Editing La Liga (section)

===Qualification for European competitions===
{{See also|UEFA coefficient#Country coefficient|l1=UEFA country coefficients}}

====Current criteria====
The top four teams in La Liga qualify for the subsequent season's [[UEFA Champions League]] league stage. The winners of the UEFA Champions League and [[UEFA Europa League]] also qualify for the subsequent season's UEFA Champions League league stage.

The fifth place team in La Liga and the winner of the {{Lang|es|[[Copa del Rey]]|italic=no}} also qualify for the subsequent season's UEFA Europa League group stage. However, if the winner also finished in the top five places in La Liga, then this place reverts to the team that finished sixth in La Liga. Furthermore, the sixth place (or seventh if sixth already qualifies due to the {{Lang|es|[[Copa del Rey]]|italic=no}}) team qualifies for the subsequent season's [[UEFA Conference League]] play-off round.<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 May 2018 |title=Premier League clubs' UEFA qualification explained |publisher=Premier League |url=https://www.premierleague.com/news/671047 |access-date=6 November 2018 |archive-date=2 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502203145/https://www.premierleague.com/news/671047 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The number of places allocated to Spanish clubs in [[UEFA]] competitions is dependent upon the position a country holds in the [[UEFA coefficient#Men's Association coefficient|UEFA country coefficients]], which are calculated based upon the performance of teams in [[UEFA]] competitions in the previous five years. As of the end of the [[2023–24 La Liga|2023–24]] season, the ranking of Spain (and [[de facto]] La Liga) is second.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Country coefficients |url=https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2021 |access-date=22 May 2021 |publisher=UEFA |archive-date=4 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204125228/https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2021 |url-status=dead }}</ref>