The Delegate Commission of the General Assembly of the RFEF celebrated this Monday, with the telematic presence of President Rubiales, approved the modification of the General Regulations and the Disciplinary Code, has failed in the ratification by the CSD Board of Directors, to adapt to non-professional state competitions (First and Second RFEF), establishing the requirements and obligations that clubs must meet to participate in them. In addition, the green light was given to the criteria that will be used in the event that vacancies need to be filled.
Among the approved modifications, the one that affected article 122 of the General Regulations stands out, in which the obligations of the teams that participated in the non-professional competitions that are under the tutelage of the RFEF are collected.
Section C explains that the teams must “recognize the exclusive representation of the RFEF in the defense of the collective interests of the clubs affiliated with the RFEF when these are related to non-professional football competitions and football activities in general. , including those of a collective labor nature before public administrations, national or international sports, unions and any other entity when the action is framed in the defense and management of collective interests, guaranteeing, at all times, individual defense and management of the interests of each one of the clubs when these are individual of each one of the affiliated clubs and not exercised collectively”.
Section D of the same article states: "Manage exclusively through the RFEF and through its recognized valid values or, where appropriate, through the Professional Leagues when they are necessarily part of them and within the framework of the powers of these of in accordance with sports legislation, or through other entities when they are recognized or authorized by the RFEF as required by the FIFA and UEFA Statutes, the set of all those interested that may be common to various clubs when they are related to or within the field of football and when said affiliated clubs participate in official non-professional competitions for the RFEF and in relation to professional competitions for the respective professional leagues, when said interests are managed collectively and, all of this, for the purposes of guaranteeing the integrity of the competition and fair play in it”.
This modification supposes in practice that the RFEF will not recognize the associationism of clubs. In this sense, it must be remembered that several teams have been defended by ProLiga for years and that San Sebastián de los Reyes, Rayo Majadahonda, DUX Internacional de Madrid, Linares Deportivo and Balompédica Linense, the so-called 'club of the five', all of them from First RFEF, recently founded the Association of Third Division Clubs, which was later joined by the Royal Union of Irun and rejected outright by the RFEF.
The RFEF also declared the criteria for filling vacancies that could occur in a non-professional state category for any reason other than relegation due to sporting merit. “They may be occupied with priority criteria by the teams of the same category and group that had best sports among those that occupied a relegation place in that same category, provided that they prove compliance with all the required requirements, and where appropriate, will pay the amounts established in this regulation.
"If no club would have been interested or that met the requirements among those that occupied a relegation place, it may be covered by those clubs of a lower category belonging to the same territorial federation that had better sports among all those that did not achieve promotion." , is explained in the new wording of article 199 of the Regime for Participation in Competitions.
He also explained the criteria that will be used to fill vacant places in the event that the club renounces the promotion of category. In this sense, it must be remembered that the RFEF, in its plan for its competitions, will have the requirements to participate in them starting next season. Natural grass fields, only in the First RFEF, minimum capacity and improvements in lighting will also be mandatory in the Second RFEF. «If a team that achieves the sports right to be promoted to a higher category does not meet the conditions established in these General Regulations, of an administrative, economic, documentary, infrastructure and sports-competitive nature at the time of registration in said category, he will not be able to materialize said right and must remain in the one to which he was attached, without this circumstance being considered as a reduction in category since he never acquired the new one”.
