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Handball will be professional from the 2022-23 season

It thus becomes the fourth professional league after LaLiga Santander and SmartBank, the Endesa Basketball League and the Women's Football League.

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Handball will be professional from the 2022-23 season

It thus becomes the fourth professional league after LaLiga Santander and SmartBank, the Endesa Basketball League and the Women's Football League.

   MADRID, 7 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Board of Directors of the Higher Sports Council (CSD) has approved this Thursday the professionalization of the ASOBAL Handball League, by qualifying its competitions as official professional and state level, the CSD reports in a statement.

With this decision by the governing body of the CSD, ASOBAL becomes the first professional handball league in Spain and the fourth national professional league, after LaLiga Santander and SmartBank for football, the Endesa Basketball League and the recent Women's Professional Football League .

The professionalization of ASOBAL from next season comes after all its clubs unanimously approved the new status of the category on June 9 in an extraordinary general assembly, with the approval of the CSD.

Founded in 1958 with the name of División de Honor -a name that was changed in 1990 to the current one-, the ASOBAL League is currently made up of sixteen teams.

"This is a new milestone for our sport. Professionalization will strengthen the economy of the clubs, having a positive impact on the preparation of the players, and that will allow us to obtain better results in competitions, including international ones", explained the Secretary of State for Sport, José María Franco.

In addition to the classification as a professional of the ASOBAL League, the CSD Board of Directors has approved the modification of the Statutes of the football, billiards, hockey and canoeing federations and of the ACB -of which it has also approved the modification of the Competition Regulations -; the modification of the Disciplinary Code and the General Regulations of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the registration of the Spanish Sports Association (ADESP) in the Register of Sports Associations of the CSD, among other items on the agenda.

The Directive Commission of the CSD has among its competences those of authorizing and revoking the constitution of the Spanish Sports Federations; definitively approve its statutes and regulations, those of the professional leagues and groupings of clubs; appoint the members of the Administrative Court of Sport; recognize the existence of a sports modality for the purposes of the Sports Law; or qualify the official competitions of a professional nature and state level.

The Commission meeting this Thursday was made up of José Manuel Franco as president; the General Director of Sports, Albert Soler, as Vice President; and the deputy director general of the Sports Legal Regime, Fernando Molinero, as secretary.

As members, they have formed part of the Commission Juan María Fernández, director of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the CSD; Lucía Muñoz-Repiso, Deputy Director General of Professional Sports and Financial Control; Jesús Mardaras, deputy director general of High Competition; Eduardo Morán, president of the León Provincial Council; Asunción Loriente, president of the Spanish Rowing Federation; Natalia Orive, president of the Women's Futsal Players Association; David Aganzo, president of the AFE; and Carmen Acedo, Lawyer of the Chief State.

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