THE USURPER LEAGUESpanish football.
A few different champions.
94 completed seasons recalculated without Real Madrid or FC Barcelona. The same real games, minus the fixtures involving either club.
Who wins when the usual winners sit this one out? Quite a few clubs, as it turns out. Pick a season for every result, or see which clubs collect the most alternative titles.
See this season's live table ↗Who gets the silverware?
Number of first-place finishes across the 94 validated historical seasons in this archive. Imaginary trophies; actual match results.
| Club | Alternative titles |
|---|---|
| Atlético Madrid | 30 |
| Athletic Club | 19 |
| Valencia | 15 |
| Deportivo La Coruña | 6 |
| Sevilla FC | 6 |
| Real Sociedad | 5 |
| Villarreal | 3 |
| Espanyol | 2 |
| Real Betis | 2 |
| UD Las Palmas | 2 |
| Girona FC | 1 |
| Osasuna | 1 |
| Real Zaragoza | 1 |
| Sporting Gijón | 1 |
No invented results. No rich-kid fixtures.
We remove all matches played by Madrid or Barça. That means points, goals, wins, losses, the lot. We recalculate the surviving teams using each era's points system.
Seasons with incomplete archival results aren't published. La Liga wasn't played during the 1936–39 Civil War, and our archive lacks a complete match source for 1962/63.
Tables use points, goal difference and goals scored, rather than every historic official tiebreaker or deduction. This is a thought experiment, not a correction of the record.
Every available season
Choose a season to see its complete alternative standings, the all-club comparison and the original match-data source.
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| Season | Our champion | Pts | Games counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999/00 | Deportivo La Coruña | 62 | 306 |
| 1998/99 | Espanyol | 60 | 306 |
| 1997/98 | Athletic Club | 60 | 306 |
| 1996/97 | Deportivo La Coruña | 76 | 380 |
| 1995/96 | Atlético Madrid | 81 | 380 |
| 1994/95 | Deportivo La Coruña | 47 | 306 |
| 1993/94 | Deportivo La Coruña | 52 | 306 |
| 1992/93 | Deportivo La Coruña | 50 | 306 |
| 1991/92 | Atlético Madrid | 50 | 306 |
| 1990/91 | Atlético Madrid | 42 | 306 |