Over the past decade, the League of Thebes lived a shipwreck compared to its main competitors. Not in the titlessince Real Madrid has monopolized a large part of it in Europe and we find Barcelona, Atlético, Villarreal or Sevilla raising others, but yes in terms of income and expenses. A League made to compete head to head Premier League and which, however, is today below the Series A. All under the command of a Javier Tebas who tries with other struggles to divert attention from his leadership at the head of the employers’ union.
Let’s be clear, the numbers reflect the collapse of Spanish club power. Over the past decade, the League has been the third highest spender, although in recent seasons it has even fallen out of the top five. But it is striking to see how overwhelmed he is by the Premier League. The English league is once again teaching Spanish football a lesson in resource generation, as its clubs spent in total 23,020 million euros in signatures.
These figures from the Prime Minister are almost three times higher than those presented by the League led by Thebes. While the Premier demonstrates its good financial health on the market, the League teams cannot do the same. During this same period, from 2015 to 2024, clubs in the top category of Spanish football spent 7,940 million euros.
With this, the superiority of the English competition appears once again, which has become one of the biggest headaches for football clubs. First division in Spain. Teams in our higher category cannot compete with their counterparts in England, regarding salaries or transfer pricing. An increasingly noticeable situation.
The proof is that great footballers or coaches who had a future in our League have escaped to the Prime Minister in recent years. This is the case of Rodrigo Hernandez, who left Atlético de Madrid for Manchester or coaches like Unai Emery, Mikel Arteta either Andoni Iraola, whose salaries are much higher than those they would receive in Spain.
In addition, in recent years, each of the teams in the Premier League You can buy players for millions. Without going any further, we saw this summer how the majority of the 20 English clubs undertook at least one signing that was around 30 million euros or well beyond it, while in La Liga they removed Real Madrid, Barcelona And Athletic, only Real Sociedad was able to pay 20 million euros by a player.
The League of Thebes sinks on the market
The numbers of League They reflect the current situation of the clubs. And even if we evaluate the last decade, the numbers are improving. The unavailability of the Spanish market in recent years is more than obvious and the proof is that the Series To toIt appears to be the second league that has spent the most money over the last 10 seasons, with €10.84 billion. But the rest of the championships are already closely following our competition, since, as the data from the CIES Football ObservatoryLigue 1 and the Bundesliga – which have two fewer teams – spent 7,440 and 7,170 million respectively.
It should be remembered that in recent years, Spain They are at the bottom of the scale of major European clubs in terms of transfer spending. Without going any further, over the last three seasons, it appears to be the fifth League in terms of expenditure, surpassed by all its most direct competitors. Premier, Serie A, Ligue 1 And Bundesliga They spent more than the League, with a difference between the Tebas competition and the German competition – fourth – of 500 million euros.
