Barcelona proclaimed themselves this Sunday winter champion of La Liga EA Sports after beating Villarreal 0-2 at the La Cerámica stadium, a victory that keeps the Barça team at the top of the table with 46 points, four more than Real Madrid and nine more than third-placed Atlético Madrid.
The success of the winter championship is not trivial, at least statistically, because it mainly meant auspicious for the team that gets it. Not only in sports, but Barcelona also clings to the latest precedents to win the national championship, of which they are currently champions.
In culé key, This is the twenty-seventh time which addresses the winter holidays at the top of the ranking. And the Barça team ended up being crowned La Liga champions on 13 of the last 16 occasions in which they managed to come out on top in the first round.
In the 94 editions of the league championship, there have been all kinds of endings and even unpredictable ones, although 55% of the time The team that reached the halfway point of the competition as the leader ended up winning. In fact, over the past decade this rule has been followed with a few exceptions:
- 2016/17 season: winter champion, Real Madrid; league champion, Real Madrid
- 2017/18 season: winter champion, Barcelona; league champion, Barcelona
- 2018/19 season: winter champion, Barcelona; league champion, Barcelona
- 2019/20 season: winter champion, Barcelona; league champion, Real Madrid
- 2020/21 season: winter champion, Atlético de Madrid; league champion, Atlético de Madrid
- 2021/22 season: winter champion, Real Madrid; league champion, Real Madrid
- Season 2022/23: winter champion, Barcelona; league champion, Barcelona
- 2023/24 season: winter champion, Real Madrid; league champion, Real Madrid
- Season 2024/25: winter champion, Atlético de Madrid; league champion, Barcelona
El Clásico, a turning point
Barcelona closed 2025 as winter champions after overcoming a five-point disadvantage to Real Madrid, who won the Clásico last October and represented a turning point in the championship, but far from what we thought.
Since this match, the white team has left nine points along the way and the Blaugranas have totaled a total of victories, which places them with a plus four in La Liga, with the last day of the first round to be played, in which they will visit Espanyol and in which Real Madrid will receive Real Betis.
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