Year III of the F LeagueThe country’s top sixteen teams return to competition this Friday with the opening match of the top flight of women’s football between Real Madrid and newly promoted Espanyol.
The counter of the sixteen participants is at zero, but due to the brilliance of poker in the 23/24 course and by keeping a good part of the block of players that led him to success, Barça is once again a clear contender to take the four titles at stake and the rival to beat for all of them.
The departures of Mariona Caldentey and Lucy Bronze and the departure of Jonathan Giráldez have been the blows that the Barcelona club has suffered this summer, but In exchange, the Polish Ballon d’Or nominee, Ewa Pajor, has arrived.who arrives with aspirations of becoming the team’s top scorer.
Alongside her, the Portuguese Kika Nazareth and the English goalkeeper Ellie Roebuck complete a squad that will be led by a man from the house, Pere Romeuwho is making a big leap in his career after three years as assistant coach to Giráldez.
The end of Sandra Paños’ stage also marks a turning point in a stage of Barcelona, but names like Aitana Bonmatí, Alexia Putellas, Mapi León or Patri Guijarro They hold the group’s DNA.
In total, eight players are nominated for the Ballon d’Or and, although the best version of Putellas threatens to be already here, The clear favourites to win the award are Bonmatí and Norwegian Caroline Graham-Hansen.
Dizzying names and a game that is unreachable for the rest of the teams. That is, one more year, the letter of introduction of Barça, which, as its most direct rival, will have A Real Madrid that has opted for national quality to strengthen your project.
Alba Redondo, Eva Navarro, Maria Mendez and Sheila Garcia They are strengthening a squad that is eagerly awaiting the recovery of Scottish player Caroline Weir following her anterior cruciate ligament tear last season.
The white team will play, like Barça, the Champions Leaguea competition that Atlético de Madrid said goodbye to on Wednesday after losing on penalties to Rosenborg (2-2, 3-3).
The red-and-white team, which last season finished third in the standings, also presents a renewed project under the command of former Madrid CFF player Victor Martin.
Fiamma Benítez, Silvia Lloris and Rosa Otermín are the three national additions in the midfield and lower areas. Up front, the Atlético club replaces the departures of Ludmila da Silva and Leicy Santos with the arrival of the Brazilians. Luany and Gio Queirozfrom Madrid CFF, and the Finnish Synne Jensen, formerly of Real Sociedad.
A lot of equality is expected in the mid-high zone where Atlético aspires to be. Levante, Real Sociedad, Athletic Club, Sevilla and Madrid CFF They will fight for those positions again, but they will have to keep an eye on teams that have done a good job in the market, such as Levante Las Planas and their star signing, the Argentine Estefanía Banini.
Espanyol and Deportivo are the two newcomers to the competition. And they are two classics who already know what it is like stay in the top division and, in the case of the Catalan team, win titles, since in their golden age the blue and whites won six Queen’s Cups and one league.
Depor, factory of great talents such as Tere Abelleira, Athenea del Castillo or Misa Rodríguez, returns with A young but ambitious project with the intention of staying in the category for longer than in his last adventure in first division, which only lasted two seasons.
The drawing of this course 24/25 is completed by the Costa Adeje Tenerife, Eibar, Real Betis, Valencia and Granadawho last year were saved in the final days from a relegation that ended with the historic Sporting Huelva and Villarreal.
We will have to wait until January 2025 to meet the first champion of the course in the Super Cup, which will see Barça-Atlético face off on one side of the table and Real Madrid-Real Sociedad on the other.
