Deportivo de A Coruña and Elche will open jornada 1 of LaLiga EA Sports at ABANCA-Riazor on Monday, 17 August at 21:00. It is a meeting that carries more weight than a first-round fixture usually does, because Deportivo is back in Primera División after eight years away.
That return is the reason the search spikes now. Deportivo climbed up as the second-place team in Segunda and, after years outside the top flight, now faces an immediate test against an Elche side that begins its second consecutive year in Primera and survived the category only on the final matchday. The match can be watched on Teledeporte and DAZN.
For Martín Anselmi, this is the first league night of a new cycle after Eder Sarabia left this summer. The schedule leaves no room for a slow start. Deportivo arrives with Aubameyang as its star striker, and the opener offers the clearest early sign of whether that return to Primera can look like a restart rather than a reunion.
Elche also comes in carrying a narrow escape from last season, which makes this opener more than a routine visit to A Coruña. A team that stayed up on the last day is being asked to begin again on the road, in front of a promoted rival and in a stadium that has waited eight years for this kind of night. By the final whistle on Monday, the first answer of the season will already be on the board.
