If there’s a battle that La Liga has determined to tackle lately, it’s pirate streaming of video games. President Javier Tebas has referred to as it the most important risk to the sport, and the present mannequin of subsistence, however La Liga have obtained damaging information with regard to their battle.
Tebas has earlier than declared that he spends round 60% of his time on pirate streaming and making an attempt to fight it. La Liga have just lately declared a number of victories, contributing to arrests of a number of main unlawful streaming retailers in Argentina and in Spain. Nonetheless their fundamental battle lies with search engine suppliers and servers corresponding to Cloudflare, who’re refusing to surrender the identification of their customers. La Liga are concerned in a weighty authorized debate on the matter.
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Report claims rise in unlawful sports activities streaming in Spain
Regardless of these successes above, it seems their efforts have up to now been considerably in useless. In line with a report from Grant Thornton, through , pirate streaming is on the rise. In 2024, 10.8 million notifications of unauthorised streaming of stay occasions. Nonetheless within the first six months of 2025 alone, that determine has been 15.4m, a rise of 142% over that interval.
Picture through Relevo / EFE
Solely in 11% of the 26.2 million whole instances between the beginning of 2024 and June 2025 did La Liga handle to droop the stay transmissions. That determine was at 19% within the second half of 2024, however fell to only 5% in 2025. Solely 5% of these transmissions have been addressed inside half-hour, and 21% took greater than two hours – by which era any La Liga sport can be completed. That stated, declare they’ve lowered pirate streaming by 60% inside Spain through the 2024-25 season.
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The pricing debate
Many inside Spain have identified that watching , regardless of Spain having a far decrease common revenue than any of those nations, as a serious contributing issue. This argument has been dismissed by Tebas, who maintains that the choices in place in Spain, which requires a minimal deal of over €1k per season, works out as low-cost.
The talk spiked final yr, when , though this was vehemently denied by his membership.
