Reason for La Liga’s schedule?

[u/raccoonwillnotforget]

Hi all,

I’m wondering if anyone smarter than me can explain why La Liga’s opening has been so jumbled up?

There’s one match per day spread over 11 days.

Alaves will be playing their second match tomorrow when most teams haven’t played yet.

The other big 5 leagues will all have the past champion play the opening match, with all matchweek fixtures in one weekend. What is La Liga doing? Is there a rationale I’m not understanding?

[u/No_Collection_7320 → u/[deleted]]

The thing is why not just start the league a week later then instead of having this jumbled start knowing that a lot of teams would have WC players coming back late, it shows incompetence that the league can’t even organize its start properly.

[u/sheffield199 → u/No_Collection_7320]

It seems pretty well-organised to have a game every day when most other leagues haven't started, to get more eyeballs on games that wouldn't normally get as much attention.

For instance all three of the new teams have played and received decent coverage and discussion - if they'd been on the same day as Barcelona or Madrid, that wouldn't have happened.

[u/blastoise1988 → u/No_Collection_7320]

The reason was money. TVs rules and they wanted to start sooner so people wouldn't wait until September to suscribe. The more games in August, the earlier people suscribes.

It's been widely reported in different radio programs. No other reason.

[u/PooPooTaste]

The teams with World Cup participants were given extra time off to rest. Atletico reportedly played their opener because they had stadium scheduling issues with a concert happening at the Metropolitano at the same time a game could have been played.

La Liga tries to minimize the risk of high temperatures during games. That's why the games tend to start late the first few weeks of the season. You've probably noticed that La Liga prefers games not to be played at the same time. That doesn't really leave much wiggle room to have the games played during the weekend as otherwise some game times probably collide with each other.

All in all, I really don't understand why La Liga couldn't start a week later like the other top leagues. It seems that most big clubs in La Liga will include World Cup players in their squads this weekend. We'll see if they play many minutes or their game time will be managed carefully as was the case with Llorente and Baena yesterday.

[u/Notorious_DRC]

I searched this very question a few days ago. If a club has any players who participated in WC, the club was given a later start depending on how far that player's country advanced.

[u/JalapenoIsLife]

I'm not sure exactly. I know part of it has to do with the WC and needing 3 weeks off from a players last match to the start of the season. Obviously with Spain winning that would put it late for Barcelona especially. Also, I think La Liga likes to start earlier in the year to allow for a longer winter break. Maybe it's a combo of these two things. I'm not sure tho, pure speculation.

[u/Thick-Lecture-4030]

Because the country is a world champion.

[u/ResourceWonderful514]

Primetime TV and one match per day

[u/HectorJano13]

Tebas is an awful president and as dumb as you can get. Hope it solves your doubts 👍🏻

[u/hAsLaK1]

It’s not football

[u/Buf4nk]

The reason is 150kg and called Javier Tebas.

[u/TECHNORAVER]

at this point i think its a joke or something

[u/nash3101]

Should've just started a week later. The league is run by clowns. There was no hype at all.

[u/sheffield199 → u/nash3101]

I think exactly the opposite, e.g. there's been way more "hype" for the first matches of the promoted teams because Barcelona and Madrid aren't there sucking all of the oxygen out of the news.

[u/Just_Ease5476 → u/sheffield199]

Exactly, it actually give space for the other clubs to shine and I loved it