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La Liga is the strongest league in Europe over the past five years, according to UEFA's league coefficient. La Liga has been the strongest and leading league in Europe for longer than any other European league (17 years in total). Real Madrid and Barcelona top the table of clubs listed by number of times they were top-ranked in Europe over a 5 year period. Real Madrid (15) Barcelona (8) followed by Juventus of Italy . La Liga clubs have the highest total with 24 followed by Italy's Serie A with 9. La Liga players have won the highest number of Ballon d'Or awards, joint with Italy's Serie A and the outright highest number of FIFA World Player of the Year awards. Italy's Serie A has the second highest. In addition, La Liga players also have the highest number of runners-up (second best in the world) in both awards. In 2010, 2011 and 2012, La Liga players were voted in as first, second and third best in the world each year at the FIFA Ballon d'Or and in 2009 for the Ballon d'or. The same goes for the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award in 2011 and 2012. La Liga clubs have won the most UEFA Champions League tournaments and Real Madrid are the competitions most successful club, as a 10-time champion. Sevilla are the joint most successful club in the UEFA Europa League with 3 wins. La Liga is the first and only league to be represented by both finalists in a UEFA Champions League final on two occassions. La Liga players represent the highest all time number of the FIFPro World XI with 51 ahead of Italy's Serie A with 9. In addition, La liga players represent the highest all time number of the UEFA Team of the Year with 64 players ahead of England's Premier League with 33. La Liga is the biggest exporter of players in Europe. 211 Spanish players are currently playing in European leagues outside Spain. La Liga has the highest percentage of homegrown players for a major European league and the second most of any league in Europe with 62.4%. La Liga continues to be the league of choice for players considered to be the best in the world. In each of the last two seasons the player to win England's Premier League Player of the Season has immediately moved to play in Spain. Gareth Bale and Luis Suarez and previously Cristiano Ronaldo and Thierry Henry did so the following year. Games between Real Madrid and Barcelona are dubbed El Clásico. Other than the UEFA Champions League Final, El Classico is the most followed club football match in the world, watched by hundreds of millions of people. La Liga is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the world, with an average attendance of 30,275 for league matches in the 2011–12 season. This is the fifth-highest of any domestic professional sports league in the world and the third-highest of any professional association football league in the world, behind Germany's Bundesliga and England's Premier League. Atlético Madrid are the current champions.
Promotion and relegation
A system of promotion and relegation exists between the Primera División and the Segunda División. The three lowest placed teams in La Liga are relegated to the Segunda División, and the top two teams from the Segunda División promoted to La Liga, with an additional club promoted after a series of play-offs involving the third, fourth, fifth and sixth placed clubs. Below is a complete record of how many teams played in each season throughout the league's history;
1929–1934: 10 clubs
1934–1941: 12 clubs
1941–1950: 14 clubs
1950–1971: 16 clubs
1971–1987: 18 clubs
1987–1995: 20 clubs
1995–1997: 22 clubs
1997–present: 20 clubs
Qualification for European competitions
FC Barcelona against Schalke in the UEFA Champions League in 2008
The top teams in La Liga qualify for the UEFA Champions League, with the first, second, and third placed teams directly entering the group stage and the fourth placed team entering the playoffs for the group stage of UEFA Champions League. Teams placed fifth and sixth play in the UEFA Europa League, along with the cup winners. If both teams in the cup final finish in the top 6, an additional berth in the Europe League is given to the team that finishes in 7th.
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