Statement on Proposed Sanction by the Anti-Violence Commission

Club Atlético Osasuna learned through the media of the Anti-Violence Commission’s proposal to sanction the club following a training session held at El Sadar on May 22. The commission is proposing to close the stadium for two months and fine the club 200,000 euros.

As the team faced possible relegation in its final match of the season, away at Getafe CF, and its fans could not travel to the capital because the home team’s stadium was under construction, the club decided to open its final training session to the public. About 5,500 people attended without incident or disturbance. What should be the priority for any public institution does not appear to be the case here.

The club believes the proposed sanction is unjust, disproportionate in every respect, and unrelated to the actual events. The club also rejects any attempt by authorities to hold clubs responsible for the actions of individual fans.

The proposal seems to set an impossible standard of responsibility for any large-scale event, conflating a duty to implement preventive measures with the obligation to guarantee the complete absence of individual incidents.

The training session was organized with appropriate security and preventive measures, including private security and medical services, to ensure thousands of fans could show their support on a day of special significance for the team.

The proposal punishes not only the club, but also thousands of members and fans who experienced that day in a civil, respectful and passionate manner. It is incomprehensible that an act representing massive support for the team could result in such an extraordinary measure as a two-month stadium closure and a 200,000-euro fine.

Beyond the seriousness of this particular proposal, Osasuna cannot hide its growing concern about the repeated treatment it has received in recent years.

The constant accumulation of cases, sanctions and proposed penalties against our club is creating among our members, fans and staff an increasingly difficult-to-ignore feeling that Osasuna is subject to a level of scrutiny and punishment rarely seen elsewhere in Spanish football.

It is legitimate to ask why conduct that in other settings seems to receive very different responses results, when it involves Osasuna, in extraordinarily harsh proposals that directly threaten the club and its supporters.

Osasuna is a century-old club representing hundreds of thousands of people from Navarre. The club has consistently worked with authorities, invested human and financial resources in security, prevention and control, and demonstrated its commitment to coexistence, respect and the values of sport through its actions.

For this reason, it is especially painful to see the club’s image repeatedly subjected to public questioning, casting a shadow of suspicion over the entire institution and its supporters—something we consider profoundly unfair.

No authority should lose sight of the principle of proportionality. No institution should forget that behind every case there are thousands of people who behave in an exemplary way and do not deserve to be singled out or punished collectively.

Osasuna will firmly defend its rights, as well as those of its members and fans. The club will also publicly denounce any conduct it considers disproportionate, unjust or damaging to its legitimate interests.

Our fans deserve respect. Our history deserves respect. And Navarre deserves respect.

Club Atlético Osasuna will not accept in silence treatment it finds increasingly difficult to understand or justify.