At last. Only 12 days after the ball was rolling again and, having overcome all the sporting and logistical problems arising from the Fuenlabrada Case until the ordinary justice ruled definitively, LaLiga and the Federation carried out, by mandate of the CSD, the draw of the calendar in the Las Rozas Soccer City for the 2020-21 season It will start on September 12 and end on May 23 in Primera (with 20 teams) and 29 in Segunda (with 22 clubs despite the proposed alternatives of 24 and 26). And the course, with Messi or without him, starts strong. From the hype, with a dozen conditions introduced to the letter by the employers for the third consecutive year, the honored toilets obtained the number 12,751 (out of 99,999 possible calendars) that has resulted in in the first of the 38 days there are three special matches, Real Madrid-Getafe, Barça-Elche and Atlético-Sevilla, although these meetings have been postponed so that the six teams in question have more rest having had to compete in Europe or in the playoff. The date on which they will be played has not yet been released. In addition, it is already known that the first Clásico will be on October 25 at the Camp Nou (April 11 the return) and the first major Madrid derby will be in the Madrid field on December 13 (return March 7).
Before this panorama, the first day will have only seven games in First. Same as the second day (September 19), when Real Madrid and Getafe joined, who lost in the second round of the Champions League and Europa League respectively. For this reason Athletic-Barça, Sevilla-Elche and Levante-Atlético will also be postponed. The Madtid will play in Anoeta and therefore his title defense will begin that day. It will not be until the third day, when Barcelona, Atlético, Sevilla and Elche rejoin the rest, when we have a weekend full of football that will soon be cut off by the first international stoppage of the national teams. Before that September 26, Sevilla will have to play in Budapest the final of the European Super Cup against Bayern.
The calendar will have four of its week-long days and will have a new Christmas break from December 22 to 30 (until January 3 in Segunda) despite the fact that LaLiga, at first, wanted it to be played even on the 31st and had reserved December 27 in its sketch in case, from now until then, a match was postponed for reasons force majeure. Another of the weekends that will not be like the usual ones will be that of January 16 and 17. Real Madrid, Barça, Real and Athletic will play the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia from the 13th, so their League matches that day (they will face each other) will also be postponed. The rest will play like a normal weekend.
The weekend of April 17 there will be no League either. There, both the Federation and LaLiga, reached an agreement to set andThe final of the Copa del Rey this season was Saturday. The other final pending from the previous campaign, the one that Real and Athletic should have played at the Sevilla Olympic Stadium and which was postponed due to COVID-19, will be played earlier, even on a date that the RFEF must make public after the meeting of today from its Management Commission.
Mondays and Fridays, in the air
Although the calendar is already public, it remains to be seen if LaLiga will be able to continue using the time slot of Fridays and Mondays as it is played without an audience in the stands for the moment, as happened in the last 11 days by a RFEF conceded. Justice has rejected the precautionary request requested from LaLiga, so everything will depend on the will of Rubiales when he is re-elected president at the end of September. The last two days of LaLiga, as usual but this season it has not been possible to comply with Deportivo-Fuenlabrada, will be with a unified schedule (Barça ends in Eibar, Madrid at home against Villarreal and Atlético in Valladolid). After the end of the championship, the final of the Europa League will arrive (May 26 in Gdansk) and that of the Champions (May 29 in Istanbul). Then it will be the turn of the Euro and the Olympics.
Conditioning factors in search of the show
The calendars, both in First and Second, are conditioned, in addition to not coinciding the matches of the first with the second round, to avoid security problems and guarantee the greatest possible spectacle during the season. For this reason, in its preparation a series of premises are added that must be met, such as the usual request from clubs not to play the first days at home due to construction work (so Osasuna, Huesca, Levante and Elche have requested it). They also try to avoid that two teams from the same city play the same day or that their matches coincide with local festivities. Also that in periods like Christmas long trips are made and geographically closer matches are played or avoid derbies and Classics from coinciding on the same days.
Matches of the first day of LaLiga
Alaves-Betis
Athletic-Seville
Barça-Elche
Éibar-Celta
Cadiz-Osasuna
Granada-Athletic
Real Madrid-Getafe
Valencia-Levante
Valladolid-Real Sociedad
Villarreal-Huesca
Matches of the last day of LaLiga
Celta-Betis
Éibar-Barça
Granada-Getafe
Huesca-Valencia
Levante-Cadiz
Osasuna-Real Sociedad
Real Madrid-Villarreal
Seville-Alaves
Valladolid-Athletic
Elche-Athletic