The Federation financially compensates Valencia for the Super Cups in Arabia

Valencia has withdrawn the lawsuit it filed against the Spanish Football Federation in Madrid Commercial Court number 2 for the “unfair and arbitrary” economic distribution of the Spanish Super Cup since it changed in 2020 to be held under a new format in Saudi Arabia.

The Mestalla club has reached an out-of-court agreement after months of negotiations for which it will receive around three million euros instead of the 1.7 that the Federation stipulated as a cache that it had to collect in the 2020 edition, the first organized by Kosmos, Gerard Piqué's company, in Arabia and that the body itself chaired by Luis Rubiales announced that it was reporting 40 million.

Of these incomes, the participants received a fixed income of just over six million euros in the case of Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, 3.2 million for Atlético and 1.7 million for Valencia despite going as champion of the Copa del King. The denunciation of that contract caused not only that the relations between the Mestalla club and the RFEF become tense and that this income will not reach the coffers of Valencia.

ORDER TO PAY COSTS FOR “DELAY”

In fact, the team played the Super Cup again in January in Riyadh, this time as a Cup finalist, without having won the 2020 cup and signing the contract adding a clause reserving to go to court for the grievance that returned to be generated. On this occasion, Valencia was not the worst financially unemployed team, since Betis, Cup champion, only received 750,000 euros.

“The RFEF and Valencia CF have reached an agreement on their old differences regarding the economic distribution of the Spanish Super Cup. After several months of talks, and through the good will of the parties, a beneficial agreement has been reached from which both institutions are satisfied”, reads the statement from the Federation, which this Wednesday considered a controversy that came to provoke a first sentence to costs for the body chaired by Rubiales.

The legal battle between Valencia and the RFEF began in June 2020, when the club requested all federative contracts related to the Super Cup, from television to commercials, to file its claim.. The pandemic delayed these procedures, but also the position of the RFEF, reluctant to deliver the documents, even more so after the outbreak of the Super Cup case that revealed the commercial relationship with Piqué's company.

“Uneven and arbitrary distribution”

This attitude led the Commercial Court 2 of Madrid to impose an order to pay costs “for the dilatory action maintained” by the Federation. It was last October when Valencia filed its lawsuit claiming damages for the “unequal and arbitrary economic distribution” and which, in December, was admitted for processing.

For Valencia, this agreement that puts an end to three and a half years of conflict in which they have felt “very alone” is “very beneficial” and eases the cold relations with the Federation. Because from the club it is considered that everything took its toll in the sanction of José Luis Gayà, with four suspension games for some statements about an arbitration, and in the closing five games of the Mestalla animation stands for the racist insults to Vinicius.

Sources consulted by this newspaper indicate that the agreement reached with Valencia does not entail a modification of the economic conditions for the participants in the Spanish Super Cup, which are set each year based on the commercial parameters established in the RFEF participation contract..