2018–19 Segunda División

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Segunda División 2018–19
Season information
Winners	Osasuna
Promoted	Osasuna
Relegated	Rayo Córdoba Gimnàstic Reus (expelled)
Season statistics
Matches played	270
Goals scored	574
Top goalscorer	Álvaro (15 goals)
Biggest home win	Las Palmas 4–0 Gimnàstic (7 September 2018) Cádiz 5–1 Elche (4 November 2018) Deportivo 4–0 Oviedo (10 November 2018)
Biggest away win	Oviedo 0–4 Zaragoza (8 September 2018)
Highest scoring	Almería 5–3 Elche (12 May 2019)
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The 2018–19 Segunda División season, also known as LaLiga 1|2|3 for sponsorship reasons, was the 88th season of the Spanish football second division since its establishment.

Summary

On 18 January 2019, just one day before the start of the second half of the season, the LFP expelled Reus, due to their failure to pay their players.

Team changes

This will be the first edition without reserve teams since the 2002–03 season.

To Segunda División Promoted from 2017–18 Segunda División B Mallorca Rayo Majadahonda Elche Extremadura Relegated from 2017–18 La Liga Deportivo La Coruña Las Palmas Málaga

From Segunda División Relegated to 2018–19 Segunda División B Cultural Leonesa Barcelona B Lorca FC Sevilla Atlético Promoted to 2018–19 La Liga Huesca Rayo Vallecano Valladolid

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Albacete	Albacete	Carlos Belmonte	&0000000000017300.00000017,300
Alcorcón	Alcorcón	Santo Domingo	&0000000000005100.0000005,100
Almería	Almería	Juegos Mediterráneos	&0000000000015000.00000015,000
Cádiz	Cádiz	Ramón de Carranza	&0000000000025033.00000025,033
Córdoba	Córdoba	El Arcángel	&0000000000020989.00000020,989
Deportivo La Coruña	A Coruña	Abanca-Riazor	&0000000000032912.00000032,912
Elche	Elche	Martínez Valero	&0000000000033732.00000033,732
Extremadura	Almendralejo	Francisco de la Hera	&0000000000011580.00000011,580
Gimnàstic	Tarragona	Nou Estadi	&0000000000014591.00000014,591
Granada	Granada	Nuevo Los Cármenes	&0000000000022094.00000022,094
Las Palmas	Las Palmas	Gran Canaria	&0000000000032400.00000032,400
Lugo	Lugo	Anxo Carro	&0000000000007840.0000007,840
Málaga	Málaga	La Rosaleda	&0000000000030044.00000030,044
Mallorca	Palma	Son Moix	&0000000000023142.00000023,142
Numancia	Soria	Los Pajaritos	&0000000000008727.0000008,727
Osasuna	Pamplona	El Sadar	&0000000000018761.00000018,761
Oviedo	Oviedo	Carlos Tartiere	&0000000000030500.00000030,500
Rayo Majadahonda	Majadahonda	Cerro del Espino	&0000000000003376.0000003,376
		Wanda Metropolitano	&0000000000067703.00000067,703
Reus	Reus	Municipal	&0000000000004300.0000004,300
Sporting Gijón	Gijón	El Molinón	&0000000000029029.00000029,029
Tenerife	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	Heliodoro Rodríguez López	&0000000000022824.00000022,824
Zaragoza	Zaragoza	La Romareda	&0000000000034596.00000034,596

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt main sponsor
Albacete	Luis Miguel Ramis	Álvaro Arroyo	Hummel	Seguros Solíss
Alcorcón	Cristóbal Parralo	Carlos Bellvís	Kelme
Almería	Fran Fernández	Joaquín	Nike	Urcisol
Cádiz	Álvaro Cervera	Servando	Adidas	Torrot
Córdoba	Francisco	Alejandro Alfaro	Kappa
Deportivo La Coruña	Natxo González	Pedro Mosquera	Macron	Estrella Galicia
Elche	Pacheta	Nino	Kelme	TM Inmobiliaria
Extremadura	Juan Sabas	Willy Ledesma	Kappa	Destilerías Espronceda
Gimnàstic	José Antonio Gordillo	Manu Barreiro	Hummel	Sorigué
Granada	Diego Martínez	Fran Rico	Erreà
Las Palmas	Manuel Jiménez	David García	Acerbis	Gran Canaria
Lugo	Javi López	Carlos Pita	Hummel	Estrella Galicia
Málaga	Juan Muñiz	Recio	Nike
Mallorca	Vicente Moreno	Xisco Campos	Umbro	Betpoint
Numancia	Aritz López Garai	Adrián Ripa	Erreà
Osasuna	Jagoba Arrasate	Miguel Flaño	Hummel	Kirolbet
Oviedo	Juan Antonio Anquela	Toché	Adidas
Rayo Majadahonda	Antonio Iriondo	Basilio Sancho	Hummel
Reus	Xavi Bartolo	Jesús Olmo	Kelme
Sporting Gijón	Rubén Baraja	Roberto Canella	Nike
Tenerife	Joseba Etxeberria	Suso	Hummel	Egatesa
Zaragoza	Imanol Idiakez	Alberto Zapater	Adidas	Caravan Fragancias

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Deportivo La Coruña	Clarence Seedorf	Resigned	22 May 2018	Pre-season	Natxo González	15 June 2018
Alcorcón	Julio Velázquez		4 June 2018		Cristóbal Parralo	19 June 2018
Lugo	Francisco	Mutual consent	5 June 2018		Javi López	17 June 2018
Osasuna	Diego Martínez	Sacked	7 June 2018<		Jagoba Arrasate	20 June 2018
Córdoba	José Ramón Sandoval	End of contract	12 June 2018		Francisco	28 June 2018
Zaragoza	Natxo González	Resigned	12 June 2018		Imanol Idiakez	18 June 2018
Numancia	Jagoba Arrasate		18 June 2018		Aritz López Garai	24 June 2018
Reus	Aritz López Garai	Mutual consent	23 June 2018		Xavi Bartolo	23 June 2018
Albacete	Enrique Martín	End of contract	4 June 2018		Luis Miguel Ramis	24 June 2018
Málaga	José González		20 June 2018		Juan Muñiz	20 June 2018
Las Palmas	Paco Jémez		25 May 2018		Manolo Jiménez	26 May 2018
Granada	Miguel Ángel Portugal		4 June 2018		Diego Martínez	14 June 2018
Córdoba	Francisco	Resigned	2 August 2018		José Ramón Sandoval	3 August 2018
Tenerife	Joseba Etxeberria	Sacked	17 September 2018	19th	José Luis Oltra	17 September 2018
Zaragoza	Imanol Idiakez		21 October 2018	16th	Lucas Alcaraz	22 October 2018
Gimnàstic	José Antonio Gordillo		22 October 2018	22nd	Enrique Martín	23 October 2018
Lugo	Javi López		27 October 2018	15th	Alberto Monteagudo	28 October 2018
Extremadura	Juan Sabas		10 November 2018	21st	Rodri	13 November 2018
Las Palmas	Manolo Jiménez		16 November 2018	5th	Paco Herrera	16 November 2018
Sporting Gijón	Rubén Baraja		18 November 2018	14th	José Alberto	18 November 2018
Córdoba	José Ramón Sandoval		18 November 2018	21st	Curro Torres	19 November 2018
Zaragoza	Lucas Alcaraz		17 December 2018	20th	Víctor Fernández	17 December 2018
Reus	Xavi Bartolo	Resigned	5 February 2019	22nd	N/A
Extremadura	Rodri	Sacked	16 February 2019	19th	Manuel Mosquera	27 February 2019
Córdoba	Curro Torres		25 February 2019	21st	Rafa Navarro	25 February 2019
Las Palmas	Paco Herrera		4 March 2019	11th	Pepe Mel	4 March 2019
Deportivo La Coruña	Natxo González		7 April 2019	5th	José Luis Martí	8 April 2019
Málaga	Juan Muñiz		14 April 2019	5th	Víctor Sánchez	15 April 2019
Lugo	Alberto Monteagudo		20 April 2019	19th	Eloy Jiménez	21 April 2019
Oviedo	Juan Antonio Anquela		22 April 2019	9th	Sergio Egea	22 April 2019<
Tenerife	José Luis Oltra		12 May 2019	17th	Luis César Sampedro	13 May 2019

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Osasuna  (C) (P)	42	26	9	7	59	35	+24	87	Promotion to La Liga
2	Granada  (P)	42	22	13	7	52	28	+24	79
3	Málaga	42	21	11	10	51	31	+20	74	Qualification to promotion play-offs
4	Albacete	42	19	14	9	54	38	+16	71
5	Mallorca  (P) (O)	42	19	12	11	53	37	+16	69
6	Deportivo La Coruña	42	17	17	8	50	32	+18	68
7	Cádiz	42	16	16	10	53	36	+17	64
8	Oviedo	42	17	12	13	48	48	0	63
9	Sporting de Gijón	42	16	13	13	43	38	+5	61
10	Almería	42	15	15	12	51	39	+12	60
11	Elche	42	13	16	13	49	52	−3	55
12	Las Palmas	42	12	18	12	48	50	−2	54
13	Extremadura	42	14	11	17	43	47	−4	53
14	Alcorcón	42	14	10	18	36	42	−6	52
15	Zaragoza	42	13	12	17	49	51	−2	51
16	Tenerife	42	11	17	14	40	50	−10	50
17	Numancia	42	11	16	15	44	50	−6	49
18	Lugo	42	10	17	15	43	51	−8	47
19	Rayo Majadahonda  (R)	42	12	9	21	46	61	−15	45	Relegation to Segunda División B
20	Gimnàstic  (R)	42	9	9	24	30	63	−33	36
21	Córdoba  (R)	42	7	13	22	48	79	−31	34
22	Reus	42	5	6	31	16	48	−32	21	Disqualified by the Federation for financial issues

Source: [La Liga]
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
a: Reus were expelled after the end of the first half of the season due to unpaid wages. Their matches of the second half were given as 1–0 wins to their opponents.

Season statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season:
  Álex Fernández for Cádiz against Almería (17 August 2018)

Top goalscorers

As of 27 May 2019

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Álvaro	Almería	18
2	Quique	Deportivo La Coruña	16
3	Rubén Castro	Las Palmas	15
	Enric Gallego	Extremadura
5	Juan Muñoz	Alcorcón	13
6	Roberto Torres	Osasuna	12
	Juan Villar	Osasuna
8	Jérémie Bela	Albacete	11
	Uroš Đurđević	Sporting Gijón
	Lago Junior	Mallorca
	Federico Piovaccari	Córdoba
	Antonio Puertas	Granada
	Aitor Ruibal	Rayo Majadahonda

Top assists

As of 26 May 2019

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Álvaro Vadillo	Granada	10
2	Rubén García	Osasuna	9
	Salva Sevilla	Mallorca
	Álvaro Tejero	Albacete
5	Lago Junior	Mallorca	8
	Alain Oyarzun	Numancia
7	Gustavo Blanco	Málaga	7
	Néstor Susaeta	Albacete
	Fede Vico	Granada
10	Kike Barja	Osasuna	6
	Fede Cartabia	Deportivo La Coruña
	Marco Sangalli	Alcorcón
	Fran Villalba	Numancia

Zamora Trophy

The Zamora Trophy is awarded by newspaper Marca to the goalkeeper with least goals-to-games ratio. Keepers must play at least 28 games of 60 or more minutes to be eligible for the trophy.

As of 26 May 2019

Rank	Name	Club	Goals Against	Matches	Average
1	Rui Silva	Granada	26	39	0.67
2	Rubén	Osasuna	28	35	0.80
3	Tomeu Nadal	Albacete	31	38	0.82
4	Dani Giménez	Deportivo La Coruña	32	39	0.82
5	Munir	Málaga	29	35	0.83

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Round
Enric Gallego	Extremadura	Rayo Majadahonda	4–1 (A)	22 September 2018	6
Carlos Fernández	Deportivo La Coruña	Elche	4–0 (H)	12 October 2018	9
Enric Gallego 4	Extremadura	Reus	4–1 (A)	17 November 2018	14
Darwin Machís	Cádiz	Las Palmas	3–0 (A)	14 April 2019	34
Marc Gual	Zaragoza	Córdoba	3–0 (A)	28 April 2019	36
Álvaro	Almería	Elche	5–3 (H)	12 May 2019	38

Note

⁴ Player scored 4 goals; (H) – Home ; (A) – Away

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month
	Player	Club
September	Munir	Málaga
October	Carlos Fernández	Deportivo La Coruña
November	Enric Gallego	Extremadura
December	Eugeni	Albacete
January	Roberto Torres	Osasuna
February	Darwin Machís	Cádiz
March	Luis Milla	Tenerife
April	Salva Sevilla	Mallorca

External links

• LFP website