MADRID, 23 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The National Futsal League will present an appeal before the Provincial Court of Madrid against the ruling handed down in the conflict with six teams in the competition – Inter, Jaén, Burela, Peñíscola, Ribera and CD Xota -, which determines that They breached the contract for the exploitation of audiovisual rights of the LNFS and LaLiga, but without imputing any financial amount to them, according to a statement.
“The Board of Directors of the LNFS, with its president Javier Lozano at the helm, has reached an agreement to present an appeal before the Provincial Court of Madrid against the sentence handed down by Commercial Court No. 12 of Madrid on December 16. April, in the claim filed for damages caused by six teams that breached the contract for the transfer of audiovisual rights that the LNFS and LaLiga signed on September 5, 2018,” the entity reported.
The entity sees the decision of the Madrid court as “incomprehensible”, after it considers “proven” in its ruling that the defendant clubs – Inter, Jaén, Burela, Peñíscola, Ribera and CD payment of any amount, which will be subject to appeal”.
The ruling states that their action “can be classified as a breach of the members’ obligations arising from article 22.d) of the Associations Law.” The LNFS recalled in its statement that, with the approval of all the clubs that made up the Association on that date, it transferred to LaLiga the ownership of all the audiovisual exploitation rights of all the matches of the First Division clubs, the Copa of Spain and the Super Cup from the 2018-19 season to 2022-23, both included.
According to the document issued by the LNFS, the ruling certifies that the defendant clubs – “which are no longer part of the Association – did not oppose the contract signed in 2018.” In addition, they transferred “the exploitation in accordance with the LNFS statutes in 2013 and 2019, even receiving emoluments for the peaceful exploitation of said contract in its first two seasons.”
As appears in the statement, the ruling states that “the power to represent the company with a third party corresponds to the administrators. And, therefore, having linked the association to which they belonged by contract, they cannot separate themselves from it, relying on the associative deregistration (not questioned)”.
Therefore, the LNFS defends that the court declares it proven that the clubs received “the agreed amounts for the execution of the contract”, which they later “ended up failing to comply with.”
“It should be noted that, with regard to the procedural costs, the Commercial Court No. 12 of Madrid has appreciated ‘the concurrence of contractual breach of the defendant clubs, which, at this point, is weighted as a factual doubt, so the imposition or condemnation of costs on any of the parties is not appropriate,'” the statement concluded, while it will be the Provincial Court of Madrid that will dictate the final sentence in this judicial conflict.