The new economic control, approved by UEFA on 7 April, is effective from next season. mandatory rule For all First and Second Division clubs in Spain. LaLiga plans to amend their General Regulations after the summer to integrate the changes introduced by the European organization into their own regulations.

UEFA rules on the economy of clubs and the so-called financial fair play It only applies to clubs playing in European cups: if they comply they can play, if they don’t they won’t play or at least they will be sanctioned. However, LaLiga decided to include them in the league years ago. own legal ‘corpus’ so all clubs have to abide by them, whether they play in Europe or not.

The requirements that UEFA has set so far were (and still are) integrated into Book X of World War II. General RegulationsTaking full economic control of the clubs and SADs that are part of the competition and serving as a complement to the control that LaLiga exercises under its own regulations.

Before and after

These are two complementary arrangements, as those in the LaLiga exercise a priori economic control of clubs and their personnel expenditures. UEFA focuses on evaluation a posteriori that teams abide by the set limits, otherwise sanction them for future editions of continental competitions.

Until now, the control carried out by UEFA was based, in general, on the fact that clubs did not show losses for a combined value greater than the total value. 30 million euros in the previous three yearsallows owners to close this gap through direct capital injections into the business. Otherwise, the amount of debt accumulation cannot exceed. five million in every period.

Apart from this subject, UEFA does not provide third parties (clubs, players, public institutions with the Treasury or Social Security…) sponsorships with real market values ​​to prevent club states from being financed by the hidden contributions of their owners.

However, this system has proven ineffective over the years, and both PSG and Manchester City have managed to avoid sanctions for non-compliance with this financial ‘fair play’, which has led UEFA to change their regulations to seek calls. balance and sustainability of football through other mechanisms.

70% of income

The main innovation of the mechanism, which was approved on 7 April, is the control of sports expenditures of clubs, 70% of your total bill. UEFA considered applying ‘luxury taxes’ or other instruments that complement this standard, but are excluded so as not to conflict with the competition legislation of the European Union.

Tentatively, the limit will be 90% next season and 80% the following season and is set to 70% from course. 2024/25. Another change is that the owners 60 million euro loss in 3 years through direct capital injections, doubling the maximum amount ever set.

LaLiga already controls the percentage of total revenue that clubs allocate to their sports rosters, as this is the basis for calculating the salary cap. In most cases (and under normal circumstances i.e. without Covid-19), the amount is around 70% that UEFA currently needs, but clubs need to adapt their own performance a bit. expense structure to this new regulation.

two controls

To check compliance with these regulations from UEFA, LaLiga, two inspections per season. The first occurs after clubs submit their audited results from the previous season with a limit. 30 November. The second is done during these weeks, when businesses already submit their interim financial statements, i.e. the figures they have at the end of the calendar year, which is the midpoint of the season.

This is the latest information that clubs must send to LaLiga before the match 31 Marchit is also used by the institution headed by Javier Tebas to contrast with what he later sent. (before April 30) to set preliminary salary cost limits for the next season.