{
 "updated": "2026-07-02",
 "league": "La Liga",
 "last_season": "2025-26",
 "next_season": "2026-27",
 "champion": {
  "team": "Barcelona",
  "result": "31W 1D 6L, 94 points · 8 clear of Real Madrid",
  "dates": "Clinched 10 May 2026, with three games to spare",
  "note": "Barcelona sealed a second consecutive title · their 29th · with a 2–0 Clásico win over Real Madrid on 10 May, three matches to spare. Their 31 wins came with just one draw all season; 95 goals scored."
 },
 "storylines": [
  {
   "title": "Five to the Champions League",
   "text": "Spain took a European Performance Spot, so five clubs reach the Champions League league phase: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Villarreal, Atlético Madrid and fifth-placed Real Betis. Sixth-placed Celta Vigo go to the Europa League and seventh-placed Getafe to the Conference League play-off round."
  },
  {
   "title": "La Real's cup route",
   "text": "Real Sociedad finished only tenth but qualified for the Europa League league phase as 2025-26 Copa del Rey winners. Rayo Vallecano reached the Conference League final on 27 May but lost it to Crystal Palace."
  },
  {
   "title": "Tie-breakers everywhere",
   "text": "Three head-to-head knots decided the table: Real Sociedad edged Espanyol for tenth on overall goal difference, Sevilla topped a three-way tie with Alavés and Elche on head-to-head points (6-5-3), and Levante's 7 head-to-head points kept them above Osasuna and relegated Mallorca (5 and 3)."
  },
  {
   "title": "Oviedo straight back down",
   "text": "Real Oviedo were relegated on 11 May after a single season back in the top flight; Girona (after four years) and Mallorca (after five) followed on 23 May, Mallorca losing the head-to-head tie-breaker with all three clubs on 42 points."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "pos": 1,
   "team": "Barcelona",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 31,
   "drawn": 1,
   "lost": 6,
   "gf": 95,
   "ga": 36,
   "gd": 59,
   "pts": 94,
   "qual": "UCL",
   "qual_note": "Champions League league phase",
   "elo": 1741
  },
  {
   "pos": 2,
   "team": "Real Madrid",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 27,
   "drawn": 5,
   "lost": 6,
   "gf": 77,
   "ga": 35,
   "gd": 42,
   "pts": 86,
   "qual": "UCL",
   "qual_note": "Champions League league phase",
   "elo": 1701
  },
  {
   "pos": 3,
   "team": "Villarreal",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 22,
   "drawn": 6,
   "lost": 10,
   "gf": 72,
   "ga": 46,
   "gd": 26,
   "pts": 72,
   "qual": "UCL",
   "qual_note": "Champions League league phase",
   "elo": 1616
  },
  {
   "pos": 4,
   "team": "Atlético Madrid",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 21,
   "drawn": 6,
   "lost": 11,
   "gf": 62,
   "ga": 44,
   "gd": 18,
   "pts": 69,
   "qual": "UCL",
   "qual_note": "Champions League league phase",
   "elo": 1596
  },
  {
   "pos": 5,
   "team": "Real Betis",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 15,
   "drawn": 15,
   "lost": 8,
   "gf": 59,
   "ga": 48,
   "gd": 11,
   "pts": 60,
   "qual": "UCL",
   "qual_note": "Champions League league phase",
   "elo": 1567
  },
  {
   "pos": 6,
   "team": "Celta Vigo",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 14,
   "drawn": 12,
   "lost": 12,
   "gf": 53,
   "ga": 48,
   "gd": 5,
   "pts": 54,
   "qual": "UEL",
   "qual_note": "Europa League league phase",
   "elo": 1516
  },
  {
   "pos": 7,
   "team": "Getafe",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 15,
   "drawn": 6,
   "lost": 17,
   "gf": 32,
   "ga": 38,
   "gd": -6,
   "pts": 51,
   "qual": "UECL",
   "qual_note": "Conference League play-off round",
   "elo": 1482
  },
  {
   "pos": 8,
   "team": "Rayo Vallecano",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 12,
   "drawn": 14,
   "lost": 12,
   "gf": 41,
   "ga": 44,
   "gd": -3,
   "pts": 50,
   "qual": null,
   "qual_note": null,
   "elo": 1497
  },
  {
   "pos": 9,
   "team": "Valencia",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 13,
   "drawn": 10,
   "lost": 15,
   "gf": 46,
   "ga": 55,
   "gd": -9,
   "pts": 49,
   "qual": null,
   "qual_note": null,
   "elo": 1482
  },
  {
   "pos": 10,
   "team": "Real Sociedad",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 11,
   "drawn": 13,
   "lost": 14,
   "gf": 59,
   "ga": 61,
   "gd": -2,
   "pts": 46,
   "qual": "UEL",
   "qual_note": "Europa League league phase (as Copa del Rey winners)",
   "elo": 1480
  },
  {
   "pos": 11,
   "team": "Espanyol",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 12,
   "drawn": 10,
   "lost": 16,
   "gf": 43,
   "ga": 55,
   "gd": -12,
   "pts": 46,
   "qual": null,
   "qual_note": null,
   "elo": 1459
  },
  {
   "pos": 12,
   "team": "Athletic Bilbao",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 13,
   "drawn": 6,
   "lost": 19,
   "gf": 43,
   "ga": 58,
   "gd": -15,
   "pts": 45,
   "qual": null,
   "qual_note": null,
   "elo": 1440
  },
  {
   "pos": 13,
   "team": "Sevilla",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 12,
   "drawn": 7,
   "lost": 19,
   "gf": 46,
   "ga": 60,
   "gd": -14,
   "pts": 43,
   "qual": null,
   "qual_note": null,
   "elo": 1430
  },
  {
   "pos": 14,
   "team": "Alavés",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 11,
   "drawn": 10,
   "lost": 17,
   "gf": 44,
   "ga": 56,
   "gd": -12,
   "pts": 43,
   "qual": null,
   "qual_note": null,
   "elo": 1439
  },
  {
   "pos": 15,
   "team": "Elche",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 10,
   "drawn": 13,
   "lost": 15,
   "gf": 49,
   "ga": 57,
   "gd": -8,
   "pts": 43,
   "qual": null,
   "qual_note": null,
   "elo": 1456
  },
  {
   "pos": 16,
   "team": "Levante",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 11,
   "drawn": 9,
   "lost": 18,
   "gf": 47,
   "ga": 61,
   "gd": -14,
   "pts": 42,
   "qual": null,
   "qual_note": null,
   "elo": 1437
  },
  {
   "pos": 17,
   "team": "Osasuna",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 11,
   "drawn": 9,
   "lost": 18,
   "gf": 44,
   "ga": 50,
   "gd": -6,
   "pts": 42,
   "qual": null,
   "qual_note": null,
   "elo": 1445
  },
  {
   "pos": 18,
   "team": "Mallorca",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 11,
   "drawn": 9,
   "lost": 18,
   "gf": 47,
   "ga": 57,
   "gd": -10,
   "pts": 42,
   "qual": "REL",
   "qual_note": "Relegated",
   "elo": 1440
  },
  {
   "pos": 19,
   "team": "Girona",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 9,
   "drawn": 14,
   "lost": 15,
   "gf": 39,
   "ga": 55,
   "gd": -16,
   "pts": 41,
   "qual": "REL",
   "qual_note": "Relegated",
   "elo": 1428
  },
  {
   "pos": 20,
   "team": "Real Oviedo",
   "played": 38,
   "won": 6,
   "drawn": 11,
   "lost": 21,
   "gf": 26,
   "ga": 60,
   "gd": -34,
   "pts": 29,
   "qual": "REL",
   "qual_note": "Relegated",
   "elo": 1347
  }
 ],
 "table_note": "Final 2025-26 table; La Liga ranks tied clubs on head-to-head record before goal difference (positions 10-11, 13-15 and 16-18 were settled that way). Checks run on the vendored data: every club played 38, points = 3W+D throughout, and the full 380-match results grid recomputes each club's W-D-L and goals exactly. League-wide goals: 1,024.",
 "elo_note": "The Margin's Elo power rating · our model, not an official statistic. Computed from all 380 verified match results (K=24, +60 home advantage, margin-of-victory weighting, everyone starts at 1500). Kick-off order isn't in our source, so ratings are averaged over 400 random match orderings. It rates how well teams actually played, game by game · not just where they finished.",
 "top_scorers": [
  {
   "player": "Kylian Mbappé",
   "club": "Real Madrid",
   "goals": 25,
   "note": "Pichichi"
  },
  {
   "player": "Vedat Muriqi",
   "club": "Mallorca",
   "goals": 23
  },
  {
   "player": "Ante Budimir",
   "club": "Osasuna",
   "goals": 17
  },
  {
   "player": "Ferran Torres",
   "club": "Barcelona",
   "goals": 16
  },
  {
   "player": "Vinícius Júnior",
   "club": "Real Madrid",
   "goals": 16
  },
  {
   "player": "Lamine Yamal",
   "club": "Barcelona",
   "goals": 16
  }
 ],
 "next_season_dates": {
  "start": null,
  "end": null,
  "start_note": "The 96th season of La Liga. A start date had not been published in our source when this page was built (2025-26 ran 15 August to 24 May).",
  "promoted": [
   {
    "team": "Racing Santander",
    "note": "Segunda champions-track · promoted 16 May, back after 14 years"
   },
   {
    "team": "Deportivo La Coruña",
    "note": "Promoted on the penultimate day · back after 8 years"
   },
   {
    "team": "Málaga",
    "note": "Won the promotion play-off final 2–1 vs Almería"
   }
  ],
  "notes": [
   "Barcelona defend the title.",
   "Mallorca, Girona and Oviedo drop to the Segunda División."
  ]
 },
 "source": "2025–26 La Liga (rev. 1360812704) with the league table template (rev. 1356513894; cites laliga.com) and 2026–27 La Liga (rev. 1361159279) · fetched via the MediaWiki API and cross-checked 2 July 2026. Swatches use club colours (gold stands in for Real Madrid white).",
 "colours": {
  "Barcelona": "#A50044",
  "Real Madrid": "#FEBE10",
  "Villarreal": "#F4C500",
  "Atlético Madrid": "#CB3524",
  "Real Betis": "#00954C",
  "Celta Vigo": "#67B0E8",
  "Getafe": "#005999",
  "Rayo Vallecano": "#E53027",
  "Valencia": "#F18E00",
  "Real Sociedad": "#0B67B2",
  "Espanyol": "#2E5EAA",
  "Athletic Bilbao": "#EE2523",
  "Sevilla": "#D50032",
  "Alavés": "#0761AF",
  "Elche": "#05642C",
  "Levante": "#862633",
  "Osasuna": "#C60B1E",
  "Mallorca": "#E20613",
  "Girona": "#CD2534",
  "Real Oviedo": "#0053A0"
 }
}