Exclusive meeting of Stefi Batlle with fans

The club's CEO has discussed current issues such as the concession of the Fontajau pavilion or the union with UNI Girona

| Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Stefi Batlle, CEO of the club, met this afternoon with a representative group of fans in an exclusive meeting to discuss current issues of the club. The private conversation is the sixth that Bàsquet Girona has organized through Overgie after that of Marc, Fernando San Emeterio and Erick Moleiro, James Nnaji and Juani Marcos, Moncho Fernández, Sergi Martínez and Sandra Ygueravide. The corporate section was the most extensive of the meeting in which the concession of the Fontajau pavilion and the consequent exploitation of the space, the union with UNI Girona or the expansion of chairs in the stands stand out.

The main action has revolved around the concession of the pavilion, in which the club has already communicated on several occasions the advanced negotiations with the Girona City Council to transfer the exploitation of the space to the club. Batlle has stressed that the club has prepared an exploitation project for when the concession is real with the aim of making “the project economically sustainable”. The CEO of Bàsquet Girona is clear that basketball must be the main activity, but it is also sought that the space is active every weekend with leisure or corporate events. She has also mentioned that what excites her most is “the signing of the concession” beyond the actions derived from the concession.

The pavilion concession also explores the improvement of the spaces it already has. “We are working with people who have extensive experience in other sports facilities and we have good feedback: Fontajau has many corners to exploit,” he explained. The range of actions ranges from modifications to VIP spaces, lighting and sound, mainly for events of all kinds, and generating catering areas that operate routinely or charging points for electric cars. He has also discussed the expansion of 400 seats in the Fontajau stands, a project that began in April last year and that should end up being carried out with the concession.

The union with UNI has been a public issue since it almost materialized last June. Batlle stressed that “it is a natural process that we will see when it is completed, but that it will fall under its own weight.” The clubs are working together on many day-to-day administrative and sporting actions and it is yet to be finalized how this will be resolved legally. “UNI’s identity will not be lost, we are very clear about that. They have grown the brand for more than twenty years and this will continue,” he declared. One of the mirrors is the Zaragoza Basketball in which the men’s and women’s teams coexist with a large influx of spectators and a professional sports structure even though women’s sport is not fully so.