2010–11 La Liga

Teams

Real Valladolid, CD Tenerife and Xerez CD were relegated to the Segunda División after finishing the 2009–10 season in the bottom three places. Tenerife and Xerez made their immediate return to the second level after just one year in the Spanish top flight, while Valladolid ended a three-year tenure in La Liga.

The relegated teams were replaced by 2009–10 Segunda División champions Real Sociedad from San Sebastián, runners-up Hércules CF from Alicante and Levante UD from Valencia. Hércules returned to the highest Spanish football league for the first time after 13 years, while Real Sociedad and Levante terminated their second-level status after three and two years, respectively.

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsorship

Barcelona makes a donation to UNICEF in order to display the charity's logo on the club's kit.

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Awards

La Liga Awards

La Liga's governing body, the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, honoured the competition's best players and coach with Awards.

Top goalscorers

This is the list of goalscorers in accordance with the LFP as organising body.

• Source: LFP, ESPN and Liga BBVA

Pichichi Trophy

The Pichichi Trophy is awarded by newspaper Marca to the player who scores the most goals in a season, according to its own rules (different from the ones used by FIFA) to determine the goalscorer.

• Source: Marca

Top assists

• Source: ESPN Soccernet

Zamora Trophy

The Ricardo Zamora Trophy is awarded by newspaper Marca to the goalkeeper with the lowest ratio of goals conceded to matches played. A goalkeeper had to play at least 28 matches of 60 or more minutes to be eligible for the trophy.

• Source: futbol.sportec

Fair Play award

This award was given annually since 1999 to the team with the best fair play during the season. This ranking took into account aspects such as cards, suspension of matches, audience behaviour and other penalties. This section not only aims to know this aspect, but also serves to break the tie in teams that are tied in all the other rules: points, head-to-head, goal difference and goals scored.

• Source: 2010–11 Fair Play Rankings Season.

Sources of cards and penalties: Referee's reports, Competition Committee's Sanctions, Appeal Committee Resolutions and RFEF's Directory about Fair Play Rankings

Pedro Zaballa award

Real Madrid

Overall

• Most wins - Barcelona (30)
• Fewest wins - Almería (6)
• Most draws - Sporting Gijón (14)
• Fewest draws - Real Sociedad (3)
• Most losses - Real Sociedad and Hércules (21)
• Fewest losses - Barcelona (2)
• Most goals scored - Real Madrid (102)
• Fewest goals scored - Deportivo La Coruña (31)
• Most goals conceded - Almería (70)
• Fewest goals conceded - Barcelona (21)

Season statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season: ESP Fernando Llorente for Athletic Bilbao against Hércules (28 August 2010).
• Last goal of the season: SWE Kennedy Bakircioglu for Racing Santander against Athletic Bilbao (21 May 2011).

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of La Liga hat-tricks

4 Player scored four goals (H) – Home; (A) – Away

Discipline

• First yellow card of the season: FRA Noé Pamarot for Hércules against Athletic Bilbao (28 August 2010)
• First red card of the season: ARG Matías Fritzler for Hércules against Athletic Bilbao (28 August 2010)

Attendances

FC Barcelona drew the highest average home attendance in the 2010-11 edition of La Liga. !#!!Football club!!Home games!!Average attendance |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || FC Barcelona || 19 || 79,268 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Real Madrid || 19 || 71,289 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Atlético de Madrid || 19 || 41,526 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Valencia CF || 19 || 39,963 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Athletic Club || 19 || 36,042 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Sevilla FC || 19 || 35,789 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || RCD Espanyol || 19 || 26,873 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Real Sociedad || 19 || 25,227 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Málaga CF || 19 || 24,904 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Real Zaragoza || 19 || 21,654 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Hércules CF || 19 || 21,452 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Real Sporting de Gijón || 19 || 21,310 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Deportivo de La Coruña || 19 || 19,984 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Villarreal CF || 19 || 18,826 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Osasuna || 19 || 16,109 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Racing de Santander || 19 || 15,228 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || RCD Mallorca || 19 || 14,453 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || UD Almería || 19 || 11,759 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Levante UD || 19 || 11,622 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Getafe CF || 19 || 11,132 |- |} }}

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