Spanish football YouTubers and content creators: the 28 channels you need to follow in 2026 (with real figures)
- DjMaRiiO is the most influential creator with 10.1 million subscribers, considered the pioneer who turned 'football youtuber' into a profession in Spain since 2009
- The list includes 29 channels ranked by real YouTube figures as of September 7, 2026, without data manipulation or marketing agency copies
- Ibai Llanos with 16.3 million subscribers and the Kings League has transformed the way an entire generation watches football beyond traditional YouTuber content
What's up, folks? I've been uploading football videos to YouTube since March 2012, and in all that time I've shared studios, Mahou coach trips, stadium seats and FIFA tournaments with half the trade. So every time someone asks me «which football YouTubers do you follow?» I come up with a massive list. Well, here it is, organized and with real figures: this isn't some marketing agency list copied from another list, it's from someone who's been inside this for fourteen years.
🏟️ The giants: the ones who fill stadiums (for real)
DjMaRiiO is the king and there's no debate: 10.1 million subscribers, over 4.5 billion views and a channel opened in 2009. Started with FIFA, put together the YouTubers Match (now on its sixth edition with EA FC 26) and this summer he broadcast the 2026 World Cup from the Fan Fest. He's the one who turned «football YouTuber» into a profession in Spain.
Ibai Llanos isn't your typical football YouTuber, but with 16.3 million on YouTube and the Kings League he co-founded with Piqué, leaving him out would be a lie. He changed how an entire generation watches football, full stop.
Cracks, Manu Bravo's channel, is the dark horse that loads of people in Spain haven't clocked yet: 6.06 million subscribers and over 4.2 billion views. He's Mexican, from Tonalá (Jalisco), started filming at home and today he's got more subscribers than the official channels of Real Madrid, Liverpool or Manchester United. Football news, curiosities and data from European football told without any stuffiness. If we're talking about football in Spanish, not just from Spain, it's the biggest channel that exists.
xBuyer (Javier Ruiz, with his brother MiniBuyer): 6.02 million, football challenges, reactions and EA FC since 2012. Jose Cobo: 2.55 million and around 2 million on TikTok, with pure, hard football content in short format — one of the fastest growers on the whole list. Spursito (Martí Miràs): 1.62 million and president of Rayo Barcelona in the Kings League. And Papi Gavi (Alejandro Gavilán): 1.32 million on his main channel, football vlogs with his crew «La Élite» and a comeback story that deserves an article all of its own.
🎙️ The storytellers: journalism, stories and reporting
This is the section I love most, because there's no reaction or shouting here: there's craft.
Iker Ruiz, from ElefutBol (601,000), is the best at telling football stories in Spanish right now. He came out of Jugones, went solo and has even published a book with the best stories ever told about this sport. If you dig football as narrative, that channel is a goldmine.
Rafa Escrig (429,000), from Castelló, does what I call backpack journalism: he packs up and goes to tell football where it's happening, with travel reports and DAZN collaborations. Very few graft away at trips like he does. He's also got around 196,000 on TikTok.
svgiago (374,000) is the flip side of the coin: short format, breakneck pace and a gift for headlines that works even better for him on TikTok than on YouTube. And Línea de Cal (107,000) is the proper sit-down show: they broadcast Mondays from 21:00 to 22:30 on Twitch, with solid humour and proper debate, then stick it on YouTube.
Special mention for Siro López, «the granddad of Twitch». Born in 1956, he's spent half his life at COPE, Sport, Estudio Estadio and El Golazo de Gol, and one day he started doing live streams and became one of the most beloved figures in Spanish sports streaming. He doesn't have YouTube as his main platform — his home is Twitch — so I can't give you a figure I can't verify today. But he's here by right.
🔴⚪ The Asturians: my people
Now I'm talking about home. Daniel Fez is the biggest Asturian: 703,000 on YouTube and nearly 3 million on TikTok. He's more of a comedian than a footballer, but when Mahou put together La Encuentroneta in 2023 he was the Real Oviedo creator and I was the Sporting one, so the derby gets played on social media too. This year he was the master of ceremonies at FanMedia Con in Oviedo, the summit of Asturian creators where I was also there.
And there's another Asturian that loads of people don't know is one: Rodrigo Fáez (459,000). Born in Gijón in 1982 and started in 2003 at SER Gijón covering Sporting, before heading to Madrid and ending up as one of the reference journalists at ESPN. Today he does interviews and formats like 24 hours with a footballer, but the lad cut his teeth covering the same thing I cover. One of ours, even if he's a long way away.
And then there's me, Elopi23: 122,000 subscribers, 22.8 million views and around 500,000 followers across all networks. YouTuber for Sporting Gijón since 2012, EA Game Changer, Cayo TV, Ganar y Más, two World Cups on the ground and, this year, this website: the LaLiga Hypermotion hub, the Your XI vote and The ratings for each matchday. If you've got this far looking for «Sporting YouTuber», you've found me.
And if we're talking about Asturian creators in general, two names from Gijón who tower above the rest: The Corvus Clan (Julio Fernández), the biggest Asturian YouTuber with 4.68 million subscribers and over 1.6 billion views, who's also the one behind FanMedia Con; and Tanizen, with 876,000 followers on Twitch. His thing is gaming, not football, but they're the ones who've put Asturias on the digital content map.
🎮 The Kings League, gaming and football comedy lot
Ander Cortés (215,000 on YouTube, over 500,000 on Twitch), childhood friend of Ibai and former president of Aniquiladores FC. Darío Eme Hache, the ringleader of La Encuentroneta, is the football comedian par excellence, but his audience lives on X, TikTok and his podcast Fuego Amigo: on YouTube he barely has 9,400. Jorge Amor (1.16 million) and PabloGshow (282,000 on YouTube, 2 million on Instagram) were my bus mates on that Mahou campaign: natural-born comedians with football as an excuse. And Perxitaa (2.51 million), the Valencia fan, though his YouTube's been dormant for a while.
Football challenges: the Heretics lot
And here are three you need to explain properly, because if you land on their channels the first thing you're gonna see is GTA, not tactical analysis. Peereira7 (697,000), Guanyar (403,000) and Jcorko (257,000) are creators from Team Heretics, gaming and entertainment… but when they get together to do Faltas de la Verdad, penalties and challenges with footballers, they shift more football content than a lot of channels that only do football.
And that's not a minor detail: that format is today one of the biggest entry points this sport has with young people. A fourteen-year-old can discover football through a penalty challenge before they discover it through a match. So they're on the list with full credit — though knowing what they are: entertainment with a ball, not journalism.
📋 The Fantasy lot: small but essential in your league
If you play Biwenger or LaLiga Fantasy (I run my own league every season, and did one with AS during the World Cup), these three will save you hours: Jornada Perfecta Fantasy (25.600), Scouting Biwenger (15.000 and growing every week since the league kicked off) and MrExcel Fantasy (11.300, the spreadsheet lads).
📊 The full table
| Creator | Team / topic | YouTube | Where their audience lives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ibai Llanos | Kings League, events | 16,3 M (jun 2026) | Twitch / YouTube |
| DjMaRiiO | EA FC, Real Madrid, Partidazo de YouTubers | 10,1 M | YouTube |
| Cracks (Manu Bravo) | News and trivia · Mexico | 6,06 M | YouTube |
| xBuyer | Challenges, EA FC | 6,02 M | YouTube |
| The Corvus Clan | Gaming · Gijón (Asturias) | 4,68 M | YouTube / Kick |
| Jose Cobo | Football in short format | 2,55 M | YouTube / TikTok (2 M) |
| Perxitaa | Valencia CF, streaming | 2,51 M | Twitch |
| Spursito | Kings League, EA FC | 1,62 M | Twitch / YouTube |
| El canal de Gavi (Papi Gavi) | Football vlogs | 1,32 M | YouTube |
| Jorge Amor | Comedy | 1,16 M | YouTube / TikTok |
| Daniel Fez | Comedy · Oviedo (Asturias) | 703 K | TikTok (2,9 M) |
| Peereira7 | Football challenges · Heretics | 697 K | YouTube / Twitch |
| Iker Ruiz (ElefutBol) | Football stories | 601 K | YouTube |
| Rodrigo Fáez | Journalism, interviews · Gijón (Asturias) | 459 K | YouTube / ESPN |
| Rafa Escrig | Reports and travel | 429 K | YouTube / TikTok (196 K) |
| Guanyar | Football challenges · Heretics | 403 K | YouTube / Twitch |
| svgiago | Football in short format | 374 K | YouTube / TikTok |
| PabloGshow | Comedy | 282 K | Instagram (2 M) |
| Jcorko | Football challenges · Heretics | 257 K | YouTube / Twitch |
| Ander Cortés | Kings League, Bilbao | 215 K | Twitch (530 K) |
| Elopi23 | Sporting de Gijón · Asturias | 122 K | YouTube / Kick / Instagram (120 K) |
| Línea de Cal | Roundtable and comedy | 107 K | Twitch (Monday 21:00) |
| Tanizen | Gaming · Gijón | 104 K | Twitch (876 K) |
| Jornada Perfecta Fantasy | Fantasy LaLiga | 25,6 K | YouTube |
| Scouting Biwenger | Biwenger | 15 K | YouTube |
| MrExcel Fantasy | Biwenger, Fantasy Marca | 11,3 K | YouTube |
| Darío Eme Hache | Football comedy | 9,4 K | X / TikTok / Podimo |
| Siro López | Sports streaming, roundtable | — | Twitch |
Frequently asked questions
Who is the biggest football YouTuber in Spain?
DjMaRiiO, with 10.1 million subscribers on YouTube (Social Blade, September 2026) and over 4.5 billion views. If we count creators who cover football without running pure football channels, Ibai Llanos exceeds 16 million. And if we expand to all football content in Spanish, the largest channel is Cracks, run by Mexican Manu Bravo, with 6.06 million.
What is the largest football channel in Spanish?
Cracks, Manu Bravo's channel, with 6.06 million subscribers and over 4.2 billion views (Social Blade, September 2026). Manu Bravo is Mexican, from Tonalá (Jalisco), and his channel has more subscribers than the official channels of Real Madrid, Liverpool or Manchester United.
Who are the best football YouTubers in Spanish in 2026?
By YouTube audience: Ibai Llanos (16.3 M), DjMaRiiO (10.1 M), Cracks by Manu Bravo (6.06 M), xBuyer (6.02 M), Jose Cobo (2.55 M), Spursito (1.62 M) and Papi Gavi (1.32 M). If you're looking for journalism and reporting instead of reactions: Iker Ruiz de ElefutBol (601 K), Rodrigo Fáez (459 K), Rafa Escrig (429 K) and Siro López on Twitch. The article includes 28 channels with verified figures.
Which creators make football challenges and contests?
Peereira7 (697,000), Guanyar (403,000) and Jcorko (257,000), all three from Team Heretics. Their channels are gaming and entertainment-focused, but their football formats—challenges, penalty kicks and the 'Truth Fouls' with footballers—attract more viewers than many channels dedicated solely to football, and they're one of the main entry points to the sport for younger audiences.
Who is the YouTuber for Real Sporting de Gijón?
Elopi23 (Eloy González Marañón), an Asturian content creator born in Ciaño who has followed Real Sporting de Gijón since 2012 on YouTube, Kick and Instagram, with around 500,000 followers total. He is an EA Game Changer, collaborates with Cayo TV and Ganar y Más, and publishes on elopi23.com the previews, match reports, Your XI and the ratings for each matchday.
What football content creators are there in Asturias?
Daniel Fez (Oviedo, 703,000 on YouTube and nearly 3 million on TikTok, comedy), Rodrigo Fáez (born in Gijón, 459,000 on YouTube, ESPN journalist who started in 2003 on SER Gijón covering Real Sporting) and Elopi23 (Real Sporting de Gijón, 122,000 on YouTube). Outside of football, the largest Asturian creators are The Corvus Clan (Gijón, 4.68 million on YouTube, organiser of FanMedia Con) and Tanizen (Gijón, 876,000 on Twitch).
Where do the follower figures in this list come from?
From Social Blade, consulted on 9 September 2026, for YouTube subscribers. Figures for Twitch, TikTok and Instagram come from Social Blade, Streams Charts, Wikipedia or Telecable's blog (February 2026) and are indicated next to each name. When it has not been possible to verify a figure—as in the case of Siro López, whose main platform is Twitch—it is stated explicitly rather than publishing an approximate number. The list is updated with information sent by the creators themselves.
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