LaLiga president Javier Tebas, said Tuesday at the Congress that the two most important challenges facing professional football and sports in general are the threat of competitions such as Super League“elitist and oligarch”, and the piracy.
“Soccer in Spain is 1.4 % of GDP. In Europe there are more than 40 professional leagues, more than 75,140 workers, more than 68,000 players and audiovisual revenues of 20,000 million that are distributed, and, all this is at risk. If the Super League in Spain was implanted in Spain we would enter 1,160 million euros less, 32 %,” he said.
No transparency
Thebes also questioned the lack of transparency of the Super League, a “project led by the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérezat European level “and that in three years he has presented three different competition systems, from April 2021 to the last so -called” unify “, which he considered that” demonstrates how little serious it is. “
The deputy of Sumar Águeda Micó and the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas Medrano, appears in Commission of Education, Professional and Sports, in the Congress of Deputies, on May 13, 2025, in Madrid (Spain). According to Thebes, the end of his appearance is to transfer his vision of the future of the football industry, given the challenges and challenges he faces today. / Gabriel Luengas / Europa Press
In his opinion, the possible coexistence of a competition such as the Super League with the National League would make it lose competitiveness. “There must always be big clubs, but be careful, because you are making your competition less competitive,” he said.
“I am not so worried that Real Madrid or Barcelona always win and sometimes Atlético, but they win for less than 90 points, because if so it has been a very competitive league. The important thing is that there is uncertainty and not that it wins for 100 points as the City won at the time or Real Madrid de Mourinho,” he added.
Industry Challenges
Thebes, who appeared to express his vision of the football industry and his challenges, recalled that the TJue judgment on the Super League “did not endorse” this project, or “condemned the UEFA and FIFA monopoly”, but that, having that monopoly, it must have “clear and transparent regulations.”
“26 EU 27 states, except Spain, approved a resolution that talks about how the European sport model should be. There is no European League that supports this format. The ACB enters audiovisual rights the same as in 2003, that tells us everything, it has been stagnant. In football we enter five times more. It is not true that young people do not see football, what happens is that a lord says and it seems like a lord.