LaLiga Smartbank clubs will have a margin of 244 million euros to spend on footballers' salaries. Some salary limits that LaLiga has made public and that AS announced. Eibar is the team that will have the highest salary cap in the Second Division this season (30.15 million euros), followed by Valladolid (€ 29M), Leganés (26.44) and Huesca (18.66). Three of them recently descended from First and who have the financial help of TV for losing the category. This concept is the maximum money that each Second Division club can allocate to pay its players, first and second coach, the physical trainer, the quarry and other sections.
Salary limit in Second
| TEAM | 2021-2022 | 2020-2021 |
| Eibar ** | 30,156 | 42,017 |
| Valladolid ** | 29,034 | 47,204 |
| Leganes | 26,443 | 26,444 |
| Huesca ** | 18,667 | 37,366 |
| Malaga | 12,789 | 2,964 |
| Real Sociedad B *** | 12,493 | – |
| Las Palmas | 11,967 | 11,884 |
| Almeria | 10,336 | 27,322 |
| Sporting | 9,751 | 5,437 |
| Oviedo | 9,595 | 8,629 |
| Tenerife | 9,117 | 10,772 |
| Ibiiza *** | 7,617 | – |
| Alcorcón | 7,104 | 6,152 |
| Fuenlabrada | 6,651 | 5,552 |
| Cartagena | 6,142 | 5,716 |
| Ponferradina | 5,834 | 4,441 |
| Saragossa | 5,708 | 8,544 |
| Mirandés | 5,701 | 4,377 |
| Burgos*** | 5,502 | – |
| Lugo | 4,872 | 4,485 |
| Amorebieta *** | 4,618 | – |
| Girona | 3,978 | 4,155 |
| TOTAL | 244,075 | 263,461 |
| * Figures in thousands of euros | ||
| ** Clubs that last year competed in First Division and have help for relegation | ||
| *** Clubs that last year did not compete in Second |
Some of the history of Spanish football are among those with the smallest margin because they are the ones that have suffered the most from the pandemic. This is the case of Zaragoza, which only has 5.7 million euros to invest in its squad. It is the team that has the most television audience in the category, but also one of those with the largest social mass and the failure to have fans in La Romareda in the last year has disrupted the accounts due to the concept of ticketing, an important item of its budget. The debt problem they have has also weighed down when it comes to setting their staff limit. Which makes it the sixth team with the lowest salary cap, only ahead of teams like Mirandés (5.7), Burgos (5.5), Lugo (4.8), Amorebieta (4.6) and Girona ( 3.9).
What is the salary limit, who and how is it calculated?
The Sports Template Cost Limit is the concept that collects the maximum amount that each club can spend on salaries for players, coach, assistant coach and physical trainer (registrable squad), as well as the subsidiary, youth squad and other sections of the club (non-registrable squad). It is the pillar within the Economic Control that is carried out in LaLiga since Javier Tebas came to the presidency of LaLiga in 2013 and whose legislation was drafted by Javier Gómez, in his day corporate general secretary who now, after leaving LaLiga and assigning his put José Guerra, he returns to the employer to add his experience in the agreement with CVC.
In the section of registrable sports staff fixed and variable salary remunerations are included (whether they are payments in money or in kind such as a house, a car or a trip …), the remuneration for transfer of image rights, amortization of transfers, Social Security contributions, compensation for the termination of contracts, collective bonuses, acquisition expenses when having to pay bonuses to representatives …
Its calculation is made from the difference between income (for television rights, commercials, ticketing …) of structural expenses and the repayment of the debt expected throughout the season. Each team is the one that elaborates its own salary limit, being able to even put an amount below its ceiling, but always complying with the rules of LaLiga's Economic Control and that must be approved by the Validation Body. In case of having a salary limit that does not guarantee the stability of the club, this body will reduce it to an amount that if it made it possible, except for some specific concessions. Salary limits are calculated with objective mathematical formulas without any individual subjectivity.