La Liga Betting Guide
There are many sports leagues around the world. Few of them are as prolific as ‘La Liga’, a Spanish football league with an impressive number of quality competitors. From single-match bets to futures betting and everything in between, there are many betting options available for La Liga fans.
Let’s take a closer look at the league, its bets and its history in this La Liga betting guide.
##About the Spanish La Liga The Spanish ‘La Liga’ has been a staple of the football betting world for nearly a century. It was established in 1929 and comprises 20 clubs that each play a total of 38 games for 380 games in a season. Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are a few of the league's most successful and well-loved teams.
The winning team is the one with the most points at the end of the campaign. La Liga is regarded as one of the top leagues in the world and is recognised for its intense competition and long history of producing players of the highest calibre. The league is renowned for its fierce rivalries and fervent fan base.
How to bet on La Liga?
Betting on La Liga is a fairly straightforward process. At its simplest, the process involves players joining a reputable and well-established sportsbook, such as LeoVegas, and placing a bet on a La Liga match.
We suggest that bettors take time to understand the league, its markets, and its patterns before betting. You should also keep track of your bets, including how much you wagered along with the outcome of the match and how much you either profited or lost.
La Liga outright betting markets
When you are weighing the odds of a La Liga bet and are considering which team you expect to win, you are looking for an ‘outright’ win. This means that you are hoping to place a bet on a team to win outright, rather than a more complicated type of bet. This is the most popular futures betting market in the league.
La Liga game betting markets
One of the best reasons to bet on La Liga at LeoVegas is the sheer number of betting markets at bettors’ disposal. These include, but are not limited, to:
- Match winner: The match winner market allows bettors to wager for a loss, draw or win outcome on single events.
- Alternative betting markets: In addition to the traditional match-winner market, La Liga bettors can also bet on the final score, the full-time and half-time results, and even the number of bookings or corners.
- Live betting: The live betting market allows bettors to wager on ever-changing odds during the match itself.
- Combined bets: Bettors do not have to resign themselves to a single betting market. Instead, they can combine their bets and place a double, for example.
A trustworthy sportsbook or bookmaker, like LeoVegas, can offer bettors a diverse array of La Liga game betting markets.
La Liga player betting markets
In addition to single-match and futures betting on team games, bettors can also take advantage of a thriving La Liga player betting market. This market allows you to wager on players most likely to score goals, for example, as well as whether anyone will score at all during the first half, second half, or a whole match.
##Which teams are consistently in the title race?
La Liga has an impressive number of competitors, but there are two teams that have consistently reigned supreme over the decades. These are Real Madrid and Barcelona, who have been La Liga winners more than 60 times combined.
Which surprise teams could be relegated from La Liga in the next five years?
Unlike some other sports, which allow teams to continue competing even after many disastrous seasons, La Liga has expectations its teams are expected to meet. The league plays on a double-round-robin basis, which means that each of the league’s 20 (at the time of writing) teams must play every other side home and away. Three points are awarded for wins and one for draws. After 38 rounds of fixtures, the team earning the fewest points is bumped, or ‘relegated’, to a separate division. At the time of writing, some of the La Liga teams possibly facing relegation include Girona, Elche, Real Valladolid, and Cadiz, among others. Within the next five years, however, it is technically possible for any team to be relegated from La Liga.