ShopASOBAL Legacy League
Purpose
Objectives
The ASOBAL Legacy League (ALL) emerges as a pioneering initiative in Spain, designed to embed sustainability into handball across economic, social and environmental dimensions. Through an innovative ranking system, ASOBAL aims to build a legacy with its clubs that enhances their influence within the Spanish handball community.
This approach seeks to promote sustainable practices and highlight the uniqueness of the league on the international sporting stage, aiming to drive significant and lasting change both on and off the court.
The ASOBAL handball community
In the ASOBAL Legacy League, all handball stakeholders, from fans and sponsors to the media, play a key role. This project is designed to generate a positive impact on the community, ensuring that all participants, from the clubs to society as a whole, benefit from and contribute to the sustainability legacy that ASOBAL is developing, in order to keep growing as a professional league.
Core Pillars
The ALL is structured around three essential pillars: economic and governance sustainability, social sustainability and environmental sustainability. These pillars form the basis of a comprehensive approach to the initiative. From these core pillars, the different criteria and aspects of the ASOBAL Legacy League are developed and defined, which are explained in detail in the following sections of this page.
ASOBAL and the United Nations / Sports For Climate Action
ASOBAL is firmly committed to the United Nations Sports for Climate Action initiative, reaffirming its commitment to global climate action, being one of only 8 sporting entities in Spain to be a member and one of only 2 handball leagues on the planet.
This commitment not only reflects environmental responsibility, but also forges alignment with a global network of sporting organisations working to combat climate change and promote sustainable practices through sport.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
ALL is aligned with the UN SDGs, incorporating specific targets and challenges such as reducing inequality, promoting health and well-being, and adopting strategies to establish partnerships and synergies.
ALL is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), incorporating specific targets and challenges such as reducing inequality, promoting health and well-being, and adopting strategies to establish partnerships and synergies.
Identity
The identity of the ASOBAL Legacy League (ALL) - where "all" means everything in English - reflects a deep commitment to the comprehensive transformation of handball: innovation, integrity and sustainability are its foundations. And that commitment is the legacy that has already begun to take shape.
This identity reflects how the league not only changes the game within the 40x20 court, but also extends its influence to a parallel competition and initiatives beyond it.
A Progressive System
The ASOBAL Legacy League, reflecting its name, is more than a competition; it is a catalyst for ongoing sustainability. Designed with a progressive system, this league allows clubs to adapt and raise their sustainable practices in a structured way each season.
Starting in the 2024-2025 season and with a development focus through to 2026-2027, this time frame sets out the league's implementation and consolidation phase. From then on, the competition will continue, reinforcing a legacy of innovation and commitment to sustainable practices that continuously evolve to respond to new challenges and opportunities in sport.
Data
The scoring process draws on data gathered from a combination of ASOBAL monitoring, questionnaires, reports and audits.
This rigorous process ensures that all data is accurate and faithfully reflects the clubs' efforts and results in terms of sustainability.
Communication
Communication is essential to integrate the entire Spanish handball community into the ASOBAL Legacy League (ALL). For this reason, various communication campaigns will be implemented, designed to connect fans with the clubs' projects, actively involving them and keeping them informed about the progress, results, standings and scores of the league as the initiative evolves.
This approach seeks to encourage ongoing participation and strengthen the connection between clubs and their fan base.
Criteria
Cross-cutting Criteria
The ASOBAL Legacy League evaluates clubs using a variety of criteria meticulously designed to fairly reflect the clubs' efforts and achievements in key areas, ensuring that all participants work under the same standards and objectives.
- Governance and Transparency.
- Venue: Recycling, Mobility and Accessibility.
- Social Aspects.
- Sponsors.
- Fan Activations.
- Cooperation between Clubs.
- Communication.
Vertical Criteria
The vertical criteria, although uniformly structured, are applied specifically according to the collaborative project that each club develops with a given partner, such as an NGO, an association or a foundation.
These projects allow clubs to address specific aspects of sustainability within the sporting ecosystem, establishing strategic links to make a direct and significant impact in selected areas.
- Strategy.
- Partners.
- Collaboration.
Ranking
Results
The ASOBAL Legacy League will regularly update and publish the results of the sustainability ranking, showing the clubs' steady progress towards the set goals. This progressive model, based on concrete data, facilitates continuous adjustments and improvements.
During the first two years, the most proactive clubs will have the opportunity to stand out, and by the 2026-2027 season, all clubs will be fully integrated into the final standings, reflecting their commitment and progress within the framework of sporting sustainability.
Awards
At the end of each season, all the initiatives that took place in the ASOBAL Legacy League during that year will be celebrated at the ASOBAL Gala. Throughout June, the results of the competition will be published, rewarding the best clubs during the first two seasons and the ALL champion from 2026-2027 onwards, as well as specific awards for the best initiatives.
Governance and Clubs
Management Commission and Representation
The presence of a Management Commission in the ASOBAL Legacy League plays a vital role in overseeing and shaping the strategy of the sustainability ranking.
This commission, made up of the President of ASOBAL, the General Manager of ASOBAL, three club representatives and sustainability experts, is essential to ensure that the league maintains its alignment with the established objectives and effectively addresses emerging challenges.
Partnership Model
Sustainability in the ASOBAL Legacy League goes beyond individual action, focusing on establishing connections and synergies that benefit the entire ecosystem, with the aim of adding value to Spanish handball.
In its first season, each club will sign a collaboration agreement with a non-profit entity that will provide them with the support, perspective and tools needed to carry out projects in the area that best resonates with their values, whether social, environmental or otherwise.
