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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.
The first La Liga player to be involved in a transfer which broke the world record was Luis Suárez in 1961, who moved from Barcelona to Inter Milan for £152,000 (£4.3 million in 2023). 12 years later, Johan Cruyff was the first player to join a club in La Liga for a record fee of £922,000 (£14.1 million in 2023), when he moved from Ajax to ...
Fastest goal scored in La Liga history: 7.22 seconds, Joseba Llorente (for Real Valladolid v. Espanyol, 20 January 2008) Fastest to score first goal in La Liga: 29 seconds, Jorge Galán (for Osasuna v. Real Valladolid, 23 September 2009) Fastest to score 20 La Liga goals in a single season: 12 games, Cristiano Ronaldo (2014–15) [92]
Prior to the formation of La Liga in 1929 it served as a de facto national championship. SE The Supercopa de España began in 1982 as a two-team super cup competition; the current version has been contested since 2019–20 by four teams: the winners and runners-up of La Liga and the winners and runners-up of the Copa del Rey. CL
The 2018–19 La Liga season, also known as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, [2] was the 88th since its establishment. The season began on 17 August 2018 and concluded on 19 May 2019. [3] Fixtures for the 2018–19 season were announced on 24 July 2018. [4] This was the first La Liga season to use the VAR. [5]
The La Liga Awards, previously known as the LFP awards, are presented annually by the Liga de Fútbol Profesional (LFP) to the best players and coach in La Liga, the first division of association football in Spain.
The 2009–10 La Liga (known as the Liga BBVA for sponsorship reasons) was the 79th season of La Liga since its establishment. Barcelona were the defending champions, having won their 19th La Liga title in the previous season .
The Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional [a] (transl. National Professional Football League), also known as LALIGA (the abbreviation LFP was used until the 2015–16 season), is a sports association responsible for administering the two professional football leagues in Spain, the Primera and Segunda Divisions, or LALIGA EA SPORTS and LALIGA HYPERMOTION for sponsorship reasons. [1]