October 12 – Outspoken Spanish league president Javier Tebas, who has refused to condemn third party ownership despite widespread opposition to the practise, has been handed a second four-year term.
Tebas resigned in September to call for new elections but his only rival Alex Aranzabal pulled out on Tuesday, 24 hours before the deadline for candidates to register allowing the 54-year-old to run unopposed, just as he did in 2013 when he replaced Jose Luis Astiazaran
Tebas’ biggest success during his first term was overseeing the centralisation of television broadcasting rights in Spanish football but he has waged a bitter feud with long-standing Spanish FA boss Angel Maria Villar over the latter’s leadership.
Their relationship was further strained last year when Villar supported a planned strike by players against a new law regulating collective bargaining. The pair also clashed in 2014 over how to solve the problem of violence in Spanish football.
Annoucing Tebas’ election, a Spanish league statement said: “In relation to the elections called for the presidency of the Liga Nacional de Futbol Profesional, in accordance with statutory provisions, regulations and the electoral calendar, the Electoral Commission reached the following agreements at its meeting this morning: with only one candidate running for president of the Liga Nacional de Futbol Profesional and that candidacy deemed valid, Javier Tebas Medrano is definitively announced as president of the National Football League on a four-year term, without needing to call an Extraordinary General Assembly.”
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