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Football · Level 4: Intermediate · Sub-level 4.47

La Liga & El Clásico

10 tests · 100 facts · updated 12 October 2026 · markdown

Spanish La Liga history from 1929: Real Madrid's 36 titles (most), Barcelona's 29 (back-to-back 2024/25 and 2025/26 under Hansi Flick), Atlético Madrid's Simeone era, iconic El Clásico moments, Messi-Ronaldo rivalry, current stars Lamine Yamal / Kylian Mbappé.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Origins and historyTake a test

  1. La Liga was founded in 1929. Spain's top division. First season had 10 teams.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  2. Barcelona won the first La Liga title in the 1928-29 season (10 clubs, 18 matches).

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  3. Real Madrid won their first La Liga in 1931-32, defending it the next year (1932-33). Madrid CF began dominating from the late 1950s onwards.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  4. Twenty clubs, playing each other home and away. Spain used a smaller field for decades and reached twenty in 1987.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  5. Di Stefano, Puskas and Gento won five European Cups in a row from 1956, and the side then took five straight La Liga titles from 1961 to 1965.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  6. As the Primera Division Femenina. It became a fully professional league under the name Liga F in 2022.

    Source: Liga F history · recall

  7. Eleven as of September 2026, the last seven in a row, counting the years before the league was relaunched as Liga F in 2022.

    Source: Liga F records · recall

  8. Played more than 250 times since 1902, and watched in more countries than any other club fixture in the world.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  9. In the Copa de la Coronacion, which Barcelona won 3-1. League football in Spain did not begin until 1929.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  10. Ten clubs played in the inaugural 1928-29 La Liga season, Racing de Santander, a small club, among them.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

Test 2Champions and recent seasonsTake a test

  1. In Hansi Flick's first season, the club's 28th league title, with a 4-0 win at the Bernabeu along the way.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  2. Their twenty-ninth, and a second in a row under Hansi Flick, settled by a 2-0 win over Real Madrid in May.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  3. Real Madrid won 2023-24 under Ancelotti — their 36th La Liga title (record). Won with 4 games to spare.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  4. Real Madrid: 36 La Liga titles — the record. Barcelona 2nd with 29.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  5. Barcelona: 29 La Liga titles through 2025/26. Won back-to-back under Hansi Flick. With 2024/25 and 2025/26.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  6. Atlético Madrid: 11 La Liga titles. Recent: 2013-14 and 2020-21 (both under Diego Simeone).

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  7. Athletic Bilbao: 8 La Liga titles — mostly early era (1930s and 1940s). Their last title was 1983-84.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  8. Valencia: 6 La Liga titles — including 2001-02 under Rafael Benítez.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  9. A small Catalan club inside the City Football Group, which took them into the Champions League for the first time.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  10. Ever-present since the league began in 1929. Atletico Madrid went down in 2000 and spent two seasons in the second division.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

Test 3Top scorersTake a test

  1. Messi scored 474 La Liga goals for Barcelona (2004-2021) — a record likely to stand.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  2. Cristiano Ronaldo scored 311 La Liga goals for Real Madrid (2009-2018) — 9 seasons of dominance.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  3. Kylian Mbappé (Real Madrid) won the 2024-25 Pichichi with 31 goals — his first La Liga season.

    Source: La Liga awards · recall

  4. Mbappé retained the Pichichi in 2025-26 with 25 goals — despite Barcelona winning the title.

    Source: La Liga awards · recall

  5. Messi took eight Pichichis to Ronaldo's three, though Suarez interrupted them with forty goals in 2015-16.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  6. Messi scored 36 La Liga hat-tricks — a record. Ronaldo has 34.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  7. In 2011-12, a La Liga record; only Cristiano Ronaldo, with 48 in 2014-15, has come close since.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  8. Messi won 8 Pichichi Trophy awards (2009-10 to 2020-21). Telmo Zarra 2nd with 6.

    Source: La Liga awards · recall

  9. Alexia Putellas is Barcelona Femení's all-time top scorer. Multiple Ballon d'Or Feminin (2021, 2022).

    Source: Liga F records · recall

  10. His first hundred took 154 matches. Cristiano Ronaldo got there for Real Madrid in 92.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

Test 4El Clásico momentsTake a test

  1. Barcelona thrashed Real Madrid 6-2 at Bernabéu on 2 May 2009. Under Guardiola's tiki-taka. Messi scored twice.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  2. Messi scored a 92nd-minute Clásico winner at Bernabéu (23 April 2017). His iconic shirt-off celebration.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  3. Lewandowski scored on 54 and 56 minutes, Yamal on 77 and Raphinha on 84, at a Bernabeu that emptied before the end.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  4. Barcelona came from two down at Montjuic in May 2025 and sealed the title at Espanyol four days later.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  5. The result in May 2026 put the title beyond reach with three matches left, a second in a row under Hansi Flick.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  6. He scored the winner in a 2-1 victory in April 2012 and gestured to the Barcelona crowd, which is what made it worth doing.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  7. Against Bayer Leverkusen at Hampden Park, from a Roberto Carlos cross. It was Real Madrid's ninth European Cup.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  8. Thirty meetings with the two of them on the pitch, and eight draws among them. Both scored in the fixture more often than anyone before them.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  9. Di Stefano scored in all five finals. No club has retained the trophy more than twice since the competition was renamed in 1992.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  10. In Seville on 26 April 2025, part of a season in which Barcelona beat Real Madrid in every meeting.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

Test 5Iconic playersTake a test

  1. More than any player in the competition's history. Telmo Zarra, who held the scoring record before him, won six.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  2. Di Stéfano (Argentine) was Real Madrid's icon in the 1950s. Won 5 straight European Cups with them.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  3. Lamine Yamal turned seventeen the day before the final, which Spain won.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  4. Kylian Mbappé joined Real Madrid on a free transfer in summer 2024, after 7 years at PSG. Won 2 Pichichis in 2 seasons.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  5. MSN (Messi-Suárez-Neymar) — Barcelona's iconic 2014-17 front three. Scored 300+ goals in 3 seasons. Neymar left to PSG in 2017.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  6. They played more than five hundred matches together for club and country, and won every major trophy available to both.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  7. Atletico beat Athletic Bilbao 3-0 in Bucharest. Forlan had scored both goals in the 2010 final against Fulham.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  8. She tore the ligament days before Euro 2022, missed the tournament England won, and returned to win the Champions League again.

    Source: Liga F history · recall

  9. Aitana Bonmatí (Barcelona) won the Ballon d'Or Feminin in 2023, 2024 and 2025, the first player to take it three times. Also Euro 2025 Player of the Tournament.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  10. He scored the only goal of the 2022 final and the second of the 2024 one.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

Test 6CoachesTake a test

  1. Fifteen across two spells, 2013-15 and 2021-25, passing Miguel Munoz's fourteen. They include three Champions Leagues and two league titles.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  2. Hansi Flick took over Barcelona in summer 2024, winning La Liga in his first two seasons.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  3. Zidane won 3 straight CLs with Real Madrid (2016, 2017, 2018). Left in summer 2018 aged 45.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  4. Diego Simeone has managed Atlético since Dec 2011. Won 2 La Ligas (2014, 2021), CL final 2014 & 2016 (both lost to Real).

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  5. 2009, 2010 and 2011, losing only the last of the four to Real Madrid. He left in 2012 with fourteen trophies from a possible nineteen.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  6. He had won two La Ligas and two European Cups at Real Madrid, and added the World Cup and a European Championship with Spain.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  7. Ancelotti won the 2023-24 CL with Real Madrid, beating Dortmund 2-0 at Wembley. Also winning La Liga.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  8. His only league title as a coach, between the Koeman and Flick eras. He left in the summer of 2024.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  9. Chelsea in 2009-10, with a then-record 103 goals. He later managed Everton but won nothing there.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  10. Betis beat Osasuna in the final. Pellegrini won the club's next Copa, in 2022.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

Test 7Records and Golden BootTake a test

  1. Ronaldo won 3 Pichichi Trophy awards (2010-11, 2013-14, 2014-15). Messi's 8 is higher.

    Source: La Liga awards · recall

  2. Messi won 10 La Liga titles with Barcelona (2004-05, 2005-06, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2012-13, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2017-18, 2018-19).

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  3. Barcelona finished on 87 against Real Madrid's 68. The gap in 2012-13 was fifteen, and in 2009-10 only three.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  4. Under Jose Mourinho, with 121 goals scored. Barcelona matched the hundred the following year.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  5. Twenty-four goals for Girona, in the season the club finished third and reached the Champions League.

    Source: La Liga awards · recall

  6. Named after Ricardo Zamora, and awarded on a ratio with a minimum number of appearances rather than on a raw count.

    Source: La Liga awards · recall

  7. His sixth Zamora, which made him the outright record holder, ahead of Antoni Ramallets and Victor Valdes on five.

    Source: La Liga awards · recall

  8. 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018, with Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo, until Ronaldo left for Juventus.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  9. Raphinha (Brazil) was La Liga's Best Player 2024-25 — instrumental in Barcelona's title. 30+ goals and assists combined.

    Source: La Liga awards · recall

  10. Forty for Barcelona, the only season between 2009-10 and 2018-19 in which neither Messi nor Ronaldo won the Pichichi.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

Test 8Modern era detailTake a test

  1. Thirty-six to twenty-nine as of September 2026, the closest Barcelona have come in decades.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  2. The Clasico at the Bernabeu on 26 October 2024, which Barcelona won 4-0.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  3. A 3-3 draw at Montjuic and a 4-3 defeat after extra time at San Siro, one of the highest-scoring semi-finals the competition has had.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  4. Girona finished 3rd in 2023-24 La Liga — their best ever finish. Qualified for CL. Small Catalan club.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  5. Girona dropped out of the top-4 race dramatically in 2024-25, spending most of the season fighting relegation. Stayed up narrowly.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  6. Modric ended a decade in which only Messi and Ronaldo had won it. He left Real Madrid in 2025 after thirteen seasons.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  7. Jude Bellingham joined Real Madrid from Dortmund in summer 2023. Won La Liga in his first season. Instantly iconic.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  8. On Montjuic, holding 55,926, while Camp Nou was rebuilt. The Bernabeu was the largest ground in La Liga that season.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  9. On the opening home match of the season, 31 August 2024, which set the tone for the title that followed.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  10. Eighty-four points to Barcelona's eighty-eight, in a season when Barcelona also beat them in every meeting.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

Test 9Rivalries and comparisonsTake a test

  1. Real Madrid against Barcelona. The Madrid derby, the Seville derby and the Basque derby are all fierce, and none carries the same reach.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  2. The derby of the capital. Barcelona against Real Madrid is El Clasico.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  3. Bilbao against San Sebastian, the two biggest clubs of the Basque Country.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  4. Both clubs are from Seville, and the city splits between them.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  5. Real Madrid: 36 La Ligas. Barcelona: 29. Gap: 7 titles. Historic dominance debate remains contentious. Real leads narrowly.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  6. Real Madrid and Barcelona have taken about two thirds of all Spanish titles. Seven different clubs have won the Premier League.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

  7. A Copa semi-final played in an atmosphere that left the Barcelona players in fear for their safety, and the result has never been approached since.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  8. Their heaviest home Clasico defeat remains 0-5 in 1974. The 5-0 of 2010 came at the Camp Nou.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  9. Three league titles and two European Cups between 2008 and 2012, in the four seasons Guardiola was in charge.

    Source: La Liga history · recall

  10. Barcelona's 2-0 win on 10 May 2026 levelled the official record at 106 wins each, with 52 draws from 264 meetings. Real Madrid had led for decades; Barcelona closed the gap in the Guardiola and Messi years and again in 2025-26.

    Source: La Liga records · recall

Test 10The Copa del Rey and the SupercopaTake a test

  1. Barcelona have won it more than thirty times, ahead of Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  2. A lower-division side hosts the tie outright, which is why the competition produces more upsets than its Spanish league does.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  3. The federation sold hosting rights to Saudi Arabia and expanded the competition from two clubs to four at the same time. The January 2021 edition stayed in Spain because of the pandemic.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  4. The league champions and runners-up meet the Copa del Rey winners and runners-up in two semi-finals and a final.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  5. In the 116th minute in Seville, from outside the area, in a match Barcelona had twice led and twice been pegged back in.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  6. Forty years since their previous major honour, sealed on penalties against Mallorca and celebrated on a barge along the Nervion.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  7. The winner enters the Europa League league phase, and if it has already qualified for Europe the place passes down the league table.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  8. Real Madrid won the final but had already qualified through the league, so the spare place passed down the table to Osasuna in seventh.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  9. Espanyol have won the Copa del Rey four times without ever taking a league title; the other three clubs named have all been champions of Spain.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  10. The places go to the league's top two and the Copa finalists, so an overlap is filled from the league table. In 2026 that brought in Atletico and Athletic.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

Sources

FIFA / UEFA / CONMEBOL / CAF / national FA official records

  • La Liga history57
  • La Liga records21
  • Football history and competition records10
  • La Liga awards8
  • Liga F history2
  • Liga F records2