La Liga 2008–09

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La Liga 2008-09 season (known as the Liga BBVA for sponsorship reasons) is the 78th since its establishment. Real Madrid are the defending champions, having won their 31st La Liga title on the previous season. The campaign began on Saturday, 30 August 2008. The league is originally scheduled to end on 31 May 2009; nevertheless, the last rounds of matches may have to be moved ahead because of the participation of the national team in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. A total of 20 teams contest the league, 17 of which have already contested in the 2007-08 season, and three of which have been promoted from the Segunda División. In addition, a new match ball - the Nike T90 Omni - is serving as the official ball for all matches.

[edit] Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from 2007-08 Segunda División

Teams relegated to 2008-09 Segunda División

[edit] Team information

Last updated: 2 October 2008.

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Venue	Capacity	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
UD Almería	Alfonso García	Gonzalo Arconada	Estadio del Mediterráneo	22,000	UDA	Corredor de Vida IsladelFraile.com
Athletic Bilbao	Fernando García	Joaquín Caparrós	San Mamés	39,750	100% Athletic	Petronor
Atlético Madrid	Enrique Cerezo	Javier Aguirre	Vicente Calderón	54,851	Nike	Kia
FC Barcelona	Joan Laporta	Pep Guardiola	Camp Nou	98,772	Nike	Unicef
Betis	Pepe León	Paco Chaparro	Manuel Ruiz de Lopera	52,132	Kappa	Andalucía
Deportivo de La Coruña	Augusto César Lendoiro	Miguel Ángel Lotina	Riazor	34,600	Canterbury of New Zealand
RCD Espanyol	Daniel Sánchez Llibre	José Manuel Esnal	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys	55,926	uhlsport	Interapuestas.com
Getafe CF	Ángel Torres Sánchez	Víctor Muñoz	Coliseum Alfonso Pérez	16,300	Joma	Galco
Málaga CF	Fernando Sanz	Antonio Tapia	La Rosaleda	35,530	Umbro	Málaga
RCD Mallorca	Vicenç Grande Garau	Gregorio Manzano	ONO Estadi	23,142	Reial	Spanair
CD Numancia	Francisco Rubio Garcés	Sergije Krešić	Los Pajaritos	9,700	Errea	Caja Duero
CA Osasuna	Patxi Izco	José Antonio Camacho	Estadio Reyno de Navarra	19,553	Diadora	Yingli Solar
Racing de Santander	Francisco Pernía	Juan Ramón López Muñiz	El Sardinero	22,400	Joma
Real Madrid	Ramón Calderón	Bernd Schuster	Santiago Bernabéu	80,354	Adidas	bwin.com
Recreativo de Huelva	Francisco Mendoza Taboada	Lucas Alcaraz	Nuevo Colombino	21,600	Cejudo	Cajasol
Sevilla FC	José María del Nido	Manolo Jiménez	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	45,500	Joma	888.com
Sporting de Gijón	Manuel Vega-Arango	Manolo Preciado	El Molinón	25,885	Astore	Gijón Principado de Asturias
Valencia CF	Vicente Soriano	Unai Emery	Mestalla	55,000	Nike	Valencia Experience
Valladolid	Carlos Suárez Sureda	José Luis Mendilibar	Estadio José Zorrilla	26,512	Puma	Caja Duero
Villarreal CF	Fernando Roig Alfonso	Manuel Pellegrini	El Madrigal	23,000	Puma	Aeroport Castelló

[edit] Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Recreativo de Huelva	Manolo Zambrano	Sacked	7 October 2008^[1]	Lucas Alcaraz	7 October 2008^[2]	18th
CA Osasuna	José Ángel Ziganda	Sacked	13 October 2008^[3]	José Antonio Camacho	13 October 2008^[4]	16th
RCD Espanyol	Tintín Márquez	Sacked	30 November 2008^[5]	José Manuel Esnal	1 December 2008^[6]	17th

[edit] League table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Barcelona	13	10	2	1	40	9	+31	32	UEFA Champions League 2009–10 Group stage
2	Villarreal	13	8	4	1	23	15	+8	28
3	Valencia	13	8	3	2	27	14	+13	27
4	Real Madrid	13	8	2	3	30	20	+10	26	UEFA Champions League 2009-10 Third qualifying round for non-champions
5	Sevilla	13	7	3	3	18	11	+7	24	UEFA Europa League 2009–10 Fourth qualifying round
6	Atlético Madrid	13	6	3	4	28	19	+9	21	UEFA Europa League 2009–10 Third qualifying round
7	Deportivo	13	6	3	4	14	14	0	21
8	Valladolid	13	6	1	6	16	17	−1	19
9	Málaga	13	5	3	5	21	23	−2	18
10	Sporting de Gijón	13	6	0	7	21	27	−6	18
11	Betis	13	5	2	6	20	18	+2	17
12	Getafe	13	4	5	4	14	16	−2	17
13	Racing Santander	13	4	3	6	15	19	−4	15
14	Almería	13	4	3	6	14	21	−7	15
15	Mallorca	13	3	4	6	14	22	−8	13
16	Athletic Bilbao	13	3	3	7	15	23	−8	12
17	Espanyol	13	3	3	7	10	19	−9	12
18	Numancia	13	3	2	8	15	27	−12	11	Relegation to Segunda División
19	Osasuna	13	1	5	7	8	16	−8	8
20	Recreativo	13	1	4	8	6	29	−23	7

Last updated: 30 November 2008
Source: LFP
Rules for classification: 1^st points; 2^nd goal difference; 3^rd goals scored.
P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points; (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted.

[edit] Positions by round

Team \ Round	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14
Almería	3	3	2	7	6	6	6	9	11	13	8	12	14
Athletic Bilbao	18	17	10	10	12	15	17	19	19	19	18	18	16
Atlético Madrid	1	7	5	4	7	7	8	10	6	7	6	6	6
Barcelona	15	15	9	6	5	4	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
Betis	16	16	16	17	18	20	16	14	16	15	10	8	11
Deportivo	4	10	11	12	13	10	11	12	9	6	7	7	7
Espanyol	6	1	4	8	10	9	10	11	10	12	16	16	17
Getafe	5	5	8	11	8	8	9	7	7	8	12	14	12
Málaga	20	19	19	19	17	12	7	6	8	9	11	11	9
Mallorca	19	18	18	13	9	11	12	8	13	11	15	15	15
Numancia	8	9	12	16	15	17	20	16	17	18	17	17	18
Osasuna	12	13	15	15	14	16	19	20	20	20	20	19	19
Racing Santander	11	14	17	18	19	14	14	17	15	10	14	10	13
Real Madrid	13	8	6	3	3	5	5	3	3	4	4	2	4
Recreativo	7	12	14	14	16	18	18	18	18	17	19	20	20
Sevilla	10	4	7	5	4	3	2	5	5	5	5	5	5
Sporting de Gijón	14	20	20	20	20	19	15	13	12	14	9	13	10
Valencia	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	4	3	3	4	3
Valladolid	17	11	13	9	11	13	13	15	14	16	13	9	8
Villarreal	9	6	3	2	2	2	3	4	2	2	2	3	2

Last updated: 30 November 2008
Source: www.kicker.de (German)

[edit] Results

Home \ Away¹	ALM	ATH	ATM	BAR	BET	DEP	ESP	GET	MLG	MAL	NUMA	OSA	RAC	RMA	REC	SEV	SPG	VAL	VLD	VILL
Almería						0–1			1–0	2–1				1–1	1–0	0–1		2–2
Athletic Bilbao	1–3			0–1				0–1			2–0	2–0							2–0	1–4
Atlético Madrid						4–1			4–0	2–0			4–1	1–2	4–0	0–1
Barcelona	5–0		6–1		3–2			1–1					1–1	a					6–0
Betis						0–3				3–0			3–1	1–2	0–1	0–0
Deportivo		3–1					1–0			0–0	1–0			2–1			0–3
Espanyol				1–2				1–1			3–4	1–0					0–1		1–0	0–0
Getafe	2–2		1–2		0–0									3–1		0–2		0–3	1–0
Málaga		0–0		1–4				2–1				4–2						0–2	2–1	2–2
Mallorca		3–3					3–0		2–2		2–0	1–1					0–2
Numancia			1–1	1–0	2–4							0–0	2–1							1–2
Osasuna	3–1		0–0		0–2	0–0							0–1							1–1
Racing Santander						0–0	3–0			1–2				0–2		1–1	1–0
Real Madrid		3–2	a	a			2–2		4–3		4–3				1–0		7–1
Recreativo		1–1		0–2			0–1	1–1	0–4									1–1		1–2
Sevilla		4–0		0–3	a		2–0		0–1						1–0		4–3	0–0
Sporting de Gijón				1–6	1–2			1–2			3–1	2–1								0–1
Valencia					3–2	4–2				3–0	4–0	1–0	2–4				2–3			a
Valladolid	2–0		2–1							3–0				1–0	1–1	3–2		0–1
Villarreal	2–1		4–4		2–1	1–0							2–0					a	0–3

Last updated: 30 November 2008
Source: LFP
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; White = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

[edit] Pichichi Trophy

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	Samuel Eto'o	Barcelona	14
2	David Villa	Valencia	12
3	Gonzalo Higuaín	Real Madrid	9
3	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	9
5	Álvaro Negredo	Almería	8
5	Diego Forlán	Atlético Madrid	8
7	Joseba Llorente	Villarreal	6
	Juan Mata	Valencia
	Mate Bilić	Sporting de Gijón
	Mohammed Tchité	Racing de Santander
11	Achille Emana	Betis	5
	Fernando Llorente	Athletic Bilbao
	Giuseppe Rossi	Villarreal CF
	José Javier Barkero	Numancia
	Juan Ángel Albín	Getafe CF
	Kun Agüero	Atlético Madrid
	Nabil Baha	Málaga CF
	Raúl González	Real Madrid
19	11 players		4
30	18 players		3
48	32 players		2
80	74 players		1
Own goals			9
Total goals			369
Total games			130
Average per game			2.84

Last updated: 30 November 2008
Source: LFP.es, Yahoo! Sport

[edit] Trofeo Zamora

The Trofeo Zamora is for top goalkeepers.

Goalkeeper	Goals	Matches	Average	Team
Víctor Valdés	9	13	0.69	Barcelona
Andrés Palop	11	13	0.85	Sevilla
Daniel Aranzubía	14	13	1.08	Deportivo
Renan Brito	14	13	1.08	Valencia
Diego López	15	13	1.15	Villarreal
Sergio Asenjo	17	13	1.31	Valladolid
Casto Espinosa	18	13	1.38	Betis
Carlos Kameni	19	13	1.46	Espanyol
Toño Martínez	19	13	1.46	Racing
Asier Riesgo	20	13	1.54	Recreativo
Iker Casillas	20	13	1.54	Real Madrid

Last updated: 30 November 2008
Source: LFP.es

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Scoring

First Goalscorer: Luis García for Espanyol against Valladolid, 48th minute, (30 August 2008)^[7]
Fastest goal in a match: 33 seconds – Van Nistelrooy for Real Madrid against Atlético Madrid (18 October 2008) ^[8]
Goal scored at the latest point in a match: 90+6 minutes – Gonzalo Higuaín for Real Madrid against Atlético Madrid (18 October 2008)^[8]
Widest winning margin: 6 Goals
- Real Madrid 7-1 Sporting de Gijón (24 September 2008)^[9]
- Barcelona 6-0 Valladolid (8 November 2008)^[10]
Most goals in a match: 8 Goals
- Real Madrid 7-1 Sporting de Gijón (24 September 2008)^[9]
- Villarreal 4-4 Atlético Madrid (26 October 2008)^[11]
Most goals in one half: 6 Goals
- Sevilla 4-3 (3:3) Sporting de Gijón (13 September 2008)^[12]
- Real Madrid 4-3 (4:2) Numancia (14 September 2008)^[13]
- Barcelona 6-1 (5:1) Atlético Madrid (4 October 2008)^[14]
- Villarreal 4-4 (0:2) Atlético Madrid (26 October 2008)^[11]
- Málaga 4-2 (0:0) Osasuna (30 November 2008)^[15]
Most goals in a match by one team: 7 Goals - Real Madrid 7-1 Sporting de Gijón (24 September 2008)^[9]
Most goals in one half by one team: 5 goals
- Barcelona 6-1 (5:1) Atlético Madrid (4 October 2008)^[14]
- Barcelona 5-0 (5:0) Almería (25 October 2008)^[16]
Most goals scored by losing team: 3 goals
- Sevilla 4-3 Sporting de Gijón (13 September 2008)^[12]
- Real Madrid 4-3 Numancia (14 September 2008)^[17]
- Real Madrid 4-3 Málaga CF (8 November 2008)^[18]
- Espanyol 3-4 Numancia (16 November 2008)^[19]
First own goal of Season: Domingo Cisma González (Numancia) for Real Madrid (14 September 2008)^[13]
First Hat-Trick of season: Mate Bilić for Sporting de Gijón against Sevilla (13 September 2008)^[12]
Fastest hat trick of the season: 24 minutes – Samuel Eto'o 5' 21' 24' for Barcelona against Almería (25 October 2008)^[16]
Most goals in a match by one player: 4 goals
- Samuel Eto'o for Barcelona against Valladolid (8 November 2008)^[10]
- Gonzalo Higuaín for Real Madrid against Málaga (8 November 2008)^[18]

[edit] Discipline

First Yellow Card of the Season: Grégory Béranger for Espanyol against Valladolid, 39th Minute, (30 August 2008)^[7]
First Red Card of the Season: Diego Godín for Villarreal against Osasuna, 68th Minute, (31 August 2008)^[20]

[edit] Teams by autonomous community

	Autonomous community	Number of teams	Teams
1	Andalusia	5	Almería, Betis, Málaga, Recreativo de Huelva and Sevilla
2	Madrid	3	Atlético Madrid, Getafe CF and Real Madrid
3	Catalonia	2	FC Barcelona and RCD Espanyol
	Valencia	2	Valencia CF and Villarreal CF
	Castile and León	2	Valladolid and CD Numancia
6	Asturias	1	Sporting de Gijón
	Balearic Islands	1	RCD Mallorca
	Basque Country	1

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