The Fundación del Toro reaches 125 bullfights

The National Bullfighting League (LNN) is a project announced by the Toro de Lidia Foundation (FTL) in March 2021 and that emerged to address the crisis that the bullfighting segment with picadors was dragging down.

In 2020, the FTL experimentally promoted the Circuito de Novilladas de Andalucía, with the support of the Junta de Andalucía, a format that promoted competition, meritocracy and transparency, with a focus on communication. After the success of the first edition, in 2021 the Junta de Castilla y León and the Community of Madrid also decided to promote their own regional competitions with the FTL, joining the Junta de Extremadura in 2023 and the Generalitat Valenciana in 2024.

The FTL decided to create the National League of Novilladas in 2021 to unify under its brand the different regional initiatives that it was beginning to promote.

Since then the LNN has not stopped growing, and 2024 has set a new record with the organization of five regional circuits (Andalusia, Castilla y León, Community of Madrid, Extremadura and Comunitat Valenciana) in which 32 heifers have been promoted with picadors, including a grand final between the five winners that will take place on October 27 in Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

These first four years of LNN have involved the organization of a total of 125 bullfights promoted by the FTL, through which 103 bullfighters and 138 different livestock farms have passed, with a total of 61 celebrations having been broadcast on television and places that were closed reopened, data that corroborate the success of the initiative.

The LNN is the most important effort carried out in recent years by the entire bullfighting sector, through the FTL, to revitalize and promote the bullfighting segment with picadors, essential for the proper functioning of the bullfighting industry as a whole. .