Sela Sport & Laliga Sign Mena Region Deal
Sela Sport has struck an agreement with LaLiga to become LaLiga’s official and exclusive commercial partner for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), where Sela Sport will work on marketing the Spanish league’s commercial rights across a variety of channels.
Sela Sport is a sports marketing and management company founded in 1995. It manages the commercial rights of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation, the Saudi Professional League and the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA), among others. Sela also owns the exclusive commercial rights of the three biggest football clubs in Saudi Arabia in addition to AlAhly Egypt, while its other ventures have included organising games such as the Ittihad FC v Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid v Al-Nassr FC exhibition matches. Sela Sport’s properties in the MENA region serve more than 70 million fans annually.
LaLiga is looking to expand it’s presence in the MENA region and recently launched an official Twitter account in Arabic, @LaLigaArab.
LaLiga, which also has over 3.24 million Facebook followers in the Arab countries, boasts a global audience of some 2.5 billion people in more than 180 countries.
Sela Sport CEO and president, Dr Rakan Al Harthy stated that: “We’re very proud of this agreement between LaLiga and Sela Sport, which will help our strategic growth and transformation from a regional firm into a global company. It gives us great pride that LaLiga has chosen Sela Sport as a strategic partner for their growth in the region. This is a perfect fit because we are talking about not just the best league in the world, but the most popular one in MENA, so we hope that this will be a long-lasting partnership that we are very excited to be working on.”
“This is a very important agreement for LaLiga, because the Middle East and North Africa are strategic territories for us. It is paramount for LaLiga to constantly get closer to its fans all over the world and we’re sure that this new partnership will contribute towards that. LaLiga is the best league in the world and we’ve got to join forces with the best in every domain,” said Bara, LaLiga’s head of sales, marketing and sponsorship, during the signing ceremony.
