Player profiles of the Spanish First Division (LALIGA EA SPORTS) – 2026/27 season

This dataset contains the personal and sporting profile of every player registered in the squads of the twenty teams of the Spanish First Division (LALIGA EA SPORTS) for the 2026/27 season. The data was obtained by web scraping with Selenium from the official competition website (https://www.laliga.com), at the time of capture (October 2026). The file all_player_profiles.csv contains 611 records (one per player) and 12 profile columns (full name, display name, shirt number, position, date and place of birth, nationality, height, weight, photo URL, team and profile URL) plus, optionally, 12 additional season statistics columns (goals, assists, shots, matches played, minutes, starts, substitutions, fouls, penalties and cards). The dataset was generated for academic purposes only, as part of Practice 1 of the Data Typology and Lifecycle course of the Master's Degree in Data Science at the UOC. It is published under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike), which allows reuse with attribution but prohibits commercial use, in accordance with LaLiga's terms of use.