Valencian Football
The Spanish league is undoubtedly the best in the world, with top class player such as Messi.
For the 2020/21 season, there will be no better place in Spain to see top football; or at least no better place with beaches, than Valencia.
Nobody in their right mind would claim that Valencian football is the best, but it is a fact that, Valencia, along with Madrid and Andlusia, has four first division football teams, and that lovers of top level football can now watch games in all three provinces, in Valencia city (Valencia FC and Levante), Villareal (Castellón) and Elche (Alicante) (promoted at the end of season 2019/20).
Valencia FC. has won six La Liga titles, seven Copas del Rey trophies, two Fairs Cups (which was the predecessor to the UEFA Cup), one UEFA Cup, one UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, and two UEFA Super Cups.
They also reached two UEFA Champions League finals in a row, losing to Real Madrid in 2000 and then to Bayern Munich on penalties after a 1–1 draw in 2001.
In total, Valencia has reached seven major European finals, winning four of them.
Villareal, in Castellón province, was founded in 1923, and is nicknamed the Yellow Submarine due to its yellow home kit.
They were La Liga Runners-up 2007-08, UEFA Champions League Semi-finalists 2006, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League Semi-finalists 2004 and 2011 and UEFA Intertoto Cup Winners in 2003 and 2004.
Levante UD was originally founded in 1909. They have played in the first division in three different stages this millenium and played in the UEFA Europa League during the 2012/3 season, when they eliminated the Scottish team Motherwell, being eliminated in turn by FC Rubin Kazan of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Also founded in 1923, Elche, from Alicante province was promoted to the first division after the 2012/3 season, and again after the 2019/20 season.
In the late 1950s, Elche achieved two consecutive promotions from the third level to La Liga.
The club achieved its best-ever league finish in 1963–64, in fifth position.
In 1969 the club reached its first and only Copa del Rey final, finally losing to Athletic Bilbao
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