Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético, Sevilla, Getafe and Elche will not debut in the 2020-2021 League on the first day that will be played on the weekend of September 12 and 13. The five teams that played European competitions in August, and the newly promoted to First who won the Second Playoff, will face each other later, as determined by one of the conditions before the calendar draw held this Monday in the City of Soccer of Las Rozas. Real Madrid and Getafe, the first eliminated in the Champions League and the Europa League, respectively, will not start the season until September 19, on the second day, while the other ‘Europeans’ and the new LaLiga Santander team will They will premiere in the third, on September 26.
There are therefore six games postponed in the first two days of the new championship: Real Madrid-Getafe, Barcelona-Elche and Atlético-Sevilla of the first; and Athletic-Barcelona, Levante-Atlético and Sevilla-Elche from the second. Both the clash between the defending champion against the azulón team and the duel between the league runner-up and the Elche team will not be played until February or March 2021.
The calendar is again asymmetrical, so the order of the matches of the first round will not coincide with that of the second, which will begin on the weekend of January 23 and 24 of next year. However, there will be a great novelty, since LaLiga requested that the premiere of the current champion and the rest of the teams that finished the season just ended later, in this case with the approval of the Spanish Football Federation (FEF ). With an “impossible agreement” between the two organizations on the calendar of the season, once the Higher Sports Council (CSD) intervened in the war and unblocked the conflict, twelve days before its start the draw could be held due to a reduced attendance in the Ciudad del Fútbol due to the pandemic.
With up to 100,000 predefined calendars, the hype with its definitive result revealed that the first classic of the season in LaLiga Santander will be played on October 25 at the Camp Nou, on the seventh day. April 11 will be when Real Madrid and Barcelona will face each other on the white team’s ground, in the thirtieth, with eight remaining for the end of the competition that will close on May 23.
Derby or Cup final
It was not only carried out with the premise of postponed matches, but also, to guarantee security, with the requirement that matches cannot be played in the same city on the same day and at the same time. Also, as usual, the order of the matches could be modified so that the clubs that request it, can finish the works of their stadiums and do not play the first days at home. With the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium as the headquarters of Real Madrid until the renovation of the Bernabéu allows it, Osasuna, Levante, Huesca and Elche asked not to play the first matches in their fields.
Professionals from essential sectors during the pandemic were in charge of extracting the balls from the hype to carry out a remote-controlled draw that also resulted in the first derby between Madrid and Atlético being played on December 13 in Valdebebas (matchday 13) and the of the second round at the Wanda Metropolitano on March 7 (matchday 26). The Basque derbies will be on December 30 in San Mamés and on April 4 in Anoeta. Precisely, the date of April 4 was the one that Athletic and Real Sociedad had foreseen to play the 2020 Cup final postponed by the coronavirus.
The next football year in the League will open on January 2 or 3 with the Sevillian derby at Benito Villamarín and the second Sevilla game on March 14 at Sánchez Pizjuán. While the defending champion will close the League in almost nine months at home, against Villarreal, the runner-up and third-placed in the 2019-2020 League will do so at home, against Eibar in Ipurua and Valladolid in Zorrilla, respectively. .
There will be no games at Christmas, since for this season only the days of December 23 and 30 have been approved. The objective is that the footballers have the desired rest, as well as they will have recovery time after such an altered and atypical final stretch of the course, the last European survivors and the already ex-Second Division who later finished the course for his eliminatory of promotion against Girona.
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