Spain: Madrid Court rules that women's clubs are the holders of their TV rights not the Federation

The Madrid Commercial Court has ruled that women's football clubs are the holders of their individual broadcasting rights, according to information reported by the Spanish press on 30/07/2019.

This decision thus contradicts the plans of the RFEF which wanted to market the rights of women's football clubs centrally and was in conflict with Spain's Association of Women's Football Clubs (ACFF) on the issue.

The Chinese-Spanish audiovisual group Mediapro signed an agreement with the ACFF in which the Liga Femenina Iberdrola clubs (Spanish women's first division) sold their league broadcasting rights for €9m (€3m per season) on 07/03/2019 over the 2019-2022 cycle.

13 of the 16 Liga Femenina Iberdrola clubs taking part in the 2019-20 season have signed the agreement between the ACFF and Mediapro. FC Barcelona, Athletic Club and the promoted CD Tacón (which will be absorbed by Real Madrid CF on 01/07/2020) were the three clubs that did not sign.

• Mediapro Sector: audiovisual (content, production, post-production, rights management, broadcasting, engineering, TV channels…