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AS (newspaper)

AS
Logo diario AS.svg
Type Daily sports newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) PRISA
Founder(s) Luis Montiel Balanzat
Publisher Ignacio Díez
Editor Alfredo Relaño
Founded 6 December 1967; 49 years ago (1967-12-06)
Language Spanish
Headquarters Madrid
Circulation 214,654 (2006)
Sister newspapers El Pais
Cinco Días
Website www.as.com

Diario AS is a Spanish daily sports newspaper, concentrating particularly on football.

Diario AS is part of PRISA which also owns El Pais and Cinco Días. The paper particularly covers news of the Madrid football teams: Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid and Rayo Vallecano. It competes directly with MARCA.

In addition to Madrid, the newspaper also has satellite bureaus in Barcelona, Bilbao, A Coruña, Seville, Valencia and Zaragoza.

In May 2012 the newspaper launched an English language sub-site offering articles translated from the original Spanish by native English-language speakers.

The circulation of Diario AS was 181,172 copies in 2001 and 176,892 copies in 2002. It rose to 214,654 copies in 2006.


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