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The La Liga standings make for a tight read at the top and a nervy one at the bottom. After 11 rounds, Barcelona lead on 30 points, two clear of Atlético Madrid and three ahead of Real Madrid. The table below is correct after the matches played on Friday 6 November 2026, when Matchday 12 opened with Sevilla 0-0 Alavés. With the rest of the round still to play, every position from fourth down is open to change.
Barcelona’s lead is built on goals: ten wins from 11 games, 46 scored, a goal difference of +34. Behind them, Atlético have the meanest defence in Spain, and Real Madrid sit three points off the top despite two defeats already. At the other end, Málaga are still looking for a first win, while Valencia and Levante are inside the bottom three.
This page carries the full table, the title race, the fight for fourth and the relegation scrap — plus the fixtures that can still move it all this weekend. For the English title race, see our Premier League standings page.
The La Liga standings in full
Twenty clubs, 38 rounds, and the table as it stands after Friday night’s game. Sevilla and Alavés have played 12 matches; Athletic Club and Rayo Vallecano have played 10; everyone else has played 11. The same table is carried live by NBC Sports’ La Liga standings and scoring leaders page.
| Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barcelona | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 46 | 12 | +34 | 30 |
| 2 | Atlético Madrid | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 8 | +14 | 28 |
| 3 | Real Madrid | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 28 | 10 | +18 | 27 |
| 4 | Real Betis | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 15 | +3 | 23 |
| 5 | Real Sociedad | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 19 |
| 6 | Sevilla | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 19 | −2 | 18 |
| 7 | Athletic Club | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 10 | +4 | 15 |
| 8 | Deportivo La Coruña | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 14 | +1 | 14 |
| 9 | Alavés | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 17 | −2 | 13 |
| 10 | Villarreal | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 12 |
| 11 | Celta Vigo | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 12 |
| 12 | Rayo Vallecano | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 20 | −5 | 12 |
| 13 | Getafe | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 16 | −8 | 12 |
| 14 | Espanyol | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 14 | −1 | 11 |
| 15 | Osasuna | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 22 | −11 | 11 |
| 16 | Racing Santander | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 29 | −14 | 11 |
| 17 | Elche | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 18 | −4 | 10 |
| 18 | Levante | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 21 | −5 | 10 |
| 19 | Valencia | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 17 | −9 | 9 |
| 20 | Málaga | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 21 | −13 | 5 |
Three things stand out. First, the gap between first and third is only three points, so one bad weekend can reorder the top of the league. Second, the middle is packed: seven clubs sit between 15 and 10 points, so a single win can lift a side four or five places. Third, the drop zone is tight — Levante in 18th sit level on points with Elche in 17th, behind only on goal difference.
Barcelona set the pace — and the scoring charts
Barcelona’s numbers are the story of the season so far: 46 goals in 11 league games, more than four per game, and a +34 goal difference, nearly double any other club’s. The latest statement came last Saturday, 31 October, when they beat Alavés 6-1 at home, with Raphinha and Lamine Yamal scoring twice each.
Raphinha is the division’s top scorer with 15 league goals, three ahead of Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappé on 12, while Yamal has 10. Barcelona have scored 46 of the 328 goals in the league so far — roughly one in seven. Their only defeat in 11 games is the single blemish on a near-perfect record, and the goals have been shared around: the 6-1 win over Alavés had four different scorers.
The question is whether that scoring rate can hold — four goals a game is not a pace any side sustains across 38 rounds. But Barcelona do not need to keep scoring four a game. They need to keep winning, and with a two-point cushion and a goal difference worth almost an extra point, they can afford the odd off day their rivals cannot.
Atlético and Real Madrid keep the pressure on
If Barcelona are winning the league with goals, Atlético Madrid are chasing it with defending: 22 scored and eight conceded in 11 games, the tightest defence in the division. Nine wins and a single draw from 11 is title-winning form in most seasons — it just happens to be two points short of what Barcelona have produced.
Real Madrid are three points off the top on 27, with nine wins and two defeats. Their 28 goals are the second-best attacking return in the league, but those two defeats are the difference between leading and chasing. Mbappé’s 12 goals keep them in every game, yet Madrid have already used up more of their margin for error than either side above them.
This weekend puts the top three under direct examination. Real Madrid travel to Valencia on Saturday — straightforward on paper, with Valencia 19th, but exactly the kind of away trip where points get dropped. Then on Sunday, Atlético host Barcelona in the biggest game of the season so far: a home win puts Atlético top on 31 points, one clear of Barcelona, while a Barcelona win stretches the gap to five.
The fight for fourth — Betis lead a chasing group
Below the top three, Real Betis hold fourth on 23 points from seven wins, two draws and two defeats — a strong return for a side balancing league form with European commitments, and a +3 goal difference that suggests ground-out results rather than blowouts. For context on how far the club has come, our Real Betis standings story tracked their rise last season — this year they are turning that promise into a genuine top-four push.
Real Sociedad are fifth on 19 points, four behind Betis, with 20 goals scored and 20 conceded. Sevilla sit sixth on 18 points, a game ahead of the sides around them after Friday’s goalless draw with Alavés. Athletic Club are seventh on 15 points with a game in hand, and on goal difference (+4) they look better than their tally suggests — win that extra game and they move to 18, right into the European places.
The top four in Spain qualify for the Champions League league phase, fifth takes a Europa League place, and sixth goes into the Conference League play-off round. That means the gap between fourth and seventh is only eight points, and with Athletic holding a game in hand, the European race is as open as the title race at this stage.
A mid-table logjam from seventh to seventeenth
The most crowded part of the La Liga standings is the middle. From Athletic Club in seventh on 15 points down to Elche in 17th on 10, eleven clubs are separated by five points. Four of them — Villarreal, Celta Vigo, Rayo Vallecano and Getafe — sit on 12 points each, and three more — Espanyol, Osasuna and Racing Santander — are one point behind on 11.
That congestion cuts both ways. A win this weekend can lift a mid-table side from 14th to eighth; a defeat can drop one from 10th to 17th. Deportivo La Coruña in eighth have lost only three games all season, the same as Athletic Club in seventh, but five draws have kept them on 14 points. Celta Vigo have drawn six of 11 — more than anyone else — and those dropped points are the difference between mid-table comfort and a European push.
For the clubs in this band, the next month matters more than the last one. The sides that turn draws into wins between now and Christmas will spend the second half of the season looking upwards; the ones that keep sharing points will spend it looking over their shoulders. With so many clubs on near-identical records, head-to-head results will start to matter — in Spain, head-to-head is the first tiebreaker after points, ahead of overall goal difference.
The relegation battle takes shape early
At the bottom, the picture is already worrying for three clubs. Levante hold the final relegation place in 18th on 10 points, level with Elche in 17th and behind only on goal difference. Valencia are 19th on nine points with just two wins from 11 and only eight goals scored — the joint-lowest attacking return in the division. For a club of Valencia’s size, sitting second-bottom in November is a serious problem, and hosting Real Madrid this weekend is a difficult place to start fixing it.
Málaga are bottom on five points and still without a win: five draws and six defeats from 11 games, eight scored and 21 conceded. Their goal difference of −13 is the worst in the league, and they have the division’s joint-lowest goals tally. They host Racing Santander on Saturday in a game that already feels important for both sides — Racing are 16th on 11 points, and a Málaga win would cut the gap between the two clubs to three points, while a Racing win would leave the bottom club six adrift of safety.
It is still early — five points from 11 games is not a death sentence when the side in 17th has only 10. But winless runs harden into relegation form if they stretch past Christmas, and the side that finds a first win in the next few weeks will change the shape of this battle quickly.
How the La Liga standings are decided
Spain settles its table on points first, then head-to-head record between tied teams, then head-to-head goal difference, then overall goal difference, then goals scored. The head-to-head tiebreaker only applies once all the matches between the teams in question have been played, which is why the early-season order can still change once they have faced each other home and away.
The stakes are straightforward. The top four qualify for the Champions League league phase, fifth for the Europa League league phase, and sixth for the Conference League play-off round. The bottom three — 18th, 19th and 20th — are relegated to the Segunda División. There is no play-off to save a side from the drop, which is why the clubs around the line treat every point in November as if it were worth double in May.
One quirk worth knowing: 11 rounds in, the table still overstates small differences. A side on 12 points and a side on 11 are effectively level — a single result separates them — and goal difference, which looks decisive at the top, rests on a small sample one heavy defeat can swing by three or four.
What Matchday 12 still has to decide
Matchday 12 opened on Friday with Sevilla and Alavés sharing a goalless draw, a result that moved both clubs to 12 and 13 points respectively without changing the shape of the table. The rest of the round is spread across Saturday and Sunday, and it carries the two fixtures that matter most to the top of the table.
On Saturday, Málaga host Racing Santander in a relegation six-pointer, kicking off at 13:00 UTC. Espanyol host Deportivo La Coruña, Osasuna host Athletic Club, and Real Madrid travel to Valencia. Sunday brings the headline game: Atlético Madrid against Barcelona. A home win takes Atlético top on 31 points, one clear of Barcelona; an away win opens a five-point gap and leaves Real Madrid, if they win on Saturday, as the nearest challengers.
By Sunday night, the La Liga standings will have a new shape — either a three-way race separated by a few points, or a Barcelona lead that starts to look like control. Either way, the table is worth reading again on Monday morning, when all 10 Matchday 12 games are in the books.
Frequently asked questions
Who is top of La Liga?
Barcelona lead the La Liga standings on 30 points from 11 games, with 10 wins, no draws and one defeat. Atlético Madrid are second on 28 points and Real Madrid third on 27.
Who is bottom of La Liga?
Málaga are bottom on five points from 11 games. They are the only side in the division still without a win, with five draws and six defeats, and a goal difference of −13.
Who is the top scorer in La Liga this season?
Raphinha of Barcelona leads the scoring chart with 15 league goals. Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappé is second on 12, and Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal is third on 10.
When do Atlético Madrid play Barcelona?
Atlético Madrid host Barcelona on Sunday 8 November 2026 in Matchday 12. A home win would take Atlético top on 31 points, one clear of Barcelona.
How many teams are relegated from La Liga?
Three teams are relegated: the clubs finishing 18th, 19th and 20th go down to the Segunda División. As it stands, those places are held by Levante, Valencia and Málaga.
