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Spanish LaLiga giants Atlético de Madrid and Real Madrid will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after failing in bids to overturn transfer bans issued by the Disciplinary Committee of football’s global governing body Fifa for breaches relating to the international transfer and registration of players under the age of 18.

Spanish Football Association (RFEF) president Ángel María Villar Llona has withdrawn from next week’s presidential election at Uefa, the sport’s European governing body.

Spanish LaLiga football club Barcelona has reported record revenues of €679m ($749.6m) for its 2015-16 season as it continues to head towards its target of reaching the €1bn mark by 2021.

Spanish Football Association (RFEF) president Ángel María Villar Llona will run for the top job at European football’s governing body Uefa, a position he currently holds on an interim basis.

The National Basketball Association has announced that the Spanish city of Barcelona will host Europe’s first NBA Café.

The board of Spanish Liga football club Atlético Madrid has approved the purchase of a 34.6 per cent stake in French Ligue 2 team Lens.

The legal furore surrounding Neymar’s controversial 2013 move to Spanish Liga football club Barcelona is set to come to a close after a Madrid court today (Friday) dismissed a second case concerning the transfer.

Barcelona and Argentina football star Lionel Messi, along with his father, are to appeal against a Spanish court decision to issue them both with a 21-month jail sentence for tax fraud, the player’s lawyers have said.

Barcelona and Argentina football star Lionel Messi has today (Wednesday) been sentenced to 21 months in prison and fined €2m ($2.2m) after being found guilty of tax fraud, however the 29-year-old is unlikely to serve any jail time.

LaLiga, which operates the football league structure in Spain, will open a new office in India, its president Javier Tebas has confirmed.

Barcelona and Real Madrid have hit back at a European Union ruling that ordered the two Spanish Liga football giants to pay back millions of euros of state financial support.

Seven Spanish football clubs, including Barcelona and Real Madrid, have been ordered by European Union antitrust regulators to pay back millions of euros of state financial support.

Spain is home to some of the biggest names in sport, but how solid are the sports industry foundations below the superstars? SportBusiness International finds out.

Barcelona's staging of the 1992 summer Olympic Games is often held aloft by aspirational cities around the world as a blueprint for a successful sports event-hosting strategy leading to a lasting legacy.

Spain is home to some of the most marketable sports athletes, teams and properties in the world. The likes of tennis ace Rafael Nadal, cyclist Alberto Contador, basketball star Pau Gasol and a plethora of top football clubs – not to mention the all-conquering national football team, which won every major national team tournament between 2008 and 2012 – do not have to worry about attracting significant commercial backing.

Just over a year ago the Spanish sports media industry underwent a seismic shift at the heart of its biggest property when a Royal Decree was passed in order to pave the way for the introduction of the collective selling of Spanish domestic football rights.