LaLiga has lost a goal in recent years

Less days. The 2020-21 League will begin just 55 days after the conclusion of the previous championship. This is the shortest period of time between two consecutive editions, exceeding the 62 days that separated the 1998-99 and 1999-00 seasons and the 68 days between the 1996-97 and 1997-98 championships. At the opposite extreme are the 1,323 days that had to wait until the start of the 1939-40 campaign, due to the Civil War and the 273 days of waiting between the 1933-34 and 1934-35 tournaments.

First goal. The postponement of Granada-Athletic by the Competition judge could lead to Celta or Eibar being the protagonists of the first goal scored in an edition of La Liga for the first time in their respective histories. Celta conceded the first goal of the Spanish championship twice and the last time this happened was accompanied by a record for history: in 2012, Cameroonian Fabrice Olinga became the youngest scorer in La Liga (he scored in the first match of the championship, a Celta-Málaga, with 16 years and 98 days).

Delayed start. Six teams (Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla, Barcelona, ​​Elche, Real Madrid and Getafe) will start the championship later than the rest, something that had only happened three times in the 91-year history of La Liga: Valladolid-Atlético de la The first match day of the 1949-50 season was postponed due to a terrible accident suffered by the local team after a preseason match, Barcelona-Seville in the 1957-58 campaign was postponed because the Camp Nou was not yet available to be inaugurated and the Athletic-Cádiz of the 1983-84 academic year had to be postponed due to the tremendous floods that occurred in the Basque country in September 1983. A special case is the Valencia-Barcelona of the first date of La Liga 1963-64, which It started, but it had to be suspended in the 28th minute because of a heavy rain and it was repeated in its entirety two months later.

Territorial representation. Nine Autonomous Communities will be represented in this edition of La Liga in which, therefore, a total of 42 regional derbies will be played. The only regions with more than one representative will be Andalusia (Betis, Cádiz, Granada and Seville), the Valencian Community (Elche, Levante, Valencia and Villarreal), the Basque Country (Alavés, Athletic, Eibar and Real Sociedad) and the Community of Madrid (Atlético , Getafe and Real Madrid). Barcelona will be the only Catalan team in the First Division for the third time in history (1962-63, 1989-90 and 2020-21).

Transfers. Among the 50 most expensive transfers in this atypical market there are only four La Liga players: Miralem Pjanic (valued at 60 million euros, although in reality he has been exchanged for Arthur plus twelve million), Álvaro Morata (Atlético de Madrid has paid 56 million euros to Chelsea to be the sole “owner” of the player), Francisco Trincao (Barcelona paid 31 million euros for him in March) and Suso (Sevilla has made the purchase clause for 24 million of euros). Without taking into account these four cases, which are exceptional for different reasons, the transfer of Óscar Rodríguez from Real Madrid to Sevilla (13.5 million euros) has been the most expensive of the summer in the Spanish championship.

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Bench changes. Six First Division teams will start the season with a different coach than the one they had at the end of the previous year. These are Alavés (Pablo Machín instead of Juan Ramón López Muñiz), Barcelona (Ronald Koeman instead of Quique Setién), Real Betis (Manuel Pellegrini instead of Alexis Trujillo), Elche (Jorge Almirón instead of Pacheta), Valencia (Javi Gracia instead of Voro) and Villarreal (Unai Emery instead of Javi Calleja). In the Premier League, for example, the 20 teams keep the same coach with whom they closed last year.

Less goals. In the last four seasons, La Liga has suffered a drastic and worrying decrease in the number of goals scored: 1,118 in 2016-17, 1,024 in 2017-18, 983 in 2018-19 and 942 in 2019-20. Last season's average goals per game (2.48) was by far the lowest of the four major European leagues (3.21 in the Bundesliga, 3.04 in Serie A and 2.72 in the Premier League). The last edition of the Spanish championship with fewer than 900 goals dates from the 1990-91 campaign in which only 822 goals were scored (2.16 per game).

Current champion. Real Madrid has not won La Liga in consecutive seasons since the 2006-07 (with Fabio Capello) and 2007-08 (with Bernd Schuster) campaigns and has not won the same coach since the three consecutive championships won with Leo Beenhakker between 1987 and 1989. At the end of this season the Eurocup will be played and it should be noted that whenever Spain lifted the title (1964, 2008 and 2012) it did so with players from a Real Madrid League champion in that same campaign.

More records. After a turbulent summer, Messi will try to take advantage of a new participation in La Liga to increase his list of records that will remain untouched for decades. One of the few records that still resists him is that of being the most winning player in the championship, since his ten titles (the same that Pirri achieved with Real Madrid) are still behind the twelve achieved by another white legend, Paco Gento.

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Boy. In the roster of the three newly promoted teams, the figure of Nino stands out above the rest, a player who can set several records in this championship. The Elche forward will start La Liga 2020-21 on the third day with 40 years and 109 days and will end it in May with 40 years and 347 days. The only player in the history of the Spanish championship who scored a goal after turning 40 is Donato (the oldest scorer in history with 40 years and 138 days).