2024/2025 La Liga title odds: Who are the sportsbooks favouring?
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The start of the 2024-25 La Liga campaign has lovers of Spanish football brimming with excitement. Bookies already have their odds set for bettors to place their bets on. One of these numerous options include the outright winner bet for the season: who will win the league? And by the looks of it, many of the top bookies are favouring more or less the same teams.
Odd-on favourite teams to win the league title
When it comes to the La Liga title, three teams come to mind who are realistically in the running for the championship – barring a monumental upset from one of the chasing back. These teams include:
Real Madrid
The club from the capital are again the odds-on favourite to lift the La Liga title for the second year running. It is no surprise to see that the bookies favour the European champions, as they enjoyed a stellar campaign last season. The new signing of France's already legendary status forward, Kylian Mbappe, to a star-studded team has only fuelled this gravitation to the Los Blancos as the outright favourites. The defending champions are never easy to defeat home or away and are almost always a safe bet. SportyTrader offers top picks and predictions for Real Madrid all season long as well as insights on all the latest La Liga matches on the calendar.
Barcelona FC
Coming at a distant second in terms of odds difference are the Catalan giants. Barcelona have always been the team to tussle over league dominance with the white of Madrid over the years and will be hoping to do so this season. They had a generally poor title defence last year, finishing 10 points behind Real Madrid, which ultimately cost head coach Xavi Hernandes his job.
The lingering financial constraints the club has been battling with and the resulting inability to compete in the transfer market haven't inspired much confidence. However, Barcelona has shown, just as they won the title in the 2022-23 season, that they can compete with Real Madrid despite the many off-field issues that plague this La Liga giant.
Atletico Madrid
Atletico De Madrid is the next team with an outside chance of winning the league title come the end of the 2024/2025 season. The team from the capital have shown in recent times that they are more than capable of breaking the dominant hold of Real Madrid and Barcelona. The RojiBlancos have been La Liga champions in the 2013-14 season and most recently in the 2020-21 season.
Despite being ranked as the third favourite to win the league, Atletico Madrid has shown that beating the bookie is as well and truly within their ability. With the charismatic stewardship of long-serving coach Diego Simeone and the capture of last season's second-highest goal scorer, Alexander Sorloth, plus Julian Alvarez they are certainly title-worthy contenders.
With the new season of the Spanish top flight already on the way, these teams are the top picks to win the title based on the odds. Real Madrid is the favourite, with the bookies odds heavily in their favour. But the recent seasons have shown that it's not all done and dusted. Barcelona FC are always going to be a threat in the race for league dominance, and Atletico Madrid is more than confident in their ability to beat anyone in the race for the championship.
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