Spanish football is extremely popular both at home and abroad. Domestically, some people jokingly call it a religion.

La Liga’s actual and formal name is “The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División”. For sponsorship purposes it is named “La Liga Santander” after Banco Santander, Spain’s largest bank and originally of Santander, Cantabria.

Spain boasts some of the most popular teams in the world with Real Madrid and Barcelona regularly in the top few of the list. But, other teams are also quite popular outside of Spain’s borders.

The 2022/-23 season

Here is the full size version of the map covering which teams are competing in the top division of men’s Spanish football (also called soccer in the USA) and where in the country these teams belong.

The 2021/-22 season

For the 2021/-22 season we welcome Espanyol, Mallorca and Rayo Vallecano to La Liga and unfortunately have to say goodbye to Eibar, Huesca and Real Valladolid.

Here is the full size version of the map covering which teams are competing in the top division of men’s Spanish football (also called soccer in the USA) and where in the country these teams belong.

The 2020/-21 season

Here is the full size version of the map covering which teams are competing in the top division of men’s Spanish football (also called soccer in the USA) and where in the country these teams belong.