The First RFEF has experienced in the last 24 hours the most important crisis in its recent history. The competition created last summer as a bridge between the old Second B and professional football has seen its main source of income falter, the exploitation of its television rights, due to the outrage of the fans of the teams that compete in the third echelon of professional football.
Footers , a platform that broadcasts weekly the matches of the 40 clubs (39 after the disqualification of Extremadura ), announced on Monday night that it was not going to broadcast the Castillo-Albacete and Racing Ferrol-Ray Majadahonda clashes “due to a unilateral decision of the owner of the rights”. And it is that Footers, despite being the OTT platform through which the competition is seen, is not the company that owns the rights, which were awarded to Fuchs 스포츠중계 a company based in Luxembourg with experience in minor divisions in France. Sources from the category consulted by assure that the problem between the two companies has been the non-compliance with some of the planned payments from Footers’ to Fuchs Sports. Several warnings arrived from Luxembourg before making the final decision to break the contract.
Legal measures
“We are taking the pertinent legal measures and we are making all possible efforts to guarantee the continuity of the broadcasts of the First RFEF”, they limit themselves to pointing out from Footers, also a broadcaster of Second RFEF matches, in a statement.
Fuchs Sports, however, reported a couple of hours
Later about its decision to break with the Footers, guaranteeing the broadcast of all the remaining games of the season, except for those played this Wednesday. The Luxembourg Company will broadcast the matches through its own online platform, which already regularly offers French league matches, and has also guaranteed that it will offer them “for free” until the end of this season. The fans of the First RFEF teams thus receive good news, but it will remain to be resolved what happens to those who subscribed to Footters. The Spanish OTT offered subscription plans for the entire season at a rate of 70 euros per year, as well as monthly plans for nine euros Another of the unknowns is fixed in the medium and long term, since Fuchs Sports was the winner of the competition rights for three seasons, for a total of approximately 25 million euros, and the current one is only the first of them.
This Wednesday afternoon an emergency
Meeting with the clubs is held at the RFEF headquarters to study the situation and make decisions about the exploitation of the audiovisual rights of the First RFEF.
