A gamers strike in Liga F, the expert leading tier of ladies’s football in Spain, has actually ended after a contract on a base pay was reached in between the league and gamers’ unions.
The strike saw all video games on matchday among the 2023-24 Liga F season– which was because of occur last weekend– delayed, with matchday 2 likewise under hazard.
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An offer was struck in between the league and the 5 unions representing gamers late on Wednesday, less than two days prior to the next round of video games was because of begin.
” After a brand-new, long round of settlements, with the mediation of [public mediation service] SIMA, Liga F and the unions have actually reached a contract in relation to a minimum wage, which permits the calling off of the strike,” the league stated in a declaration
” The celebrations have actually signed a contract for the next 3 seasons, which develops a minimum [annual] wage of:
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2023-24 season: EUR21,000, which might increase to EUR23,000 depending upon the development of the competitors’s industrial earnings.
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2024-25 season: EUR22,500, which might increase to EUR25,000 depending upon the development of the competitors’s industrial earnings.
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2025-26 season: EUR23,500, which might increase to EUR28,000 depending upon the development of the competitors’s industrial earnings.
This expert league and its clubs have actually constantly protected the requirement to reach a long-lasting contract which will offer stability to the job of expert ladies’s football, allowing a steady and sustainable development based upon the competitors’s advancement.”
In a declaration, the 5 unions– that include FUTpro, AFE and Futbolistas ON– stated that a variety of other problems stayed unsolved.
” This action is the start, and simply one part of a contract,” the unions stated. “Now it’s time to deal with making development on such essential problems as maternity, harassment procedures, payment and others which we think about simply as essential for the correct advancement of our footballers’ activity.”
Spain has actually had a nationwide ladies’s league given that 1988.
The professionalisation of the leading tier was authorized by the nation’s Supreme Sports Council in 2021, with the very first totally expert season being played in 2022-23 with the launch of Liga F.
The previous yearly base pay for gamers– under an offer concurred in November 2019, after the last gamers strike– was set at EUR16,000.
Matchday 2 of the 2023-24 Liga F season will get underway on Friday as Genuine Madrid see Valencia, while champs Barcelona travel to Madrid CFF on Saturday.