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The 2023–24 La Liga, also known as LaLiga EA Sports [3] [4] due to sponsorship reasons, was the 93rd season of La Liga, Spain's premier football competition. It commenced on 11 August 2023 and ended on 26 May 2024. Barcelona were the defending champions, having won their 27th title the previous season.
Lionel Messi is the all-time top scorer in La Liga history with 474 goals. La Liga's all-time top scorer is Lionel Messi with 474 goals, all for Barcelona.He also holds the record for most goals scored in a single season with 50 in the 2011–12 campaign, [1] [2] and is the only player ever to win the league's top scorer award in eight different seasons. [3]
Fastest goal scored in La Liga history: 7.22 seconds, Joseba Llorente (for Real Valladolid v. Espanyol, 20 January 2008) Fastest to score first goal in La Liga: 29 seconds, Jorge Galán (for Osasuna v. Real Valladolid, 23 September 2009) Fastest to score 20 La Liga goals in a single season: 12 games, Cristiano Ronaldo (2014–15) [92]
The La Liga Goal of the Month is an association football award that recognises the player who is deemed to have scored the best La Liga goal each month of the season from August to May. The award was introduced for the 2023–24 season .
The Pichichi is not officially recognised by the league's governing body, the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional. As the award is based on Marca ' s subjective criteria, its data may differ from the official match delegate reports. For the top scorers in the Spanish football league according to La Liga data, see List of La Liga top scorers.
The first La Liga player to be involved in a transfer which broke the world record was Luis Suárez in 1961, who moved from Barcelona to Inter Milan for £152,000 (£4.3 million in 2023). 12 years later, Johan Cruyff was the first player to join a club in La Liga for a record fee of £922,000 (£14.1 million in 2023), when he moved from Ajax to ...
On 19 May 2024, he scored four goals in a 4–4 draw in a league game against Real Madrid, reaching his 23rd goal, without penalty kicks, of the 2023–24 season as La Liga's top scorer with one match remaining. [23] He was eventually surpassed by just one goal by Artem Dovbyk, who scored a hat-trick on the final matchday of the season. [24]
[13] [14] In the 2023–24 season, he became the top scorer for his club in La Liga by scoring 8 goals, out of 9 in total having scored a goal with Granada. [15] In July 2024, Chelsea negotiated with Atlético for the transfer of Aghehowa, offering a bid worth €40 million (£34 million), plus add-ons, but Atlético initially turned it down ...