The Board of Directors of the Higher Sports Council (CSD) will approve the professionalization of the women's football league on Tuesday 15, a process that will be supervised by the body and that will involve the development of an independent structure.
In compliance with the announcement made last day 1 in Congress, the Secretary of State for Sports, José Manuel Franco, will preside over the meeting that will approve the measure, applauded by both the Association of Women's Soccer Clubs (ACFF) and the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE).
As confirmed by EFE, the transformation will entail the creation of an independent structure of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the development of regulations and disciplinary norms, according to the requirements that the 1990 Sports Law marks for a professional league.
At the moment the change will not affect the competition for next season, as announced this week by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) during the General Assembly held on the 8th, in which its general secretary, Andreu Camps, indicated that both the First Iberdrola and the Copa de la Reina will be played as before.
The Sports Law also dictates that the clubs that participate in professional competitions will adopt the form of Sociedad Anónima Deportiva (SAD), an obligation that, as in the men's competition, will not affect Real Madrid, Barcelona, Athletic and Osasuna, with the exception that the norm allowed at the time of its approval due to the positive net equity balance presented since the 1985-86 season.
For the State Bar, as reported by Iusport this Friday, “the purpose of the regulation is to ensure management based on the principles of economic and legal responsibility in professional football clubs, either through the SAD, or continuing with the good management of the club in the previous associative regime “.
“Well, this logic that founded the exception in relation to professional men's football clubs (and also basketball clubs, according to the eighth additional provision of the Law) is fully transferable to the women's teams that make them up, regardless of the date of its creation or of the moment in which they begin to compete in a professional way, “says the opinion.
One of the previous steps for the professionalization that will be formalized next week was the signing of the first Collective Agreement of Spanish women's football, signed on February 19, 2020 between the Association of Clubs (ACFF) and the unions, valid until next day 30, but AFE has requested to negotiate a new one.
The union has been demanding it for months, considering it necessary to abolish partiality and negotiation of the minimum wage.
Another request that comes from the Association of Clubs (ACFF), of which 74 members are part, but among them are not Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atlético or Athletic, is that the new horizon that is opening brings with it a solution to the existing conflict for the sale of the audiovisual rights so that a joint sale is made as it does not happen now.