La Liga Fixtures for the 2010-11 Season

The Real Fed­eración Española de Fút­bol (the Span­ish FA) released the full sched­ule for the 2010-11 La Liga sea­son, and Jor­nada 1 will be held on the last week­end of August.  Both Real Madrid and FC Barcelona will com­mence their cam­paigns away from home as they visit Mal­lorca and Rac­ing de San­tander respec­tively.  Real Sociedad, the Basque foot­ball entity that spent the last two years in the Segunda División after estab­lish­ing them­selves in the Primera División for the pre­vi­ous forty sea­sons, will make their tri­umphant return to the top level of the Span­ish pyra­mid against Vil­lar­real.  The last match of the first round of fix­tures will be held that Mon­day night as Atlético Madrid hosts Sport­ing de Gijón at the Esta­dio Vicente Calderón.

Here are the full sched­ule of the open­ing round of the La Liga sea­son on August 28–30:

Mal­lorca — Real Madrid

Hér­cules — Ath­letic Bilbao

Rac­ing de San­tander — FC Barcelona

Málaga — Valencia

Deportivo La Coruña — Real Zaragoza

Lev­ante — Sevilla

Espanyol — Getafe

Real Sociedad — Villarreal

Osasuna — Almería

Atlético Madrid — Sport­ing Gijón

El Clásico matches between Real Madrid and Barcelona will be held on the Novem­ber 27 week­end (Jor­nada 13) at the Camp Nou and the April 16 week­end (Jor­nada 32) at the San­ti­ago Bern­abéu, where José Mour­inho will reac­quaint him­self with Pep Guardi­ola after Mourinho’s Inter Milan elim­i­nated Barcelona in last season’s UEFA Cham­pi­ons League.

Other der­bies of note include the Basque derby between Real Sociedad and Ath­letic Bil­bao in Rounds 14 and 33, the Valen­cian derby between Valen­cia and Vil­lar­real in Rounds 12 and 31, el derbi Barceloní between Espanyol and Barcelona in Rounds 16 and 35, and el Derbi madrileño between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid in Rounds 10 and 29.

If the races for the title, Cham­pi­ons League places, Europa League places, and rel­e­ga­tion come down to the final day, as it has for the past few sea­sons, here are the final round of fixtures:

Real Madrid — Almería

Osasuna — Villarreal

Real Sociedad — Getafe

Espanyol — Sevilla

Lev­ante — Real Zaragoza

Deportivo La Coruña — Valencia

Málaga — Barcelona

Rac­ing de San­tander — Ath­letic Bilbao

Hér­cules — Sport­ing Gijón

Mal­lorca — Atlético Madrid

For the rest of the sched­ule, refer to the RFEF web­site here.  La Liga will con­tinue with one Mon­day match every round, and a Fri­day fix­ture may be included by the start of the sea­son.  While Real Madrid and Barcelona will likely lead the way as per usual, the revamped Valen­cia lineup, the con­tin­ued solid­ity of Sevilla, and the always dan­ger­ous Vil­lar­real will chal­lenge the duop­oly all sea­son, and Hér­cules and Real Sociedad will sur­prise many as they return to La Liga.

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