The future collective agreement for women’s football is still frozen

Three months have passed since the start of the new professional women’s soccer league and the new competition is still going ahead without a new collective agreement. And the worst part is that right now there is no date on the horizon where it will see the light. Tomorrow, Thursday, all the parties involved will meet again in the early morning in the Spanish capital. On the one hand the F League as the representative of the clubs and on the other hand the unions present in the negotiations: AFE; Futpro, Futbolistas On, Workers Commissions and UGT.

A meeting where no one can advance, as was the case with the meeting held just a month ago. In other words, it is still not possible to address the main issue, which is the possible values ​​that soccer players can receive. The clubs were very strong 30 days ago today: until the arbitration conflict is resolved, they will not be able to put a figure on the table because just now with the arbitration issue the clubs will have costs almost four times higher rather than what. was planned at the beginning of the season. And that’s where del performance is key CSD after the denunciation of the LPFF clubs.

New arbitration receipt for November of 14,600 euros

The problem is that the issue of receipt of arbitration remains unresolved. For the third consecutive month, the Spanish Football Federation sent the equivalent of the month of November to all 16 clubs in the category. Receipt where the arbitration fee for the arbitration group continues to be 14,600 euros.

An amount and receipt, which, as happened in the previous two months, did not respond to what was agreed on the occasion of the agreement on the new salary of the college and assistant women’s soccer players and which was made public on September 15. On that day (in addition to the new salary of 1,066 euros per game for the referee, 1,006 for the assistant and 250 for the fourth referee) the arbitration costs per game in the new professional women’s league were set at 4,050 euros . In this agreement it is established that the CSD will contribute 350,000 euros for the mutuality of referees and the RFEF another 350,000 euros to the clubs to help the clubs pay these amounts. These include corresponding allowances, travel, etc. A situation that the LPFF brought to the attention of the CSD at the time.

As we explained in this newspaper, these receipts mean that each club will have to pay around 225,000 euros this season, which is equivalent to 15 out of 30 in the competition playing at home. A sum far from the 60,750 euros agreed to be paid in this matter for these fifteen games. At the moment the clubs are not paying while waiting to know how the CSD resolves this conflict and after their commitment to do so. Nor does the RFEF apply any sanctions to clubs that do not.

They are continuing the agreement signed in February 2020

There is currently no agreement since the previous one, which entered into force in February 2020 but retroactive to September 2019. The agreement that ended on June 30, 2022 at the moment was denounced by the AFE in March 2021.

In addition to the minimum wage, many issues are addressed, such as seniority bonus, family reconciliation and maternity, image rights or occupational risks. At the November meeting, FUTPRO tabled a proposal for a salary of 50,000 euros for soccer players. Proposal they presented covered a report on the forecast income that the clubs will receive for different concepts: Sponsorship, television, etc. Here too, the clubs made it clear that they could say nothing without resolving the conflict in arbitration. Although they slipped that this proposal was not feasible for many clubs.

Also, let’s not forget that the LPFF itself, as we have already said in this newspaper, appealed against the final Disciplinary Code of the RFEF before the administrative dispute for the value of the yellow and red cards.