The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and Iberdrola presented on Tuesday the new season of the First Iberdrola, the highest women's competition in Spanish football, which has 16 teams and meets its 32nd edition. The first game will face the sets of Sevilla and Granadilla Tenerife, on September 7 at 11 in the morning. But the main course will arrive a few hours later, when at 18:00 the Barcelona and the Tacon CD meet at the Johan Cruyff Stadium, a team that Real Madrid has bought their place for the 2020/21 season.

This year the competition presents new features such as the incorporation of the fourth referee, the obligatory nature of the participating clubs to have a minimum of three base football teams or the inclusion of the name of the players in the jerseys. In addition, the visibility of this sport will be enhanced through the retransmission of matches.

The presentation ceremony, held on Tuesday, has been attended by players representing all the clubs that will play the tournament, as well as the president and CEO of Iberdrola, Ignacio Galán, and the president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, between Other authorities

Rubiales has pointed out that women's football is a priority for the RFEF. "We begin now an exciting path, a real challenge that will manage to place this sport in the place it deserves. Together we will work to ensure that in 6 years Spanish girls and young people practice football as a majority sport in this country, advance in professionalization of women's football and encourage grassroots football. "

Ignacio Galán, who has carried out the honor roll of the competition, has ratified the company's commitment to women's sports. "Our conviction of the need to achieve full equality between men and women in all areas of society," said the president of the company sponsoring the competition.

Iberdrola reached an agreement with the RFEF, on August 1, which gives its name to the highest national competition, the First Iberdrola, and the second division, called the Iberdrola Challenge. In addition, it promotes both the Copa de la Reina and the Spanish Super Cup

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