La Liga also known as La Liga Santander is the top
professional men's football association of Spanish Football League system.
Founded in 1929, it has twenty teams in which prevails the system of relegation
of bottom three clubs to Segunda Division and two teams plus a winner of first
play-off also gets promoted to the Liga. Clubs are ranked according to their
points earned during the match. The clubs play twice with the team same as the
premier league; home and away match known as double round-robin system, where altogether every club plays 38 games
which starts from August to May. The games are often played in the weekends; Saturday and Sunday.
With the average attendance of 26,741 according to 2014/15
research, this is the sixth highest professional sports league in the world
behind Premier League, Bundesliga, and the Indian Super League. It is one of
the most popular league in the world and for recent five years, it is
considered as the top league in Europe as it has won the most UEFA Champions
League, UEFA Europa League and players from this league has earned highest
number of FIFA Ballon d'Or awards including two legends; Christiano Rolando and
Lionel Messi . La Liga shares 50% of its TV rights money to 20 clubs in La Liga,
25% money based on records of the clubs in past 3 years and 25% according to
resource generating capacity of the club.
Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletico Madrid has dominance
over this league for past decade. Real Madrid winning 32 times, Barcelona winning 24 times,
Athletico Madrid winning 10 times, Athletico Bilbao 8 times, Valencia 6 times,
Real Sociedad 2 times, Deportivo La coruña, Sevilla, Real Betis one time. Real
Madrid has shown dominance over all other clubs in this league. However, this
is a famous as well as entertaining football league in Europe.
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