Dutch crypto firm Libereum has acquired Spanish soccer club Elche CF for $4.9 million, according to a press release published to the Libereum website Dec. 26. The acquisition marks the first step in the crypto company’s ambitions to purchase a set of international soccer clubs and make its ERC20 token, Liber, a mandatory form of payment in the stadiums of those clubs it owns.
Libereum states it secured its purchase of the Segunda División (second division) A club with a bank guarantee of €4.3 million (about $4.9 million) as an initial down payment. According to a report from Finance Magnates published Dec. 27, Libereum had also intended to purchase Dutch club Roda JC Kerkrade, but that deal had “fallen through.”