A separated division for the best spanish football clubs?

Media and money seems to be responsible for a split in the highest football division in Spain. The reason is the partition of television incomes.

The rich and leading clubs as for instance FC Barcelona and Real Madrid want a seperation of the Primera Division as soon as possible. There are welknown examples of this kind of separations for example the Italian A Serieus or the Enligsh Premier League. The Spanish Professional league the LFP announced two weeks ago that they made an agreement about that they would start discussing the opportunities about how this new, much better and more interesting topcompetition can be achieved.

The first time that the work group will meet is in June... But how will they decide?



The smaller and poorer clubs in both the first and second division fear the worst. They just asked the Spanish government for negotiations on the collective decesion on broadcasting of football matches.

Contradictionary to the most other European competitions, in Spain the clubs make deals with televesion companies theirselve. FC Barcelona and Real Madrid each reach around 150 million euros which is half of the available television budget in the market. Poor and small clubs have to be content with the crumbs.