In 1967, European champions Actual Madrid pipped Barcelona to the league title.
Nothing uncommon there, however this was a singular season in Spanish soccer historical past for one motive – the groups who got here up went straight again down.
Deportivo la Coruna and Hercules – having received their respective regional second divisions – and Granada – promoted by way of the play-offs – had been the groups in query.
It has by no means occurred since, although it’s price noting this 12 months’s crop of promoted groups got here shut.
Actual Valladolid, the place some followers have grown sad with proprietor Ronaldo, have received simply 4 video games since promotion and sit all-time low of La Liga.
With Las Palmas – promoted two seasons in the past – already down, one in every of Leganes or Espanyol, the opposite two who got here up final summer season, may also be relegated on the ultimate day.
“The pattern is comparable,” says BBC Sport columnist Guillem Balague. “In the previous few years, 15 groups kind of keep within the division and 5 go up and down, together with a staff like Espanyol that would go down for the third time in 5 years.
“It’s all all the way down to cash. FFP does not assist you to offer you an injection of capital that enables a staff to both go from small to very huge or to outlive rather more clearly.
“And the opposite factor is the parachute cash within the Premier League is huge. In Spain there’s a little bit and it is determined by what number of years you’ve got been in La Liga – 2.5% of TV rights is devoted to be shared between three groups that go down, which lets you type out your finances, however not rather more.
“It’ll occur an increasing number of.”
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