Summary · Question 14 of 14

League tier of Spanish-eligible players in 2024/25 and 2025/26

13 moved up a tier and 7 moved down between 2024/25 and 2025/26; the top-9 leagues held 80 players, from 72.

How to read it: the left column is last season’s rung for every player in the pool, the right column this season’s; each ribbon is the players who went from one to the other, its width their number. Green ribbons climb, orange come down, teal are new to the pool, grey are no longer in a covered league. Hover a ribbon for the names.

La Liga

233 → 227

387 404 → 380 845 minutes

stepping-stone league

2 → 2

3 679 → 2 732 minutes

top-9 league

72 → 80

113 739 → 128 412 minutes

other covered league

27 → 43

41 640 → 67 863 minutes

Players of the pool in each tier, 2024/25 → 2025/26, with the minutes they played there: 334 players last season, 352 this season, outfield players with at least 450 minutes, one row per player (the destinations page counts one row per position group, so a player with two positions counts twice there).

Moved up a tier 13

  • Martín Zubimendi ESP-La Liga → ENG-Premier League
  • Sergi Gómez ESP-La Liga → POR-Primeira Liga
  • Yarek Gasiorowski ESP-La Liga → NED-Eredivisie
  • Yéremy Pino ESP-La Liga → ENG-Premier League
  • Jesus Rodríguez ESP-La Liga → ITA-Serie A
  • Luis Pérez ESP-La Liga → TUR-Süper Lig
  • and 7 more

Moved down a tier 7

  • Álex Moreno ENG-Premier League → ESP-La Liga
  • Álvaro Carreras POR-Primeira Liga → ESP-La Liga
  • Carlos Soler ENG-Premier League → ESP-La Liga
  • Dean Huijsen ENG-Premier League → ESP-La Liga
  • Ricardo Visus NED-Eredivisie → POL-Ekstraklasa
  • Ferran Jutglà BEL-Pro League → ESP-La Liga
  • and 1 more

New to the pool 112

  • Aleix Febas ESP-La Liga
  • Jonny Castro ESP-La Liga
  • Germán Valera ESP-La Liga
  • Jacobo Ramón ITA-Serie A
  • Adrián de la Fuente ESP-La Liga
  • Víctor Muñoz ESP-La Liga
  • and 106 more

No longer in a covered league 94

  • Angeliño ITA-Serie A
  • Sergi ESP-La Liga
  • Óscar Aranda POR-Primeira Liga
  • Sergio Akieme FRA-Ligue 1
  • Iñigo Martínez ESP-La Liga
  • Álex Suárez ESP-La Liga
  • and 88 more

“No longer in a covered league” means exactly that: retired, injured for the season, or playing in a league this report does not fetch. The data cannot tell those apart and this page does not guess. “New to the pool” likewise mixes debutants with players returning from leagues outside the set.

How we know

As an analytics question In numbers: every Spanish-eligible player with at least 450 minutes in 2024/25 or 2025/26, placed on the pathway’s tier ladder in each season, and the move between the two.

What we did We took each player’s main league last season and this season, sorted the leagues into the four tiers the atlas uses everywhere — home league, other covered league, stepping stone (the German second tier), top nine — and counted who moved up, who moved down, who appeared and who is no longer in any league we can see.

Sources Season feature tables for both seasons; a player’s league is the one he played most minutes in; 450-minute floor in a season to count as present in it; rungs as defined in the pathways chapter.

What this means

Between the two seasons 13 players moved up a tier, 7 moved down, 112 are new to the pool and 94 are no longer in a covered league. These are counts of one season-to-season change; without earlier seasons there is no baseline for how many moves a typical year shows, so the balance of ups and downs is not a trend.

What this does not show

Why a player moved, whether a move down was a loan or an injury, and players outside the covered leagues.

Data snapshot: FBref tables fetched 14 September 2026, snapshot commit ef7dbd4 · code: src/season_changes.py · status: exploratory, not pre-registered · all limitations

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Trajectories

Trajectories 2024/25 → 2025/26 (Spanish-eligible, ≥ 900 minutes in both seasons)

Season-over-season change in goals + assists per 90, league-adjusted. A move counts as up or down beyond ± 0.05; for scale, the standard deviation of this one-season change across the 167 Spanish-eligible players with both seasons is 0.08. Everything inside the band is listed as stable.

Forwards — 17 players: 3 up, 9 stable, 5 down

Moving up · G+A / 90 adj.

PlayerLeagueMin 2024/25 / 2025/26Change
Ferran Jutglà ESP-La Liga 1714 / 1652 +0.120
Toni Martínez ESP-La Liga 1012 / 2714 +0.106
Mikel Oyarzabal ESP-La Liga 2250 / 2710 +0.053

Moving down · G+A / 90 adj.

PlayerLeagueMin 2024/25 / 2025/26Change
Ayoze Pérez ESP-La Liga 1970 / 1124 −0.189
Ferran Torres ESP-La Liga 1106 / 1965 −0.157
Álvaro Morata ITA-Serie A 1099 / 930 −0.151
Pablo Durán ESP-La Liga 1394 / 1425 −0.118
Samu Omorodion POR-Primeira Liga 2263 / 1402 −0.069

Midfielders — 85 players: 20 up, 38 stable, 27 down

Moving up · G+A / 90 adj.

PlayerLeagueMin 2024/25 / 2025/26Change
Jesus Rodríguez ITA-Serie A 1111 / 1731 +0.227
Pablo Fornals ESP-La Liga 1827 / 2848 +0.220
Roberto Navarro ESP-La Liga 1278 / 1307 +0.191
Alberto Moleiro ESP-La Liga 2714 / 2478 +0.181
Lamine Yamal ESP-La Liga 2856 / 2262 +0.129

Moving down · G+A / 90 adj.

PlayerLeagueMin 2024/25 / 2025/26Change
Oihan Sancet ESP-La Liga 1620 / 1788 −0.329
Álex Berenguer ESP-La Liga 2339 / 2154 −0.174
Álex Baena ESP-La Liga 2595 / 1560 −0.172
Juanlu Sánchez ESP-La Liga 1722 / 1990 −0.155
Marc Roca ESP-La Liga 906 / 2026 −0.146

Defenders — 65 players: 10 up, 48 stable, 7 down

Moving up · G+A / 90 adj.

PlayerLeagueMin 2024/25 / 2025/26Change
Álex Valle ITA-Serie A 1030 / 2026 +0.139
Alberto Moreno ITA-Serie A 1727 / 1233 +0.119
Carlos Romero ESP-La Liga 2554 / 3191 +0.103
Carmona ESP-La Liga 2942 / 2565 +0.093
Alejandro Francés ESP-La Liga 1173 / 1116 +0.087

Moving down · G+A / 90 adj.

PlayerLeagueMin 2024/25 / 2025/26Change
Gerard Martín ESP-La Liga 1038 / 2119 −0.144
Pedro Porro ENG-Premier League 2610 / 2796 −0.132
Eric García ESP-La Liga 1566 / 2721 −0.102
Javi Rodríguez ESP-La Liga 2514 / 2558 −0.077
Kike Salas ESP-La Liga 2238 / 2203 −0.059