The great news of professional women’s football points to March 8

A month and a half has elapsed since last January 24, the term that had been granted the CSD in the RFEF to present the mandatory and non-binding mandatory report after the agreement between the 16 First Division clubs on the future Statutes of the women’s professional league. An agreement that, as we already anticipated at the time in this newspaper, was consummated in the first days of the newly released month of January 2022 and after months of negotiation between the 12 represented clubs by the Association of Clubs and the other three.

After all this time, the CSD Board of Directors for the approval of these Statutes that allow to speed up the finalization of the professionalization of the First Division of Spanish women’s football approved by the CSD itself in its Commission on June 15, 2021.

A call that, as we also have in this newspaper, was planned to be called by the government at the end of last February or the beginning of March. Thus, they also transferred it to AFE a few weeks ago and after the letter that the union sent on February 2 to the CSD itself. Written where the union, in the figure of its president David Aganzo, requested information about the call for it and in the absence of information. Was the Director General of the CSD; Albert Soler, who communicated by telephone to Diego Rivas this intention to convene the governing body at the end of February or the beginning of this newly released month of March.

At this point, and as Mundo Deportivo has been able to learn, it is not ruled out that it will be in the next few days when the call for the Board of Directors will be officially communicated. What’s more, and taking into account the calendar ahead, this announcement could be announced next Tuesday, March 8, taking advantage of the celebration of the International Women’s Day.

Impossible best date to communicate that the last fringes that remained to be drawn up in the Statutes already agreed between the clubs have already been closed and that this Board of Directors can now be convened. Call also that can be made with just a margin of 48 hours and even, if necessary, with just 24 hours in advance. Let’s not forget that it is the government itself that is leading this process of professionalizing women’s football, where it is also going to make a significant financial investment to set up the necessary infrastructure for the future professional league.

As we have been counting, once these Statutes have the endorsement of the CSD, it will be when the electoral process can be called for the election of the president of this new professional competition. Once this occurs, it will be when you will also be able to start negotiating the audiovisual and commercial rights of the future competition. It is also the necessary step to be able to sit down with the unions (FUTPRO, AFE, Futbolistas ON, etc.) for the renegotiation of the collective agreement for women’s football.

Tomorrow, Friday, the Secretary of State for Sport is scheduled to appear at the opening of Women’s Week. It will be an incomparable appointment to ask him about this circumstance.