> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.magicpages.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Why your site is blocked in Spain during football matches - URL: https://www.magicpages.co/help/features/why-your-site-is-blocked-in-spain-during-football-matches/ - Published: 2026-08-30T07:16:45.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-30T07:16:45.000Z - Description: Spanish providers block the shared addresses your site is served from while LaLiga matches are on. Why it happens, how to check, and how to get in. - Author: Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki - Tags: Help Center & Guides, Features and Benefits Spanish internet providers might block your site's address (or specifically the IP addresses it's served from) while LaLiga matches are on, and access comes back once the match ends. It hits your readers in Spain, as well as yourself if that's where you are located. ## What's actually happening A December 2024 order from a Barcelona commercial court lets LaLiga hand Spain's biggest providers a list of IP addresses to block during a match. Movistar, MasOrange, Vodafone and DIGI all apply it. The intended targets are pirate football streams. The catch is that those streams sit on the same shared infrastructure everyone else uses: behind a Cloudflare firewall and proxy. Your Magic Pages site is served through Cloudflare's network, where a single IP address can resolve to many different sites from different providers. Blocking a handful of IP addresses leads to hundreds of thousands of unrelated sites go dark in Spain at once. OONI, a nonprofit that measures internet censorship, put numbers on last season. Blocking between 4 and 20 addresses in a one-hour window made over 400,000 domains unreachable, and more than 550,000 domains were caught at some point between January and June 2026\. Cloudflare accounted for 90% of them. [Collateral Damage of IP-Based Blocking During LALIGA Football Streaming in Spain: Evidence from OONI MeasurementsThis report documents the widespread collateral damage caused by IP-based blocking during LALIGA football match broadcasts in Spain, based on OONI data and DNS scans.![](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/icon/favicon-9cabe3ca-fff8-48b4-b0c6-dedb1d7c2944.png)OONIArturo Filastò (OONI) and Maria Xynou (OONI) and Mehul Gulati (OONI)![](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/thumbnail/image1_hu_e448d5d4a4e9f048-b13d2121-878c-4c6c-80f6-90ebf45e93d7.png)](https://ooni.org/post/2026-laliga-collateral/?ref=magicpages.co) Magic Pages is not a special case here. The same blocks hit sites on Amazon, Squarespace, Vercel, GitHub Pages and BunnyCDN. ## How to tell it's the block A few Spanish engineers monitor the blocks live and publish what they find. Their site has a checker: enter your domain, and it tells you whether it's affected right now. It's in Spanish, and it's the fastest answer you'll get: [¿Hay ahora fútbol? | Monitor de bloqueos de IPs de LaLigaMonitorizamos en tiempo real los bloqueos de IPs que LaLiga ordena a los operadores españoles durante los partidos. Comprueba si tu web está afectada por el bloqueo.![](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/icon/icon-b26e1389-d957-4f5a-93e3-21814fc0db78.png)¿Hay ahora fútbol?Hay Fútbol![](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/thumbnail/opengraph-image-204046d4-6702-4351-b410-d83e34a599ef.png)](https://hayahora.futbol/?ref=magicpages.co) Two other signals. The timing follows the football, with blocks appearing shortly before kick-off and lifting shortly after the last match finishes. And the site loads normally on any connection outside Spain. ## Getting in while a match is on - **Use a VPN.** Your provider then sees an encrypted connection instead of the address it was told to block. Pick a server outside Spain, and try a different one if the first doesn't work, since some VPN addresses get caught in the blocks too. The monitoring site above keeps a list of options, free ones included. - **Try a different network.** The order covers the big providers. Some smaller Spanish operators run their own infrastructure and aren't affected, but plenty resell the big four, so test rather than assume. Mobile data from the same company won't help. - **Wait it out.** Access returns on its own when the match is over. ## What we can't change We have had requests to circumvent these blocks from our side, but realistically there is not too much we can do. **We cannot give your site its own IP address.** Cloudflare answers with its own shared addresses for every proxied site. Using addresses you own is an Enterprise product called BYOIP, and it means owning a block of addresses and announcing them yourself. That is costly. Not "an additional 10 EUR" costly, but "thousands of EUR costly". **We also cannot get a different set of addresses, or a different data centre.** There's no setting in Cloudflare for either. Routing works in a way that every visitor reaches the closest location automatically, and the addresses come from a shared pool. Even if we could move your site onto different Cloudflare IP addresses, it wouldn't hold. The block list is different every matchday and the pirate streams move too, so being fine one Saturday says nothing about the next, unfortunately. ## If you want to push back While we recognise that piracy is a problem we need to take serious, blocking entire IP ranges for the commercial benefit of a football league is wildly out of proportion, in our eyes. As a small provider there is little we can do from our side, but if you are in Spain and affected: - **Document it.** The [OONI Probe app](https://ooni.org/install/?ref=magicpages.co) tests from your own connection and files the result in a public dataset that researchers and lawyers use. - **Report the business impact.** The Spanish Startups Association is collecting cases of disproportionate blocking under [STOP #LaLigaGate](https://asociacionstartups.es/laligagate/?ref=magicpages.co). - **Complain about interception.** OONI found one provider, DIGI, intercepting encrypted connections during the blocks. RootedCON publishes a [template complaint](https://rootedcon.com/blog/laligagate-plantilla-de-denuncia-a-la-aepd/?ref=magicpages.co) to Spain's data protection agency for exactly that. The court authorisation behind all of this covers three seasons and expires on 20 June 2027, so 2026/27 is the last one it applies to. Though LaLiga is expected to ask for another.