The tenth edition of the integrated budget has been published: there are 900,000 members in youth activity, every euro invested in the professional area brings a return of 20.5 in tax and social security terms. President Gravina: “We want to become drivers of change”
Journalist
December 30 – 12.08pm – MILANO
Almost 7 billion in direct revenues and an impact on the Italian GDP of 12.4 billion, with a return in tax and social security terms, limited to the professional area, equal to 20.5 euros for every euro invested. More than 30 million interested people aged over 18 and 4.3 million practitioners, with 1.5 million FIGC members, of which 900 thousand engaged in youth activities. Football – “the last sacred representation of our time”, in Pasolini’s words from over half a century ago – remains an impressive phenomenon in Italy, as certified by the tenth edition of the FIGC integrated budget. Economic and social numbers that push the federal president Gabriele Gravina to state: “We want football to become a real engine of change, capable of producing lasting value, material and immaterial, for the community. Inclusion, valorisation of young people, education, protection of health and the environment, are just some of the issues that today make football an unparalleled social platform, which deserves even greater attention for its commitment and results for the benefit of civil society”.
sustainability
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The document serves above all to explain what football is in its dimension of “social enterprise”. Federal action moves 360 degrees. From the activity developed around the blue shirt, with the 226 matches played by the twenty national teams in 2023-24, to the strategic programs aimed at the grassroots. Among these, the framework agreement with the Ministry of Education and Merit for the “Valori in Rete” project, which between 2016 and 2024 involved almost a million students. Furthermore, the Football Federation was the first sports federation to equip itself with a structured system of “safeguarding“, supported by a web portal (figc-tutelaminori.it) which allowed the provision of over 50 thousand training/education courses. It was also the first in Italy to present its own roadmapinspired by the UN Agenda 2030, with the identification of 70 clear, measurable and monitorable strategic objectives, which Italian football, understood as a single ecosystem, aims to achieve by 2030 on 11 different policies included in the field of human rights and environmental protection.
euro 2032
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The development of the football industry, however, passes through the modernization of the systems, strongly connected to major events. The next challenge is represented by the organisation, together with Turkey, of the European Championships 2032: we are talking about the third sporting event in the world in terms of audience, with over 5 billion viewers. “The event – assures the FIGC – will represent a decisive driving force for planning a new generation of sports facilities applied to football in Italy, but also a great opportunity to attract visitors, investments, visibility and create moments of collective participation and pride, generating exceptional added value, capable of directly and positively impacting the improvement of the quality of life of our communities”.
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