Real Zaragoza
Tier 3Primera Federación, Grupo 2Zaragoza, Aragón, SpainOn the globe
- Founded
- 18 March 1932
- Ground
- Ibercaja Estadio20,000 seats · opened 2025
- Website
- realzaragoza.com
- Reserve side
- Deportivo Aragón
Who owns Real Zaragoza
Real Zaragoza is controlled by A.GAIN (IDC Network), which holds 75%.
Owned by investors
From the pitch to the top
The company that fields the team, then each holder above it.
- 75%controlsA.GAIN (IDC Network)Since 14 July 2026, figure as of July 202675% until a planned capital increase after which the split would be 60/40, according to El Periódico de Aragón via 2Playbook.High confidenceSources: Real Zaragoza, 2Playbook
- Stake not knownminorityJorge MasFigure as of July 2026With Juan Forcén holds the remaining 25%.Medium confidenceSources: 2Playbook, Real Zaragoza
- Stake not knownminorityJuan ForcénFigure as of July 2026With Jorge Mas holds the remaining 25%.Medium confidenceSources: 2Playbook, Real Zaragoza
Changes of control
- 14 July 2026
A.GAIN (IDC Network) took control (75%) from Jorge Mas and Juan Forcén.
Terms not disclosed.
High confidenceSources: Real Zaragoza, 2Playbook
Real Zaragoza’s finances
From its published accounts and league records. Figures compare only with clubs at the tier it played that season.
Against its tier
Real Zaragoza's revenue of €17.9m is the 5th highest of the 16 Segunda División clubs with published accounts
In 2024-25 it spent €0.87 on staff for every €1 of revenue; the typical Segunda División club spent €0.79.
- Real Zaragoza
- Other Segunda División clubs
- Squad cost limit
- €11.3m
- maximum, 2025-26
- Public money
- €1.13m
- awarded, 2025, 2 records
The accounts
Real Zaragoza, S.A.D., the entity that fields the team · 2020-21 to 2025-26
| Line | 2025-26Tier 2 · from filed accounts | 2024-25Tier 2 | 2023-24Tier 2 | 2021-22Tier 2 | 2020-21Tier 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit and loss | |||||
| Revenue | — | €17.9m | €18.3m | €15.2m | €13.7m |
| TV money | — | €6.62m | €7.48m | €7.67m | €9.52m |
| Matchday | — | €6.27m1 | €6.12m2 | €4.38m3 | €1.56m4 |
| Commercial | — | €5.05m5 | €4.74m5 | €3.19m5 | €2.61m5 |
| Subsidies | — | €610k | €1.53m | €1.39m | €1.31m |
| Other revenue | — | — | — | €299k6 | €369k6 |
| Player sales | — | €7.20m7 | €246k7 | −€71.2k8 | €6.17m7 |
| Staff costs | — | €15.7m | €13.9m | €10.6m | €11.0m |
| Wage bill | — | €14.3m | €12.7m | €9.57m9 | €9.92m10 |
| Players' wages | — | — | — | €6.89m11 | — |
| Other operating costs | — | €8.96m | €7.51m | €6.34m | €4.28m |
| Travel | — | €855k | €779k | €576k | €619k |
| Player amortisation | — | €464k | €354 | €209k | €345k |
| Other depreciation | — | €466k | €400k | €109k | €109k |
| Operating result | — | €1.09m | −€2.48m | €43.2k | €4.60m |
| Financial result | — | −€1.08m | €3.58m12 | −€701k | −€656k |
| Result before tax | — | €17.2k | €1.09m | −€658k | €3.95m |
| Income tax | — | €66.8k | €281k | −€165k13 | €981k |
| Net result | — | −€49.6k | €810k | −€494k | €2.96m |
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Total assets | — | €98.1m | €94.2m | €87.2m | €87.9m |
| Non-current assets | — | €93.8m | €89.9m | €82.1m | €82.2m |
| Player registrations (book value) | — | €49.4m14 | €46.2m15 | €135k16 | €506k17 |
| Property and equipment | — | €15.6m | €15.8m | €13.4m | €13.3m |
| Current assets | — | €4.33m | €4.29m | €5.12m | €5.68m |
| Transfer fees receivable | — | €1.75m18 | €174k18 | €381k19 | €3.20m20 |
| Cash | — | €467k | €1.00m | €2.81m | €80.3k |
| Equity | — | €53.1m | €41.0m | €28.3m | €14.2m |
| Share capital | €49.0m21 | €45.0m | €32.9m | €21.0m | €6.36m |
| Liabilities | — | €45.0m | €53.2m | €58.9m | €73.7m |
| Non-current liabilities | — | €29.8m | €47.0m | €44.0m | €57.0m |
| Current liabilities | — | €15.2m | €6.19m | €14.9m | €16.7m |
| Provisions | — | €540k22 | €142k23 | €945k22 | €875k22 |
| Financial debt | — | €8.22m24 | €8.30m25 | €8.30m26 | €10.9m27 |
| Tax and social security debt | — | €3.18m | €3.25m | €8.34m28 | €14.3m29 |
| Transfer fees payable | — | €22.8m30 | €21.7m31 | €16.5m32 | €14.3m33 |
| Shareholder loans | — | €366k34 | €12.1m35 | €6.84m36 | €15.9m37 |
| Cash flow | |||||
| Cash from operations | — | €4.38m | −€3.20m | €1.14m | €8.02m |
| Cash from investing | — | −€4.83m | −€6.50m | −€10.8k | −€489k |
| Cash from financing | — | −€84.8k | €9.73m | €1.60m | −€7.93m |
| Net change in cash | — | −€535k | €30k | €2.73m | −€403k |
| Money from owners | |||||
| Capital increase | €4.03m38 | €12.1m39 | €5.18m39 | €14.6m40 | — |
| Transfers and people | |||||
| Employees | — | 114 | 106 | 9841 | 8641 |
| Players | — | 5942 | 5242 | 5242 | 4742 |
Notes on 42 figures, in the accounts’ own words
- Matchday: Competitions €849,748, members and season tickets €5,417,376.
- Matchday: Competitions €905,833, members and season tickets €5,213,819.
- Matchday: Competitions €701,138, members and season tickets €3,678,906.
- Matchday: Members and season tickets; no competition income (matches behind closed doors).
- Commercial: Comercialización y publicidad.
- Other revenue: Ingresos accesorios y otros de gestión corriente.
- Player sales: Gain on disposal of player registrations, net of book value (deterioro y resultado por enajenaciones del inmovilizado).
- Player sales: Loss on disposal of player registrations, net of book value (one player, note 9).
- Wage bill: Sueldos, salarios y asimilados €7,726,333 and otros sueldos €1,847,776.
- Wage bill: Sueldos, salarios y asimilados €7,626,281 and otros sueldos €2,296,088.
- Players' wages: Registrable squad cost on LaLiga criteria (note 17, in thousands): wages, bonuses, severance, Social Security €343k, loans and €242k of amortisation.
- Financial result: Mostly €3,939,157 of financial income from third parties.
- Income tax: Tax income.
- Player registrations (book value): Inmovilizaciones intangibles deportivas (printed with cents).
- Player registrations (book value): Inmovilizaciones intangibles deportivas.
- Player registrations (book value): Derechos de adquisición de jugadores, net (note 9); intangible sports assets total €46,341,669, mostly an administrative concession.
- Player registrations (book value): Derechos de adquisición de jugadores, net (note 9); intangible sports assets total €46,715,788, mostly an administrative concession.
- Transfer fees receivable: Otras entidades deportivas, deudores (current).
- Transfer fees receivable: Sports entities owing: long term €185,230 and short term €195,666.
- Transfer fees receivable: Sports entities owing: long term €215,230 and short term €2,983,937.
- Share capital: Subscribed capital after the act published on 2026-02-02, not at the financial year end.
- Provisions: Short-term provisions.
- Provisions: Long-term provisions.
- Financial debt: Bank debt, long and short term.
- Financial debt: Bank debt (long term).
- Financial debt: Bank debt, long term: syndicated loan €7,600,000 and subordinated participating loan €699,137 (the LaLiga-CVC loan is in debts with sports entities).
- Financial debt: Bank debt, long €8,299,137 (syndicated and subordinated participating loans) and short €2,600,000.
- Tax and social security debt: Public administrations, long €2,497,187 and short €5,841,267, mostly creditors'-arrangement tax debt.
- Tax and social security debt: Public administrations, long €7,531,777 and short €6,804,581, mostly creditors'-arrangement tax debt.
- Transfer fees payable: Debts with sports entities, long term €20,363,020 and short term €2,436,226.
- Transfer fees payable: Debts with sports entities, long term €20,677,493 and short term €1,042,945.
- Transfer fees payable: Debts with sports entities, long and short term (€15,039,395 and €1,447,977), including the LaLiga-CVC participating loan (€4,480,253).
- Transfer fees payable: Debts with sports entities, long and short term (€13,139,778 and €1,134,128).
- Shareholder loans: Debts to group companies; €11.9m a year earlier.
- Shareholder loans: Debts to group companies.
- Shareholder loans: Debts to group and associated companies, long €6,709,830 (mainly loans from RZ LLC and Sport Around The World, S.L.U.) and short €130,000.
- Shareholder loans: Debts to group and associated companies, long €15,852,639 and short €70,000.
- Capital increase: Sum of the season's registered nominal increases (acts in the record note); share premium not included.
- Capital increase: Operaciones con socios o propietarios (capital increase); cash flow 'emisión de instrumentos de patrimonio'.
- Capital increase: Aumentos de capital (statement of changes in equity; capital up from €6,361,151 to €20,974,572); cash flow 'emisión de instrumentos de patrimonio' €14,613,419.
- Employees: Average headcount.
- Players: Average sports staff (plantilla deportiva).
2025-26: Source: Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil (BOE)2024-25: Source: Real Zaragoza2023-24: Source: Real Zaragoza2021-22: Source: Real Zaragoza2020-21: Source: Real Zaragoza
League figures, wage bills, budgets and public money 18 records
| Season | TV money | Squad cost limit | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | €11.3mmaximum | Source: LaLiga (Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional) | |
| 2024-25 | €6.48mpaid | €11.8mmaximum | Sources: LaLiga (Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional), LaLiga |
| 2023-24 | €7.33mpaid | €9.88mmaximum | Sources: LaLiga (Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional), LaLiga |
| 2022-23 | €7.72mpaid | €10.1mmaximum | Sources: LaLiga (Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional), LaLiga (Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional) |
| 2021-22 | €7.62mpaid | €5.71mmaximum | Sources: LaLiga (Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional), LaLiga (Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional) |
| Public money, season or year | Total | Records |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1.13mawarded | 2 |
| 2024 | €700kcontracted | 1 |
| 2024 | €235kawarded | 3 |
| 2023 | €1.16mawarded | 2 |
| 2022 | €104kawarded | 1 |
- 26 December 2025€1.00mawarded from DIPUTACIÓN PROVINCIAL DE ZARAGOZA: SUBVENCIÓN NOMINATIVA REAL ZARAGOZA. EJERCICIO 2025. Source: Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones (IGAE)
- 19 November 2025€129kawarded from D. GRAL. DE DEPORTE: Orden de la Consejera de Educación, Cultura y Deporte por la que se convocan ayudas para entidades deportivas aragonesas de máxima categoría para la temporada deportiva 2024/2025. Source: Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones (IGAE)
- 8 July 2024€6,150awarded from FUNDACIÓN EOI, F.S.P.: Ayudas dirigidas a impulsar el crecimiento de las pymes a través de la iniciativa «Activa Crecimiento», en el marco del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia. Source: Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones (IGAE)
- 17 May 2024€227kawarded from D. GRAL. DE DEPORTE: Orden de la Consejera de Presidencia, Interior y Cultura por la que se convocan ayu-das para entidades deportivas aragonesas de máxima categoría para la temporada deportiva 2023/2024.. Source: Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones (IGAE)
- 28 February 2024€700kcontracted from Zaragoza Deporte Municipal (Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza): Renewed sponsorship contract 'por valor de 700.000 euros' for youth football, women's teams and the school for players with intellectual disabilities, with advertising in return.. Source: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza
- 23 February 2024€2,140awarded from FUNDACIÓN EOI, F.S.P.: Ayudas dirigidas a mejorar los niveles de ciberseguridad de las pymes a través de la iniciativa «Activa Ciberseguridad», en el marco del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia. Source: Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones (IGAE)
- 4 December 2023€1.00mawarded from DIPUTACIÓN PROVINCIAL DE ZARAGOZA: SUBVENCIÓN NOMINATIVA REAL ZARAGOZA. EJERCICIO 2023. Source: Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones (IGAE)
- 5 June 2023€158kawarded from D. GRAL. DE DEPORTE: Orden del Consejero de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, por la que se convocan ayudas para entidades deportivas aragonesas de máxima categoría para la temporada deportiva 2022/2023.. Source: Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones (IGAE)
Where Real Zaragoza has played
Season by season
- 2026-273Primera Federación, Grupo 2
- 2025-262Segunda División, relegated
- 2024-252Segunda División
- 2023-242Segunda División
- 2022-232Segunda División
- 2021-222Segunda División
- 2020-212Segunda División
- 2019-202Segunda División
- 2018-192Segunda División
- 2017-182Segunda División
- 2016-172Segunda División
Not yet established
What we looked for and could not find in public sources. If you know, send a correction with a source.
- The club's accountsNo free accounts found for 2016-17 to 2019-20, 2022-23 (seasons played in tiers 1–3). Only the latest accounts are posted; 2020-21 and 2021-22 came from a file found on LaLiga's CDN; an archived copy of /accionistas/cuentas-anuales (January 2022) could not be fetched.
Sources10
- Comunicado oficial | A.GAIN se incorpora al Real Zaragoza como accionista mayoritario Real Zaragoza, Club, 14 July 2026. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Resolución definitiva de concesión de ayudas Scouting 2026 Real Federación Española de Fútbol, Federation, September 2026. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Resolución provisional de ayudas Activos Publicitarios, Primera Federación 2026/2027 Real Federación Española de Fútbol, Federation, August 2026. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Calendario Primera Federación 2026/2027, Grupo 2 Real Federación Española de Fútbol, Federation, 29 June 2026. Checked 3 October 2026.
- El Real Zaragoza pasa a manos de un fondo con participaciones en Atlético de Madrid y Leeds United 2Playbook, News, 13 July 2026. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Relación de S.A.D. de fútbol Consejo Superior de Deportes, Regulator. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Ibercaja Estadio Wikidata, Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Wikidata Wikidata, Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Real Zaragoza Wikipedia, Wikipedia / Wikidata, September 2026. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Primera Federación 2026-27 Wikipedia (es), Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
Also on Wikidata (Q10308).
