• ACB. A court obliges to admit Gipuzkoa "immediately"

The Association of Basketball Clubs (ACB) and the Spanish Federation (FEB) have reached an agreement this Thursday to "stabilize basketball" after establishing "different sports scenarios" that the pandemic could cause, as well as the regulation of promotions and descents based on them.

In this sense, the ACB explained that the agreement sets "the maximum number of teams that will make up the ACB in the 2021/22 season", which will be 18, "and in general, the number of promotions from LEB Oro will always be two per season . " "Exceptionally and only on the assumption that the ACB has 19 teams, in the 2020/21 season there would be a single promotion from LEB Oro to ACB", he clarifies in his statement.

"To compensate the LEB ORO clubs for the possible damage derived from this situation, both parties will approve before the start of the 2020/21 season a 'Comprehensive Support Plan for the LEB ORO' that determines the scope of the ACB's collaboration with the clubs of this league in relation to the protocols of prevention and professionalization of sponsorships, financing, marketing and digital communication ", he adds.

For this reason, the ACB will make a financial contribution valued at 500,000 euros , the organization said. "To this amount the FEB will add a contribution to the clubs of 500,000 euros aimed at alleviating the effects of Covid-19, in addition to guaranteeing the retransmission of all the matches of the competition on the platform determined by the FEB."

"The overall amount of these grants, therefore, will amount to one million euros , which will be distributed evenly among the clubs registered in the LEB Gold for the 2020/21 season, and paid to their beneficiaries before the end of this year 2020 ", sentences the ACB in its note.

Agreement

Furthermore, the document lays the foundations for the renewal of the Coordination Agreement between the FEB and the ACB, which includes many other aspects that will strengthen Spanish basketball and sets December 31 as the date for its signature.

The president of the ACB, Antonio Martín , has stated that "this agreement is very important in a situation as difficult as the one caused by the health situation."

"The will of our clubs, which the Federation shares, is to give stability to our basketball in the medium and long term. We are the competition and the reference country in basketball in Europe and we must rise to reach agreements, understanding how exceptional the situation is. I want to thank the FEB and especially its president for the effort to make this agreement possible, which will help our basketball to be stronger and stronger, "he said.

For his part, the president of the FEB, Jorge Garbajosa , thanked "the work and height of vision of the institution chaired by Antonio Martín to come up with a text that meets the needs of all."

"I know that we are asking our clubs to make an effort, but I am convinced that this solution is better than the judicialization of the competition, and that the contributions of the 'Comprehensive Plan to support the LEB Oro' will serve so that both the league as their teams emerge stronger from the crisis scenario that the pandemic has caused, "he added.

"Whenever some level of Spanish basketball has a problem, the FEB feels that this situation also affects them, and as the highest regulator of our sport, it is involved in the search for solutions. I believe that we are strengthened by the agreement approved today, and that the result of this text will allow us to be stable and continue to grow in the future ", concluded Garbajosa.

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