Málaga CF, who finished fourth in La Liga last season, began their first ever Champions League campaign in great style, winning 2-0 at La Rosaleda in the first leg of their qualifying match 2-0 against Panathinaikos of Greece.
Good start for Tito Vilanova
Goals from Puyol, Messi (2), Pedro and Villa gave Barcelona an easy win against Real Sociedad, a great start for new coach Tito Vilanova. Castro was the scorer for Real Sociedad.
Celta 0-1 Málaga
The Blue and Whites won the opening game of the new La Liga season, the only goal of the match against Celta scored by Fabrice Olinga, the youngest player in La Liga at 16 years and 90 days.
Start of new La Liga season
Much-troubled Málaga CF kickstart the new La Liga season at 19:00 when they travel to Celta. With a bit of luck and a fair wind they could end up at the top of the table for anything between two and twenty-four hours as most teams are playing on Sunday or Monday.
Spain out of Olympic football competition
There will be no Olympic gold to add to the World Cup and European Championships for Spain as a second successive defeat, this time a 1-0 loss to Honduras, means they are out of the Olympic men’s football competition. The Hondurans won thanks to Jerry Bengtson’s early goal and progress from Group D along with Japan, who beat Morocco 1-0.
Spain stumble into the quarter-finals of Euro 2012
Another sub-par and unconvincing performance from the reigning European and World champions but they are through to the next stage of Euro 2012 after a late goal by substitute Jesús Navas.
Spain 4-0 Republic of Ireland
Spain are top of their Euro 2012 group after beating the Republic of Ireland 4-0, Torres managing to find the net twice.
Spain 2-0 Serbia
Spain beat Serbia 2-0 in their first Euro 2012 warm-up match although, as with most countries, the team probably bears little or no resemblance to the expected line-up for the tournament itself.
Barcelona 3-0 Athletic Bilbao
Barcelona captured their 26th Copa del Rey with a 3-0 win over Athletic Bilbao, Pedro scoring twice and Messi adding the third.
Tense final day of La Liga
A very tense final day of La Liga for quite a few clubs with relegation and European placings still to be decided before play began at 20:00. At the end of the day, Villarreal were relegated along with Sporting Gijón and Racing Santander, Málaga took the fourth Champions League spot and Atlético Madrid and Levante qualified for the Europa League …