Lega B assembly via video conference with all the clubs present. At the opening, the president Mauro Balata greeted the new members who entered the assembly headquarters today.
Balata then reported the results of the Federal Council of last 14 June, underlining how in that meeting the League’s opposition to the second teams in Serie B was confirmed and, in the same way, the reintroduction of the institution of timeshares, mechanisms which affect the regularity and integrity of the competition, as well as violating the federal statute in the part in which it refers to the right of agreement with the interested Leagues, which was not applied at the time of the decision. Finally, Balata reiterated that the guarantee of fair competition is necessary in all choices regarding the football system.
The publication date of the 2024/2025 BKT Series calendar has also been made official, with the event to be held in the late afternoon of Wednesday 10 July in La Spezia in Piazza Europa in collaboration with Spezia Calcio and the Municipality of the Ligurian city to which they are Lega B’s thanks were extended during the Assembly.
Audiovisual Chapter. The Assembly resolved the publication of the final offer to the market relating to the 2024-2027 audiovisual rights, structured “by product” and no longer “by platform”, with a non-derogable minimum value and without foreseeing an acceptance deadline. The subject of the offer includes a direct package reserved for domestic users and a second reserved for public establishments. The fees requested are modulated depending on the number of members. The values indicated were quantified in consideration of the right balance between the trend of the TV market and the significant increase in audiences of the last seasons of League B matches (+1 million contacts in the last year alone). Numbers, those of the audience, which are certified and recorded a cumulative AMR (average audience) of 23.57 million throughout the championship and 2.6 million for the ten post-season games (playoffs – playouts) , with even matches that surpassed some Serie A matches. Figures that precisely qualify the value of the Serie BKT product.
In this way, Lega B adopts a new strategy to protect the value of its product and respond to the expansion of international competitions which, without any rebalancing of the system, have and are decreasing broadcasters’ investments in domestic competitions of all categories and all European countries.
