Granada is already celebrating the ACB spot, which Hereda Sevilla is not giving up.

Trouble looms. In Granada , all the media outlets assumed last night that Covirán, recently relegated to the FEB First Division, would take the place that Hereda Sevilla was pursuing in the ACB after earning it on the pitch thanks to a magnificent season culminating in promotion in Madrid on June 8. According to media reports in the Granada city, Hereda Sevilla would have been left with nothing after being unable to meet all the requirements demanded by the club association to become a member, as announced by I deal de Granada . To send all the documentation, accredited with all debts settled, and make the corresponding payment of the Participation Fee , the entry fee for the competition, the Seville club had until 11:59 p.m. this Tuesday following the fifteen-day extension granted on June 30. The announcement from Granada that the match was lost by the Sevillians arrived while the ball was still in play, just a couple of hours before the deadline.

The confusion at this time, now that midnight is past and the registration deadline has passed, is absolute. Hereda Sevilla has not remained silent. Its president, Pedro Fernández , reacted with statements, denying the issue in a video posted on his social media, the club owner's usual means of communication: " The requirements requested by the ACB have been fulfilled in a timely manner . The fee for various transfers has been paid, as has the audit. It was sent this morning. There were two issues up for discussion, and they have been clarified. They have been reflected in the latest report. The debts with the Treasury and Social Security are at zero. I only hope that tomorrow we receive authorization from the ACB so that the normal process can continue for the team that has taken to the courts." And, in case Hereda Sevilla's position wasn't clear enough, they later conveyed the same idea in a statement on their social media: "We inform you that yesterday we completed the delivery of all the documentation required by the ACB, fulfilling the requirements established within the registration process for the 2025-26 season. The documentation has been submitted within the stipulated period and in accordance with the criteria established by the ACB itself . From this moment on, the Club awaits the official resolution from the competent body."

Hereda Sevilla has experienced frantic days in recent weeks, especially since last Wednesday, when the club found itself at a dead end, on the verge of raising the white flag. Pedro Fernández himself requested an express three-way meeting with representatives from the City Council and the Cajasol Foundation (the Provincial Council was not present) to raise the fee, estimated at €580,000 plus VAT. The situation then became impossible. The worst was thought to happen. The meeting between the parties took place on Friday morning. It was agreed that Cajasol would advance part of the agreed subsidy (the total is €300,000) and that Pedro Fernández would take care of the rest. The City Council did not have the possibility of advancing part of the committed money, up to €400,000, which the club would not be able to use until the 2026 municipal budget was defined.

On Friday, much progress was made with the ACB's external auditors , and more meetings were held over the weekend to unblock the situation and facilitate registration. The most important thing remained: paying the Participation Fee, a headache for the club in recent days, having initially believed that this amount could be deducted from future ACB revenue. But this isn't the case. The competition's bylaws dictate that the first of four installments of the fee must be paid. The following three are deducted. Both Monday and Tuesday saw intense work, flat out , trying to arrive on time and meet all the conditions established by the ACB bylaws: the accounts had to be submitted by May 31, all debts with the Treasury and Social Security had to be settled, a guaranteed minimum budget of 2.5 million euros had to be established, and, of course, the fee had to be paid.

Many financial holes have been plugged in the last 48 hours, and some reports from within the club even suggested that the debt was zero, the club's equity was positive, and the auditors' assessment of the accounts was positive, although it was known that the promoted squad was owed its last payroll and goal bonuses. As established by the statutes, the right to the spot that cannot be administratively certified goes to the highest-placed of the two recently relegated teams, in this case Covirán Granada , which had been warned of the situation for several days and had everything ready to submit its paperwork to the ACB and return to play in the Endesa League in the 2025-26 season.

This Wednesday, the ACB was scheduled to evaluate the Seville club's documentation, but for now, Granada is celebrating the place that Gonzalo García de Vitoria 's team, dressed in green and white, earned on the courts after a great campaign culminating with victories at the Caja Mágica in Madrid against Estudiantes and Fuenlabrada. The match on the courts was won, but the match in the offices still remained to certify the place, and it seems that this is going to be a tough one for a historic 38-year-old club, Seville, which continues to suffer every summer as if it were permanently living on Groundhog Day. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, faced with the "bombshell" dropped by Granada, Hereda Sevilla had to come forward to give its official version. It believes it has done its homework in time, that everything is in order, and that the place is its own. In Granada, they say otherwise. With the affiliation period over, only the ACB will put an end to this confusion with its decision. Thumbs up or thumbs down for the Seville club.