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60 free La Liga trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
La Liga has been played since 1929, and only nine clubs have ever won it. This quiz covers the whole story of the Primera División: the ten founding clubs and the three that have never been relegated, Athletic Bilbao's early dominance and their 12-1 win over Barcelona, Real Madrid's fourteen titles in twenty years, Cruyff's Dream Team, Deportivo's one championship, the 100-point seasons of 2012 and 2013, and Atlético's two titles under Diego Simeone. It also digs into the awards and the numbers: the Pichichi, Zamora and Zarra trophies, Telmo Zarra's 251 goals, Zubizarreta's 622 appearances, Hugo Sánchez's four Pichichis in a row, Lionel Messi's 474 goals and eight Pichichis, Cristiano Ronaldo's penalties, and the derbies of Madrid, Seville and the Basque Country. If you want the continental picture, our Champions League quiz picks up where this one leaves off. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who watches Spanish football, a third are medium and the rest are for people who know which club has lost the most top-flight games. Every answer is checked against the league's reference and record pages, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01How many teams contest La Liga each season?
20
Each plays the others home and away for 38 matchdays, from August to May.
Q 02By the end of the 2023-24 season, how many La Liga titles had Real Madrid won?
36
Real Madrid are the record champions; their two runs of five in a row, 1961-65 and 1986-90, are also a record.
Q 03How many different clubs have been crowned La Liga champions?
Nine
Sixty-three clubs have played in the division; Betis, Sevilla and Deportivo each won it exactly once.
Q 04Which director at Arenas de Getxo first proposed a national league for Spain in 1928?
José María Acha
The federation eventually settled on ten founding clubs for the 1929 season.
Q 05Which three founding clubs have never been relegated from the top flight?
Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao
Espanyol, Real Sociedad and Racing Santander were also among the ten founders.
Q 06How many clubs made up the first Primera División in 1929?
Ten
Six were picked as past Copa del Rey winners, three as cup runners-up and Racing Santander came through a knockout tournament.
Q 07Who scored seven goals in Athletic Bilbao's record 12-1 win over Barcelona in 1931?
Bata
Seven in a game has been equalled only once, by László Kubala for Barcelona in 1952.
Q 08Which Englishman coached Athletic Bilbao's title-winning 'first historic squad' of the early 1930s?
Fred Pentland
The bowler-hatted Pentland won four league titles and four cups in Bilbao.
Q 09Which Andalusian club won its only La Liga title in 1935?
Real Betis
The league was then suspended for the Spanish Civil War.
Q 10Atlético Aviación entered La Liga in 1939-40 as a replacement for which war-damaged club, then won the title?
Real Oviedo
Reinforced by a merger while rivals lost players to exile and war, they retained the title in 1941.
Q 11Which club won its only La Liga title in 1946?
Sevilla
They had finished runners-up in 1940 and 1942 during a brief golden era.
Q 12Barcelona's 1952 side is called 'the team of the five cups'. Which trophy was NOT one of the five?
European Cup
The European Cup did not exist until 1955; the five were the league, Copa del Rey, Copa Eva Duarte, Latin Cup and Martini & Rossi.
Q 13Real Madrid beat the 1950s foreign-player limit by naturalising which Hungarian?
Ferenc Puskás
Together with Raymond Kopa and Paco Gento they won four titles in the second half of the decade.
Q 21Which manager led Valencia to league titles in 2002 and 2004?
Rafael Benítez
Valencia also won the UEFA Cup in 2004 and had lost two Champions League finals under Cúper.
Q 22How many points did Real Madrid get in 2009-10, a then-record still short of Barcelona?
96
Barcelona took the title with 99 points that year.
Q 23Real Madrid's 2011-12 title under José Mourinho set which points record?
100
They also scored a record 121 goals; Barcelona matched the points total the following season.
Q 24Who coached Barcelona to the 100-point 2012-13 title?
Q 14How many La Liga titles did Real Madrid win between 1960 and 1980?
14
Only Atlético Madrid, with four titles in that span, offered a serious challenge.
Q 15Real Sociedad won their first two titles in 1981 and 1982. Which goalkeeper captained that side?
Luis Arconada
Athletic Bilbao followed with back-to-back titles in 1983 and 1984, four Basque titles in a row.
Q 16Which English manager led Barcelona to the 1985 title, their first since 1974?
Terry Venables
It was only Barcelona's tenth championship at the time.
Q 17Which Mexican striker won four Pichichi trophies in a row with Real Madrid between 1986 and 1990?
Hugo Sánchez
His 38 goals in 1989-90 tied Telmo Zarra's single-season record and won the European Golden Boot.
Q 18Johan Cruyff's Barcelona 'Dream Team' won how many consecutive titles from 1991?
Four
Cruyff won eleven trophies in eight years, a club record until Pep Guardiola broke it.
Q 19Which Dutch manager followed Cruyff's success by winning the 1998 and 1999 titles at Barcelona?
Louis van Gaal
His squad included Luís Figo, Luis Enrique and Rivaldo.
Q 20Which club became the ninth different champion when it won the title in 2000?
Deportivo
Under Javier Irureta, they finished in the top three five times between 2000 and 2004.
Tito Vilanova
It matched Real Madrid's tally of the previous year, the only two 100-point seasons in the league's history.
Q 25Atlético Madrid's 2013-14 title was their first since which year?
1996
That 1996 side also won the club's only league and cup double.
Q 26Barcelona's 2014-15 forward line of Messi, Neymar and Suárez was known by what nickname?
MSN
That team became the first to win a second European treble.
Q 27Who managed Atlético Madrid to the 2020-21 title, their second in eight seasons?
Diego Simeone
He has been in charge since December 2011, making him the longest-serving manager in La Liga.
Q 28Which company became La Liga's title sponsor in 2023, replacing Banco Santander?
Electronic Arts
The second division is branded LaLiga Hypermotion under the same deal.
Q 29The Pichichi Trophy for the season's top scorer is awarded by which newspaper?
Marca
It is named after Athletic Bilbao striker Rafael 'Pichichi' Moreno and has been awarded since 1952-53.
Q 30How many matches must a goalkeeper play to qualify for the Zamora Trophy?
28
He must also play at least 60 minutes for a match to count; the minimum was 15 games when the award began in 1958.