The Official State Gazette (BOE) published today the extract of the Resolution of the Presidency of the Higher Sports Councilwhich calls for aid to clubs and Sports Public Limited Companies (SAD) participating in the highest women’s football category for a value of 16 million euros, so that they can undertake the necessary structural improvements for the competition, charged to the funds European Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
It is an investment framed in the Social Plan of the Sports Sector, which will be destined to the construction, adaptation and maintenance of the necessary infrastructures for the development of the highest category women’s soccer competition. The deadline for submitting applications for interested entities is thirty business days from today’s publication in the BOE, and the execution period will run from February 1, 2020 to December 31, 2023.
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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”, says the president of the CSD, José Manuel Franco. The Secretary of State for Sport also recalls that the figure of 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 which is part of the “firm and constant commitment of the Government with equality in sport and, specifically, with women’s sport”.
Quality, equality and sustainability standards of the women’s league
The qualification of the professional league for the highest category women’s football competition, granted on June 15, 2021 by the CSD Board of Directors -which will allow the creation of the National Women’s Professional Football League-, requires the start-up of a set of measures that guarantee standards of quality, equality and sustainability of the competition. Among these measures are the necessary infrastructures and equipment that the entities that make up and compete in the women’s professional league must have.
As stated in the BOE, the eligible projects for this aid include expenses such as the substitution of artificial grass for natural grass and its maintenance, works to expand and improve stands, car parks and changing rooms, adjoining facilities for training and training athletes – such as gyms and infirmaries-, areas for media and television broadcasts and improvements in the field of
energy efficiency, among others.
This economic investment comes after the negotiation with all the clubs and sports corporations participating in the women’s league for the approval of unique statutes that govern the entity in charge of directing the women’s League. After reaching a unanimous agreement between all the entities, it only remains to establish the definitive date of the Directive Commission that will approve them definitively.