La Liga 2016–17

The 2016–17 La Liga season will be the 86th since its establishment. The season will start on 21 August 2016 and will conclude on 21 May 2017.

Barcelona are the defending champions.

Name sponsorship
Spanish bank BBVA will not remain main sponsor for the Spanish first division, the two parties announced.Telefónica-owned Movistar+ and beer brand Mahou are reportedly competing to become the next official sponsor of La Liga. Because of the sponsor change, Konami's hugely popular football video game Pro Evolution Soccer will lose the license for the Spain's top football league, and the license will be taken over by EA's FIFA.

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)
A total of 20 teams will contest the league, including 17 sides from the 2015–16 season and three promoted from the 2015–16 Segunda División. This will include the two top teams from the Segunda División, and the winners of the play-offs.

Deportivo Alavés was the first team from Segunda to achieve promotion, after a ten-year absence from La Liga, on 29 May 2016 after winning 2–0 against Numancia.

CD Leganés was promoted as the runners-up after winning 1–0 at CD Mirandés in the last matchday, on 4 June 2016. This was Leganés' first promotion to the top division.

CA Osasuna was the last to be promoted after beating Gimnàstic de Tarragona and Girona FC at the play-offs. The Reds come back to La Liga two years after its last relegation.

Fixtures
Fixtures for the 2016–17 season will be announced on 21 July 2016.

Zamora Trophy
The Zamora Trophy is awarded by newspaper Marca to the goalkeeper with least goals-to-games ratio. A goalkeeper must play at least 28 games of 60 or more minutes to be eligible for the trophy.

Hat-tricks
(H) – Home ; (A) – Away

Discipline

 * Most yellow cards (club):


 * Most yellow cards (player):


 * Most red cards (club):


 * Most red cards (player):