MADRID, 16 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Higher Sports Council has summoned aid to clubs and Sports Public Limited Companies (SAD) of the Iberdrola Women’s Football League worth 16 million euros to carry out improvements in the facilities necessary for the competition, and which will be in charge of the European funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
It is an investment framed in the Social Plan of the Sports Sector, which will be used for the construction, adaptation and maintenance of the necessary infrastructures for the development of the highest category women’s football competition.
The deadline for submitting applications for interested entities is thirty business days from the publication this Wednesday in the BOE, and the execution period will cover from February 1, 2020 to December 31, 2023.
“With this investment we are facing a milestone and a further step in the dignity of football and women’s sport through the improvement of its infrastructures,” said the president of the CSD, José Manuel Franco.
The Secretary of State for Sport recalled that the 16 million euros for the improvement of facilities is part of an item of 32 million for the professionalization of women’s football, one of the “great goals of the Council in this legislature”, and that It is part of the Government’s “firm and constant commitment to equality in sport and, specifically, to women’s sport”.