The Primera Division, commonly known as La Liga [b] and La Liga Santander for sponsorship with Santander, is the best professional soccer division in Spanish football. Administered by the National Professional Football League (Liga de Fútbol Profesional), also known as the Professional Football League (LFP), the League is disputed by 20 teams, the three lower ranking teams are relegated to the Second Division. replaced by the two best teams in this division, plus the winner of a tiebreaker.
62 teams have participated in La Liga since its inception. Nine teams were crowned champions, Real Madrid won the title a record 33 times and Barcelona 25 times. Barcelona won the inaugural league in 1929 with Athletic Bilbao claiming several titles in the first years of the league. Barcelona and Real Madrid dominated the championship in the 1950s, and each won four league titles during the decade. Real Madrid dominated the league from the 1960s until the 1980s, when Barcelona, Athletic Bilbao, and Real Sociedad won the championship twice in those years. Since the 1990s, Barcelona dominated La Liga, winning 15 titles. Although Real Madrid has been at the top of the classification, winning 8 titles, La Liga has also seen other champions, such as Atlético de Madrid, Valencia, and Deportivo de A Coruña. In the decade of 2010, Atlético de Madrid became an increasingly strong team, forming a trio with Real Madrid and Barcelona.
According to UEFA's league coefficient, the league has been the best league in Europe in the last five years and has led Europe for more years (13) than any other country. He also produced the top-ranked club in the continent (21) more than any other league, more than twice as much as the second division. Their clubs have won the most UEFA Champions League (18), UEFA Europa League (11). , The titles of the UEFA Super Cup (15) and the FIFA Club World Cup (6) and their players have accumulated the most trophies (FIFA) Golden Ball (19).
La Liga is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the world, with an average attendance of 26,983 people for the league games of the 2017-2018 season. It is the sixth highest of all professional sports leagues in the world and the third highest of all professional football leagues in the world, behind the Bundesliga and the Premier League.
Competition format
The format of the competition follows the usual format of the double round-robin. During a season, from August to May, each club plays twice, once at home and once outside, for 38 days. The teams are classified according to the total points, the best-ranked club at the end of the season is crowned champion.
Promotion and descent
There is a system of promotion and descent between the First Division and the Second Division. The three lowest ranked La Liga teams are relegated to the Second Division and the two best Second Division teams are promoted to the League, with an additional club promoted after a series of playoffs between the third, fourth, fifth and sixth. clubs placed. Below you will find a complete record of the number of teams that have played each season in the history of the league.
Qualification for European competitions
Barcelona vs. Schalke 04 in the 2008 UEFA Champions League
The best teams in La Liga qualify for the UEFA Champions League. The first, second, third and fourth teams are directly involved in the UEFA Champions League group stage. The teams qualified fifth and sixth in the UEFA Europa League, with the winners of the cup. If the winners are among the first six, an additional place in the Europa League is awarded to the team that finishes seventh.
History
Foundation
In April 1927, José María Acha, director of the Arenas Club de Getxo, proposed for the first time the idea of a national league in Spain. After an extensive discussion about the size of the league and its participation, the Royal Spanish Football Federation finally agreed on the ten teams that would form the first First Division in 1929. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad, Arenas Club Getxo and Real Unión have been selected as previous winners of the Copa del Rey. Atlético de Madrid, Espanyol, and Europa were classified as Copa del Rey finalists and Santander Racing qualified in the round of 16. Only three of the founding clubs, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao, have never been relegated from the First Division.
The 1930s: Athletic Bilbao
Although Barcelona won the first league in 1929 and Real Madrid won their first titles in 1932 and 1933, Athletic Bilbao won the First Division in 1930, 1931, 1934 and 1936 and 1933. In 1935, Real Betis, then known as Betis Balompié, he won his only title to date. First Division was suspended during the Spanish Civil War.
In 1937, the teams of the Republican zone of Spain, with the notable exception of the two clubs of Madrid, participated in the League of the Mediterranean and Barcelona became champion. Seventy years later, on September 28, 2007, Barcelona asked the RFEF to recognize this title as the title of the League. This action was taken after RFEF was invited to recognize the title of the Free Spain Cup of Levante FC as equivalent to the Copa del Rey trophy. However, the governing body of Spanish football has not yet made a categorical decision.
The 1940s: Atlético de Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona
When the First Division was resumed after the Spanish Civil War, Atlético Aviación (now Atlético de Madrid), Valencia and FC Barcelona became the strongest clubs. Atlético won a place only during the 1939-1940 season to replace Real Oviedo, whose lands had been damaged during the war. The club then won its first league title and held it in 1941. While other clubs lost their players for exile, execution and as victims of the war, the Atlético team was strengthened with a merger. The young team before the war Valencia had also remained intact and in the years after the war, he became a champion, winning three league titles in 1942, 1944 and 1947. He was also a finalist in 1948 and 1949. Sevilla He also enjoyed a brief golden age, finishing second in 1940 and 1942 before winning his only title in 1946.
On the other side of Spain, FC Barcelona began to win under the legendary Josep Samitier. Spanish footballer for both Barcelona and Real Madrid, Samitier cemented his legacy with Barcelona. During his career as a player in Barcelona, he scored 333 goals, winning the first La Liga title and five copies of the Copa del Rey. In 1944 he returned to Barcelona Samitier as coach and guide to win his second league title in 1945. Under the direction of Samitier and legendary players, César Rodríguez, Josep Escola, Estanislao Basora and Mariano Gonzalvo, Barcelona dominates back-to-back league titles in 1948 and 1949. the 40s proved to be a successful season for Barcelona, winning three league titles and one Copa del Rey, but the 1950s were a decade of dominant position, only from Barcelona, but from the Real Madrid.
1950: Barcelona and Real Madrid dominate La Liga
The naturalized Argentine Alfredo Di Stéfano was part of a dominant team of Real Madrid in the 1950s
In the 1950s, László Kubala was a leading member of Barcelona with 194 goals in 256 appearances.
Despite the fact that Atlético de Madrid, previously known as Atlético Aviación, was champion in 1950 and 1951 under catenaccio teacher Helenio Herrera in the 1950s, the success of FC Barcelona continued in the 1940s after they won the titles of La League. During this decade, the first golden age of Barcelona emerged. Under the direction of Ferdinand Daučík, FC Barcelona won the League and the Copa del Rey in 1952 and 1953. In 1952, FC Barcelona has made history again by winning five titles in a year. This team of Ladislao Kubala, Mariano Gonzalvo, César Rodríguez and Joan Segarra won the League, the Copa del Rey, Eva Duarte Cup (predecessor of the Spanish Super Cup), the Copa América and the Martini Rossi Cup. Their success in winning five different trophies in a year earned them the name of "The Cinc Cup Team" or the Five Cup team. In the late 1950s, trained by Helenio Herrera and Luis Suarez, Barcelona returned to winning the third tripled La Ligas, winning in 1959 and 1960. In 1959, FC Barcelona won another double La Liga / Copa del Rey, conquering three doubles in the 1950s.
The 1950s also saw the beginning of the domination of Real Madrid. During the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, strict limits were imposed on foreign players. In most cases, the clubs could only have three foreign players on their teams, which meant that at least eight local players had to play each game. In the 1950s, Real Madrid, which naturalized Alfredo Di Stéfano and Ferenc Puskás, however, ignored these rules. Di Stefano, Puskas, Raymond Kopa and Francisco Gento formed the core of the Real Madrid team, which dominated the second half of the 1950s. Madrid won the first division in 1954, 21 years later, in 1933, and retained its title in 1955 They won the title again in 1957 and 1958, only Athletic Bilbao interrupted their sequence. In total, Barcelona and Real Madrid have won every four league titles, Atlético de Madrid and Atlético de Bilbao winning one each during this decade.
The years 1960-1980: the years of Real Madrid
Between 1961 and 1980, Real Madrid dominated the First Division and was crowned champion 14 times, including five consecutive series from 1961 to 1965 and two sequences of three rows (1967-1969 and 1978-1980). However, his only victory in the European Cup during this period took place in 1966, which contrasts sharply with his five consecutive victories in the competition since 1956.
At that time, only Atlético de Madrid offered a serious challenge for Real Madrid, adding four more titles to his name in 1966, 1970, 1973 and 1977. Among other clubs, only Valencia in 1971 and Barcelona in 1974 inspired by Johan Cruyff exploded. the domination of Real Madrid.
The winning streak in Madrid was interrupted more significantly in 1981 when Real Sociedad won its first title. They continued in 1982, and their two consecutive players were followed by the Basque team Athletic de Bilbao, who won two consecutive titles in 1983 and 1984. Terry Venables led Barcelona for a solo title in 1985 before Real Madrid's five-row sequence (1986 -1990) with a team led by Leo Beenhakker and that includes Hugo Sánchez and the legendary Quinta del Buitre - Emilio Butragueño, Manolo Sanchís, Martín Vázquez, Míchel and Miguel Pardeza.
The 90s: the dreamed team of Barcelona
Johan Cruyff returned to Barcelona as manager in 1988 and formed the legendary Dream Team. When Cruyff took over Barcelona, he had won only two league titles in the last 11 years. He decided to form a team composed of international stars and graduates of La Masia to restore Barcelona in its glorious days. The team was made up of international stars like the Brazilian legend Romario, Danish assistant Michael Laudrup, Bulgarian striker Hristo Stoichkov, Ronald Koeman, Dutch and Spaniards Andoni Zubizarreta and José Mari Bakero. The Cruyff Dream Team was also composed of the graduates of La Masia, Pep Guardiola, Albert Ferrer and Guillermo Amor.
Johan Cruyff changed the way modern football was played and integrated the principles of "total football" into this team. The success of the football based on the possession was revolutionary and the team of Johan Cruyff won its first European Cup in 1992 and four consecutive titles of La Liga between 1991 and 1994. In total, Cruyff won 11 trophies in eight years. the story until the record was broken by his protege Pep Guardiola two decades later.
The Barcelona race ended with Real Madrid's victory in 1995. Atlético de Madrid won its ninth title in 1996 before Real Madrid added another Liga trophy to its cabinet in 1997. After Cruyff's success, another Dutch player, Ajax Louis van Gaal. He arrived at the Camp Nou, and with the talents of Luís Figo, Luis Enrique, and Rivaldo, Barcelona won the La Liga title in 1998 and 1999, which included his fourth double of the League and the Copa del Rey in 1998.
The 2000s
When the First Division entered a new century, the two Spanish giants, Real Madrid and Barcelona, faced new rivals. Between 1999/2000 and 2004, Deportivo La Coruña finished between the first three ten times, a better result than Real Madrid or Barcelona. In 2000, under the leadership of Javier Irureta, Deportivo became the ninth team to be crowned champion. Valencia was also a fierce team in the 2000s and under the leadership of Hector Cúper, Valencia finished second and second in the Champions League in 2000 and 2001. His successor, Rafael Benítez, took advantage of this situation and won the league title in 2002. In addition to winning the UEFA Cup and the League in 2004.
Real Madrid won two league titles in 2001 and 2003, as well as the UEFA Champions League in 2000 and 2002. With world-class players such as Raúl, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Gonzalo Higuaín, Real Madrid won two consecutive titles . in 2006-07 and 2007-08. In total, Madrid has won 4 league championships and two championships in the 2000-2010 season.
The 2000s also continued the success of FC Barcelona. During the 2004-2005 season, Barcelona won its first title of the new century under the name of Ronaldinho. Barcelona retained the title and won again in the 2005-2006 season. He also won the UEFA Champions League against Arsenal, becoming his second European double. Under the era of Pep Guardiola, driven by the talent of La Masia, as Lionel Messi, Xavi, and Andres Iniesta, Barcelona added three consecutive titles of the League in 2008, 2009 and 2010. FC Barcelona also became the first team In Spain he will achieve the Treble in the 2008/09 season, winning the three main competitions in a single season, including La Liga, Copa del Rey, and the Champions League. From 2000 to 2010, FC Barcelona won 5 league titles and 3 Champions League titles.
At 2010
Match between Deportivo de La Coruña and FC Barcelona in 2016-17.
During the 2011-12 season, Real Madrid won its 32nd title under the leadership of José Mourinho with a record of 100 points, then the record of 118 goals scored, the highest number of wins (32) and less. (16) a single season in La Liga. A year later, Barcelona repeated the same feat as coach Tito Vilanova, equaling the record of 100 points. Atlético de Madrid won the 2013-2014 title, the first in 18 years and the first title in ten years that Real Madrid or Barcelona did not win.
During the 2014-2015 season, under the murderous trio of Messi, Neymar, Suárez, nicknamed "MSN", Barcelona made history by becoming the first team to achieve the second hat-trick. The "MSN" broke a record of 122 goals, eclipsing the 118 goals scored by Madrid in 2011-12. Barcelona continued to dominate the 2015-2016 season, winning the double League / Copa del Rey with 4 titles in 6 years.
Real Madrid brought the La Liga title to Zinedine Zidane in 2016-17, but Barcelona won the title in the 2017-18 season, winning their eighth double, for a total of 7 league titles. League in 10 years
Summary
Organising body: Liga de Fútbol Profesional (LFP)
Founded: 1929; 89 years ago
Country: Spain
Confederation: UEFA
Number of teams: 20
Level on pyramid: 1
Relegation to: Segunda División
Domestic cup(s): Copa del Rey, Supercopa de España
International cup(s): UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League
Top goalscorer: Lionel Messi (385 goals)
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