Just at the end of its third season as a professional competition, the F League has found the main sponsor that so long long for so longed for 2023 Finetwork hit the frightened, he resigned from paying four million euros per year for nameing the tournament and became entangled in a judicial mess with the employer. This Tuesday, in the Madrid Satellite Pavilion of the Casa de Campo, the president of the F, Beatriz Álvarez, and the president of the League, Javier Tebas, have announced together with the CEO of Moeve (formerly Cepsa), Maarten Wetselaar, the agreement by which the energy company will be the Title Sponsor of the only professional competition of women in Spain and will also become one of the sponsors of the first and the second masculine division.
Moeve’s contract – a company controlled by the Mubadala Fund of Abu Dabi, a country that bases its wealth on hydrocarbons, which tries to distance itself from a century of oil centered activity – will report to the league F 18 million euros over the next three years. The energy company will name the female competition – will be the Title Sponsor-From next season (2025-2026) until 2027-2028. “It is a historical milestone within these three years as a professional league,” Beatriz Álvarez valued during the Casa de Campo.
In the words pronounced by the president of the League F, the importance of sponsorship for the financial viability of the competition was intended. Álvarez had been trying to sign a contract since mid -2023 that economically promotes the tournament after the reverse that the departure of Finetwork was. In an interview with this newspaper last September, the leader said she was negotiating with a handful of possible Sponsors and that I hoped to close the agreement as soon as possible. The firm, however, was postponed eight months, and has arrived right in the last stretch of the course, which is only to play a League F match, the final of the Queen’s Cup and the Champions League.
“I live it as if I were going to play the important game of this season. I am with that feeling of nerves, but motivated, very excited,” Álvarez told his speech. Moeve’s money will be essential next season, in which for the first time the F League will not have the subsidies given by the Superior Sports Council (CSD) during the first three professional competition campaigns. The agency led by José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes invested 20 million euros since 2022 to boost the implementation of the tournament. The last package of 7.5 million euros was approved in the Council of Ministers last March. “This alliance will be important to grow,” said the president of the employer.
In addition to Moeve’s money, which has started 2025 with a net profit of 138 million euros in the first quarter – a 39% less compared to the same period of 2024 -, the 16 clubs of the league F hope to incorporate the year that comes from revenues derived from the permanent inclusion of the tournament in the pool. The government is finalizing the elaboration of a royal decree law to regulate the introduction of the female competition in the tickets. The step will allow a part of the money generated by this game of chance – in 2023 he raised 160.62 million euros, according to the data of the state -owned state society and bets of the State (Selae) – reaches the 16 teams in the F League and not only the 42 sets that make up the first and second division of male football, as happened so far. It will also help to make visible the Women’s Championship, in which Barça raised his sixth consecutive title last weekend.
In Spain, last season there were more than 100,000 women (107,853) federated, just behind basketball (138,267). “Thank you very much for the work, for believing in this project of the present and of the future, with many girls who believe in being professional players,” Álvarez told Wetselaar at the beginning of an act in which there was a large representation of players, league clubs and illustrious names such as the former selector and former referer of the Real Madrid Vicente del Bosque, the former Spanish former Spanish Villa David Villa or the captain of the Atlético de Madrid, Koke
As Wetselaar explained, the agreement will immediately enter into force and will last three seasons, but “the intention is a long -term relationship to help the leagues to transform.” “It’s a crush that I hope it lasts many years,” Álvarez replied.
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