1995–96 La Liga

The 1995–96 La Liga season was the 65th since its establishment. It began on 2 September 1995, and concluded on 26 May 1996.

La Liga

Season	1995 (1995)–96
Dates	2 September 1995 – 26 May 1996
Champions	Atlético Madrid 9th title
Relegated	Albacete Mérida Salamanca
Champions League	Atlético Madrid
UEFA Cup	Valencia Espanyol Tenerife
Cup Winners' Cup	Barcelona
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,246 (2.7 per match)
Top goalscorer	Juan Antonio Pizzi (31 goals)
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

Team information

Clubs and locations

Albacete

Athletic

Atlético

Barcelona

Betis

Compostela

Celta

Deportivo

Mérida

Espanyol

Rayo Vallecano

Oviedo

Racing

Real Madrid

Real Sociedad

Salamanca

Sevilla

Sporting

Valencia

Valladolid

Zaragoza

Location of teams in La Liga 1995–96

Tenerife

Canary Islands

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Barcelona	Camp Nou	98,772
Real Madrid	Santiago Bernabéu	80,354
Atlético Madrid	Vicente Calderón	55,005
Valencia	Mestalla	55,000
Real Betis	Benito Villamarín	47,500
Sevilla	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	42,714
Espanyol	Sarrià	44,000
Athletic Bilbao	San Mamés	39,750
Deportivo de La Coruña	Riazor	34,600
Real Zaragoza	La Romareda	34,596
Celta de Vigo	Balaídos	32,500
Real Sociedad	Anoeta	32,200
Valladolid	José Zorrilla	27,846
Sporting de Gijón	El Molinón	25,885
Real Oviedo	Carlos Tartiere	23,500
Tenerife	Heliodoro Rodríguez López	22,824
Racing de Santander	El Sardinero	22,222
Albacete	Carlos Belmonte	18,000
Salamanca	Helmántico	17,341
Rayo Vallecano	Vallecas	14,708
Mérida	Estadio Romano	14,600
Compostela	San Lázaro	12,000

Notes

• With Mérida's promotion every Spanish autonomous community (though not every province) has been represented in Primera División.
• Initially, only 20 teams would play this season in Primera División, but Sevilla FC and Celta de Vigo were relegated to Segunda División B for not making their payments to the Royal Spanish Football Federation. Then, Albacete and Real Valladolid, initially relegated, were readmitted in Primera División. Later, Sevilla FC and Celta de Vigo were also readmitted and the league was expanded to 22 teams for two seasons.
• From this season on, wins were awarded 3 points instead of 2 (similar to other domestic leagues that had 3-1-0 team scoring point format).

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Atlético Madrid (C)	42	26	9	7	75	32	+43	87	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Valencia	42	26	5	11	77	51	+26	83	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
3	Barcelona	42	22	14	6	72	39	+33	80	Qualification for the Cup Winners' Cup first round[a]
4	Espanyol	42	20	14	8	63	36	+27	74	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
5	Tenerife	42	20	12	10	69	54	+15	72
6	Real Madrid	42	20	10	12	75	51	+24	70
7	Real Sociedad	42	17	12	13	62	53	+9	63
8	Real Betis	42	16	14	12	61	54	+7	62
9	Deportivo La Coruña	42	16	13	13	63	44	+19	61
10	Compostela	42	17	8	17	47	54	−7	59
11	Celta Vigo	42	12	16	14	49	51	−2	52
12	Sevilla	42	11	15	16	43	55	−12	48[b]
13	Zaragoza	42	11	15	16	51	59	−8	48[b]
14	Oviedo	42	12	12	18	48	67	−19	48[b]
15	Athletic Bilbao	42	11	15	16	44	55	−11	48[b]
16	Valladolid	42	11	14	17	57	62	−5	47[c]
17	Racing Santander	42	11	14	17	47	69	−22	47[c]
18	Sporting Gijón	42	13	7	22	51	60	−9	46
19	Rayo Vallecano (O)	42	12	8	22	47	75	−28	44	Qualification for the relegation playoffs
20	Albacete (R)	42	10	12	20	55	81	−26	42[d]
21	Mérida (R)	42	10	12	20	37	62	−25	42[d]	Relegation to the Segunda División
22	Salamanca (R)	42	8	9	25	53	82	−29	33

Source: LFP
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Since Atlético Madrid, winners of 1995–96 Copa del Rey, was qualified for the 1996–97 UEFA Champions League, losing cup finalists Barcelona earned a spot in the first round of the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
2. SEV: 10 pts;ZAR: 8 pts; ROV: 6 pts → ROV 0–0 ATH; ATH: 6 pts → ATH 0–1 ROV
3. RAC 0–0 VLD; VLD 3–1 RAC
4. MÉR 1–1 ALB; ALB 2–0 MÉR

Results

Home \ Away	ALB	ATH	ATM	BAR	BET	CEL	COM	DEP	ESP	MÉR	RAC	RAY	RMA	ROV	RSO	SAL	SEV	SPG	TEN	VAL	VLD	ZAR
Albacete Balompié		2–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	4–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	1–2	1–1	0–1	3–5	3–3	3–2	1–3	0–0	1–3	4–2	0–1
Athletic Bilbao	2–2		0–2	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	4–0	3–1	0–5	0–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–0
Atlético Madrid	2–0	4–1		3–1	1–1	3–2	3–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–2	3–0	4–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	3–1	2–3	0–2	1–1
FC Barcelona	3–0	4–1	1–3		1–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	3–0	4–1	1–0	4–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–1
Betis	2–3	0–0	2–1	1–5		0–3	5–0	1–0	2–3	0–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	3–1	4–0	1–1	2–5	3–3	3–0	3–0	3–1
Celta de Vigo	2–2	3–1	0–3	1–0	2–0		0–1	0–0	4–2	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	4–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–1
SD Compostela	3–1	2–1	1–3	2–1	1–2	1–1		4–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–3	4–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–4	1–3	3–2
Deportivo de La Coruña	5–0	0–0	2–2	2–2	0–0	2–1	2–0		0–1	2–1	2–3	1–0	3–0	0–4	1–1	2–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	3–0	3–1	2–3
RCD Espanyol	1–0	3–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	0–0		3–0	1–0	4–2	3–1	5–0	0–0	3–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–1
CP Mérida	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–2	0–2	0–1		3–1	0–1	2–2	3–1	1–2	0–0	3–2	1–0	2–0	0–2	1–0	1–1
Racing de Santander	5–5	1–1	0–4	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–0		1–2	2–0	0–0	2–3	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–3	0–0	0–0
Rayo Vallecano	2–0	2–2	0–3	1–1	1–2	1–3	0–1	0–6	1–0	4–1	1–2		1–5	1–2	2–0	1–4	0–0	2–0	2–4	3–2	0–2	4–3
Real Madrid	2–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	4–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	4–0	1–2	1–2		2–3	3–2	5–0	4–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	4–1	2–2
Real Oviedo	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–1	0–2	1–2	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–2		0–0	2–2	2–3	1–0	1–3	0–1	3–8	1–1
Real Sociedad	8–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–1		1–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	5–2	1–0	3–1
UD Salamanca	2–4	2–1	1–3	1–3	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–5	2–2	2–2	5–0	1–2	0–2	0–1	3–3		4–1	3–0	1–2	4–0	0–0	0–1
Sevilla FC	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–3	3–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	3–1		2–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–1
Sporting de Gijón	3–0	1–2	1–2	0–3	2–3	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–3	3–1	4–2	3–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–2	3–1		0–2	1–3	4–2	4–1
Tenerife	1–3	3–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–4	1–0	2–0	2–2	3–0	3–3	1–0	4–0	4–2	3–0		2–1	1–0	1–2
Valencia CF	1–0	3–1	0–1	4–1	1–1	3–0	5–2	2–1	1–0	4–1	2–1	3–0	4–3	3–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–2		1–0	0–0
Valladolid	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–2	3–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	0–3	2–2	3–0	1–0	3–3	1–0	3–0	2–5		0–0
Zaragoza	3–1	1–0	0–1	0–3	1–2	0–0	1–0	2–3	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	4–1	5–3

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation playoff

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
RCD Mallorca	1–2	Rayo Vallecano	1–0	0–2
CF Extremadura	2–0	Albacete Balompié	1–0	1–0

First leg

RCD Mallorca v Rayo Vallecano

29 May 1996	RCD Mallorca	1–0	Rayo Vallecano	Palma de Mallorca
21:30	Morales 30'	Report (in Spanish)		Stadium: Lluís Sitjar Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Celino Gracia Redondo

CF Extremadura v Albacete Balompié

30 May 1996	CF Extremadura	1–0	Albacete Balompié	Almendralejo
21:30	Manuel 54'	Report (in Spanish)		Stadium: Francisco de la Hera Attendance: 11,000 Referee: José María García-Aranda

Second leg

Rayo Vallecano v RCD Mallorca

1 June 1996	Rayo Vallecano	2–0 (2–1 agg.)	RCD Mallorca	Madrid
20:30	Guilherme 13' Onésimo 81'	Report (in Spanish)		Stadium: Vallecas Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Antonio Jesús López Nieto

Albacete Balompié v CF Extremadura

2 June 1996	Albacete Balompié	0–1 (0–2 agg.)	CF Extremadura	Albacete
21:30		Report (in Spanish)	Tirado 90'	Stadium: Carlos Belmonte Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Víctor Esquinas Torres

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[1]
1	Juan Antonio Pizzi	Tenerife	31
2	Predrag Mijatović	Valencia	28
3	Bebeto	Deportivo La Coruña	25
4	Alen Peternac	Valladolid	23
5	Raúl	Real Madrid	20
6	Julio Salinas	Sporting Gijón	18
7	Jordi Lardín	Espanyol	17
8	Lyuboslav Penev	Atlético Madrid	16
	Davor Šuker	Sevilla
10	Vladimir Gudelj	Celta Vigo	15
	Juan Manuel Prieto	Mérida