Editing La Liga (section)

==Players==
===Eligibility of non-EU players===
In La Liga in 2020, each club is allowed five [[non-EU]] players but are only allowed to name three non-EU players in each matchday squad.<ref>{{Cite web |title=How many foreign players are La Liga teams allowed? |url=https://m.allfootballapp.com/news/La-Liga/How-many-foreign-players-are-La-Liga-teams-allowed/1673786#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20non%2DEU,players%20in%20each%20matchday%20squad. |access-date=1 June 2021 |website=All Football |archive-date=17 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417124635/https://m.allfootballapp.com/news/La-Liga/How-many-foreign-players-are-La-Liga-teams-allowed/1673786#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20non%2DEU,players%20in%20each%20matchday%20squad. |url-status=live }}</ref>

Players can claim citizenship from the nation their ancestors came from. If a player does not have European ancestry, he can claim Spanish citizenship after playing in Spain for five years. Sometimes, this can lead to a triple-citizenship situation; for example, [[Leo Franco]], who was born in Argentina, is of Italian heritage yet can claim a Spanish passport, having played in La Liga for over five years.

In addition, players from the [[ACP countries]]—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the [[Cotonou Agreement]]—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the [[Kolpak ruling]].

===Individual awards===
Until the 2008–09 season, no official individual awards existed in La Liga. In the 2008–09 season, the governing body created the [[La Liga Awards|LFP Awards]] (now called La Liga Awards), awarded each season to individual players and coaches. The majority of these awards were discontinued after the [[2015–16 La Liga|2015–16 season]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=La Liga cancels 2016–17 award ceremony |publisher=ESPN |url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/spanish-primera-division/story/3231988/la-liga-cancels-award-ceremony-for-2016-17-in-order-to-launch-new-format |access-date=26 October 2018 |archive-date=23 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923141100/https://ssum-sec.casalemedia.com/usermatch?us_privacy=1YNY&d=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2F&s=184674&cb=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.indexww.com%2Fht%2Fhtw-pixel.gif%3F&C=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Additional awards relating to La Liga are distributed, some not sanctioned by the Liga de Futbol Profesional or RFEF and therefore not regarded as official. The most notable of these are four awarded by Spain's largest sports paper, ''[[Marca (newspaper)|Marca]]'', namely the [[Pichichi Trophy]], awarded to the top scorer of the season; the [[Ricardo Zamora Trophy]], for the goalkeeper with the fewest goals allowed per game (minimum 28 games); the [[Trofeo Alfredo Di Stéfano|Alfredo Di Stéfano Trophy]], for the player judged to be the best overall player in the division; and the [[Zarra Trophy]], for the top scorer among Spanish domestic players.

Since the 2013–14 season, La Liga has also bestowed the monthly [[La Liga Manager of the Month|manager of the month]] and [[La Liga Player of the Month|player of the month]] awards.

===Transfers===
The first La Liga player to be involved in a transfer which broke the [[List of most expensive association football transfers|world record]] was [[Luis Suárez (footballer, born 1935)|Luis Suárez]] in 1961, who moved from Barcelona to [[Inter Milan]] for £152,000 (£{{Inflation|UK|0.152|1961|r=1}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation/year|UK}}). 12 years later, [[Johan Cruyff]] was the first player to join a club in La Liga for a record fee of £922,000 (£{{Inflation|UK|0.922|1973|r=1}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation/year|UK}}), when he moved from [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]] to Barcelona. In 1982, Barcelona again set the record by signing [[Diego Maradona]] from [[Boca Juniors]] for £5 million (£{{Inflation|UK|5|1982|r=0}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation/year|UK}}).<ref>{{Cite news |date=1 September 2013 |title=Gareth Bale: The history of the world transfer record |publisher=[[BBC Sport]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23903470 |access-date=22 November 2014 |archive-date=2 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102073058/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23903470 |url-status=live }}</ref> Real Betis set the world record in 1998 when they signed [[Denílson de Oliveira Araújo|Denílson]] from [[São Paulo FC|São Paulo]] for £21.5 million (£{{Inflation|UK|21.5|1998|r=1}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation/year|UK}}).<ref>Bellos, Alex (30 January 2007). [https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/jan/31/newsstory.sport12 "Denilson Times His Run to Perfection."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203233543/http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2007/jan/31/newsstory.sport12 |date=3 February 2009 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''. Retrieved 29 July 2020.</ref>

Four of the last six world transfer records have been set by Real Madrid, signing [[Luís Figo]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nash |first=Elizabeth |date=25 July 2000 |title=Figo defects to Real Madrid for record £36.2m |work=[[The Independent]] |location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/internationals/figo-defects-to-real-madrid-for-record-pound372m-709465.html |access-date=20 August 2017}}</ref> [[Zinedine Zidane]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 July 2001 |title=Zidane al Real |language=it |work=Juventus F.C. |url=http://www.juventus.com/news/0,,A_336083%7CL_IT,00.html |url-status=dead |access-date=20 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010806031702/http://www.juventus.com/news/0,,A_336083%7CL_IT,00.html |archive-date=6 August 2001}}</ref> [[Cristiano Ronaldo]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ogden |first=Mark |date=11 June 2009 |title=Cristiano Ronaldo transfer: Real Madrid agree £80&nbsp;million fee with Manchester United |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/5505073/Cristiano-Ronaldo-transfer-Real-Madrid-agree-80-million-fee-with-Manchester-United.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 August 2017 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/5505073/Cristiano-Ronaldo-transfer-Real-Madrid-agree-80-million-fee-with-Manchester-United.html |archive-date=10 January 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref> (plus a deal for [[Kaká]] days before Ronaldo<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Jeremy |date=7 June 2009 |title=Real Madrid to confirm world record £56m signing of Kaka |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/european/5469863/Real-Madrid-to-confirm-world-record-56m-signing-of-Kaka.html |access-date=21 August 2017 |website=The Telegraph |archive-date=30 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430052459/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/european/5469863/Real-Madrid-to-confirm-world-record-56m-signing-of-Kaka.html |url-status=live }}</ref> which fell just below a world record due to the way the fee was calculated)<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 June 2009 |title=Kaka completes Real Madrid switch |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8082147.stm |access-date=21 August 2017 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109021200/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8082147.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> and finally [[Gareth Bale]], who was bought in 2013 for £85.3m (€103.4m or $140m at the time; £{{Inflation|UK|85.3|2013|r=1}}m in {{Inflation/year|UK}}) from [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]].<ref name="contractleak">{{Cite news |date=21 January 2016 |title=Gareth Bale contract leak sparks panic at Real Madrid – and agent's fury |work=The Telegraph |issue=21 January 2016 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/players/gareth-bale/12111960/Revealed-How-Real-Madrid-claimed-Gareth-Bale-transfer-was-not-a-world-record-to-keep-Cristiano-Ronaldo-happy.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 August 2017 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/players/gareth-bale/12111960/Revealed-How-Real-Madrid-claimed-Gareth-Bale-transfer-was-not-a-world-record-to-keep-Cristiano-Ronaldo-happy.html |archive-date=10 January 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Brazilian forward [[Neymar]] was the subject of an [[Transfer (association football)#2013: Transfer of Neymar from Santos to Barcelona|expensive and complicated transfer arrangement]] when he joined Barcelona from [[Santos FC|Santos]] in 2013,<ref name="BBC Real">{{Cite news |date=10 March 2014 |title=Barcelona: Neymar deal has damaged brand of La Liga club |publisher=[[BBC Sport]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26512767 |url-status=live |access-date=20 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122231534/http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26512767 |archive-date=22 January 2016}}</ref><ref name="SkyReal">{{Cite news |date=24 January 2014 |title=Barcelona reveal details of deal to sign Brazil star Neymar |publisher=Sky Sports |url=https://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11833/9132103/primera-division-barcelona-reveal-details-of-deal-to-sign-brazil-star-neymar |url-status=live |access-date=20 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211041519/http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11833/9132103/primera-division-barcelona-reveal-details-of-deal-to-sign-brazil-star-neymar |archive-date=11 December 2014}}</ref> and his outgoing transfer to [[Paris Saint-Germain F.C.|Paris Saint-Germain]] in 2017 set a new world record fee at €222m via his [[buyout clause]].<ref name="BBC Neymar">{{Cite news |date=3 August 2017 |title=Neymar: Paris St-Germain sign Barcelona forward for world record 222m euros |work=BBC |publisher=The British Broadcasting Corporation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40762417 |url-status=live |access-date=20 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803235435/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40762417 |archive-date=3 August 2017}}</ref> Barcelona soon invested a large amount of the money received from this transfer in a replacement, [[Ousmane Dembélé]], whose deal – €105m – was the second most expensive ever before [[Philippe Coutinho]]'s transfer to Barcelona for €142m in January 2018.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 August 2017 |title=Barcelona signs Ousmane Dembele, its Neymar replacement in more ways than one |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/barcelona-signs-ousmane-dembele-neymar-replacement-ways-one-154647028.html |access-date=26 August 2017 |archive-date=25 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825234919/https://sports.yahoo.com/barcelona-signs-ousmane-dembele-neymar-replacement-ways-one-154647028.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Sport |first=Telegraph |date=8 January 2018 |title=Philippe Coutinho's Barcelona debut delayed by 20 days because of injury as he completes £142m move |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/01/08/watch-live-philippe-coutinho-unveiled-barcelona-142million-transfer/ |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/01/08/watch-live-philippe-coutinho-unveiled-barcelona-142million-transfer/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>Hap Sport - [https://hapsport.com.ng/who-are-the-top-10-highest-paid-football-players-in-la-liga-in-2023/ Top 10 Highest paid Football Players in La Liga - 2023] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601114759/https://hapsport.com.ng/who-are-the-top-10-highest-paid-football-players-in-la-liga-in-2023/ |date=1 June 2023 }}. On 21 March 2023.</ref>