La Liga: TV rights revenue of football teams 2020-2021

In the 2020/2021 season, FC Barcelona topped the television rights ranking with approximately 165 million euros. Real Madrid ranked second, with its television right income amounting to 163 million euros during the same season. The Spanish men’s football league, La Liga, is a major event broadcast both in Spain and globally to reach all football fans around the world.

Soccer: a popular phenomenon on Spanish television

In 2021, the UEFA European Football Championship occupied the top spots of the most-watched broadcasts in Spain, with the match between Spain and Italy —in which the Spanish team was eliminated from the tournament— ranking in the first position. In an early 2021 survey conducted in five European countries, participants were asked how frequently they watched soccer on television. Compared to the other countries, Spain had the largest share of respondents who responded they watched the sport on television very often.

Transfer spending in La Liga

Oftentimes, soccer clubs use transfer windows, which is a duration where squads are allowed to buy or sell players from other teams, to transform their lineup so they can be better prepared for future games. In 2021, spending on transfers in La Liga totaled at roughly 358 million euros, which was a significant decrease from the peak in aggregate transfer fee spending experienced in 2019, with fees adding up to more than 1.5 billion euros that year. Looking at the cumulative transfer value of La Liga clubs, Barcelona had the most valuable lineup which was worth roughly 991 billion euros in April 2021.