LaLiga, organizer of Spanish soccer’s top two leagues, has announced record attendance across the top-tier LaLiga and second-tier LaLiga 2 for the 2025-26 season.
The top two Spanish leagues drew a combined 17.54 million spectators throughout their campaigns – a 0.8% increase in attendance compared to the 17.43 million previously secured during the 2024-25 season.
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LaLiga seasons consist of 380 matches, with 20 teams playing 38 games year.
LaLiga 2 seasons feature 462 matches, comprising 22 teams playing 42 matches each. The second tier also includes an extra three games (two semi-finals and a final) as part of a playoff series between the teams placed between 3rd and 6th to determine the third team promoted to LaLiga for the following season.
Among the figures released by LaLiga, the top-tier competition also reached a new record average attendance of 20,776 spectators across its stadiums – a 0.5% increase on the 2024-25 season.
The figures come despite several clubs across the two leagues facing capacity restrictions or temporary relocations during the season due to stadium renovations and modernization projects, including LaLiga’s Barcelona (Camp Nou), Getafe (Coliseum), and RC Celta (Balaidos).
As well as its Real Zaragoza (Ibercaja Stadium) and CD Mirandes (Estadio Municipal de Anduva) teams, which also have capacity restrictions due to venue upgrades, LaLiga 2, also known as LaLiga Hypermotion for sponsorship reasons, featured one reserve team and two newly promoted clubs that play in small-capacity stadiums.
The attendance figures come as LaLiga continues its commercial growth, having secured a revenue increase of over 8% year-on-year during the 2024-25 season, which the league attributed to "international expansion and new monetization strategies.”
At the time of the announcement in March, the league said there were also growth prospects on this front for the recently ended 2025-26 season.
Earlier this month, LaLiga revealed the 2025-26 campaign drew its best-ever viewership performance on broadcast platforms in the US market, one of the competition’s key international territories.
Coverage on pay-TV sports heavyweight ESPN generated a total of 20.1 million viewers in the US, up 10% year-on-year (YoY) on the 2024-25 campaign.
Those 20.1 million viewers took in a cumulative total of 3.9 billion minutes watched across the season, also up 11% YoY.
ESPN is currently halfway through its lucrative LaLiga rights deal, reportedly worth in the region of $1.4 billion (although the value has not been confirmed), which was struck in advance of the 2021-22 season and will run through the 2028-29 campaign.
Meanwhile, in terms of future contracts, last November saw LaLiga complete its domestic line-up of broadcasters for the next cycle (2027-32).
Telecoms giant Telefonica, which operates the Movistar Plus+ pay-TV offering, and OTT streaming service DAZN, will once again split five matches each per gameweek from the top-flight LaLiga competition.
Overall, the new pair of rights deals represents a 9% overall financial uplift on the current contract.
In May, LaLiga secured a broadcast agreement with CazeTV, the Brazilian sports streaming channel run by YouTuber Casemiro Miguel, covering the 2026-27 to 2031-32 seasons.
CazeTV replaces media giant Disney, whose five-year rights deal, running between the 2020-21 and 2025-26 seasons, has ended. Over the course of its contract, it has aired matches via its international sports broadcaster, ESPN, and the Fox Sports network.
