Barcelona increased spending on men’s basketball team by almost five millionas the entity published in its official budgets. The club paid off in the 2022/23 season an amount of 27 million in salaries and over the last year this position increased to 31.6. That same year, Barcelona Femenino – known as Barça CBS – He needed a million euros to keep his place in the highest category, being refused this assistance.
The club, therefore, lost its place in the Women’s League to give it to SPAR Gran Canaria at the start of this 2024/25 season. Basketball players are now forced to play in the Women’s Challenge League after seeing how the club He turned his back on them when they needed him most.
The entity, which prides itself on being Month that a Clubleft out many basketball professionals who saw how the president Joan Laporta turned off the tap to redistribute wealth in other sectors. The club, in addition to the additional 4.6 million spent on men’s basketball, also saw a significant decline Salary boom in women’s football with Alexia Putellas’ historic contract reaching one million annual tokens.
In the meantime, Barça CBS has been marginalized to levels never before seen in the entity. No club team has ever lost a category due to an economic problem, setting a complicated precedent for other sections which also They must wear their seat belts like indoor football, handball, water polo or hockey.
The fact that the club itself wanted to abandon a women’s team after having praised women’s football so much also reveals the existence of a double standard. Barcelona has done and is doing everything possible to pamper its women’s football section, while women basketball players suffered contempt now confirmed in the budget. The conclusion seems obvious: there is only money for what is interesting. Equality is not a priority.
