Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0000950103-25-002428
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Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 25, 2025</div>

Registration No. 333-______

<div align='center'>UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

BANCO SANTANDER, S.A.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</div>

| Kingdom of Spain                         |                                          | N/A                   |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of          
 Incorporation or Organization)           |                                          | -I.R.S. Employer      
 Identification Number |
|                                          | Ciudad Grupo Santander                   
 28660 Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), Spain |                       |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) |                                          |                       |

| Fourteenth Cycle of the Deferred and                                        
 Conditional Variable Remuneration Plan                                      
 Ninth Cycle of the Deferred Multiyear Objectives Variable Remuneration Plan 
 Banco Santander, S.A. Buyouts Procedure                                     |
| (Full title of the plans)                                                   |

| Banco Santander, S.A.                                                                                
 New York Branch                                                                                      
 437 Madison Avenue                                                                                   
 New York, New York 10022                                                                             
 Attn: Mercedes Pacheco, Managing Director                                                            
 (212) 350-3500                                                                                       |
| (Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service) |

|                           | Copies to: |
| Kyoko Takahashi Lin       
 Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 
 450 Lexington Avenue      
 New York, NY 10017        |            |

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| Large accelerated filer x                                             | Accelerated filer o         |
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|                                                                       | Emerging growth company o   |

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