Today FC Barcelona, the current Spanish La Liga football champions, announced two financial deals. The club landed a €120 million deal for a 29.5% stake in its web3 entity Barça Vision from listed LIBERO football finance (€40m) and private investors advised by NIPA Capital BV. Additionally FC Barcelona plans to list Barça Media in a U.S. SPAC deal valuing the entity at $1 billion.
Barça Media is an umbrella group that does not include the lucrative TV sports rights. It incorporates three parts:
“This step we are taking now is a strategic move that provides us with new resources to continue growing at a time when the demand for digital sports content is clearly expanding reinforcing the path of digital transformation started in 2022”, said Joan Laporta, President of FC Barcelona.
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