Spanish women’s soccer’s top-flight Liga F has launched a new rights tender seeking free-to-air coverage for its current 2025-26 campaign.
The tender, which has a deadline of January 27, will cover four matches per gameweek for the remainder of the season, with the option to bid on the same rights for the 2026-27 campaign also on offer.
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These games will be broadcast on a non-exclusive basis, with primary rightsholder DAZN also showing these games simultaneously on its own platform.
DAZN retained the rights for the current season on both a domestic and international basis, and it has been known that the OTT service is looking to recoup some of the €7.5 million it is spending annually on the competition by bringing in other partners to sub-license coverage.
A small slate of non-exclusive rights for 10 Liga F games through the end of 2025-26 are held by Catalan broadcaster TV3, sub-licensed from DAZN and fellow rightsholder MediaPro and focused around the games of Catalan clubs Barcelona, Espanyol, and FC Badalona.
Liga F says any interested bidders may submit written inquiries for the tender by January 22, with responses to be published the following day.
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By GlobalDataOne prospective bidder could be public-service broadcaster RTVE, which has already made a major move to bolster its free-to-air offering this year by picking up the rights to the men’s LaLiga top-flight last week.
RTVE secured a single fixture each gameweek live on its Teledeporte terrestrial channel for the remainder of the 2025-26 campaign, starting with the January 16 matchup between Espanyol and Girona.
That set of rights was also sub-licensed from DAZN, which is looking to lift its heavy media rights burden.
As of December 31, 2024, DAZN stated it still has $9.8 billion (up from $9.4 billion in 2023) of media rights commitments to pay over the coming years, a figure that it says does not represent financial liability given its relationship to the company’s primary revenue stream.
Nonetheless, easing this burden is key to the company’s plans to seek profitability in the near future.
The OTT broadcaster has lost over $10 billion across the last decade, and across 2024, it generated a net loss over the year of $961.5 million.
