2017–18 La Liga

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La Liga 2017–18
Season information
Continental cup qualifiers
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Europa League
Season statistics
Matches played	47
Goals scored	116
Average	2.47
Top goalscorer	Lionel Messi (9 goals)
Biggest home win	Barcelona 5–0 Espanyol (9 September 2017) Valencia 5–0 Malaga (19 September 2017) Barcelona 6–1 Eibar (19 September 2017)
Biggest away win	Las Palmas 1–5 Atlético Madrid (26 August 2017)
Highest scoring	Barcelona 6–1 Eibar (19 September 2017)
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The 2017–18 La Liga season, also known as La Liga Santander for sponsorship reasons, is the 87th since its establishment. The season will begin on 20 August 2017 and conclude on 20 May 2018. The fixtures of the 2017–18 season were released on 21 July 2017.

Real Madrid are the defending champions.

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of 20 teams will contest the league, including 17 sides from the 2016–17 season and three promoted from the 2016–17 Segunda División. This will include the two top teams from the Segunda División, and the winners of the play-offs.

Levante was the first team from Segunda División to achieve promotion, after a one-year absence from La Liga, on 29 April 2017 after winning 1–0 against Oviedo. Girona was promoted as the runners-up after drawing 0–0 against Zaragoza on 4 June 2017, this was their first promotion to the top division. They will be the 62nd team to participate to Spanish top level league. Getafe was the last to be promoted after beating Huesca and Tenerife in the play-offs, one year after their relegation.

The three promoted clubs will replace Sporting Gijón, Osasuna and Granada who were relegated at the end of the previous season.

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Alavés	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Mendizorrotza	&0000000000019840.00000019,840
Athletic Bilbao	Bilbao	San Mamés	&0000000000053289.00000053,289
Atlético Madrid	Madrid	Wanda Metropolitano	&0000000000067703.00000067,703
Barcelona	Barcelona	Camp Nou	&0000000000099354.00000099,354
Celta Vigo	Vigo	Balaídos	&0000000000029000.00000029,000
Deportivo La Coruña	A Coruña	Riazor	&0000000000032912.00000032,912
Eibar	Eibar	Ipurua	&0000000000007083.0000007,083
Espanyol	Barcelona	RCDE Stadium	&0000000000040500.00000040,500
Las Palmas	Las Palmas	Gran Canaria	&0000000000033111.00000033,111
Leganés	Leganés	Butarque	&0000000000010922.00000010,922
Levante	Valencia	Ciutat de València	&0000000000025354.00000025,354
Málaga	Málaga	La Rosaleda	&0000000000030044.00000030,044
Real Betis	Seville	Benito Villamarín	&0000000000057000.00000057,000
Real Madrid	Madrid	Santiago Bernabéu	&0000000000085454.00000085,454
Real Sociedad	San Sebastián	Anoeta	&0000000000032000.00000032,000
Sevilla	Seville	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	&0000000000042714.00000042,714
Valencia	Valencia	Mestalla	&0000000000055000.00000055,000
Villarreal	Villarreal	Estadio de la Cerámica	&0000000000024890.00000024,890

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alavés	Luis Zubeldía	Manu García	Kelme
Athletic Bilbao	José Ángel Ziganda	Markel Susaeta	New Balance	Kutxabank
Atlético Madrid	Diego Simeone	Gabi	Nike	Plus500
Barcelona	Ernesto Valverde	Andrés Iniesta	Nike	Rakuten, UNICEF, Beko
Celta Vigo	Juan Carlos Unzué	Hugo Mallo	New Balance	Estrella Galicia 0,0, Abanca
Deportivo La Coruña	Pepe Mel	Laure	Macron	Estrella Galicia 0,0
Eibar	José Luis Mendilibar	Dani García	Puma	AVIA, Wiko
Espanyol	Quique Sánchez Flores	Javi López	Joma	Rastar Group, Riviera Maya
Las Palmas	Manolo Márquez	David García	Acerbis	Gran Canaria, IOC, beCordial Sports, Volkswagen, Domingo Alonso
Leganés	Asier Garitano	Martín Mantovani	Joma	Royal Jordanian, MBuzz Sport, GoldenPark
Levante	Juan Muñiz	Pedro López	Macron	East United
Málaga	Míchel	Duda	Nike	Marathonbet, Benahavís
Real Betis	Quique Setién	Joaquín	Adidas	Wiko
Real Madrid	Zinedine Zidane	Sergio Ramos	Adidas	Fly Emirates
Real Sociedad	Eusebio Sacristán	Xabi Prieto	Adidas	Qbao.com
Sevilla	Eduardo Berizzo	Vicente Iborra	New Balance	SeePuertoRico.com
Valencia	Marcelino	Enzo Pérez	Adidas	beIN Sports
Villarreal	Fran Escribá	Bruno	Joma	Pamesa Cerámica

1. ^On the back of shirt.

2. ^On the sleeves.

3. ^On the shorts.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Athletic Bilbao	Ernesto Valverde	Resigned	23 May 2017	Pre-season	José Ángel Ziganda	24 May 2017
Barcelona	Luis Enrique	End of contract	29 May 2017		Ernesto Valverde	29 May 2017
Las Palmas	Quique Setién		30 June 2017		Manolo Márquez	3 July 2017
Valencia	Voro	End of interim spell	21 May 2017		Marcelino	11 May 2017
Real Betis	Alexis Trujillo		26 May 2017		Quique Setién	26 May 2017
Celta Vigo	Eduardo Berizzo	End of contract	30 June 2017		Juan Carlos Unzué	28 May 2017
Sevilla	Jorge Sampaoli	Signed by Argentina	20 May 2017		Eduardo BerizzoTemplate:Cn	1 June 2017
Alavés	Mauricio Pellegrino	Resigned	29 May 2017		Luis Zubeldía	17 June 2017

League table

Standings

2017–18 La Liga Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Barcelona  (C) (Q)	38	28	9	1	99	29	+70	93	Qualification for the  Champions League group stage
2	Atlético Madrid  (Q)	38	23	10	5	58	22	+36	79
3	Real Madrid  (Q)	38	22	10	6	94	44	+50	76
4	Valencia  (Q)	38	22	7	9	65	38	+27	73
5	Villarreal  (Q)	38	18	7	13	57	50	+7	61	Qualification for the  Europa League group stage
6	Real Betis  (Q)	38	18	6	14	60	61	−1	60
7	Sevilla  (Q)	38	17	7	14	49	58	−9	58	Qualification for the  Europa League Second qualifying round
8	Getafe	38	15	10	13	42	33	+9	55
9	Eibar	38	14	9	15	44	50	−6	51
10	Girona	38	14	9	15	50	59	−9	51
11	Espanyol	38	12	13	13	36	42	−6	49
12	Real Sociedad	38	14	7	17	66	59	+7	49
13	Celta Vigo	38	13	10	15	59	60	−1	49
14	Alavés	38	15	2	21	40	50	−10	47
15	Levante	38	11	13	14	44	58	−14	46
16	Athletic Bilbao	38	10	13	15	41	49	−8	43
17	Leganés	38	12	7	19	34	51	−17	43
18	Deportivo La Coruña  (R)	38	6	11	21	38	76	−38	29	Relegation to the Segunda División
19	Las Palmas  (R)	38	5	7	26	24	74	−50	22
20	Málaga  (R)	38	5	5	28	24	61	−37	20

Updated to games played on 20 May 2018
Source: La Liga, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Results

As of 21 September 2017

Home \ Away

ALA

ATH

ATM

BAR

CEL

DEP

EIB

ESP

GET

GIR

LPA

LEG

LEV

MLG

BET

RMA

RSO

SEV

VAL

VIL

Alavés

0–2

1–2

0–3

Athletic Bilbao

1–2

0–0

2–0

Atlético Madrid

1–0

2–0

Barcelona

6–1

5–0

2–0

Celta de Vigo

1–0

1–1

2–3

Deportivo La Coruña

1–0

0–3

2–4

Eibar

0–1

0–4

1–0

Espanyol

2–1

4–1

0–1

Getafe

1–2

0–1

4–0

Girona

2–2

0–3

1–0

0–1

Las Palmas

1–0

1–5

0–2

Leganés

1–0

1–2

0–0

Levante

2–2

3–0

1–1

1–0

Málaga

3–3

0–1

1–3

Real Betis

2–1

2–1

4–0

Real Madrid

1–1

0–1

2–2

Real Sociedad

1–3

2–3

3–0

Sevilla

3–0

1–1

1–0

Valencia

0–0

1–0

5–0

Villarreal

0–0

3–1

Updated to games played on 25 September 2017
Source: La Liga
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season:
  Gabriel Pires for Leganés against Alavés (18 August 2017)

Top goalscorers

As of 19 September 2017

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	9
2	Simone Zaza	Valencia	4
3	Maxi Gómez	Girona	3
	Juanmi	Real Sociedad

Top assists

As of 19 September 2017.

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Jordi Alba	Barcelona	3
	Andrés Guardado	Real Betis
	Carlos Soler	Valencia
	Iñaki Williams	Athletic Bilbao
2	Yannick Carrasco	Atlético Madrid	2
	Dani Castellano	Las Palmas
	Xabi Prieto	Real Sociedad
	Ivan Rakitić	Barcelona
	Pione Sisto	Celta Vigo

Zamora Trophy

Rank	Name	Club	Goals Against	Matches	Average
1	Sergio Rico	Sevilla	1	5	0.2
2	Marc-André ter Stegen	Barcelona	2	5	0.4
3	Iván Cuéllar	Leganés	3	5	0.6
	Neto	Valencia	3	5	0.6
5	Jan Oblak	Atlético Madrid	4	5	0.8

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Round
Lionel Messi	Barcelona	Espanyol	5–0 (H)	9 September 2017	3
Simone Zaza	Valencia	Málaga	5–0 (H)	19 September 2017	5
Lionel Messi4	Barcelona	Eibar	6–1 (H)	19 September 2017	5

⁴ Player scored four goals

Discipline

As of 18 August 2017.

• Most yellow cards (club): 13
  • Celta Vigo
  • Espanyol
  • Girona
• Least yellow cards (club): 5
  • Levante
  • Real Betis
• Most yellow cards (player): 3
  • Maxi Gómez (Celta Vigo)
  • Daniel Parejo (Valencia)
  • Recio (Málaga)
• Most red cards (club): 2
  • Real Madrid
• Least red cards (club): 0
  • 13 teams
• Most red cards (player): 1
  • 8 players

External links

• (English) Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional
• (Spanish) Royal Spanish Football Federation