Season 2016–17 Dates 21 Aug 2016 – 21 May 2017 Matches played 228 | Longest winning run 6 matchesReal Madrid Goals scored 657 Location Spain | |
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The 2016–17 La Liga season, also known as La Liga Santander for sponsorship reasons, is the 86th since its establishment. The season began on 19 August 2016 and will conclude on 21 May 2017.
Contents
- Name sponsorship
- Promotion and relegation pre season
- Personnel and sponsorship
- Positions by round
- Results
- Top goalscorers
- Top assists
- Zamora Trophy
- Hat tricks
- Discipline
- Attendances
- References
Barcelona are the defending champions.
Name sponsorship
The Spanish top flight dropped the sponsorship from BBVA and will now be called LaLiga while the second division will be called LaLiga2. The league made this change to maximize the LaLiga brand. Because of the sponsor change, Konami's well-known football-based video game Pro Evolution Soccer lost the license for Spain's top tier football league, and the license was taken over by EA's FIFA.. On 20 July, Banco Santander was appointed as new sponsor.
Promotion and relegation (pre-season)
A total of 20 teams will contest the league, including 17 sides from the 2015–16 season and three promoted from the 2015–16 Segunda División. This will include the two top teams from the Segunda División, and the winners of the play-offs.
Deportivo Alavés was the first team from Segunda División to achieve promotion, after a ten-year absence from La Liga, on 29 May 2016 after winning 2–0 against CD Numancia. CD Leganés was promoted as the runners-up after winning 1–0 at CD Mirandés in the last match-day, on 4 June 2016. This was Leganés' first promotion to the top division. CA Osasuna was the last to be promoted after beating Gimnàstic de Tarragona and Girona FC in the play-offs. The Reds come back to La Liga two years after their last relegation.
The three promoted clubs replace Rayo Vallecano, Getafe and Levante who were relegated during the previous season.
Personnel and sponsorship
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The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.
Source: BDFutbol
Results
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Top goalscorers
As of 26 February 2017Top assists
As of 26 February 2017Zamora Trophy
The Zamora Trophy is awarded by newspaper Marca to the goalkeeper with least goals-to-games ratio. A goalkeeper must play at least 28 games of 60 or more minutes to be eligible for the trophy.
As of 26 February 2017Hat-tricks
(H) – Home ; (A) – Away
Discipline
As of 26 February 2017Attendances
Updated to games played on 28 February 2017
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Notes:
1: Team played last season in Segunda División.