Guide to the Spanish Championship season 2021/2022

All information about the new season of La Liga.

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Monday, August 16 2021

The ball returned to roll in the Spanish Championship this Friday (13th). The big difference from previous seasons is the absence of Lionel Messi, who in addition to brightening up with his great football, also brought commercial and marketing returns for La Liga. These will be new times for football in the country, and the dispute for the title tends to be very fierce, as Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid promise to fight point by point in each round. You can find the statistics of all clubs and the preview of the matches on the website Betting Academy throughout the competition.

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Participating Clubs

The new season will have the return of the traditional clubs: Espanyol, Mallorca, and Rayo Vallecano. Altogether there will be 20 teams:

Alave
Atlético Bilbao
Atlético de Madrid
Barcelona
Betis
Cádiz
Cela de Vigo
Elche
Espanyol
Getafe
Grenada
Levante
Mallorca
Osasuna
Rayo Vallecano
Real Madrid
Real Sociedade
Sevilla
Valencia
Villareal

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Regulation

The Spanish Championship is played in 38 rounds and 380 matches will be played during the competition. The 20 clubs face each other in first and second leg and the team that adds the most points gets the title of the season. In addition to the champion, teams that finish 2nd, 3rd and 4th will win a spot in the Champions League. The 5th place goes straight to the Europa League group stage, while the 6th place competes in the preliminary phases of the continental tournament.

Relegation is a little different from other major leagues, as the last 3 teams drop straight to the second division, with no chance of playing in the playoffs.

It will come as no surprise if two teams reach the end of the championship with the same number of points. If this happens, the tie-breaking criteria are: head-to-head, goal difference and goals scored.

Dates

La Liga started on August 13, 2021 and ends on May 22, 2022. The great derby between Barcelona x Real Madrid will take place in the first round, on October 24, at Camp Nou.

Signings of top clubs for the season

For the Barcelona fans, the season starts off melancholy. The greatest player in the club's history is gone and a cloud of doubt hangs over the Catalan team. No player will be able to repeat Messi's magic, and the team is mired in debt. Still, the club brought in some well-known players for the season: forwards Memphis Depay and Sergio Aguero, Brazilian right-back Emerson Royal and defender Eric García. With these reinforcements, besides Messi in shirt 10, the season could be very interesting for Barça.

Real Madrid is not going through a very different phase. His market was quite shy, even though they brought the experienced and winning left wing/back David Alaba. Other than that, the players that arrive are the ones that return from loan, as is the case of the Welsh Gareth Bale and the Norwegian Martin Odegaard. An old acquaintance who is back is coach Carlo Ancelotti. On the other hand, the Madrid team saw its captain and winner of several titles, Sergio Ramos, leave for PSG.

The defending champion is Atletico Madrid. Commanded by the frantic Diego Simeone, the team kept the champion base and arrived in harmony for the new season. The great reinforcement is the Argentine Rodrigo de Paul, after a great spell in Italian football. The team has its own style of playing and does not need big stars on the field to play competitive football.

Odds from bookmakers for the winner of the title