La Liga table 2026-27: Barcelona win 2-1 at Atletico and lead Real Madrid by three, the title line falls to 109 with 2 points to spare, the top four line stays at 101 and the safety bar falls to 89

Our previous piece said a Barcelona win at Atletico Madrid would bring Atletico's ceiling down to 106. On November 9, Korean time, Barcelona won 2-1 there. They have eleven wins and a defeat from twelve matches, 33 points, 48 scored and 13 conceded. Atletico's ceiling is now 28 plus 78, 106, and the highest ceiling among Barcelona's rivals is Real Madrid's 30 plus 78, 108, so the title line fell from 110 to 109. Barcelona's title number went from 80 to 76, and of the 78 points they have left they may drop 2, up from 1. Real Madrid's title tragic number is 26, every match they have left, Atletico's went from 27 to 25 and Betis's is 24.

Everything here is as of the November 9 update. One hundred and nineteen of the season's 380 matches are in. Eighteen clubs have played twelve and have 26 left, while Athletic Bilbao and Rayo Vallecano have played eleven and still have one match in hand. The round ran from November 7 to November 9, Korean time, home side first: Malaga 1-2 Racing Santander and Sevilla 0-0 Alaves on the 7th, Valencia 0-3 Real Madrid, Osasuna 1-1 Athletic Bilbao, Espanyol 0-0 Deportivo and Elche 0-2 Real Betis on the 8th, and Celta Vigo 0-0 Levante, Villarreal 2-0 Getafe, Atletico Madrid 1-2 Barcelona and Real Sociedad 1-0 Rayo Vallecano on the 9th.

The top four line is still 101. The line has to clear the fourth highest ceiling among a club's rivals, and a rival who can only finish level still counts. The highest ceiling below the top four is still Real Sociedad's 100: they beat Rayo 1-0 and went from 19 points to 22, which kept their ceiling where it was with one match fewer left. Barcelona's 33 plus 68, Real Madrid's 30 plus 71, Atletico's 28 plus 73 and Betis's 26 plus 75 all come to 101. What each can still drop is 10 points for Barcelona, 7 for Real Madrid and 3 for Betis, all the same as last time, and 5 for Atletico, down from 8. Betis won 2-0 at Elche and are fourth on 26.

Below the top four, Real Sociedad are fifth on 22 with a top four tragic number of 25, one fewer than the 26 matches they have left. Sevilla drew 0-0 with Alaves, are sixth on 18 with a ceiling of 96, and have a tragic number of 24. Athletic Bilbao drew 1-1 at Osasuna and are seventh on 16, able to reach 97 with their match in hand. Nobody but Barcelona carries a title number.

At the bottom, the total every safety number points at fell from 92 to 89. Three clubs go down, so the bar sits one above the third lowest ceiling, and the lowest ceilings are now Malaga's 83, Valencia's 87 and Elche's 88. Last time Levante were on 10 with a ceiling of 91, one short of the bar. They drew 0-0 at Celta Vigo, are on 11 with a ceiling of 89, level with the new bar, and have a safety number of 78, every point they have left. Elche lost 2-0 at home to Betis and stayed on 10. Last time they had no relegation tragic number; with Levante now on 11, seventeen clubs are above their 10, and their number is 26, every match they have left.

Valencia lost 3-0 at home to Real Madrid and stayed on 9, and their relegation tragic number went from 27 to 26, again every match they have left. Malaga lost 2-1 at home to Racing Santander, are still without a win after twelve matches, with five draws and seven defeats, and are bottom on 5 with a tragic number of 25, down from 26. Seventeen clubs hold a safety number, one more than last time, from Barcelona's 56 up to Levante's 78. Espanyol and Osasuna, whose 81s were every point left last time, both drew and are on 12 with 77, so they may now drop 1 point. Racing's win took them to 14 and their number from 81 to 75. Getafe lost 2-0 at Villarreal and are also on 12 with 77.

Nothing is clinched and nothing is eliminated, and every club can still finish anywhere from first to twentieth. The next round cannot change that: after it the widest gap in the table can be 31 points, with at least 25 matches, 75 points, left for everyone.

The next round comes twelve days after the last one and runs from November 21 to November 24, Korean time. Alaves host Deportivo and Athletic Bilbao host Espanyol on the 21st. On the 22nd Barcelona host Villarreal and Real Madrid host Celta Vigo on the same day, Sevilla host Betis and Rayo Vallecano host Valencia. On the 23rd Racing Santander host Real Sociedad, Osasuna host Malaga and Getafe host Atletico Madrid, and on the 24th Levante, whose safety number is every point they have left, host Elche. Barcelona's title number ends only if they lose and Real Madrid win, because both ceilings would then be 108. A Barcelona draw with a Real Madrid win would keep it, with 0 points to spare.

How to read these numbers. A clinch number is the minimum a club must still collect for an outcome to be guaranteed even if every rival wins every remaining match. A tragic number is how many more defeats make an outcome impossible even if the club wins everything else. A reachable range is the highest and the lowest finish still arithmetically open. A rival who can only draw level still counts as a threat to a clinch, while a rival has to finish clearly above a club to eliminate it. Goal difference, head to head records and the league's tiebreakers are not part of the calculation, and matches in hand are counted as the points they could bring. The table is at, the remaining fixtures at, the qualification and relegation rules at, every club's numbers at and the method at. Club pages: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Real Betis, Elche and Valencia. To try results yourself, use.