The budget of La Liga.

The budget of La Liga.

Made up of twenty (20) teams, La Liga is one of the most competitive and followed championships in the world. The prestigious first division of Spanish football provides the world with an excitement that increases more and more during the sporting matches between its teams. Such fierce competition leads Spanish teams to succeed on an international scale, the secret of a financial investment characterized by a large budget and a strong technical strategy.

The peculiarities of La Liga

Since its creation in 1984, the Spanish football championship has continued to progress at all levels unlike other leagues.

• La Liga, a great coach:
La Masia (Barcelona), La Cantera (Real Madrid) and many others, considered among the greatest schools for training footballers, are the driving force behind La Liga clubs. They contribute to their performances by having trained many talented players, which makes La Liga so successful.

• La Liga, a reunion table:
La Liga can be seen as a global football hub. Because of the big international players that are part of it. This increases the global attention of La Liga. It also has unlimited media coverage that allows people from all countries to follow its matches. Its teams regularly participate in international tournaments such as the Champions League (UEFA), Europa League, etc. Therefore, La Liga attracts professionals.

• Organizational sense:
LaLiga teams have a great sense of organisation: the emblematic stadiums add a unique experience (Camp Nou, Santiago Bernabéu, Wanda Metropolitano, Mestalla, Ramón Sánchez Pizjuan…), a strong game (Tiki-taka, tactical intensity…). What stands out is the good technical and functional organisation.

• Cultural characteristics:
Culture contributes to the unique charm of La Liga, passions and emotions (La Liga fans express their emotions and passions by intensely supporting their teams, creating a vibrant atmosphere in the stadiums), a form of historical emulation.
The League’s finances

• Resources:
La Liga’s success is the result of its large budget. This budget varies from season to season and depends on the club’s income. Before talking about its clubs, we will first mention the different strategies that La Liga uses to recharge its batteries:
Television broadcasting rights designed as the main resources of La Liga. Voted by the Congress of Deputies on 14 May 2015, Royal Decree-Law 5/2015 of regulatory development. Ticket sales, collaborations: football is a generator of income for other companies, social networks, sale of club products, etc.

• The club budget
Club income varies depending on various factors, the main resource of which is sporting performance (trophies and others).
La Liga’s budget is undoubtedly the result of the efforts of its clubs, which make the footballing landscape more and more spectacular. Large companies take advantage of this vigour to popularise their products and services, signing collaboration agreements. But if La Liga’s strength is based on the relationship with the association of various agreements, it remains to be said that this success is the result of the academy (training). Is La Liga’s budget greater than that of other championships?

Figures on league and club budgets:

For the 2021-2022 season, the clubs’ cumulative budgets are around €3.17 billion. This corresponds to an average of €186.4 million for La Liga clubs. The new discussion on television broadcasting rights allowed this amount to be increased by €4.95 billion.
However, the health crises of 2020 and 2021 have also had an impact on La Liga and its budget. The average budget forecast for La Liga clubs has been revised down by 20% compared to the previous season. For example, FC Barcelona expected a drop of around 30% in its turnover for the 2019-2020 season, from 198 million to 160 million, and believes that the same would be true for the following season.
However, these figures, which are averages, must be taken in retrospect. Indeed, the differences between the budgets of La Liga clubs are striking.
FC Barcelona has the biggest budget in La Liga for the 2020-2021 year with an estimated total budget of 733 million euros, followed by Real Madrid with 650 million euros.
They are followed by Atlético de Madrid with 400 million euros and Sevilla FC with 200 million euros.
At the end of this non-sporting ranking of league clubs, Valladolid occupies the penultimate position with 46 million euros and Cádiz in last position with 45 million euros.

2024-08-22 02:53:21