with full of triumphs for the Catalans.

The culé team has a higher level and experience than Madrid in this category, in which It is intractable both in Spain and in Europe, where he raised his first Champions League just a few months ago in Gothenburg (0-4, against Chelsea). Light years away from whites in terms of titles and trajectory in this category, there is no doubt of the sporting superiority of Barça.

But what about off the field? Is the difference between one team and the other so big? The truth is that, despite the fact that the white club has made the best facilities and professionals available to its women’s team, Barça also beat the Madrid team in terms of budget and structure.

Budgets: from more than € 6M from Barça to € 3.4M from Madrid

Salaries and investment are unequal for both teams. Barça, for example, had a budget that was around six million euros for the financial year of the 2020-21 season. An amount that is the highest in the First Iberdrola and that has increased to seven and a half million for this year, according to the specialized portal 2Playbook.

This same medium also uncovered Real Madrid’s budget for its women’s team, which was 3.4 million euros for 2020-21, the game that has been destined for this season is unknown. Regarding salaries, as 2Playbook also details, Barça’s salaries, about five million, almost triple those of Madrid, which allocated just over two million.

From the budget to the structure, where the culés have a newly released female farmhouse, with sixteen girls studying and the first nine residents. In this way, Barça can boast of having a quarry with a past, present and a lot of future. A fact that nurtures the first team so much, where youth squads such as Aitana Bonmatí, Patri Guijarro or the Golden Ball, Alexia Putellas, as well as the lower categories of the Spanish National Team.

Total, There are five teams that train players at Barça (subsidiary, youth, children C and Alevín E and F), two more than Real Madrid, which has three: filial, youth and cadet. These three new divisions in Madrid club are two years old and have most of the players from the Tacon quarry.

With this scenario, It is more than obvious to point out that Barça is the clear favorite in tomorrow’s match (12:00), although White does not lose the illusion. His situation is uneven and he still has to work hard to catch up with the imposing Barça team but, once they hit the field, it’s eleven against eleven.