The meeting had to deal with the need to set the number of non-community women for this season and now the CSD must decide
MADRID, 22 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the FUTPRO union, the majority in women’s football, did not attend this Friday the meeting called this Friday by the Women’s Professional Football League (LPFF) to negotiate the Coordination Agreement and the number of non-community for the 2022-2023 season.
As reported this Friday by the LPFF, the meeting, which was attended by representatives of the Association of Spanish Soccer Players (AFE), Soccer Players ON, Workers’ Commissions and UGT, should mainly deal with the need to set the number of non-community foreign soccer players authorized to participate in the professional women’s soccer First Division for the 2022/2023 season, given its imminent start on the weekend of September 10 and 11.
In this sense, the employers warned that their position is that of “50 percent of the number of authorized soccer players compared to the previous season, setting a maximum of non-EU soccer players and preventing the rights of soccer players and clubs from being violated by there are contracts in force to continue with a decrease in
this number in the coming seasons”.
“The LPFF, fleeing from any controversy, summoned the five unions that represent the soccer players, regardless of which is the one with the largest number of represented, but the RFEF decided not to go to it, recording its disagreement with this call when understanding that it should only be carried out with the majority union, FUTPRO, which also declined attendance
to the meeting,” added the agency, which described the move as a “joint strategy.”
In this way, after the end of the meeting and in the absence of an agreement, the LPFF reported that it will go to the Higher Sports Council “who must resolve and set the number of non-EU foreign soccer players.”
“The LPFF wants to show its concern, as some unions attending the meeting with the soccer players and clubs affected by this situation have done, and they do not understand the lack of support from some of the unions regarding their contractual situation, which with this delay and refusal of a progressive reduction is generating serious consequences that are not their responsibility,” the League stated.