After playing the matches against Celta and Elche on Monday, at Sevilla FC They still have the duel against Mallorca, scheduled for February 2, outside the weekend within the schedules of the first 23 days of … LaLiga, which are the ones known so far. Three meetings at the beginning of 2026 that raise up to eight the number of games that the Nervión team will play during the week.
With this number of matches outside the weekend, in a schedule that generates complaints among fans and also a reduction in box offices, Sevilla is placed on the LaLiga podiumonly surpassed by Espanyol and Getafe, who would accumulate nine games. More than a third of the competition without setting foot on Saturday or Sunday and, except on one occasion for a weekday, due to the designs of the television operators.
Sevilla’s early elimination from the cup also played against them in this aspect, since most of the 2026 schedules were placed while the round of 16 were still being determined, which, as they did not have Sevilla’s presence, favored that at the beginning of the year it was placed in that time slot that the fan likes so little.
On the opposite side of this peculiar classification are four teams that participate in European competitions. So, Barcelona only accumulates two games outside of the weekendthat of the weekday that all the teams share, and that of the nineteenth, which advanced to December by having to play the Spanish Super Cup at the beginning of 2026; Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid and Celta make up three.
