ALICANTE. Finally there will be three Alicante teams competing in the First Federation 2024/25.
Except surprise in the offices, Alcoyano, Intercity and Hercules The next campaign will be the representatives of the province in the third step of the Spanish football.
The above after the Eldense achieved permanence in LaLiga Hypermotion and the Orihuela lost the final eliminator of the promotion play-off and sportingly I have to continue next season playing in Second Federationcategory in which the Elche Ilicitano and you still have options to do it Spanish Youth from San Vicente.
While Alcoyano is one of the founding teams of this division that started in the season 2021/22For Intercity, 2024/25 will be their third consecutive season in the First Federation and for Hércules it will be their debut: at the beginning of May, the blue and white team achieved a promotion to this category that had eluded them in the previous two seasons, having not achieved nor a place in it in the last edition of the extinct Second Bthat of course 2020/21.
Dispatches
There are still a few weeks left to know the identity of all the teams that will compete in the First Federation (with permission for what happens in July with registrations) next season, but throughout this month everyone will know both the new conditions in economic matters (minimum budget, cost of licenses, expected income from the transfer of audiovisual rights and naming and new financial fair-play rules that may be introduced), infrastructure (dimensions and characteristics of the playing field, capacity, etc.) and purely sports (all will be included in the Competition Rules and Bases 2024/25). Furthermore, in the corresponding General Assembly, the geographical criteria for distributing the 40 participating teams in the two groups will be approved (we will have to wait until mid-July to know the order of matches).
The First Federation is a category in which the cost of arbitrations is around 85,000 euros, the cost of travel is 100,000 and any team with promotion aspirations has to invest no less than 2.5 million in staff (a sum that increases by 35 % with taxes).
Sports aspirations directly affect the main items in the expenses chapter: while Alcoyano and Hércules have decided to increase their budget for sports personnel, Intercity will reduce it. The three clubs are already immersed in planning for the next season (the first, in addition, has a change of address on the table) which has started on the benches with the continuity of Vicente Parras, Alejandro Sandroni and Ruben Torrecilla in front of them.
Income from the transfer of audiovisual rights ranges from 240,000 to 360,000 euros, while the sale of season tickets and ticket offices can represent the largest ordinary injection of money in clubs with large fans and that play their games at home. in facilities with significant capacity as is the case with the Hércules and the Rico Pérez stadium.
