How many times have Real Madrid won LaLiga? Which team has won the most?

Real Madrid have been confirmed as 2023/24 LaLiga champions, after their win over Cádiz today was followed by defeat for Barcelona at Girona.

Second-half goals by Brahim Díaz, Jude Bellingham and Joselu Mato gave Madrid a 3-0 victory at the Bernabéu, whose home fans could be heard singing “champions, champions” after the final whistle. Three points for Los Blancos meant that, in the day’s following matchday-34 clash, Barça had to beat Girona to prevent their arch rivals from winning the league.

Despite twice leading at Montilivi, the Blaugrana went down 4-2 to their fellow Catalans - whose triumph not only handed Madrid the title, but also saw Míchel Sánchez’s side leapfrog Barça into second. Girona’s win, courtesy of goals by Artem Dovbyk and Miguel Gutiérrez, and a brace by Portu, confirmed the Blanquivermells’ qualification for the Champions League for the first time in their history.

How many LaLiga titles have Real Madrid won?

Having clinched the title today, Madrid have now won LaLiga 36 times. That’s comfortably more Spanish championships than any other club: Barça, with 27, are their nearest challengers in the all-time standings. Atlético Madrid are third, with 11 titles.

Across Europe’s five major leagues - the Bundesliga, LaLiga, Ligue 1, the Premier League and Serie A - only Juventus have as many domestic crowns. Madrid have today drawn level with the Italians’ haul.

This is the third time in the last five years that Los Vikingos have been crowned LaLiga champions. That’s the most titles that the club has managed in such a space of time since the days of the ‘Quinta del Buitre’ - a Madrid team which, led by legendary former striker Emilio Butragueño, lifted five successive championships between 1985/86 and 1989/90.

Madrid becoming more consistent LaLiga winners under Pérez

Madrid’s latest Spanish title win offers further evidence of a shifting trend in Florentino Pérez’s presidency of the club. Until recent times, Pérez’s stewardship - which, across two spells, has lasted for 21 years since summer 2000 - had not been characterised by regular success in LaLiga.

Under the 77-year-old, indeed, Madrid managed only four league titles up to the end of the 2018/19 season. By comparison, Barça won eight championships in the construction magnate’s first 15 full campaigns in charge, and also finished top of LaLiga in 2005/06, a season in which Pérez resigned his post in the February, beginning a three-year hiatus in his presidency.

At one stage of Pérez’s Madrid tenure, moreover, he had overseen more trophy wins in the Champions League, theoretically the tougher competition of the two, than in LaLiga.

However, although Madrid are yet to lift back-to-back Spanish titles under Pérez - something they have achieved in the Champions League, winning three straight European Cups between 2016 and 2018 - they have now developed into far more consistent domestic performers.

Can Madrid win LaLiga with a points record?

No, but they can get very close. After beating Cádiz, Madrid have 87 points, with four matches still to play in LaLiga this term. If Ancelotti’s men win each of their remaining games of the season, against Granada, Alavés, Villarreal and Real Betis, they will finish the top-flight campaign with 99 points - one shy of the record. Madrid themselves were the first club to win 100 points in LaLiga, under José Mourinho in 2011/12. Barça then emulated that feat the following season.