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It is controlled by the LFP and is contested by 20 teams over a 38-matchday period. Since its inception, 62 teams have competed in La Liga. Nine teams have been crowned champions, with Barcelona winning the inaugural La Liga and Real Madrid winning the title a record 36 times.
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as Primera División, or La Liga, and officially known as LALIGA EA SPORTS (stylized as all caps) for sponsorship reasons, is the men's top professional football league of the Spanish football league system. It is contested by 20 teams. 2023–2024 clubs. Real Madrid CF. FC Barcelona.
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The first football league in Spain was The Catalan football championship (Campionat de Catalunya), established in 1901. After the creation of the La Liga, The Catalan football championship co-existed with the national league for some years until it was cancelled in 1940. La Liga, the first national football league in Spain was founded in 1929 (the ...
The first and second division was founded together in 1929. In 1977, Segunda División B was founded to replace Tercera División as the third tier. Tercera División has since that been the fourth tier. An overview of the current national league system is presented in table 1. Below the forth tier the national football is played with regional divisio...
Teams with most titles
Statistics of all Spanish clubs that have won the top division in Spain, concerning the period 1929-2023. Real Madrid and Barcelona have dominated Spanish club football from early on. Between the first season in 1929 to present day, they have together won 60 of the 89 possible trophies. The number of Spanish champions (9) can be compared with 16 in Italy and 28 in Germany.
Teams with most La Liga participation
Statistics of the Spanish clubs that have participated more than 50 times in the Primera División during the period 1929-2022. Between the first season and the last, in total 62 clubs have participated in top division of the Spanish league.
Capacity of La Liga stadiums
Table 4 shows the capacity of the clubs participating in La Liga. Camp Nou, where Barcelonaplay since 1957, has the highest capacity with almost 100,000 seats. The average capacity in the league is 36,104. Former La Liga clubs and stadiums: Girona, Montilivi (13,500); Huesca, El Alcoraz (7,638); Rayo Vallecano, Vallecas (14,708).
Top goalscorers
The league's all-time leading goalscorer is Lionel Messi who has (in May 2020) made 438 goals in Barcelona. Messi is also the only player to score 50 times during one season (it should be noticed that the numbers of games per season has shifted over times; as a comparison Telmo Zarra scored 38 times in the 1950-51 season when each team only played 30 games). On the second place among goalscorers is Cristiano Ronaldo who did 311 goals in Real Madrid on 292 appearances (a goal ratio record in t...
Players with most appearances
The player with most appearances is the former national team goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta. He played most of his matches in FC Barcelona and in total he did 622 La Liga appearances. Next to him is the Real Madrid player Raúl with 550 matches. By Oscar Anderson References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Liga https://www.laliga.es/estadisticas-historicas Image source: Roberto Vicario
May 15, 2024 · The LALIGA Player of the Year Award is being contested among ten big names: Bellingham (Real Madrid), Kubo (Real Sociedad), Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid), Dovbyk (Girona FC), Kirian (UD Las Palmas), Lewandowski (FC Barcelona), Vinicius Jr (Real Madrid), Isco (Real Betis), Aleix García (Girona FC) and Sorloth (Villarreal).
Nov 19, 2019 · The current LaLiga Santander campaign is the most hotly-contested in the last 25 years, and in Europe as a whole. For the first time in history only five points separate top spot and ninth in the table
La Liga is contested by 20 teams; the three lowest-placed teams are relegated to the Segunda División and replaced by the top three teams in that division. Of the founding teams in La Liga, only Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona and Real Madrid have not been relegated. [2]
Team of the Season. Attendance to stadiums. Restrictions. Average attendances. See also. References. External links. 2021–22 La Liga. The 2021–22 La Liga, also known as La Liga Santander due to sponsorship reasons, was the 91st season of La Liga, Spain's premier football competition. It began on 13 August 2021 and concluded on 22 May 2022. [1] .
