2019–20 La Liga

La Liga 2019–20
Season information
Dates	16 August 2019 – 19 July 2020
Winners	Real Madrid (34th title)
Relegated	Leganés Mallorca Espanyol
Continental cup qualifiers
UEFA Champions League	Real Madrid Barcelona Atlético Madrid Sevilla
UEFA Europa League	Villarreal Real Sociedad Granada
Season statistics
Matches played	380
Goals scored	942
Average	2.48 (per match)
Top goalscorer	Lionel Messi (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Celta Vigo 6–0 Alavés (21 June 2020)
Biggest away win	Osasuna 0–5 Atlético Madrid (17 June 2020) Alavés 0–5 Barcelona (19 July 2020)
Highest scoring	Villarreal 4–4 Granada (17 August 2019)
← 2018–19	2020–21 →

The 2019–20 La Liga season, also known as La Liga Santander for sponsorship reasons, was the 89th since its establishment.

Barcelona were the two-time defending champions after winning La Liga last season for the 26th time. Osasuna, Granada and Mallorca join as the promoted clubs from the 2018–19 Segunda División. They replaced Rayo Vallecano, Huesca and Girona who were relegated to the 2019–20 Segunda División.

On 12 March 2020, the league was suspended for at least two weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic in Spain, after a Real Madrid basketball player tested positive for the virus, which resulted in Real Madrid's players being put in quarantine. The league was suspended indefinitely on 23 March. The season recommenced on 11 June, with matches being played every day until 13 July, while all games in the penultimate round was played on 16 July and last round on 19 July.

On 16 July, Real Madrid were crowned league winners for a record 34th time with one match remaining, after defeating Villarreal 2–1 (in addition to Barcelona's 2–1 loss to Osasuna).

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of 20 teams contest the league, including 17 sides from the 2018–19 season and three promoted from the 2018–19 Segunda División. This includes the two top teams from the Segunda División, and the winners of the play-offs.

Teams relegated to Segunda Division

The first team to be relegated from La Liga were Rayo Vallecano. Their relegation was ensured on 5 May 2019, after Real Valladolid beat Athletic Bilbao 1−0, suffering an immediate return to the Segunda Division.

The second team to be relegated were Huesca, who were also relegated on 5 May 2019 after a 2−6 home defeat to Valencia, also suffering an immediate return to the second tier.

The third and final relegated club was Girona, they concluded their two-year stay in La Liga in a 1−2 away loss at Alavés on 18 May 2019.

Teams promoted from Segunda Division

On 20 May 2019, Osasuna was the first team to be promoted, after a two-year absence, following Granada's 1−0 win against Albacete.

The second team to earn promotion was Granada after their 1−1 draw against Mallorca on 4 June 2019. This marks an end to a two-year absence in the first division.

The third and final team to earn promotion to La Liga was play-offs winner Mallorca, after coming back from a 2-goal deficit against Deportivo La Coruña on 23 June 2019. Mallorca return after a six-year absence from Spain's top flight, spending one of those years in the Segunda División B and achieving two consecutive promotions.

Stadia 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	&0000000000068456.00000068,456
Barcelona	Barcelona	Camp Nou	&0000000000099354.00000099,354
Celta Vigo	Vigo	Abanca-Balaídos	&0000000000029000.00000029,000
Eibar	Eibar	Ipurua	&0000000000008164.0000008,164
Espanyol	Barcelona	RCDE Stadium	&0000000000040000.00000040,000
Getafe	Getafe	Coliseum Alfonso Pérez	&0000000000017393.00000017,393
Granada	Granada	Nuevo Los Cármenes	&0000000000019336.00000019,336
Leganés	Leganés	Butarque	&0000000000012450.00000012,450
Levante	Valencia	Ciutat de València	&0000000000026354.00000026,354
		Camilo Cano, at La Nucía	&0000000000003000.0000003,000
Mallorca	Palma	Son Moix	&0000000000024262.00000024,262
Osasuna	Pamplona	El Sadar	&0000000000018570.00000018,570
Real Betis	Seville	Benito Villamarín	&0000000000060721.00000060,721
Real Madrid	Madrid	Santiago Bernabéu	&0000000000081044.00000081,044
		Alfredo Di Stéfano	&0000000000006000.0000006,000
Real Sociedad	San Sebastián	Reale Arena	&0000000000039500.00000039,500
Sevilla	Seville	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	&0000000000043883.00000043,883
Valencia	Valencia	Mestalla	&0000000000055000.00000055,000
Valladolid	Valladolid	José Zorrilla	&0000000000028012.00000028,012
Villarreal	Villarreal	Estadio de la Cerámica	&0000000000024890.00000024,890

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alavés	Juan Muñiz	Manu García	Kelme	Betway, Zotapay, Araba-Álava, Integra Energía, Euskaltel
Athletic Bilbao	Gaizka Garitano	Iker Muniain	New Balance	Kutxabank
Atlético Madrid	Diego Simeone	Koke	Nike	Plus500, Ria Money Transfer, Hyundai
Barcelona	Quique Setién	Lionel Messi	Nike	Rakuten, UNICEF, Beko
Celta Vigo	Óscar García	Hugo Mallo	Adidas	Estrella Galicia 0,0, Abanca, Grupo Recalvi
Eibar	José Luis Mendilibar	Iván Ramis	Joma	AVIA, BOJ
Espanyol	Francisco Rufete (interim)	Javi López	Kelme	LD Sports, InJoo, Riviera Maya
Getafe	José Bordalás	Jorge Molina	Joma	Tecnocasa Group, Reale Seguros, El Brillante, Libertex
Granada	Diego Martínez	Víctor Díaz	Nike	Winamax, Caja Rural
Leganés	Javier Aguirre	Unai Bustinza	Joma	Betway, Laboratorios Ynsadiet, KFC
Levante	Paco López	José Luis Morales	Macron	Betway, Baleària
Mallorca	Vicente Moreno	Xisco Campos	Umbro	Betfred, Blau Hotels, Roc Hotels, OK Cars, Air Europa, Juaneda
Osasuna	Jagoba Arrasate	Oier Sanjurjo	Hummel	Kirolbet, Victorino Vicente, Acunsa, Selk
Real Betis	Alexis Trujillo (interim)	Joaquín	Kappa	easyMarkets, Reale Seguros, BeSoccer
Real Madrid	Zinedine Zidane	Sergio Ramos	Adidas	Emirates
Real Sociedad	Imanol Alguacil	Asier Illarramendi	Macron	GoodBall.com, Kutxabank, Reale Seguros
Sevilla	Julen Lopetegui	Jesús Navas	Nike	Marathonbet, EverFX
Valencia	Voro (interim)	Dani Parejo	Puma	bwin, Libertex, Sailun Tyres, Škoda
Valladolid	Sergio González	Javi Moyano	Adidas	Estrella Galicia 0,0, Cuatro Rayas, Integra Energía, Air Europa
Villarreal	Javier Calleja	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
Real Betis	Quique Setién	Mutual consent	19 May 2019	Pre-season	Rubi	6 June 2019
Alavés	Abelardo	Resigned	20 May 2019		Asier Garitano	21 May 2019
Sevilla	Joaquín Caparrós	End of contract	23 May 2019		Julen Lopetegui	4 June 2019
Espanyol	Rubi	Signed for Real Betis	6 June 2019		David Gallego	6 June 2019
Valencia	Marcelino	Sacked	11 September 2019	10th	Albert Celades	11 September 2019
Espanyol	David Gallego		7 October 2019	19th	Pablo Machín	7 October 2019
Leganés	Mauricio Pellegrino	Resigned	21 October 2019	20th	Javier Aguirre	4 November 2019
Celta Vigo	Fran Escribá	Sacked	3 November 2019	18th	Óscar García	4 November 2019
Espanyol	Pablo Machín		23 December 2019	20th	Abelardo	27 December 2019
Barcelona	Ernesto Valverde		13 January 2020	1st	Quique Setién	13 January 2020
Real Betis	Rubi		21 June 2020	14th	Alexis Trujillo (interim)	21 June 2020
Espanyol	Abelardo		27 June 2020	20th	Francisco Rufete (interim)	27 June 2020
Valencia	Albert Celades		29 June 2020	8th	Voro (interim)	29 June 2020
Alavés	Asier Garitano		5 July 2020	15th	Juan Muñiz	5 July 2020

League table

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Real Madrid  (C)	38	26	9	3	70	25	+45	87	Qualification for the  Champions League group stage
2	Barcelona	38	25	7	6	86	38	+48	82
3	Atlético Madrid	38	18	16	4	51	27	+24	70
4	Sevilla	38	19	13	6	54	34	+20	70
5	Villarreal	38	18	6	14	63	49	+14	60	Qualification for the  Europa League group stage
6	Real Sociedad	38	16	8	14	56	48	+8	56
7	Granada	38	16	8	14	52	45	+7	56	Qualification for the  Europa League Second qualifying round
8	Getafe	38	14	12	12	43	37	+6	54
9	Valencia	38	14	11	13	46	53	−7	53
10	Osasuna	38	13	13	12	46	54	−8	52
11	Athletic Bilbao	38	13	12	13	41	38	+3	51
12	Levante	38	14	7	17	47	53	−6	49
13	Valladolid	38	9	15	14	32	43	−11	42
14	Eibar	38	11	9	18	39	56	−17	42
15	Real Betis	38	10	11	17	48	60	−12	41
16	Alavés	38	10	9	19	34	59	−25	39
17	Celta Vigo	38	7	16	15	37	49	−12	37
18	Leganés  (R)	38	8	12	18	30	51	−21	36	Relegation to the Segunda División
19	Mallorca  (R)	38	9	6	23	40	65	−25	33
20	Espanyol  (R)	38	5	10	23	27	58	−31	25

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

Home \ Away	ALA	ATH	ATM	BAR	CEL	EIB	ESP	GET	GRA	LEG	LEV	MLL	OSA	BET	RMA	RSO	SEV	VAL	VLL	VIL
Alavés	—	2–1	1–1	0–5	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	1–2
Athletic Bilbao	2–0	—	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–2	2–0	0–2	2–1	3–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–0
Atlético Madrid	2–1	2–0	—	0–1	0–0	3–2	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	3–1
Barcelona	4–1	1–0	2–2	—	4–1	5–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	5–2	1–2	5–2	0–0	1–0	4–0	5–2	5–1	2–1
Celta Vigo	6–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	—	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–2	1–0	2–3	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–1
Eibar	0–2	2–2	2–0	0–3	2–0	—	1–2	0–1	3–0	0–0	3–0	1–2	0–2	1–1	0–4	1–2	3–2	1–0	3–1	2–1
Espanyol	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	0–2	—	1–1	0–3	0–1	1–3	1–0	2–4	2–2	0–1	1–3	0–2	1–2	0–2	0–1
Getafe	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–0	1–1	0–0	—	3–1	2–0	4–0	4–2	0–0	1–0	0–3	2–1	0–3	3–0	2–0	1–3
Granada	3–0	4–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	—	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–2	0–1	2–2	2–1	0–1
Leganés	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	3–2	1–2	2–0	0–3	0–0	—	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	0–3	1–0	1–2	0–3
Levante	0–1	1–2	0–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	—	2–1	1–1	4–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–4	2–0	2–1
Mallorca	1–0	0–0	0–2	0–4	5–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	—	2–2	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–2	4–1	0–1	3–1
Osasuna	4–2	1–2	0–5	2–2	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–3	2–1	2–0	2–2	—	0–0	1–4	3–4	1–1	3–1	0–0	2–1
Real Betis	1–2	3–2	1–2	2–3	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	3–1	3–3	3–0	—	2–1	3–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	0–2
Real Madrid	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	3–1	2–0	1–0	4–2	5–0	3–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	—	3–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	2–1
Real Sociedad	3–0	2–1	2–0	2–2	0–1	4–1	2–1	1–2	2–3	1–1	1–2	3–0	1–1	3–1	1–2	—	0–0	3–0	1–0	1–2
Sevilla	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–0	0–1	3–2	—	1–0	1–1	1–2
Valencia	2–1	0–2	2–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–3	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	—	2–1	2–1
Valladolid	1–0	1–4	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	—	1–1
Villarreal	4–1	0–0	0–0	1–4	1–3	4–0	1–2	1–0	4–4	1–2	2–1	1–0	3–1	5–1	2–2	1–2	2–2	2–0	2–0	—

Source: La Liga, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season:
  Aritz Aduriz for Athletic Bilbao against Barcelona (16 August 2019)

• Last goal of the season:
  Coke for Levante against Getafe (19 July 2020)

Top goalscorers

The Pichichi Trophy is awarded by newspaper Marca to the top goalscorer.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	25
2	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	21
3	Gerard Moreno	Villarreal	18
4	Luis Suárez	Barcelona	16
5	Raúl García	Athletic Bilbao	15
6	Iago Aspas	Celta Vigo	14
	Lucas Ocampos	Sevilla
8	Ante Budimir	Mallorca	13
9	Álvaro Morata	Atlético Madrid	12
10	Santi Cazorla	Villarreal	11
	Willian José	Real Sociedad
	Joselu	Alavés
	Jaime Mata	Getafe
	Lucas Pérez	Alavés
	Sergio Ramos	Real Madrid
	Roger	Levante

Top assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	21
2	Mikel Oyarzabal	Real Sociedad	11
3	Santi Cazorla	Villarreal	9
4	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	8
	Portu	Real Sociedad
	Luis Suárez	Barcelona
	Roberto Torres	Osasuna
8	Éver Banega	Sevilla	7
	José Campaña	Levante
	Luka Modrić	Real Madrid
	Jesús Navas	Sevilla
	Fabián Orellana	Eibar
	Rodrigo	Valencia

Zamora Trophy

The Zamora Trophy is awarded by newspaper Marca to the goalkeeper with the lowest goals-to-games ratio. A goalkeeper has to have played at least 28 games of 60 or more minutes to be eligible for the trophy.

Rank	Name	Club	Goals against	Matches	Average
1	Thibaut Courtois	Real Madrid	20	34	0.59
2	Jan Oblak	Atlético Madrid	26	37	0.70
3	Unai Simón	Athletic Bilbao	29	33	0.88
4	David Soria	Getafe	36	37	0.97
	Tomáš Vaclík	Sevilla	31	32

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Round
Lionel Messi	Barcelona	Celta Vigo	4–1 (H)	9 November 2019	13
Lionel Messi	Barcelona	Mallorca	5–2 (H)	7 December 2019	16
Joaquín	Real Betis	Athletic Bilbao	3–2 (H)	8 December 2019	16
Lionel Messi4	Barcelona	Eibar	5–0 (H)	22 February 2020	25

⁴ – Player scored four goals.

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 15
  • Gerard Piqué (Barcelona)
  • Damián Suárez (Getafe)
• Most red cards: 2
  • Zouhair Feddal (Real Betis)
  • Nabil Fekir (Real Betis)
  • Lee Kang-in (Valencia)
  • Clément Lenglet (Barcelona)
  • Allan Nyom (Getafe)
  • Facundo Roncaglia (Osasuna)

Team

• Most yellow cards: 130
  • Getafe
• Most red cards: 9
  • Espanyol
  • Real Betis
• Fewest yellow cards: 71
  • Levante
• Fewest red cards: 0
  • Valladolid

Match ball

On 15 April 2019, Puma announced their official partnership with La Liga to manufacture the official match ball for the Spanish top flight and the Segunda División. This ends La Liga's 23 year partnership with Nike.