By Bill Turianski on 19 December 2024; twitter.com/billsportsmaps.
Links…
-2024-25 La Liga (en.wikipedia.org).
-Spain » Primera División 2024/2025 (worldfootball.net).
-La Liga – Summary: matches, table, players, etc (soccerway.com).
-Sid Lowe at theguardian.com/football [Spanish football coverage] (theguardian.com/profile/sidlowe).
The map. The map page shows a location-map for the 20 clubs in the 2024-25 La Liga, with recently-promoted and -relegated teams noted. (Promoted in 2024: Valladolid, Leganés, Espanyol. Relegated in 2024: Cádiz, Almería, Granada.)
The map also shows the 17 Autonomous Communities of Spain, and the 20 largest Spanish metropolitan areas. Those 20 largest Spanish metro-areas, with their 2018 population estimates, are listed at the top-centre of the map-page.
The 3 charts…
A). A chart showing Current Attendance (up to week 17; 19 Dec 2024) plus 2024-25 finish, and with teams playing in Europe noted. There are also columns listing Venue-capacities and Percent-capacities. Note: For 2023-24, and for 2024-25 up to Feb 2025, FC Barcelona are playing at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, due to Camp Nou redevelopments. Barcelona’s home capacity is thus reduced by around 43,400. (Camp Nou capacity: 99,354. Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys capacity: 55,926.)
B). A chart showing Seasons-in-La Liga by club, with consecutive seasons listed. This is the 94th La Liga season. Three La Liga founding members – Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Athletic Club [Bilbao] have never been relegated.
C). A chart showing the All-time Spanish professional titles list (1929 to 2023-24).
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Spanish clubs promoted in 2024…
2024: Valladolid, promoted back to La Liga after 1 year…
Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol are from Valladolid, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, located, by road, 101 miles (162 km) NW of Madrid. The elevation of Valladolid is 2,290 ft [or 0.4 miles] (698 m). Valladolid’s metro-area population is around 369,000 {2018 figure}. Valladolid is the 20th-largest city in Spain.
Valladolid wear violet-&-white vertical stripes. Valladolid first played in La Liga in 1948-49. Valladolid have played 47 seasons of 1st division football, which is the 13th-most in Spain. Their best finish was 4th place, in 1962-63. A yo-yo club since 2020-21: Valladolid have been relegated, then promoted, the last 4 seasons. (Relegated in 2021/Promoted in 2022/Relegated in 2023/Promoted in 2024.) Valladolid play in the 42-year-old 27-K-capacity Estadio José Zorrilla, which is a whole lot nicer of a venue since 2019, when the dry-moat that encircled the pitch was removed. Valladolid are currently [19 Dec 2024] in the relegation zone (yet again), and are drawing 21.3-K-per-game (77.2%-capacity).
2024-25 Valladolid home jersey, from uksoccershop.com. Stadium photo unattributed at skyscrapercity.com/[Valladolid - Estadio José Zorrilla Expansion, May 2023 post].
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2024: Leganés, promoted back to La Liga after 4 years…
CD Leganés are from Leganés, a southern suburb of Madrid. (Leganés is located, by road, 9 miles (15 km) SSW of central Madrid.) In the 1950s, and all the way into the early 1990s, Leganés were a 4th or a 3rd tier team. They finally made it to the 2nd division in 1993, but it took them 23 more seasons to get promoted to La Liga. Leganés first played in La Liga in 2016-17. They played four seasons in the top flight, then were relegated back to Segunda División in 2020. Leganés wear dark-blue-&-white vertical stripes. Leganés play at the 12.4-K-capacity Estadio Municipal de Butarque, and they have been paying there since the stadium opened in 1998. Leganés recently (16 Dec) had a 0-1 upset win over Barcelona, and are currently [19 Dec 2024] in 15th place, and are drawing 10.7-K-per-game (86.3%-capacity).
2024-25 Leganés home jersey, from dhgate.com. Estadio Municipal de Butarque, photo from cdleganes.com/noticias.
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2024: Espanyol, promoted back to La Liga after 1 year…
Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona wear blue-&-white vertical stripes. RCD Espanyol are the 6th-longest serving club in La Liga, having played in 88 of the 94 La Liga seasons. But Espanyol have never won a Spanish title. And Espanyol are considerably overshadowed by their local rivals, FC Barcelona. Part of that has to do with Espanyol’s distancing itself from the Catalan independence movement (the fanbase of Espanyol is generally perceived as being much more right-wing than Barcelona’s fanbase). But part of it also has to do with the fact that Espanyol’s fanbase is a fraction of the size of Barcelona’s: Espanyol can only half-fill their award-winning, but too-large, 40-K-capacity stadium.
Espanyol were a founding member of La Liga in 1929 (one of 10 teams). Espanyol have been relegated 6 times, but each time, they won promotion straight back to La Liga (1961-63, 1968-70, 1988-90, 1992-94, 2019-21, 2022-24). Espanyol have won 4 Copa del Rey titles (1929, 1940, 2000, 2006).
Espanyol are currently [19 Dec 2024] back in the relegation zone, and are drawing 22.8-K-per-game (which is a league-worst 55.8%-capacity), at their 40,000-seat RCDE Stadium.
Photo credits above – 2024-25 Espanyol home jersey, from subsidesports.com. RCDE Stadium, aerial photo unattributed at guidetourism.net.
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Thanks to all at the following links…
-Blank map of Spain, by NordNordWest at File:Spain location map.svg;
-Globe-map of Spain, by Rob984 at File:EU-Spain (orthographic projection).svg;
-Map of the Community of Madrid, by Miguillen at File:Spain Madrid location map.svg (en.wikipedia.org).
-Map of Canary Islands, by Miguillen at File:Canarias-loc.svg (commons.wikimedia.org).
-Largest metropolitan areas in Spain (2018 European Spatial Planning Observation Network figures) (en.wikipedia.org).
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Liga#Clubs.
-Autonomous communities of Spain;
-List of metropolitan areas in Spain (en.wikipedia.org).
-Attendance, worldfootball.net/attendance/esp-primera-division-2024-25.
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