Spanish football YouTubers and content creators: the 28 channels you need to follow in 2026 (with real figures)

📊 The numbers: YouTube subscribers checked on 9 September 2026 (Ibai: data from June 2026, the latest available). For those living on Twitch, Kick or TikTok I've noted it separately. And yes, I'm including myself with my actual figure, no padding: 122,000 subscribers. Nothing gets dressed up here.

🏟️ The giants: the ones who fill stadiums (for real)

DjMaRiiO is the king and there's no argument: 10.1 million subscribers, over 4.5 billion views and a channel that's been running since 2009. Started with FIFA, created the YouTubers Match (now on its sixth edition with EA FC 26) and this summer broadcast the 2026 World Cup from the Fan Fest. He's the one who turned "football YouTuber" into an actual profession in Spain.

Ibai Llanos isn't your typical football YouTuber, but with 16.3 million on YouTube and the Kings League co-founded with Piqué, leaving him out would be dishonest. He changed how an entire generation watches football, full stop.

Cracks, the channel of Manu Bravo, is the dark horse that a lot of people in Spain haven't got on their radar: 6.06 million subscribers and over 4.2 billion views. He's Mexican, from Tonalá (Jalisco), started filming at home and today has more subscribers than the official channels of Real Madrid, Liverpool or Manchester United. European football news, curiosities and stats told without the stuffiness. If we're talking about football in Spanish, not just from Spain, it's the biggest channel out there.

xBuyer (Javier Ruiz, with his brother MiniBuyer): 6.02 million, football challenges, reactions and EA FC since 2012. Jose Cobo: 2.55 million and about 2 million on TikTok, pure football content in short format — one of the fastest-growing 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 an inspirational story that deserves its own piece.

🎙️ The ones who tell the football: journalism, stories and reporting

This is the section I love most, because there's no reaction or shouting here: there's craft.

Iker Ruiz, the guy behind ElefutBol (601,000), is the best at telling football stories in Spanish right now. Came out of Jugones, went solo and even published a book with the greatest stories ever told in this sport. If you love football as storytelling, that channel is a goldmine.

Rafa Escrig (429,000), from Castelló, does what I call backpack journalism: he gets up and goes to tell football wherever it's happening, with travel reports and collaborations with DAZN. Very few put in the legwork like he does. Plus another 196,000 on TikTok.

svgiago (374,000) is the other side of the coin: short format, breakneck pace and a knack for headlines that works even better for him on TikTok than YouTube. And Línea de Cal (107,000) is the sit-down kind of show: they broadcast Mondays from 9pm to 10:30pm on Twitch, with good humour and proper chat, then upload it to YouTube.

Special mention for Siro López, "the grandfather of Twitch". Born in 1956, spent half his life at COPE, at Sport, at Estudio Estadio and El Golazo de Gol, and one day decided to go live and became one of the most beloved figures in Spanish sports streaming. He doesn't have his own YouTube channel as a main platform — his home is Twitch — so I won't give you a number I can't verify today. But he's here by right.

🔴⚪ The Asturians: my people

Here I've got to talk about home. Daniel Fez is the biggest Asturian: 703,000 on YouTube and almost 3 million on TikTok. He's more comedian than footballer, but when Mahou set up 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 MC at FanMedia Con in Oviedo, the summit of Asturian creators where I was also present.

And there's another Asturian that a lot 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 becoming one of Spain's benchmark journalists at ESPN. Today he does interviews and formats like 24 hours with a footballer, but the guy cut his teeth doing the same thing I do. One of ours, even if he's far away.

And then there's me, Elopi23: 122,000 subscribers, 22.8 million views and about 500,000 followers across all platforms. Sporting Gijón YouTuber since 2012, EA Game Changer, Cayo TV, Ganar y Más, two World Cups on the ground and, since this year, this website: the LaLiga Hypermotion hub, the Your XI vote and The ratings for each matchday. If you've come 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 stand above the rest: The Corvus Clan (Julio Fernández), the biggest Asturian YouTuber with 4.68 million subscribers and over 1.6 billion views, and the guy behind FanMedia Con; and Tanizen, with 876,000 followers on Twitch. They're into gaming not football, but they're the ones who put Asturias on the digital content map.

🎮 The Kings League, gaming and football humour crowd

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 head 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 companions on that Mahou campaign: born comedians with football as an excuse. And Perxitaa (2.51 million), the Valencia fan, though his YouTube has been idle for a while.

Football challenges: the Heretics guys

And here are three who need proper explanation, because if you click on their channels the first thing you'll 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 move more football content than a lot of channels that only do football.

And this isn't a minor detail: that format is today one of the biggest entry points this sport has with young people. A fourteen-year-old could get into football through a penalty challenge before they ever watch a match. So they're on the list with full merit — though knowing what they are: entertainment with a ball, not journalism.

📋 The Fantasy guys: small but essential for your league

✍️ If you're a Spanish football creator and reckon you're missing from this list, or a number's changed, drop me a line at eloy.elopi23@gmail.com and I'll update it. The idea is for this to be a living list of Spanish digital football, not a frozen snapshot.