The outspoken president of La Liga, Javier Tebas, has been re-elected as the head of Spain’s two top divisions, the league announced on Tuesday.
Tebas, 61, resigned in November to run for a fourth term and was the sole candidate.
In April 2013, he was elected president of La Liga for the first time, and he was re-elected in 2016 and 2019.
“The Electoral Commission of the National Professional Football League (La Liga)… has agreed to the definitive proclamation of Mr. Javier Tebas Medrano as President of the National Professional Football League, for a period of four years,” La Liga said in a statement.
Tebas, the former club president of Huesca, is credited with reforming Spanish football’s TV rights bargaining by centralising a system which previously relied on clubs negotiating individually.
He has butted heads with the presidents of Real Madrid and Barcelona over their support for a proposed European Super League.
And he has raised hackles abroad with his criticism of clubs such as Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City, arguing that their Gulf-based ownership amounts to “financial doping”.