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Barcelona secure 8th La Liga title in 11 years

FC Barcelona secured the 2018-19 La Liga title after beating Levante 1-0 at Camp Nou on Saturday night, mathematically eliminating second-place Atletico Madrid from contention and giving Ernesto Valverde‘s team its first title of the season with three league games still to play.

It is the earliest calendar date in the 21st century on which Barça have captured the La Liga title.

The 2018-19 title further cements Barça’s dominance in the Spanish top flight – the team has now claimed eight of the last 11 La Liga championships, which have come over more than a decade of glory led by the greatest player of all time, the team’s captain Leo Messi, who has become the first player in Club history to win ten La Liga titles.

Barça secure La Liga
Barça players celebrate Messi’s goal against Levante on 27 April 2019 (Reuters / Albert Gea / via ACN)

Similar to last season, when the team clinched with three games to play, Barça led the competition practically from start to finish, and will have been number one in 34 of the 38 weeks this season. In the four weeks Barça were not the leaders, they were in second place – twice on goal differential alone and twice by just a single point.

Including last season, Barça will have led the league in 70 of the 76 weeks since Ernesto Valverde became the team’s head coach.

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