Pedro Fernández Bolaños 
Coordinador para la Calidad de los Terrenos de juego 
Area Audiovisual 

LaLiga is a private sports association composed of the 20 football clubs/SADs (Public Limited Sports Companies) of LaLiga Santander and the 22 of LaLiga SmartBank, responsible for organizing professional football competitions of a national scope in Spain. 

Since 2013, with Javier Tebas assuming the presidency, LaLiga has embarked on a path of growth and continuous innovation based on financial control, centralized sale of audiovisual rights, and a strategy of internationalization and technological leadership. All of this has positioned it as a benchmark in the sector and one of the best professional leagues in the world of sports, enabling it to attract new generations.

As part of this growth, in 2016 LaLiga introduced the Television Broadcasting Regulations (the current version dates from the 2018/19 season), which governs every aspect of the event that is a football match: from the various stadium infrastructures (lighting, cameras, access, pitch, locker rooms…) to the timing of each activity (team arrivals, interviews, pitch watering…). It also includes the creation of the match director role, responsible for supervising compliance with every point of this regulation in each of the 842 matches played per season under LaLiga’s control.