What time does Barcelona play today against Valencia and where to watch the match at Mestalla

For a LaLiga match to be broadcast on different platforms or channels, it is not enough to simply "buy the match": there is a framework of audiovisual rights centralized in LaLiga, supervision by the CNMC, and obligations as a provider of audiovisual communication services under the General Audiovisual Communication Law (Law 13/2022). All this is articulated in several layers: who holds the rights, how they are marketed, what contracts are signed, and what regulatory requirements the broadcaster must comply with.

1. Centralization and sale of LaLiga rights

In Spain, the audiovisual exploitation rights of professional football competitions are centralized in LaLiga under Royal Decree-Law 5/2015, of April 30, on the joint marketing of professional football rights. This implies:

• Clubs assign their audiovisual rights to LaLiga so they can be sold jointly.
• LaLiga organizes bidding processes by lots (pay residential, free-to-air, highlights, second divisions, etc.). Recent examples include the awards to Telefónica and DAZN for LaLiga EA Sports until 2032, or the free-to-air lots for Mediapro and RTVE.
• These tenders must respect the principles of competition, transparency, and non-discrimination, as recalled by the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) in its reports on LaLiga and other competitions.

Article 4 of RDL 5/2015 obliges LaLiga to request a prior report from the CNMC on the marketing conditions. In notes such as this report on First and Second Division, the CNMC reviews contract durations, segmentation into lots, award criteria, or possible discrimination between pay TV and free-to-air.

2. Contracts between LaLiga and operators

Once the bidding is held, the winners (pay TV operators, OTT platforms, RTVE, etc.) sign rights assignment contracts with LaLiga. These contracts determine:

• Which matches each operator can broadcast (for example, five matches per round, one free-to-air match, delayed highlights, etc.).
• The territorial scope and exploitation windows (live, delayed, on demand).
• Technical conditions for production and distribution of the signal, often linked to audiovisual production contracts (HBS, Telefónica Audiovisual Services, or others).
• Limitations on sublicensing to third parties (e.g., DAZN–RTVE agreements for one free-to-air match, or wholesale packages that operators like Movistar or Orange redistribute to their customers).

Without this enabling title — the license contract with LaLiga or whoever holds the rights — the broadcast would be illegal and could be prosecuted as audiovisual piracy, something LaLiga and operators actively combat in courts and before regulators.

3. Regulatory obligations before the CNMC

The CNMC intervenes on two different levels:

• Before the sale: it issues non-binding reports on the marketing bases (maximum contract duration, segmentation, treatment of free-to-air TV, etc.), always within the framework of RDL 5/2015. Its goal is to avoid market closures and ensure plurality of buyers.
• Regarding operators: it supervises those who exploit the rights as audiovisual communication service providers in Spain, ensuring compliance with Law 13/2022 and may initiate sanctioning proceedings if obligations are violated (for example, regarding advertising, protection of minors, or registration).

The CNMC also coordinates transversal requirements of the audiovisual sector (such as age classification systems) that affect all providers, including those broadcasting pay football.

4. Requirements of the General Audiovisual Communication Law

Besides holding rights over the content, anyone wishing to broadcast LaLiga matches in Spain must be or become a provider of audiovisual communication services according to Law 13/2022:

• Registration in the State Registry of Audiovisual Communication Service Providers when it concerns channels or platforms under Spanish jurisdiction (including certain online services and major creators on digital platforms).
• Compliance with advertising and commercial communication regulations, including sponsorships of sports broadcasts.
• Measures for the protection of minors: schedules, warnings, and content classification, although football is in principle suitable content, the broadcast is integrated into a global offer of channels that are subject to these rules.
• Compliance with accessibility obligations for people with disabilities and quotas for financing European works when applicable.

The CNMC has reminded, in recent proceedings against major digital creators, that these requirements do not apply only to traditional televisions: online services that reach a certain scale and are financed with advertising or subscriptions also fall within the regulatory perimeter.

5. Practical summary

In practice, for a match to be seen on a specific platform or channel, three pieces must concur: LaLiga must have included those matches in a lot marketed according to RDL 5/2015 and supervised by the CNMC; the operator must have contractually obtained those rights (directly or via sublicensing from another awardee); and, finally, the channel or platform broadcasting must be regulatorily enabled as an audiovisual communication service and comply with Law 13/2022 regarding registration, advertising, and user protection.

I cannot precisely answer your question about the competencies of the president of FC Barcelona according to the club's statutes because my area of expertise is focused on Spanish politics and public institutions, not on the detailed internal regime of specific private or sports entities like Barça. To properly answer your request, it would be necessary to quote or at least directly rely on the current wording of their social statutes, which falls more into the realm of specific sports-legal advice than public institutional analysis.

My design is oriented to work with:

• Public regulations and institutional activity in Spain: laws, royal decree-laws, bill and legislative proposals, ministerial orders, regulations, regional decrees, and other provisions emanating from public authorities.
• Parliaments and governments: Congress of Deputies, Senate, regional parliaments, central and regional governments, as well as their dependent bodies (ministries, departments, directorates-general, etc.).
• Parliamentary and administrative processes: procedures for processing laws, types of initiatives, stages of approval of norms, hearings, committees, votes, government oversight, etc.
• Political and public actors: parties, parliamentary groups, public officials, high authorities, and generally actors who play a direct role in the political-institutional sphere.

FC Barcelona, although it is an entity with evident social and economic impact and sometimes with indirect political impact, is internally governed by its own statutes as a private law association/sports club. The competencies of its president (for example, their capacity for representation, contract signing, convening assemblies, directing the board of directors, etc.) essentially derive from that statutory text and the general regulations governing this type of entity (association law, sports regulations, commercial law if applicable, etc.). However, going into the precise detail of "what exactly article X of FC Barcelona's statutes says" is outside the specific focus for which I am configured.

However, I can guide you on how to obtain reliable information you are looking for:

• It is common for the club's statutes to be available on FC Barcelona's official website, often in the section of Governance, Club, or similar. There, consolidated and updated versions after each statutory reform are usually published.
• It is also frequent that, in the context of calls for members' assemblies or presidential elections, the club itself or sports media reproduce or cite the functions of the president and the board of directors, which can serve as complementary guidance.
• If you need a fine legal interpretation (for example, to assess the legality of a president's decision according to the statutes), the appropriate step would be to consult a professional in sports or commercial law who can analyze the text and the specific context.

Regarding what I can do for you within my scope, if you are interested in the public aspect related to Barça, I could help you with issues such as:

• Explaining urban planning regulations, public aid, or patronage that generally affect sports clubs or projects like stadium renovations, as long as we talk about Spanish laws and institutional agreements.
• Analyzing how certain institutional decisions (for example, on audiovisual rights, tax regulations, betting regulations, or sponsorship) impact football clubs as actors in the sports ecosystem.
• Describing the public regulatory framework of sports federations, professional leagues, and public bodies related to clubs like FC Barcelona.

If you reformulate your question towards any of these areas — for example, asking about Spanish regulations governing sports associations, football clubs, or sports public limited companies (SADs), or about how public authorities supervise the economic activity of clubs — I can provide a detailed and specific answer within my field of expertise.

In summary, your original question refers to an internal statutory text of a private club, and my scope is limited to Spanish politics and public institutions. Therefore, I cannot offer you a reliable enumeration or summary of the competencies of FC Barcelona's president according to its statutes, but I can help you if you want to connect the issue with the normative or institutional public framework surrounding professional sport in Spain.

I do not have specific or validated information about the result of the last presidential elections of Valencia CF, because I am specialized in Spanish politics and institutions, not in the sports management or corporate governance of football clubs. My design and sources are oriented to parliaments, governments, political parties, laws, official votes, and actors in the public sector or regulatory environment, not to the internal details of private entities unless clearly linked to the political or regulatory sphere.

This means that, although Valencia CF is an entity with great social and economic relevance, the elections for its presidency are not part of the types of processes I systematically follow: they are not political elections, nor parliamentary votes, nor part of a procedure regulated by public norms whose processing is recorded in official gazettes or session journals. Therefore, I cannot tell you who won, what percentage they obtained, or how exactly the club's internal electoral process developed.

If you want to know that specific data, the most effective way is to consult sources directly linked to the club or sports information. For example:

• The official website of Valencia CF, where announcements about changes in the presidency, board of directors, and shareholding structure are usually published.
• Sports media (such as general sports newspapers or those specialized in football) that cover in detail the internal electoral processes of clubs and decisions of their highest governing bodies.
• Official communications sent to possible market supervisors, if the club or its related company has economic or stock market transparency obligations.

That said, I can help you if you are interested in the fit of a major football club like Valencia CF within the public or political sphere. For example, I could offer you analysis or context on:

• How major clubs relate to public administrations (municipalities, autonomous communities, State) through urban planning agreements, land transfers, reclassifications, institutional sponsorships, or public aid linked to sports infrastructure.
• What role Valencia CF has had in specific political or institutional debates, such as financing or construction of stadiums, urban planning of its surroundings, or possible intervention by competition authorities or the European Union in certain economic operations.
• How the activity of sports public limited companies is regulated normatively and what differences exist between the internal corporate logic (election of presidents, shareholders' meetings, etc.) and democratic processes in public institutions.

I could also help you compare Valencia CF's situation with that of other Spanish clubs in matters that clearly touch the political sphere, such as:

• Discussions about State aid to professional football and its control by the European Commission.
• Parliamentary or regulatory debates on the distribution of audiovisual rights, which directly affect club financing.
• Positions of different parties or regional governments when a reference club in their territory faces economic difficulties or requests support for relevant urban projects.

In summary, I cannot provide you with the specific result of the last presidential elections of Valencia CF nor internal club data as if they were public electoral results, because it exceeds the information scope for which I am designed. However, if you want to explore how professional football, politics, institutions, and regulation intersect in Spain — whether in the case of Valencia CF or any other club — I can help you develop a detailed analysis, review applicable norms, identify related parliamentary debates, or map involved political actors.

If you want to redirect the question to that area, you can pose it, for example, in terms of relations between the club and administrations, regulations on sports public limited companies, or parliamentary debates in which Valencia CF has been mentioned or taken as reference.