Spain: international TV rights will generate about €600m per year from 2015-16, says LaLiga

"After the bidding process carried out in the international audiovisual rights market, LaLiga wants to highlight that the total amount obtained will be approximately €600m per season, which represents a marked increase," announced LaLiga on 07/02/2015.

According to its official journal on 30/04/2015, the Spanish government enacted a royal decree which establishes the collective selling of domestic and international audiovisual rights of Spanish professional competitions from 2016-17. LaLiga announced on 22/06/2015 that it wanted to bring forward the collective marketing of these rights to the 2015-16 season.

Mediapro has committed to release the rights of 37 Spanish professionals clubs previously acquired for the 2015-16 season in exchange for becoming the marketing agency of LaLiga’s international TV rights for five seasons, from 2015-16.

• Spain, along with Portugal, is the only major European league where clubs directly negotiate their domestic TV rights with broadcasters (since 1997-98).
• LaLiga invited all television operators interested in the international TV rights to the…