Soccer

Spanish La Liga

Spain

Season:: 2025-2026

The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga, and officially known as LaLiga EA Sports for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Spain and the highest level of the Spanish football league system. It is controlled by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional and is contested by 20 teams over a 38-matchday period. Since its inception, 62 teams have competed in La Liga, with nine teams crowned champions. Real Madrid and Barcelona have dominated the competition, winning 36 and 28 titles respectively. In the 1940s, Valencia, Atlético Madrid, and Barcelona emerged as the strongest clubs. Real Madrid and Barcelona led the charge in the 1950s, each winning four titles. During the 1960s and 1970s, Real Madrid dominated with fourteen titles, with Atlético Madrid winning four. During the 1980s and 1990s, Real Madrid remained prominent, while the Basque clubs of Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad enjoyed success, each winning two titles. From the 1990s onward, Barcelona have been the most successful club, winning seventeen titles, with Real Madrid close behind. La Liga has seen other champions, including Valencia and Deportivo La Coruña. As of the 2024–25 season, La Liga is ranked third in the UEFA coefficient rankings based on performances in European competitions over the past five seasons, behind the English Premier League and Italian Serie A. La Liga has led the coefficient rankings for more years than any league, and has also produced the continent's top-rated club more times than any other league overall. La Liga clubs have won the most UEFA Champions League (20), UEFA Europa League (14), UEFA Super Cup (16) and FIFA Club World Cup (8) titles, and its players have accumulated the highest number of Ballon d'Or awards (24), The Best FIFA Men's Player awards (19) and UEFA Men's Player of the Year awards (12). La Liga is one of the most popular professional sports leagues globally, with an average attendance of 26,933 for league matches in the 2018–19 season. This is the eighth-highest of any domestic professional sports league in the world and the third-highest of any professional association football league in the world, behind fellow Big Five leagues the Premier League and the Bundesliga. La Liga is also the seventh wealthiest professional sports league in the world by revenue, after the NFL, MLB, the NBA, the Premier League, the NHL, and the Bundesliga. From 2008 to 2016, it was sponsored by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria and known as Liga BBVA. Then, from 2016 to 2023, it was sponsored by Banco Santander and known as LaLiga Santander. Since 2023, it has been sponsored by Electronic Arts and is known as LaLiga EA Sports.

Standings▾

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Barcelona	38	31	1	6	95	36	59	94
2	Real Madrid	38	27	5	6	77	35	42	86
3	Villarreal	38	22	6	10	72	46	26	72
4	Atlético Madrid	38	21	6	11	62	44	18	69
5	Real Betis	38	15	15	8	59	48	11	60
6	Celta Vigo	38	14	12	12	53	48	5	54
7	Getafe	38	15	6	17	32	38	-6	51
8	Rayo Vallecano	38	12	14	12	41	44	-3	50
9	Valencia	38	13	10	15	46	55	-9	49
10	Real Sociedad	38	11	13	14	59	61	-2	46
11	Espanyol	38	12	10	16	43	55	-12	46
12	Athletic Club	38	13	6	19	43	58	-15	45
13	Sevilla	38	12	7	19	46	60	-14	43
14	Alavés	38	11	10	17	44	56	-12	43
15	Elche	38	10	13	15	49	57	-8	43
16	Levante	38	11	9	18	47	61	-14	42
17	Osasuna	38	11	9	18	44	50	-6	42
18	Mallorca	38	11	9	18	47	57	-10	42
19	Girona	38	9	14	15	39	55	-16	41
20	Real Oviedo	38	6	11	21	26	60	-34	29