England right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold made his La Liga debut as Real Madrid earned a narrow win against Osasuna. The summer signing from Liverpool had played five times for his new club at the Fifa Club World Cup, where they reached the semi-finals, under new boss Xabi Alonso.

The 2025-26 La Liga season is here, as Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are fighting to retake the division crown from Barcelona.

ESPN+ streaming service offers every La Liga match this season in English and Spanish. Matches will also air occasionally on the ESPN network. ESPN+ plans start at $11.99 per month.

The 2025/26 La Liga season is about to start! Already this Friday (15th), the ball will start rolling on the pitches of the Spanish elite. And OneFootball brings you the lowdown on the Spanish Championship. La Liga kicks off this Friday, August 15th, and will run until the weekend of May 24th, 2026.

Just 41 days after they crashed out of the FIFA Club World Cup, Los Blancos returned to La Liga action at the Santiago Bernabéu. Like so many times last season, Mbappé delivered when the team needed him most, bagging Real Madrid’s only goal of the match from the spot after he drew a foul in the penalty area.

Then there's Real Madrid, who came out on top 32.1% of occasions, meaning the top two in Spain combine for more than three quarters of the triumphs. For Los Blancos, their worst finish was down in 13th. Atletico Madrid were the only other side with a 10% or more probability, finishing first 11.7% of the time but also coming as low as 17th.

Movistar and Orange hike subscription fees while La Liga uses new legal tools to block illegal streams in real time.

In response, club president Florentino Perez hired Alonso and sanctioned around €180million (£155m; $210.5m) to be spent on new players, including defenders Dean Huijsen, Alvaro Carreras and Trent Alexander-Arnold, along with exciting young Argentine playmaker Franco Mastantuono.

Each season, Spanish clubs compete in creativity to seduce their supporters with jerseys that combine tradition and modernity.We have selected the ten most beautiful jerseys of La Liga for the

La Liga returns this week, and the August games in Spain are so hot that referees are forced to call for hydration breaks for the games. Climate change is real, people, and so is a campaign where Barcelona will try to defend their title.