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  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    FC Barcelona
    Barcelona sells media rights stake to Sixth Street in bid to repair finances

    Deal with private equity group will deliver Spanish club more than €200mn over 25 years

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    John Burn-Murdoch
    European football now belongs to the highest bidder

    The widening financial gulf between Premier League clubs and the rest is shrinking the pool of competition

  • Saturday, 18 December, 2021
    Scoreboard
    CVC’s win is Real Madrid’s loss Premium content

    Plus, the challenge of better pay in tennis, Uefa choose Citibank for €7bn relief fund, and more.

  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    Spanish clubs back La Liga’s €2bn deal with buyout group CVC

    Real Madrid and Barcelona claim plan will give private equity business too much of their future revenues

  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    Real Madrid and Barcelona seek to thwart CVC’s €2bn La Liga deal

    Top Spanish football clubs launch counter-offer to head off private equity firm’s cash injection

  • Saturday, 4 September, 2021
    News in-depthFootball
    La Liga’s CVC deal shows power of collective approach for football’s smaller clubs

    Spanish tie-up offers potential blueprint on financing for teams that traditionally struggle to attract investors

  • Thursday, 12 August, 2021
    Spain’s La Liga wins backing for CVC deal after last-minute compromise

    Clubs including Real Madrid and Barcelona secure opt-out, pushing value of private equity investment down to €2.1bn

  • Wednesday, 11 August, 2021
    La Liga confident of securing victory in €2.7bn tie-up with CVC

    Real Madrid and FC Barcelona oppose private equity deal with Spain’s top league

  • Friday, 6 August, 2021
    FC Barcelona
    Barcelona rejects private equity investment in La Liga as Messi departs

    Football club says deal would not be in its interests, even if it would have been a way to keep its star player

  • Thursday, 5 August, 2021
    Lionel Messi
    Lionel Messi and Barcelona part company in end to era

    Split blamed on financial regulations as Spanish league roiled over private equity deal

  • Wednesday, 4 August, 2021
    CVC Capital Partners Ltd
    Real Madrid opposes private equity’s €2.7bn Spanish football deal

    Club does not support investment by CVC after a committee at La Liga unanimously approved it

  • Thursday, 27 May, 2021
    European Super League
    La Liga chief warns Super League isn’t dead

    Javier Tebas hits out at Fifa over breakaway competition and says Champions League will survive

  • Friday, 14 May, 2021
    ESPN wins US broadcast rights to Spain’s La Liga

    $1.4bn deal with Disney-owned network comes as bidding for European football rights intensifies

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    Fire sale at Spain’s top football clubs forced by lower spending limit

    La Liga reveals it implemented a €600m cut on player transfers and wages due to pandemic losses

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    Murad Ahmed
    Is that a robot cheerleader in my living room?

    Artificial sights and sounds are no substitute for real fans at sports events

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    FC Barcelona
    Messi opts to stay at Barcelona to avoid legal battle

    Footballer will see out final year of contract after aborted attempt to leave

  • Friday, 12 June, 2020
    FT CollectionsData rich: the numbers behind corporate news
    European football clubs’ route to easy borrowing under threat

    Revenue hit from pandemic risks cutting access to ‘factoring’ deals

  • Thursday, 11 June, 2020
    Football
    Spain’s La Liga facing €800m hit if fans kept out of stadiums

    Football chief warns it could take two seasons for sport’s finances to return to normal

  • Saturday, 23 May, 2020
    Spain
    Sánchez says Spain will reopen to foreign tourists from July

    Prime minister tells nation football matches will resume in June as complex exit from lockdown continues

  • Thursday, 14 May, 2020
    Spain’s La Liga targets China deals with joint venture

    League aims to build profile and fan base through sponsorship deals

  • Friday, 17 April, 2020
    News in-depthSport
    Sport embraces virtual competition in face of Covid crisis

    Devastated by the lockdown, the sports industry is turning to esports

  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2019
    Football
    Football chiefs hit out at Uefa’s Champions League restructure plan

    Heads of Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga fear top clubs would become richer at expense of domestic leagues

  • Thursday, 9 May, 2019
    Spanish football clubs’ success drives record revenues at La Liga

    Big rise in sponsorship deals helps increase overall turnover by fifth

  • Monday, 25 March, 2019
    Small-town football club makes FT 1000 table for second year

    Spanish team Eibar’s rise to La Liga is a tale of management on and off the pitch

  • Tuesday, 11 September, 2018
    Sport
    La Liga targets Miami with first overseas league match

    Spain’s top football division seeks approval to stage Barcelona v Girona in US in January

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