Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Federation of Football, in an official act

THE RFEF FOLLOWS NEGOTIATING

The Supercopa of Spain could contest in Saudi Arabia the next six years

Published:24/04/2019 - 14:38h

Updated:24/04/2019 - 14:42h

The Supercopa of Spain follows revealing details of his new format, and the last has to see on the headquarters for the next years. The RFEF negotiates with Saudi Arabia so that it receive the tournament during six seasons, what would suppose an important economic injection

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The calendar of the competitions futbolísticas Spanish could live a revolution in the season 2019-20, if they confirm some of the initiatives that the Real Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF) has on the table. The organism studies several changes that would affect to the Supercopa of Spain and to the Glass of Rey, and that indirectly also would require some adjust in LaLiga.

Waiting for the Assembly of the next 29 April, already know some details of the new Supercopa, that would happen of the month of August to January and would have four applicants. The tournament would gather the champions and runners-up of League and Glass, and if there were coincidences -as this year, in which the FC Barcelona occupies several squares-, the witness would happen to the semifinalists coperos with more trophies in his list of winners.

The news of the week is that there are novelties with regard to the headquarters, that announced that it would happen to be out of the national territory. The intention with this modification is similar to which carried to Barça and Seville to Tangier, and is to guarantee an income that justify the transfer of the participants and to his time reinforce the arks of the Federation, that would allocate them to ends related with the inferior categories and the most modest clubs.

According to several informations, the RFEF would be negotiating with Saudi Arabia so that it receive the championship during the next six campaigns, in return of a quantity that would approach to 30 million euros by each one of these courses. The pact has not concretised still and neither is confirmed in his whole, because also they study alternative proposals like which would suppose United States.

The president of the national organism, Luis Rubiales, has pronounced in this regard and has signalled that there are several points to value: "Arabia is a possibility, but is difficult to arrive to 30 millions. Always we go to have an alike criterion to the of UEFA and FIFA, that 30% go to the base of the pyramid, to the boys and girls, the modest clubs and to the territorial federations. Ojalá Arrive to 3% of the television that pactó (for modest football) and no 1%, as now. We will have to think also in the health of the footballers, but the first is to approve the format".

The new Supercopa has the opposition of LaLiga

The new format of the Supercopa will have to surpass several obstacles, like the opposition of LaLiga, that could impugn these decisions. The body that dirije Javier Thebes is not had to sacrifice the days that would correspond to his calendar in the month of January, and threat with carrying the case to the ordinary justice, including also the modification of a Glass of the King that would contest to only party until the eliminatory of semifinals. 

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