Standings

One table, start to finish. Every club plays every other club twice, home and away, and the club top of the table at the end is champion. There is no split, no play-off and no second phase — the season is decided by the table you see below.

The league is the same size every season. Twenty clubs, 38 rounds, 380 matches — so season totals compare directly from one year to the next.

Level on points is settled between the clubs, not by goal difference. Where two or more clubs finish on the same points, La Liga ranks them on their record against each other — a mini-table of just those clubs, points first and then goal difference within it — and only falls back to overall goal difference if that is level too.

At stake: the top of the table takes Spain's Champions League places, entering at the league phase rather than through qualifying, the places below go to the Europa and Conference Leagues, and the bottom three are relegated to the Segunda División.