Real Mallorca is dispensing with Catalan in its communications.
Plataforma per la Llengua regrets that the sports club has not listened to the request to include Catalan in the membership card, and that it continues to exclude the language from the electronic newsletter and a large part of its own audiovisual production.
PalmThe Platform for Language (Plataforma per la Llengua) denounced this Wednesday that, for the second consecutive year, Real Mallorca has decided to offer the digital membership card exclusively in Spanish. The organization regrets that the club has ignored its request last year to include Catalan on the card, nor its request to meet, and considers this decision to constitute an "unjustified exclusion of the native language from a symbolic and identifying element for the fans." The request was also sent to the club by various fan groups.
The organization in defense of Catalan considers the lack of a membership card option in the native language to be a setback, given that a few years ago the season ticket was in Catalan. The organization also regrets that the club's email newsletter is only in Spanish, and that much of the club's audiovisual production also excludes the native language.
Denormalize
For the Platform for Language, when an entity as important as Real Mallorca decides to do away with Catalan on its official channels, "it not only makes the language invisible, but it also contributes to denormalizing its use among the population."
They point out that the message being sent is that Catalan "is neither necessary nor appropriate in prestigious spaces with broad social reach." "This directly impacts the perception that young people and citizens have of the language and weakens its presence in informal, leisure, and collective identity settings," they lament. "Giving up Catalan is giving up a key tool of Mallorcan identity and Mallorcanism," they assert.
Responsibility
In the Balearic Islands, as the CAT 2025 Report shows, the use of Catalan among young people fell by 15 points between 2014 and 2022. The club believes that Real Mallorca, as an entity rooted in and esteemed by thousands of Mallorcans, "has the opportunity - and the responsibility - to actively contribute."
For this reason, Platform for the Language calls on fans, members, supporters' groups and all of Mallorcan society to demand respect for linguistic rights also within sport, and encourages Real Mallorca to reverse this decision to ensure that membership cards can also be issued in Catalan.
