Introduction

Until the adoption in 2015 of the Royal-Decree 05/2015 regulating the collective selling of audio-visual rights on Spanish football competitions[1], each club sold its rights to operators individually. This system presented many disadvantages, primarily, the lack of homogeneity in the transmission of  Spanish football competitions, or the unfair and uneven distribution of revenues among clubs. This situation has for a long time weakened for the commercialisation of broadcasting rights of the Spanish football competitions, resulting in the lack of an efficient market for the allocation of rights and the limitation in the development of new distribution channels, such as pay television.

Since the entry into force of the Royal-Decree 05/2015, the licensing of broadcasting rights on the Spanish football competitions is the exclusive competence and...

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