The Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium does not have an activity licensedocumentation required by LaLiga for the dispute of matches since the approval of the new Sports Law in December 2022. The club that uses the facility, CDTenerife, You need to update as soon as possible. In fact, it is speeding up the efforts to avoid breaking the rule at the start of the 2023/2024 campaign, whose start for the blue and white team will take place on the Santa Cruz stadium on Monday, August 14 with Real Oviedo as the opponent. the Tenerife advances hand in hand with the Cabildo Insular, the institution that owns the field of soccerand with the essential participation of the Santa Cruz City Council, which made the decision to open a study file with the purpose of thoroughly analyzing this matter, from its origin.
In parallel, while the specialized technicians finish writing the complex reports -the need to carry out some work at the Rodríguez López is not ruled out-, Tenerife’s strategy goes through request an extension to LaLiga, that it does not apply this order on its own initiative, but limits itself to asking its associates to follow the guidelines of the new Sports Law.
three way meeting
The key to the moratorium resides in the concession by the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife of an enabling title, that is to say, a temporary permit that would give the club some time before obtaining the final activity license. The three parties, the Cabildo, the City Council and Tenerife, held a meeting this Friday in which they laid the foundations that, in principle, will serve to provide LaLiga with the tool that would activate the aforementioned margin increase, just enough to finish the main administrative phase, an activity license like any other, but with the particularities of a sports facility, with what that represents. In this regard, the shared optimism of the Island Council, City Council and club invites us to think that everything will be fixed before the league debut of the team coached by Asier Garitano.
The municipal authorizing title will give scope for the granting of the final permit
Once the Cabildo and the club compile all the necessary documentation in terms of infrastructures, security and others, the Urban Planning Management of the City Council will enter the scene. It will be in charge of giving the go-ahead and stamping the activity license of a Heliodoro Rodríguez López, which is not the only one of the twenty-two stadiums that will host professional category matches in this situation.
The new Sports Law was published at the end of December 2022, so that Tenerife came to play ten League games at home without an activity license. Despite this, the Tenerife entity is not aware of the notification of economic sanctions by LaLiga.
What the Sports Law says
In the section corresponding to the “responsibility of the organizers of official and unofficial competitions”, the Sports Law published on December 31, 2022 includes the requirement that clubs ensure the use of “sports facilities that have the required licenses of opening and operation that enable the practice of sports”. Before it was not essential to hold matches. From there, LaLiga proceeded to communicate to the clubs the need to have activity licenses, a condition that many of its affiliates had already resolved, especially those who owned the stadiums, but not so much those who played in fields that they belong to public institutions, as is the case with CD Tenerife. Clubs from other disciplines are in the same situation.
