The budget of La Liga.

Composed of twenty (20) teams, La Liga is one of the most competitive and most 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 events between its teams. Such fierce competition leads Spanish teams to an international feat, the secret of a financial investment characterized by a large budget and a strong technical strategy.

The particularities of La Liga

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

• La Liga, a great trainer:
La Masia (Barcelona), La Cantera (Real Madrid) and many others, considered among the greatest schools for training footballers, are the source of the vital forces of La Liga clubs. They contribute to their performances by having trained many talented players, which makes La Liga a great success.

• La Liga, Reunion Plateau:
La Liga can be seen as a world football center. Because of the great international players who are part of it. Which allows to increase the global attention of La Liga. It also has an 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… La Liga therefore attracts professionals.

• Organizational sense:
La Liga teams have a great organizational sense: the emblematic stadiums add a unique experience (Camp Nou, Santiago Bernabéu, Wanda Metropolitano, Mestalla, Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan…), a strong game (Tiki-taka, tactical intensity…). Which highlights the good technical and functional organization.

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

La Liga finances

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

• Club budget
Club income varies according to various factors, the main resource of which is sporting performance (trophies and others).
La ​​Liga's budget is undoubtedly the effort of its clubs' performances that make the football sports scene more and more spectacular. Large companies seize this liveliness to make their products and services popular, signing partnership agreements. But if the strength of La Liga is based on the relationship with the partnership of various agreements, it remains to be said that this success is the result of the academy (training). Is La Liga's budget larger than other championships?

Figures on La Liga and club budgets:

During the 2021-2022 season, the cumulative budgets of the clubs are around 3.17 billion euros. This corresponds to an average of 186.4 million euros for La Liga clubs. The new discussion of television broadcasting rights has increased this amount by 4.95 billion euros.
However, the 2020 and 2021 health crises have also had an impact on the Spanish Liga and its budget. The average forecast budget of La Liga clubs has been revised downwards by 20% compared to the previous season. For example, FC Barcelona was counting on a drop of around 30% in its turnover for the 2019-2020 season, going from 198 million to 160 million, and thinks that it thought it would be the same for the following season.
However, these figures, which are averages, must be taken with a grain of salt. Indeed, the differences between the budgets of La Liga clubs are impressive.
FC Barcelona is the biggest in La Liga budget for the year 2020-2021 with a total budget of an estimated 733 million euros, followed by Real Madrid with 650 million euros.
Next come Athlético de Madrid with 400 million euros, and Sevilla FC with 200 million euros.
At the bottom of this non-sporting ranking of La Liga clubs, Valladolid is in penultimate position with