As the new 2025/26 football season kicks off, Spain’s top flight football league La Liga is renewing its commitment to combat audiovisual piracy, the biggest threat to the sports and entertainment industry. Spanish football clubs alone lose an estimated €600 million to €700 million annually as a result of illegal broadcasts. But the damage goes […]
Disney+ has confirmed it will stream live La Liga football in the UK and Ireland through a new three-year agreement. Kicking off on August 16th, subscribers can watch live Spanish football on Saturday nights, included as part of their subscription. The deal begins with Valencia hosting Real Sociedad at the Mestalla Stadium, live on Disney+ […]
Sports broadcaster and streaming service Premier Sports has announced the renewal of its deal with Lla Liga to air live coverage of the top-flight Spanish football league for the next three seasons. The new deal confirms that Premier Sports will be the home of Spanish football in the UK and Republic of Ireland until the […]
Goalhanger has signed a three-year deal with La Liga EA Sports, securing official rights to weekly clips from the top flight Spanish football league. Launching this season, The Rest Is Football: LALIGA is a new video first edition of the popular podcast, hosted by Gary Lineker and presenter Alex Aljoe. Available on Spotify and YouTube […]
La Liga, which runs the top two football divisions in Spain, is closing in on a deal for Disney+ to screen one match a week in the UK according to the FT, as Disney amps up its desire to show stream more live sports. The hope for La Liga, which is targeting weekend slots that […]
Movistar Plus ended H1 2025 with 3.67 million television subscribers, marking a 6.4 per cent year-on-year increase and 224,000 new customers. The platform’s all-time record was set in June 2019, according to The Objective, with 4.11 million subscribers, closing that year with 4.07 million. Numbers then declined to 3.93 million in 2020 (–3.4 per cent), […]
La Liga has signed an exclusive deal with Begin, the OTT service in Southeast Asia, to broadcast all first and second division matches through 2030 in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The agreement takes effect immediately in Pakistan and Bangladesh, while coverage in Sri Lanka will begin with the 2026–2027 season. The deal will run […]
In a new key step in the fight against audiovisual fraud, Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga and ALIANZA Against Piracy have announced a decisive legal action in Argentina, involving five simultaneous raids and multiple arrest warrants issued by the courts in the framework of a major case against the illegal platform MagisTV — one […]
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, is making an aggressive assault on the Spanish pay-TV football market with the launch of its promotional Football Plan offer for €9.99 per month. DAZN’s new Football Plan will include: Five La Liga matches per matchday (across 35 of the 38 matchdays) One free-to-air La Liga match every matchday Every […]
Pay-TV in Spain ended the 2024/2025 season (September 20th 2024 to June 30th 2025) with record-setting numbers. According to the latest GECA report, pay thematic channels have reached an all-time high audience share of 11.3 per cent – the best figure ever recorded in a regular season. It represents a 70 per cent increase compared […]