Spanish LaLiga
EXCLUSIVE: LaLiga terminates media rights deal with China’s Super Sports Media
Spanish football's LaLiga is terminating its digital media rights agreement in China with sports marketing company Super Sports Media due to missed rights fee payments, SportBusiness understands
Mediapro set to retain domestic free-to-air LaLiga rights
Mediapro, the Spanish media rights agency and production group, is poised to retain its domestic free-to-air live and highlights rights to Spanish football’s top-tier LaLiga Santander.
UN refugee agency replaces Unicef on back of Barça shirt
The logo of UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, will feature on FC Barcelona’s back-of-shirt branding position for the next four seasons.
Premier Sports retains LaLiga rights in UK after Fite deal collapse
Premier Sports has acquired exclusive rights to LaLiga in the UK and Ireland after the league's lucrative deal with streaming platform Fite collapsed last month
Murthy sacked as Valencia president
Spanish LaLiga football club Valencia has dismissed president Anil Murthy following the emergence of audio recordings in which he criticised owner Peter Lim and made other controversial statements
LaLiga receives no bids for public venue media rights, considers own channel
LaLiga, the governing body of Spain’s top two professional football tiers, received no bids for its so-called 'Horeca' broadcast rights for distribution in public establishments, and says it will now m…
LaLiga clubs made €892m losses during Covid-hit 2020-21 season
Spain’s LaLiga has said the Covid-19 pandemic caused club revenues to regress to levels of ‘five or six years ago’ after the combined losses of teams across the top two leagues in the country amounted to €8…
‘Unbelievable’ WhaleFin-Atlético Madrid deal signed ‘more than two months ago’
Atlético Madrid’s club record main shirt sponsorship agreement with the cryptocurrency investment app WhaleFin was signed more than two months ago after progressing rapidly from first talks.
Espanyol sets LaLiga first with Crypto Snack deal
RCD Espanyol has claimed a first for LaLiga, the top division of Spanish club football, by agreeing a sponsorship deal with iGaming token Crypto Snack that will lead to it accepting payments via cryptocurrencies
Atlético Madrid ‘set to name’ WhaleFin as main shirt sponsor
Atlético de Madrid has reportedly signed a club record main shirt sponsorship agreement with the cryptocurrency investment app WhaleFin.
Telefónica secures distribution deal for DAZN’s LaLiga package
Telefónica, the leading Spanish telecoms operator, has agreed a carriage deal for the LaLiga matches set to be offered by OTT subscription broadcaster DAZN during the Spanish league's next rights cycle.
Barcelona to forgo chief executive, Laporta to assume executive president role
Spanish LaLiga club FC Barcelona is planning to forgo having a chief executive following Ferran Reverter’s resignation from the role this February.
RFEF compensation to Mediapro increased to €2.1m in VAR court case
A Madrid court has revised upwards compensation the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) was last month ordered to pay to the Mediapro agency and broadcast production group following a court case relating…
Spanish broadcast watchdog wants changes to LaLiga rights sales in four European markets
Spain’s competition watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has recommended changes to the sale of broadcast rights to LaLiga in Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands and Ma…
Dapper Labs plans to expand sports portfolio following latest investment round
Jorge Urrutia del Pozo, vice president of football for NFT firm Dapper Labs, says the company is interested in producing digital collectibles for “many sports”, provided they enjoy a large and engaged fanbase, and outlines how the company plans to spend the $607.5m raised in nine separate funding rounds.
Poland’s Eleven hit by pirated broadcast from Palestine
Polish pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports is investigating a pirated broadcast of its content by Palestinian broadcaster Fajer TV
Sponsorship payments under pressure as Bitci ‘hit by Turkish controls’
Turkish blockchain company Bitci is thought to have requested payment delays in some of its deals with sports rights-holders and has paused fan token issues because of growing cryptocurrency regulations…
Telefónica and DAZN ‘close’ to deal for LaLiga matches
Telco Telefónica is close to clinching a sublicensing deal with OTT subscription broadcaster DAZN for its five weekly LaLiga matches from next season, it has been reported.