While a La Liga campaign reaches a climax, the planning is well on its way for the 2025-26 season. One of the biggest challenges, again, the schedule is, because various competitions add more and more games that clubs have to contend with.
After UEFA has extended the Champions League season with an extra four games (depending on the play-off round), and FIFA introduced a new extensive club world cup that lasted a month instead of a week for European parties, the space in the calendar is always limited. Diario as a report that a start date for the coming season is about to be agreed, such as La Liga, the Royal Spanish football federation (RFEF) and the Spanish player (AFE) assess the calendar. In theory it will be on August 15, the same date as last year, with little else in the way of the available options.
However, the club World Cup in the United States offers something of headache. If one or both Atletico Madrid and/or Real Madrid make the semi -final (8/9 July) or the final (13th), then there is an agreement that they will start later. Arrangements will be made to play catching up, because the gap would be a little more than a month between the end of the Lucrative Club World Cup and the beginning of La Liga. The AF currently assesses the gaps in the calendar to ensure that there are sufficient rest periods available for both to play those games later this year.
The AFE regulations require that football players have 30 days of rest for a year, and a period of at least 21 days uninterrupted at the end of the season of holidays. If they reach the final, it would mean that the three -week gap would have players back on the fourth August, so that they can only prepare for the new season for 11 days.
There is an acceptance that this is not a sufficient period for the players to prepare, and with clubs that are normally planning about three times as long for the preseason. The contrast with international tournaments is that normally only a few players are affected for a team compared to the entire team. Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have the opportunity to also add players before the tournament in the United States, after a ten -day transfer window was declared at the beginning of June.