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Top sports media in Spain

The outlets that cover sport in Spain — the sports press, the broadcasters, the agencies and the specialist titles.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026

These are the outlets that cover sport in Spain — the sports press, the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, the national news agency where it carries sport, and the specialist titles of national standing. Single-sport titles without national standing are not listed here; they appear on the media list for their own sport.

How this list is ordered. By role and national standing — the sports press first, then the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, then the national news agency and the specialist titles. That order is set once and stays put, so a page that has been cited does not rearrange itself later. The Tranco figure against each outlet is shown for reference and does not set the order. Tranco is a research ranking of web domains that averages the Chrome User Experience Report, Cloudflare Radar, Majestic, Cisco Umbrella and Farsight over the preceding 30 days, on the list of September 2026. It ranks a whole domain, not a sports desk. A general daily's rank counts every reader it has, most of whom did not come for sport, so a national newspaper will sit above a dedicated sports title that has more sports readers than it does.

1. MarcaGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 1,084 — Madrid sports daily published by Unidad Editorial, whose Italian parent RCS MediaGroup named the title among its Spanish papers in August 2024. The EGM's second 2026 wave measured 881,000 readers a day. 2. Diario ASGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 1,079 — Madrid sports daily relaunched on 6 December 1967, taking the name of a 1932–1936 weekly, and acquired by Prisa in 1996. The EGM's second 2026 wave measured 369,000 readers a day. 3. Mundo DeportivoGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 1,263 — Barcelona sports daily inside Grupo Godó, whose corporate profile dates the title's first issue to 1906 and the holding company itself to 1998. The EGM's second 2026 wave measured 276,000 readers a day. 4. SportGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 1,357 — Barcelona sports daily whose first issue reached the kiosks on 3 November 1979, published within Prensa Ibérica since that group acquired Grupo Zeta in 2019. The EGM's second 2026 wave measured 177,000 readers a day. 5. RelevoGeneral sports coverage · News site · Tranco 170,267 — Digital-only Spanish sports title launched by Vocento on 24 May 2022, first on social platforms and with a website from that September. In Comscore's 2025 sports report it fell in a band running from 14.1 million users down to 8.9 million. 6. RTVEBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 1,811 — Spain's state-owned public broadcaster, governed by Ley 17/2006 of 5 June. Its La 1 channel carried the 2026 World Cup final on 19 July 2026 to an average 14,425,000 viewers and a 77.6 per cent share. 7. Agencia EFENews agency · News agency · Tranco 14,257 — Spanish news agency wholly owned by the state holding company SEPI, founded in Burgos on 3 January 1939, running a sports desk that files a daily international sports agenda to subscribing media. 8. Movistar Plus+Broadcaster · Television · Tranco 42,368 — Telefónica's pay-television platform, reported at 3.943 million subscribers at 30 June 2026, and one of the two buyers of LaLiga's 2027/28–2031/32 audiovisual rights awarded on 28 November 2025.