Elite Spanish handball earns money. The Association of Spanish Handball Clubs (Asobal) has closed the 2024-2025 season, maintaining profitability and with a positive net result of 83,084 eurospractically double compared to the positive 48,795 euros of the previous year.
As can be seen from the financial statements of the competition to which he has had access Palco23, Asobal’s total income has exceeded 1.7 million eurosrecording an increase of 6.2% compared to the 2023-2024 business, which stood at 1.6 million euros.
By business lines, Asobal has generated 1.02 million euros through the sale of audiovisual rightsin addition to 160,000 euros for subscriber fees. To the above are added 150,000 euros for the membership fees of the clubs that compete in the handball league and 304,791 euros as other operating income.
Asobal has earned more than one million euros through the sale of its audiovisual rights
The latter refer to advertising revenue. Specifically, Asobal has entered the agreement with Plenitude just over 155,000 euros in the 2024-2025 season, who owned the naming rights of the competition from the end of 2022 -since this campaign, Nexus Energía is the one who names the league-. For its part, State Lotteries and Betting has paid 75,000 euros for sponsoring and Hummel almost 60,000 euros.
For its part, Asobal’s expenses in 2024-2025 have risen to 1.65 million eurosin comparison to the 1.53 million euros recorded in the previous year. Of the total, the personnel area has required a disbursement of 390,000 euros, almost 30,000 euros more than the previous season, while supplies have taken 723,387 euros.
The financial statements explain that “the competition chapter reflects additional costs derived from contracting external audiovisual servicesmotivated by the refusal of the target clubs to accept the initially agreed automated production system.”
The competition has maintained its working capital in positive
Regarding the balance, Asobal has closed 2024-2025 with a total asset of 1.56 million eurosa net equity of 917,203 euros and a current liability of almost 650,000 euros – there are no non-current liabilities in the financial statements. As for major items, the competition maintains short-term debts with suppliers for 333,108 euros and long-term debts for 387,421 euros.
Among the debtors, that is, third parties who owe money to Asobal, is LaLiga Group International, with a pending jump of 100,833 euros; State Lotteries and Betting, with 45,375 euros, and several teams such as BM Benidorm Foietes, with almost 20,000 euros, or BM Ciudad Encantada, with 18,000 euros.
Asobal-CSD discrepancies
Netada, the company in charge of analyzing Asobal’s financial statements for the year ending June 30, 2025, has signed a report with a qualified opinion. This is due to the contribution to non-professional handball.
Due to article 96 of the Sports Law, Asobal must carry out a contribution to non-professional handball retroactively from the 2023-2024 season amount of 100,000 euros. Subsequently, the competition filed an appeal with the Higher Sports Council (CSD) and, according to the auditors, no provision has been recorded for this litigation, which is “ongoing.”
Asobal justifies in its financial statements that is not satisfied with the quantity or the conceptnor with the criterion followed by the CSD, “which separates itself from the one devised and adopted by themselves a year before by elucidating the same assumption for the F League when calculating this and other amounts.”
