In Spanish Football La Liga the Spanish first division contains 20 teams as it went from 18 teams to 20 in 1988, and increased to 22 in 1995 following a major administrative mix-up when two teams were relegated for not presenting financial guarantees on time, and were then reinstated following lengthy appeals. Although reduced two seasons later to 20, small Spanish La Liga football clubs have since resisted any further change as relegation to the second is an economic disaster, although UEFA are threatening to reduce the number of clubs eligible for European competitions if the reduction doesn't take place. In Spanish football the second division is made up of 22 teams from the whole of Spain, and lower divisions are regionalised.
Spanish football squads are closely regulated in Spain, and transfers between the teams are much more limited than in England. Spanish football La Liga and EU players cannot switch between teams in the same division during a season, and teams register a fixed first team squad of 25 players for the whole footballing year. A window does open up for one month from the middle of December allowing players who have not played more than four games for their clubs in the season to be transferred.
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