It’s the busy 2025-26 calendar that awaits Spanish football

Yesterday, Monday, we witnessed a historic moment in the complaint that the Suspended beside FIFPRO filed against FIFA before the European Commission. Due to its dominant position and increasingly saturated calendar, especially this season, with the Club World Cup created by FIFA and scheduled to be held between the months of June and July.

Well, as MD found out, the scenario planned for the 2025-26 season is not very encouraging as football will officially return a month after the end of this FIFA World Cup, set for July 13. The Wednesday, August 13 is the date for the UEFA European Super Cup and, just three days later, the weekend of August 16 and 17, is when the league season begins in contention on the first day.

The months of September, October and November will be busy, with the Champions League group stage kicking off on September 16 and the first four rounds of the group stage set to take place before the end of the year. Added to this are the Liga, Copa del Rey and three breaks for the national teams: from September 1 to 9, October 6 to 14 and November 10 to 18. The Christmas break starts from Sunday, December 21 to January 2, 2026.

In the month of January they must play the Spanish Super Cup (from January 7 to 11 or from January 14 to 18) and certainly two more rounds of the Champions League along with Liga and Copa del Rey. February will bring more League, Cup and two more European matches. Just like in March, where the round of 16 of the Champions League starts to be played and there is a new national team break between the 23rd and 31st of this month. In April 2025, two Champions League quarter-final ties and the first leg of the semifinals will arrive. But in addition, the domestic competition and the Copa del Rey will continue to be played, with the final due to be played on Saturday the 25th.

And finally comes May, where the League and Europe will be decided. At the beginning of the month the second leg of the semi-finals is played and the final of the great UEFA club competition is scheduled for May 30. The 27th is the final of the Europa League and the 20th in the case of the Conference . As for the domestic competition, it will be the weekend of 23-24 when the final league match in the First Division will be played.

And the Madrid players who have to attend the World Cup will have a little break because Monday, June 1, is the date set by FIFA for them to join their teams for the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, which begins on June 11 and runs through July 19. And as soon as it ends, start again with the 2026-2027 season.

In September 2026, the big change

And it is in September 2026 when the big change comes in relation to the current national team windows: the break will go from the current eight days to a total of 16. Specifically from September 21 to October 6 and where the teams will play in four meetings. This way, the October window will disappear and there will only be an interruption in November (9-17) with two games in contention so far. And it will remain so until 2030, the date of the World Cup scheduled to be awarded to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.

In the year 2027 the four windows are as follows: March 22-30, June 7-15; September 20-October 5 including 4 meetings and from November 8 to 16. In 2028 it will be distributed in a similar way: March 20-28, May 29 to June 6 before the Euro Cup and Copa América; September 18 to October 3 including four meetings and from November 13 to 31.

In 2029 they are designed like this: March 19 to 27, June 4 to 12; September 24 to October 4 with four meetings and from November 12 to 20. Finally, in 2030, the first is planned for March 18 to 26, and the second for June 3 to 11 before the World Cup. Then it will stop from September 23 to October 8 with four matches and finally from November 11 to 19.