La Liga 2011-12: Spanish Premier League Schedule & Match Times

Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, better known as La Liga represents the top flight of association football in Spain. Twenty teams contest the league every year with the bottom three relegated to the second division and replaced the next season by three teams from the lower division. La Liga has been ranked as the best football league in the world by the IFFHS.

La Liga is set to begin, on August 21, with a bang.

But before that, two of the best club teams of the world, Barcelona and Real Madrid clash on August 14 and 17, in a mouth-watering two-legged final of the Super Cup, the traditional curtain raiser between the reigning champions of the La Liga and the Copa del Rey, a game that will tell us what to expect, in Spain’s premier club football tournament.

If you want to know what time it will be in the captital city of your country when the next match begins in the Spanish Premier League, La Liga, take a look at theis table.

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Nine teams have won the annual championship since it began in 1929; however, Real Madrid and Barcelona have dominated the tournament since the 1950s, with Real Madrid having won it 31 times, and Barcelona, on 21 occasions. The reigning champions are Barcelona, who have won the league three years running.

Three teams have never been relegated from the league; they are Barcelona, Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao. But the three most successful teams, internationallky, are Barcelona, Real Madrid and Valencia. These teams have all won five or more international trophies.

These three teams also feature among the top ten clubs in terms of trophies won in European football. In 2005-06, Barcelona and Sevilla won the UEFA Chamions League and UEFA Cup (Europa) respectively, to become the first league to do a European double.

Barcelona are the current champions of UEFA Champions League, having beaten Manchester United 3-1 at Wembley in May. There are many who contend that Barcelona is the best club side ever assembled in the history of football. The core of the team is almost the same as theat of the FIFA 2010 world cup winning Spain squad. They also have the services of Argentine midfielder Messi, considered by many as the best player in the world.

The teams that will feature in the 2011-12 season of La Liga are Athletic Bilbao, Atleticao Madrid, Barcelona, Betis, Espanyol, Getafe, Granada, Levante, Malaga, Mallorca, Osasuna, Racing Santander, Rayo Vallecano, Real Madrid, Real Sociedad, Sevilla, Sporting de Gijon, Valencia, Villarreal and Zaragoza.

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