The Kings League is currently facing an unprecedented earthquake that has shaken the foundations of the competition. After a last year in which audience numbers and general interest have been much lower than expected, The league has made drastic decisions.
This drop in monitoring has ended up triggering a crisis of great magnitude that will force the Spanish competition stops completely for a period of six months.
An ERE of 50% of the workforce
This critical situation has caused massive cuts in the work team. The crisis has led to the execution of an Employment Regulation File (ERE) that will profoundly affect the internal structure.
As the workers themselves have reported, this process will kill 41 of the 83 employees who are part of the project.which represents the dismissal of practically 50% of the company’s entire workforce.
Goodbye to France and Germany
The impact of this cessation of activity is not limited only to the national territory, but also has completely paralyzed the project’s ambitious European expansion.
According to confirmed information, both French and German leagues face temporary cancellationwith an undefined return date, so there are no guarantees that it will be contested again in the future.
What will happen in Spain?
In our country a profound restructuring of the project will be carried out, starting with a six-month pause to, according to the organization, ‘prepare the product for the future.
Gerard Piqué was able to give some clue in this regard after finishing the Queens League finalwhich seems to have worked so well. The women’s competition reduced its entire split to just a few frenetic days, from Wednesday to Sunday, and Piqué himself was happy with the result.
The founder of the competition raised the idea of exporting the model in a post-final interview, openly wondering why not replicate this format in other competitionswhich would reduce the entire Kings League to just a few days.
Even with these small clues, the doubts surrounding the project remain enormous. Right now, the followers and the industry itself They will have to wait for more news to be generated to know what will really happen with the Kings League, and it remains to be seen if the future of the company involves a radical change in format, or if we are facing a total cessation of operations.
