Marian Mouriño Named First Female President of RC Celta de Vigo

Appointments in RC Celta. The Vigo team active in LaLiga EA Sports has named Marian Mouriño new president of the clubaccording to Iusport. The new president becomes the first woman to lead the Vigo club in one hundred years of history.

Mouriño’s relationship with RC Celta goes back a long way: it was the head of the departmentclub marketing team between 2005 and 2009carrying out a profound renewal of the entity’s communication.

Outside the offices of the Galician team, between 2014 and 2019, the board carried out the functions of management of the administration and marketing department of Corporativo GES Méxicosomething that led her to be a finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year, an award given by the consulting firm Ernest&Young México.

On September 28, the until then president and largest shareholder of the club, Manuel Carlos Mouriño, presented his resignation as president of the Board of Directors. In 2006, Manuel Carlos Mouriño took office after acquiring Horacio Gómez’s shares.

In 2022, Grupo GES asked a group of American investors for 200 million euros for 100% of the shares of RC Celta

In 2022, Grupo GES, the company that manages RC Celta de Vigo and is owned by the Mouriño family, requested 200 million euros from a group of American investors for 100% of the shares of the Vigo club.

Following the club ownership proposal, the group of investors considered that the price was outside the market, so he rejected the change of hands. The negotiations took place before the Xunta de Galicia declared the celestial sports city an asset of regional interest, which several groups have denounced as alleged prevarication.

The club closed the 2021-2022 season, the last for which data is available, with a profit of 132,000 euros. This result came after having predicted losses of eleven million euros for the last season, which in the end they were able to reverse.

The result came after increasing its income by 13.5%, up to seventy million euros. The club earned one million euros from competitions and participation in bets; 3.2 million euros for subscribers and members; 53.9 million euros per broadcast (11.9% more than expected); 10.1 million for advertising and 1.7 million euros for marketing and others.

RC Celta was born in 1923 as a result of the merger of Vigo Sporting and Fortuna de Vigo, two teams that had operated as independent clubs since the beginning of the 20th century. His sporting career has alternated stages in the First and Second Division.