State Budget Cuts 15.5% in Sports Funding: Breaking the Investment Trend of 2021 and Its Impact

State Budget Cuts 15.5% in Sports Funding: Breaking the Investment Trend of 2021 and Its Impact

The athletes’ association promoted by Paris was a pretext for the complaints of Portuguese representatives at the Olympic Games to have the right to an echo chamber that is not normally afforded to them. In chorus, between the joy and sadness of the results, the national delegation, through the voices of Filipa Martins, Rui Oliveira, Pablo Pichardo or Fernando Pimenta, left a reminder that more support was welcome.

Luís Montenegro traveled to the French capital to watch the competition. As a result, he also witnessed the lamentations of athletes. He did not want to commit, right away, to “worlds and funds”, but he assured that the aid would be the “largest possible” and that “sport is a public policy that the Government favors”.

The State Budget for 2025 reached the President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, in a version lighta mere envelope with a pen inside that condenses the 469 pages of the almanac. As far as the values ​​related to sport are concerned, in relation to what truly matters in the document, there is also a diet.

In unveiling its intentions, the Government said it was “committed to reinforcing investment in sport in Portugal, given the international sporting context, bringing it closer to the European Union average, at a crucial moment, when a new Olympic and Paralympic cycle begins , affirming the commitment to excellence and sporting development”. In numbers, the ambition represents a share of €42.5 million for the area.

O State budget for 2025 removes €7.8 million (15.5%) compared to the previous year when sport was entitled to €50.3 million. It is necessary to go back to 2021, still with the fog of the effects of the pandemic, to see sport being entitled to a lower portion (€40 million). The Government thus reverses the growth trend. In 2022, the pie was €43.1 million and, in 2023, €44.7 million. The value predicted for 2025 is above the €35.4 million predicted in the State Budget for 2015, the last from a PSD/CDS Government.

In the compendium of ambitions that the Government has for the €42.5 million allocated to sport is the “increase in the population’s participation in sport”, “the increase in female participation in sport”, “the reduction in the level of childhood obesity and excess of weight” and “promoting the conciliation of sporting success with the valorization of academic success”. Furthermore, “the Sports Observatory will also be created, along with a strong commitment to technology and digitalization” and “the aim is to reactivate the Sports Satellite Account, crucial to ensuring that there is updated and in-depth knowledge about the reality of sports national”. The “integrity and transparency of competitions” and “combating violence in sport” are also demonstrated concerns.

In the calendar year 2024, the price of Portuguese sport is €1,097,904,533. The calculation made in a study by the Portuguese Sports Confederation shows that the State only accounts for “around 10%” of the value.

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