The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) last year it obtained record income of 366 million euros, which together with the figure of its territorial federations (71.4 M€), rises to 437.4 million. The objective of the RFEF is the redistribution of football income downwards: territorial federations, non-professional clubs and amateur clubs. With this philosophy, the great beneficiary of the capital allocated to aid for this 2023-2024 season will be non-professional football and grassroots football, which will be supported with close to 90 of the total 135 million euros of aid that the Federation for this course.
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Nobody in the world allocates these large amounts to so many teams. 1,790 clubs throughout Spain will receive aid from the RFEF, of which 1,732 are non-professionals. The mechanisms and plans approved by the Las Rozas Soccer City will promote and strengthen the presence of a soccer ball, indoor soccer or beach soccer in all corners of the country thanks to the generation of its own resources, either by sale of audiovisual rights for its competitions (represents 30% of its total income), sponsorship and advertising (23%), federative services provided (17%), national teams and organization of tournaments (12%) or agreement with the LFP ( 4.7%), among others.
For this new course, the total aid is 135 million euros, €35 million more than in 2022. And of that amount, the RFEF allocates 90 million euros (30% of the Federation’s total expenses) to non-professional football and grassroots football. This is not the most popular football, but the RFEF is where the most love and effort is put. In fact, there is no other federation in the world that reaches out and helps so many clubs.
For this year, all the calls for aid for non-professional clubs from the previous year are maintained, to which must be added a program for the professionalization of women’s football and the increase in the amounts allocated to Elite II program for the First and Second Women’s Federation. These exceed 1.54 million euros (contributions are increased to €150,000 per club in the First Women’s Federation and €100,000 in the Second Women’s Federation).
A historic package of measures is also added for the teams of the highest categories of futsal (men and women) called Preview 27, with an assigned amount of 4.3 million euros directed to clubs in the men’s First Division and Second Division. Furthermore, the program Vertebration For women’s futsal, aid increases to 1.32 million euros. In this context, €160,000 will be distributed per club in the First Division and €60,000 in the Second Division and a contribution of €400,000 will be made for television production.
Beach soccer also benefits from RFEF aid and this season it will exceed 800,000 euros. Spain multiplies by five the number of licenses in the last four years in this sport.
The bulk of the budgeted amounts are for non-professional football in the Second and Third Federation with the calls for aid included in the program Impulse 27 (heir to the successful Impulso 23). For the 2023/24 season, the RFEF will dedicate almost 27 million euros, of which 13 will be directed to the Second Federation clubs and 14 for those in the Third Federation.
The RFEF allocates 1.75 million euros to unions, associations of football and futsal players and the union of sports directors (AJFSF, AJFS, AFE, Futbolistas ON, AEDFI, Futpro and AEAF). This financial support encourages the correct internal functioning of each category and competition under the protection of the RFEF.
In the aid department of the RFEF, efforts have been made to cover the entire national territory and every competition that bears the seal of the Federation so that structurally football is healthy in the present and the future can be planned. Some examples are extra-peninsular trips to get closer to Spain, national non-professional categories or the program We are + where inclusive work stands out.
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