Football Betting Tips La Liga 2025/26
Unlock La Liga betting tips for the 2025/2026 season that every Ghanaian bettor needs to know — goalscoring patterns, underdog strategies and the safest bets to place.
It might sound a bit rough, but the Primera División is essentially a championship of 2.5 teams. Real Madrid and Barcelona have won 18 titles in the last 20 years, while Atlético Madrid has taken the remaining 2.
There are a few teams: Real Sociedad, Athletic Bilbao, and Villarreal, which are capable of competing for the Champions League or the Europa League spots. And some seasons featured surprising title contenders like Girona in 2023/2024, but they always ran out of steam closer to the end of the season. So here are 6 betting tips based on the league’s features
Bet on Real Madrid Winning the Title
Because Real Madrid and Barcelona have taken turns winning the title in the last 4 seasons, 2025/2026 season will be Los Blancos’ turn again. While this might sound humorous on its own, Real Madrid has strong arguments to support the claim.
- Xabi Alonso as a new head coach. He proved himself as one of the best head coaches in Europe at Bayer Leverkusen, winning the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal (German cup), reaching the Europa League final and achieving a 51-match unbeaten run in all competitions, as well as a solid 62.86% win percentage.
- A roster of experienced world-class stars worth 1.33 billion €, including Kylian Mbappé, Thibaut Courtois, Vinícius Júnior, Antonio Rüdiger, and others.
If Xabi Alonso manages to keep the dressing room under control and the stars motivated and focused on football, Los Merengues will simply brush away the other competitors in La Liga this season.
All in all — the safest title bet there can be. It can be placed anytime during the season if you wish to take time and wait for a better value (watch out for the changing odds!), but just once per season.
Bet on Under 2.5 Goals
La Liga isn’t known for being a high-scoring league — with 2.62 goals scored per match in the 2024/2025 season, it’s way behind the English Premier League (2.93) and the leading Bundesliga (3.13).
The picture gets skewed by Real, Barcelona and Atlético thrashing their opponents in high-scoring matches. But 51% of the games finished under 2.5 goals in the 2024/2025 season. And 62.62% of matches were either single-goal victories or draws with three goals or fewer.
This brings to a conclusion that it’s safe to bet Under 2.5 on Spanish teams from the 8th place and below when they are playing each other.
Bet on Both Teams to Score
This is one of the safest La Liga betting tips, because matches outside the top games tend to be very close, with both teams finding the net by the end of the time in 56% of the cases. The most popular result of the 2024/2025 season was 1-1, and the third one — 1-2.
Surprisingly, Barcelona and, to some extent, Real Madrid also fit for such a bet. They rarely walk away from the pitch with a clean sheet (13 out of 38 for Barça and 15 out of 38 for Madrid), letting the opponents score at least a consolation goal even in matches won by a solid margin.
Bet on Over 3.5 Goals on Barcelona and Real
23% games had over 3.5 goals in the last season, and Barcelona was a key contributor to the stat, netting 18 high-scoring matches out of 38. With Barcelona’s young and passionate team, as well as an attack-minded head coach Hansi Flick, the goal glut is expected to continue in the new season. And the habit of frequently conceding at least once increases the chances of the bet to play out even more.
Real Madrid wasn’t that successful in the previous season, with only 10 matches counting as a win according to the Over 3.5 bet rules. But it will certainly catch up if Xabi Alonso manages to turn the squad into a scoring machine. The first few rounds will tell whether this anticipation is true.
Place Double Chance Bets
With 45% of the games of the 2024/2025 season being home wins, 26% — draws, and 29% — away wins, a bet that covers 2 outcomes out of 3 looks enticing. Some pre-match analysis will be needed for a more precise decision about which options to choose. And you’ll need to closely watch the odds, as double chance bets aren’t necessarily profitable by default.
Bet on the Star Player to Score a Goal
Real Madrid and Barcelona are stacked with star attacking players, always eager to score. There are some potent goalscorers in the other La Liga teams as well, and their goal chances are further enhanced by their teams focusing on supporting and passing to their best man.
So the “Player to score a goal” type of bet is great for both pre-match and live betting. As it’s natural to expect Mbappé, or Alexander Sørloth, or Raphinha to score in almost every game, especially against a weaker competition. But the best is not just to rely on the name, but to wait out a few rounds to see who is primed to be the major goalscorer of the season before going in with such bets.
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