The excitement builds up for one of the most expected LaLiga seasons in recent memory, with new stars that illuminate the top flight of Spain. Premier Sports to show 340+ matches per season, while Disney+ excluding weekly Saturday evening matches streams. Full line-up of talent unveiled for MatchDay 1 on LaLiga's UK & I broadcasting partners, with well-known names that bring all action to life.
Thursday, August 14, 2025: This Friday evening La Liga is back. The competition with the biggest names and the biggest games returns with five consecutive nights of Spanish football at its best, so that a new broadcast era fans in the UK and Ireland brought closer than ever to Laliga.
Premier Sports, the primary broadcaster of La Liga, will show more than 340 live competitions in the season, while Disney+ will now stream the Primetime Saturday Night arms (8 p.m. or 8:30 pm) exclusively, a first movement that is first in his child to reach a new audience of all ages.
The La Liga season of 2025/26 promises to be one of the most expected years. Reigning champions Barcelona wanted to be the first back-to-back La Liga winners since 2019, but will have to repel the challenge of Xabi Alonso's renewed Real Madrid and a retired, always competitive Atlético de Madrid to do this.
For British viewers, the growing contingent of British stars will be a big draw, in which Marcus Rashford and Trent Alexander-Arnold join international teammates Jude Bellingham and Conor Gallagher among the title candidates.
This weekend's action will be brought to fans by top Spanish-football experts on La Liga UK and Ireland broadcasters, such as Emma Dodds, Guillem Balague and Terry Gibson (Premier Sports), Rob Palmer and Stewart Robson (Disney+) and familiar voices via La Liga TV's world-feed commentary, including Duncan Bishop, Graham Hunter, Bruno Bergareche, Jofre Mateu, Pete Jenson, Albert Ferrer, Gaizka Mendieta and Phil Kitromilides. See below full line-up of talent.
Here are just a few of the most important developing countries in the United Kingdom, will like to keep an eye on:
Jude Bellingham and Conor Gallagher were two of Laliga's striking artists last season, in which the English duo in the lead on either side of the Divide Atletico/Real Madrid in the lead. This season, Homegrown Stars of England's Greatest Club Rivalry, Liverpool and Manchester United, the northeast of England for El Clasico, are changing for El Clasico while Marcus Rashford and Trent Alexander-Arnold are preparing to go against each other in the largest game of world football.
And they are not the only Englishmen who make the switch to La Liga. Tyryhs Dolan, an important man for Blackburn Rovers in the last five seasons, has moved to RCD Espanyol, while in Segunda ex-Arsenal Man Charlie Patino is looking for promotion with historical icons RC Deportivo.
It is not only in Barcelona attack champions. At Marcus Rashford at Spotify Camp Nou is a keeper who, despite his young age, was one of the best as one of the best as one of the best as one of the top. The 24-year-old Joan Garcia moved to Barca van Buren Espanyol earlier this summer and is expected to be the first-choice keeper of Hansi Flick. After he was used up for a party that competed last season to secure safety and achieve more saves than any other keeper in the competition, it will be fascinating to see him in a team concluding back-to-back League titles.
Diego Simeone enters his 13th full season in Atleti with a revision of a team that has seen new blood in an attempt to renew the team. Players such as Angel Correa, Reinildo, Rodrigo de Paul, Axel Witsel and Cesar Azpilicueta went out. In Come Star Youngs such as Alex Baena, Johnny Cardoso, Thiago Almada, Matteo Rugeri and Marc Pubill, with Simeone who performs the exciting assignment to put together a new, new version of Atletico Madrid.
Very few players in world football have received unanimous love and admiration that Cazorla has earned throughout his career, both in Spain and in England. Happy by a serious injury that required different operations, the former Spain International has succeeded in bouncing back time and again and medical opinions that he might never be walking again. In 2023 he returned to his boys' club, with the aim of leading Real Oviedo to a top joy for the first time since the turn of the century. Two years later, at the age of 40, Cazorla will again play a key role in La Liga.
After missing the title of the competition last season, Los Blancos separated with club legend Carlo Ancelotti, who was succeeded by former player Xabi Alonso. After having won a league title (2011/12) and a UEFA Champions League trophy (2013/14) with Real Madrid, including silverware, the 43-year-old tactician will now strive to replicate this success as a coach with Collega-Ex-Pool star, Trent Alexander-Annold, as part of his team. Whether the duo can help the team bounce back and return to the top of Spanish football will be moving this season.
Despite the fact that he was in charge of Valencia, where the team was only 12 points of 18 games in December in December, ex-Huddersfield Town and West Bromwich Albion coach Carlos Corberan succeeded in turning in their season, with Los Che even participating in the race for a European place in the last part of the 2024/25 campaign. Valencia may have missed after the end of the 12th, but Corberan has shown that he needs what is needed to inspire his side to a strong run that could lead to European qualification this season.
La Liga Football is a must-watch for football fans. In addition to the extraordinary capacity of his clubs to develop world -class Four of the current five most valuable players in the world, according to transfer market, currently use their trade in LaLiga, while no player has won the Ballon d'Or in the past two decades without having played in Spain. La Liga is where stars come to win, and the figures speak for themselves: five different Spanish clubs have won 21 of the last 39 European trophies, more than all other competitions combined.
With La Liga now available on Premier Sports and Disney+ every week, here are the full details of the slate of matches of the opening weekend, the talent on every broadcast and some striking storylines that you simply should not miss if Spanish football returns to our screens.
Laliga EA Sport · MatchDay 1
Kick-Off Times BST (London/Dublin)
Friday, August 15
Saturday, August 16
Sunday, August 17
Monday, August 18
Tuesday, August 19
Main storylines in MatchDay 1: