He Lleida CFwhich occupies a square of the Second RFEFHe has revealed that he has discharged his 23 players, one day after doing the same with the coaching staff, definitive steps towards his disappearance, which will be consummated on June 30. Goodbye to an entity with 85 years of history, although in recent times it has changed its name on different occasions.
The Leridano Club has lived with a critical financial situation in the last three seasons under the command of the Galician businessman LUIS PEREIRA. Despite desperate attempts in recent weeks to find a buyer, everything has been in vain due to high accumulated debt, about 5 million euros.
The players, despite not charging for many months, managed to save the category under the technician's orders Iñigo Idiakezfired like the sports director Raúl Fuster and the members of the coaching staff Pol Fresneda y Omar Ruiz.
He Lleida CF Drag the ballast of the debt with the public administrations: 1.7 million to the Treasury, to which 800,000 euros have recently added for the exercises between 2019 and 2021, in addition to 2.3 million in the Social Security and the 250,000 euros that are due to the workforce.
Blow to the city
The disappearance of Lleida CF, emerged from the ashes of the Lleida Sportsbefore EU Lleida –Which came to the military in the First Division-, it is a hard blow for the sporting scene of the city, although it still keeps the basketball team and hockey team in the elite. He has not found managers capable of maintaining a healthy club for many years, before even Pereira, a former EU Lleida resident resident in Switzerland, who took the reins of the entity in the 2021-22 season.
Seemed to save the nefarious management of the brothers Jordi and Albert Esteve. It was an ephemeral illusion, since it was not able to weave complicities with local institutions and entrepreneurs, nor attract external investments.
In the hands of the RFEF
Now its place is in the hands of the RFEF, which in principle will set a price of about 300,000 euros. According to the Federative Regulation, when a vacancy occurs for non -sports reasons, they have priority to occupy the teams of the same category and group that would have descended sports. They would be, in this order, Cornellà, Peña Deportiva, Alzira, Mallorca B and Badalona Futur.
If none of these clubs could comply with the payment, the vacancy may be occupied by lower category clubs belonging to the Territorial Federation itself. In this case, the Atlético Lleidafrom the third RFEF, who stayed at the gates of promotion