El Periòdic d’Andorra

What is El Periòdic d'Andorra?

El Periòdic d'Andorra is an Andorran newspaper published in Catalan at elperiodic.ad. Section 1 of the site's legal notice, headed “TITULARITAT DE LA WEB”, names “ANDORRANA DE PUBLICACIONS S..A”, printed so, with the number “A-703503-P” and the address “AVDA. DEL PESSEBRE Nº 27. ED CAL BECAINA. AD700 ESCALDES-ENGORDANY”.^[3] No company-register entry and no report by a media-ownership or press-freedom monitor covering the paper could be retrieved, so the ownership is given as the paper's own legal notice states it.

The site's menu has sections for politics, society, economy, company news, culture, education, sport, interviews, opinion, editorials, death notices and leisure, and a newspaper archive.^[1]

What does El Periòdic d'Andorra cover?

The sport section, as retrieved on 26 September 2026, opened with results listings, each giving date, time, venue and score under a competition heading. Under “ACB” it listed MoraBanc Andorra's games, among them a 95–100 home defeat by Barça on 29 May 2026 at the Pavelló Toni Martí. Under “Primera RFEF” it listed FC Andorra's games, among them a 1–0 defeat at Valladolid on 5 September and a 1–3 home defeat by Sporting de Gijón on 19 September 2026 at the “Nou Estadi de la FAF”. Under “Lliga Multisegur” it listed the Andorran domestic football league, with games of 19 and 20 September 2026, most of them at the Estadi Nacional, among them Inter Escaldes 3, Ranger's 0 and Sporting Escaldes 1, FC Santa Coloma 5.^[2] Both headings are the paper's usage: LaLiga's own standings for LaLiga Hypermotion 2026/27 list FC Andorra, and the federation's own name for the domestic league could not be retrieved.^[5]

Its sport headlines that day included the national team's opening match in the Nations League and a report that the cycling federation would replace individual guarantees with a common anti-doping guarantee fund from 2027.^[2]

The paper also reports official sport statistics. On 5 March 2026 it reported, from the Departament d'Estadística: “El nombre de llicències esportives federatives al Principat ha arribat a 9.857 durant la temporada 2024-25”, with 2,875 federative licences in football and 1,109 in skiing. It reported that “4.156 corresponen a esports col·lectius, amb un increment del 8,8%, mentre que 4.766 pertanyen a esports individuals, creixent un 5,7%”, that “2.806 corresponen a dones, el 28,5% restant”, and that “s'han concedit 53 beques del programa Alt Rendiment d'Andorra (ARA) a esportistes d'alt nivell, cosa que suposa un increment del 20,5% respecte a la temporada anterior”.^[4]

How large is El Periòdic d'Andorra's audience?

No audited readership, circulation or web-traffic figure for El Periòdic d'Andorra could be retrieved, and no Andorran audience-measurement body publishing figures per title was found. The site's own pages that were read publish no audience figure.^[1][3] That is a limitation of the evidence.

Since when has El Periòdic d'Andorra existed?

The site's footer, as retrieved on 26 September 2026, reads “© elperiodic.ad | 1997 - 2024”.^[1] That is the site's own dating; no founding date was retrieved from an independent source, and none is adopted here.

The paper is current: its sport section, as retrieved on 26 September 2026, listed results dated 19 and 20 September 2026.^[2]

Why does El Periòdic d'Andorra matter in Andorra's sport?

Its sport section follows the Andorran clubs in Spanish competitions — FC Andorra in football and MoraBanc Andorra in basketball — and the clubs of the Andorran domestic football league, as its listings of May to September 2026 show.^[2] It also reports official sport statistics: on 5 March 2026 it published the Departament d'Estadística's count of 9,857 federative licences for 2024–25, with 2,875 in football and 1,109 in skiing.^[4]