Real Madrid will not join Gasol’s investment deal in Liga F

Real Madrid is not participating in the agreement that Liga F reached with former NBA player Pau Gasol and other investors.

The club said that “this agreement is not in line with the growth model of women’s football, which is based on sustainability, transparency and the full autonomy of the clubs.”

Spain’s Liga F announced on Monday that it had started a new era with the creation of Gasol16 Ventures and Fortified Partners as strategic investors in a decision ratified by the clubs at an extraordinary meeting in Madrid.

It said the €55 million operation would be carried out over the next four seasons and called it “the largest private capital investment to date in women’s competition in Europe.”

Madrid said the private investors would receive a percentage of the league’s future commercial revenues (between 35 percent and 49 percent) until June 2051, and that its member clubs would collectively receive 40 million euros (USD 45.6 million), while forfeiting a percentage of the revenue for 25 years.

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Madrid said it respected the decision of the clubs that saw fit to join the initiative, but “the voluntary nature of the agreement requires that the choice made by each club must not result in differences in treatment or economic or institutional consequences for those who choose to remain outside the operation.”

It also said it considered that “a decision with economic and governance effects that will extend over the next 25 years should take into account not only the clubs currently participating in the competition and benefiting from the resources resulting from this operation, but also those who will join Liga F in the future, as they will also be bound by the approved model without having been involved in the decision-making or benefiting from the financing initially distributed.”

Madrid added that a quarter of the clubs participating in the competition also decided not to take part in the agreement.

Published on July 2, 2026