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Football is the sport with the most registered players (a total of 1,063,090 of which 997,106 are men and 77,461 women, a 55% rise in women since 2014 [7]), and highest number of registered clubs (a total of 29,205) among all Spanish sport federations according to data issued by the sports administration of Spain's government in 2020. [8]
Category: History of sport in Spain. 10 languages. ... Defunct sports venues in Spain (6 C, 2 P) F. History of football in Spain (3 C, ...
Football is the most popular sport in Spain, with 61% of the population interested in it. [1] Spain has some of the most influential teams in Europe (Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia, and others) as well as many players (mostly unprofessional) and teams registered in all categories (1,063,090 players in 21,148 clubs). [2]
The Spanish football champions are the winners of the primary football competition in Spain, La Liga. The league is contested on a round robin basis and the championship awarded to the team that is top of the league at the end of the season. La Liga, first established in 1929, originally contained ten teams.
History of sport in Spain (6 C) M. Sports mass media in Spain (4 C, 13 P) O. ... Pages in category "Sport in Spain" The following 14 pages are in this category, out ...
Spain hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Spanish athletes have won a total of 192 medals in 33 different sports as of 2024 and the country currently ranks 25th in the all-time Summer Olympics medal count, with canoeing as the top medal-producing sport and sailing as the top gold medal-producing sport. Five of those medals were won at ...
The history of sports extends back to the Ancient world in 7000 BC. ... Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense in Brazil, and Athletic Bilbao in Spain. ...
Spain's team was known in the past by some fans as "La furia española", ' the Spanish Fury '; this nickname was originally given by a Dutch newspaper, recalling the "Sack of Antwerp" – an episode in the military history of Spain. [40] More modernly, the team is called "La roja", ' the Red (squad) '. [1]