Archive · 30 Sep 2025
Valencia Sues Netflix Over Vinícius Júnior Documentary
A Spanish soccer club called Valencia is suing Netflix because they made a documentary that Valencia says got the facts wrong.
The documentary showed a video of fans at a game, and the subtitles said they were using a racist word towards a player named Vinícius Júnior.
But Valencia says the fans weren't saying that word; they were saying a different word.
Valencia is upset because they think the documentary made their fans look bad and wants the documentary to be corrected.
They are asking for money, changes to the subtitles, and for the court's decision to be made public.
Valencia filed a lawsuit against Netflix over a documentary about Vinícius Júnior.
The lawsuit claims the documentary misrepresented events at a 2023 match.
Valencia alleges the documentary wrongly accused fans of racist chants.
Valencia is seeking financial compensation and corrections to the documentary.
The club says the documentary damaged its reputation.
- Who
- Valencia and Netflix
- What
- Valencia filed a lawsuit against Netflix over a documentary.
- When
- Filed on Monday
- Where
- Spain
- Why
- Valencia claims the documentary contained falsehoods about racist chanting by fans and damaged the club's reputation.
Valencia's View
Netflix's View
Allegations in Documentary
Valencia's View
The documentary misrepresents the chants made by Valencia fans.
Netflix's View
The documentary's view is implied to be that the chants were racist and that the fans should be held accountable, though a comment from Netflix was not available.
- Plaintiff
- Valencia (Spanish football club)
- Defendant(s)
- Netflix and documentary production company
- Subject of Lawsuit
- Alleged falsehoods in a documentary
- Claim
- Damaging Valencia's honor
- Seeking
- Financial compensation, subtitle corrections, publication of sentencing
- Incident
- 2023 La Liga match involving Vinícius Júnior
- Accusation in Doc
- Large group of Valencia fans chanted racist slurs
- Valencia's claim
- Fans chanted 'tonto' (silly), not racist slurs