2023-06-22 21:02:33
The LaLiga 23-24 calendar is already known after a draw that left surprises at La Ciudad del Fútbol in Las Rozas. A tournament that changes its commercial name, after many seasons being called the Santander League. On July 3, the new sponsor and the new name will be announced, which will be, in principle, EA Sports. The championship will begin on Friday, August 11 and will end on Sunday, May 26 in the case of the First Division and on Sunday, June 2 in the Second Division. The promotion playoffs from second to first will take place between June 9 and 23.
La Liga returns to normal without the World Cup interrupting it extemporaneously and without Christmas football. The competition stops between December 20 and January 3, as was the custom until last year. And the final is brought forward a week in the summer of the Eurocup, which in 2024 will be held in Germany. And it starts as soon as last year. On Friday, August 11, the first matches of the soccer course will be played.
The club competition is not interrupted for a month as it was for the World Cup in Qatar, but there are two more national team stops that last year were absorbed by the World Cup. This year the normality of the three spaces for the national teams before Christmas is recovered. In September the endless South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup begin, which is played between Mexico, the United States and Canada. And the qualifying phase for the Eurocup continues, which will hasten its last moments in the “blackouts” of club football in October and November.
In March the last interruption arrives for the play-offs for the Eurocup and the first previous friendlies to be played.
The schedule is predictable. Since it is conditioned and the first and second rounds are not symmetrical, the tradition is that there is a classic in October and another before the decisive stage of the European competitions arrives. The first of this season will be on matchday 11, on October 29 in Barcelona. And the return, on matchday 22, on April 24 in Madrid.
One of the novelties is the stadiums in which these matches will be played. Real Madrid has asked to play the first three games of the season away from home. Althletic Club, Almería and Celta will be their rivals in those days at the beginning of the championship.
Real Madrid has asked for time to open the new Bernabéu, in the same place as always, but completely different. A stadium of the future in another time, because sports venues began to appear on the outskirts of cities a long time ago, as the example of the United States shows.
Real Madrid opens its stadium, where there will be much more than football, and Barcelona faces its first year in exile before returning to the same place but to play at the Nou Camp Nou. In the meantime, he will have to settle for playing in the Olympic stadium on Montjuïc, the place that Espanyol once occupied and where Fermín Cacho won gold for Spain in the 1,500m and where Carl Lewis won two new Olympic gold medals. The penultimate before saying goodbye with the gold in length at the Atlanta 96 Games.
Barcelona will play there while their new house is built on the ashes of the old one. The old Camp Nou gives way to the new.
The Madrid derbies are played at the usual times. The first, in September at the Metropolitano, on matchday 6. Just a week after the end of the Tour of Spain in the Plaza de Cibeles. And the second, at the Bernabéu, on February 4.
The rojiblanco representative in the draw was the legendary Paulo Futre, who made a wish for next season. “Last season we were awarded a penalty, I hope this will be two,” said the Portuguese smiling.
The matches that Atlético plays against Barcelona will come later than the derbies and the classics. Until December 3, they will not see their faces for the first time. In the second round it is a little ahead of the classic and is scheduled for March 17.
The rojiblancos, as is almost the custom in recent times, end the season facing Real Sociedad, although on this occasion it is the Gipuzkoans who play as locals to close the season.
First day:
Athletic-Real Madrid
Atlético-Granada
Celtic-Osasuna
Seville-Valencia
Las Palmas-Majorca
Getafe-Barcelona
Villarreal-Betis
Real Sociedad-Girona
Cádiz-Alaves
Getafe-Barcelona.
Last journey:
Almería-Cádiz
Celtic-Valencia
Getafe-Mallorca
Girona-Granada
Osasuna vs Villarreal
Rayo-Athletic
Real Sociedad-Athletic
Seville-Barcelona
Real Madrid-Betis
Las Palmas-Alaves
Key dates:
The first Clásico between Barcelona and Real Madrid will be on October 29 and the return on April 21 at the Bernabéu. While the last day is full of great games: Real Betis-Real Madrid, Seville-Barcelona, Real Sociedad-Atlético. The Madrid derby will be played on September 24 at the Cívitas Metropolitano and the second match at the Bernabéu on February 4, 2024. On November 12 the first Andalusian derby will be played between Sevilla-Betis and on April 28 it will be Betis- Seville.
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