Sardinia, over 12 million euros for sport in 2025: cross-cutting support for athletes, federations and disabilities

Over twelve million euros for the promotion of sport in Sardinia: from the financing of the national championships of each category to subsidy from various sports federations, from support for athletes with high technical and competitive skills al support for non-competitive activities of athletes with intellectual disabilities. These are some of the measures contained in the resolution proposed by the Councilor for Public Education, Cultural Heritage, Information, Entertainment and Sport, Ilaria Portas, approved by the Council in today's session. The act of the Council approves the Program of interventions for the development of sport in Sardinia for the year 2025, prepared with the favorable opinion of the Regional Committee for Sport based on the guidelines and general directives of the Three-Year Plan for Sport 2023-2025.

 "The Three-Year Sports Plan is a fundamental measure for the sector – declared Councillor Portas – it allows us to have a comprehensive view and a valorisation of all sectors and all age groups: professionals, amateurs, disabled. The Region continues to invest in sport, aware that this is an essential issue for the well-being and health of the populationEvery euro we invest in Sport we save in healthcare and this is the main path we must follow”.

 The 2025 Annual Program launched by the executive chaired by Alessandra Todde provides, net of the allocations already defined by law and the formal commitments already made and relating to the championships between 2024 and 2025, a total allocation of 12.149.969 € which will be divided as follows:

 – €150.000 for the institutional activity of sports promotion bodies;

– €3.590.000 for the most important national championships;

– €3.000.000 for the organization of sporting events;

– €1.850.000 for youth sports activities;

– €1.200.000 for individual trips;

– €899.969 for the national 11-a-side football championships;

– €600.000 for the national A series championships of volleyball, wheelchair basketball and rugby;

– €350.000 for the institutional activity of the Sports Federations;

– €360.000 for national team championships;

– €100.000 for island athletes with high technical and competitive skills;

– €50.000 for scholarships for island athletes with high technical and competitive skills.

 The resolution also specifies that 150 thousand euros will be allocated to support the non-competitive sports activities carried out by intellectually disabled people, referred to in Regional Law no. 3 of 2008.

If in some intervention lines the requests are lower than the resources allocated, the surplus may be used to increase the allocations relating to the lines for which admissible requests are received for an amount higher than the allocation.

 The Regional Council has also made some changes to the Three-Year Sports Plan 2023-2025, on which the competent commission of the Regional Council must express its opinion within 20 days: after this deadline, the opinion is considered to have been expressed positively.