Capital Fútbol

About

Capital Fútbol is an independent publication dedicated to analysing the money and power behind football. We cover three themes: who owns the clubs, how financial regulation constrains their spending, and who actually governs the sport at institutional level.

We do not publish transfer rumours, match reports, betting tips or content sponsored by clubs or leagues. What we publish are long-form analyses, grounded in publicly verifiable documentation, with every source linked at the foot of each article.

Editorial methodology

Every article follows the same process before publication:

  1. Primary source identification. We always start from official documents: club annual accounts, UEFA licensing reports, published LaLiga regulations, the Deloitte Football Money League, court filings and current legislation.
  2. Cross-verification. Every material figure is checked against at least one independent additional source. When press reporting disagrees with the official document, the document prevails.
  3. Contextualisation. Raw data explains nothing on its own. Each article places the numbers in their historical, regulatory or institutional context so the reader understands not just the what, but the why.
  4. Review and publication. The text is editorially reviewed before going live. After publication, any detected error is corrected and the update date is recorded.

Corrections policy

If you find an incorrect figure, an unsupported claim or a broken link, write to contacto@capitalfutbol.com indicating the article and the source that supports the correction. We fix the text, record the update date and, where the error was material, add a visible correction note.

We do not remove published articles unless they contain an irreparable factual error. We prefer to correct and document the correction.

Why two languages

The Spanish press covers football finance in depth, but rarely in English. English-language football finance media rarely consults Spanish sources. Each analysis is written natively in both languages — it is not machine-translated — so that Spanish sources become accessible to the international audience and vice versa.

Transparency and funding

This site is funded exclusively through Google AdSense advertising. We do not accept sponsorship from clubs, leagues, investment funds, betting companies or player agencies.

We have no commercial relationship with any of the entities we analyse. Editorial independence is the only asset a small publication has, and we protect it above any advertising revenue.

What we do NOT do

Who writes this

Hi, I'm Andre John Ojumu, the creator of Capital Fútbol.

I'm a final-year Informatics Engineering student based in Madrid. As a long-time follower of Spanish football — growing up watching Real Madrid, Barça and the big derbies — and an active futsal player myself, the sport has always been a constant in my life.

What drew me to the financial side of football was curiosity. I realised that the 90 minutes we watch on the pitch are only the surface. Behind every match is a machine of power structures, financial regulations and capital flows that dictates the future of the game, and that is usually either hidden from the public or half-explained.

Combining the analytical rigour of my engineering background with my experience running international sports data analytics projects, I built Capital Fútbol. The goal isn't transfer rumours or weekend match reports. It's to translate annual club accounts, explain LaLiga's salary limits using real data, and break down the forces that actually govern modern football.

You can find me on LinkedIn or reach me at contacto@capitalfutbol.com.