2005–06 La Liga

The 2005–06 La Liga season was the 75th since its establishment. It began on 27 August 2005, and concluded on 19 May 2006; all top-flight European leagues ended earlier than the previous season due to the impending 2006 FIFA World Cup.

La Liga

Season	2005–06
Dates	27 August 2005 – 19 May 2006
Champions	Barcelona 18th title
Relegated	Alavés Cádiz Málaga
Champions League	Barcelona Real Madrid Valencia Osasuna
UEFA Cup	Sevilla Celta Vigo Espanyol (as Copa del Rey winners)
Intertoto Cup	Villarreal
Matches played	380
Goals scored	936 (2.46 per match)
Top goalscorer	Samuel Eto'o (26 goals)
Biggest home win	Málaga 5–0 Real Betis (23 October 2005)[1] Barcelona 5–0 Real Sociedad (30 October 2005)[2] Getafe 5–0 Espanyol (22 January 2006)[3] Atlético Madrid 5–0 Málaga (25 February 2006)[4] Espanyol 5–0 Sevilla (26 February 2006)[5] Cádiz 5–0 Málaga (13 May 2006)[6]
Biggest away win	Osasuna 0–4 Getafe (2 April 2006)[7] Cádiz 0–4 Sevilla (11 February 2006)[8]
Highest scoring	Valencia 5–3 Cádiz (2 April 2006)[9]
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

Teams

Twenty teams competed in the league – the top seventeen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the Segunda División. The promoted teams were Cádiz, Celta de Vigo and Alavés, returning to the top flight after an absence of twelve, one and two years respectively. They replaced Levante, Numancia (both teams relegated after a season's presence) and Albacete (ending their two-year top flight spell).

Athletic  

Atlético

Barcelona

Betis

Cádiz

Celta

Alavés   

Deportivo

Espanyol

Getafe

Málaga

Mallorca

Osasuna

Racing

Real Madrid

Real Sociedad

Sevilla

Valencia

Villarreal

Zaragoza

Location of teams in La Liga 2005–06

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Barcelona	Camp Nou	98,772
Real Madrid	Santiago Bernabéu	80,354
Espanyol	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys	55,926
Atlético Madrid	Vicente Calderón	55,005
Valencia	Mestalla	55,000
Real Betis	Manuel Ruiz de Lopera	52,132
Sevilla	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	45,500
Athletic Bilbao	San Mamés	39,750
Deportivo de La Coruña	Riazor	34,600
Real Zaragoza	La Romareda	34,596
Celta de Vigo*	Estadio Balaídos	32,500
Real Sociedad	Anoeta	32,200
Málaga	La Rosaleda	30,044
Mallorca	Son Moix	23,142
Villarreal	El Madrigal	23,000
Cádiz*	Ramón de Carranza	23,000
Racing de Santander	El Sardinero	22,400
Alavés*	Mendizorrotza	19,840
Osasuna	Estadio Reyno de Navarra	19,553
Getafe	Coliseum Alfonso Pérez	16,300

(*) Promoted from Segunda División.

Personnel and sponsorships

Team	Head Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor (front)	Shirt sponsor (back)	Shirt sponsor (sleeve)	Shorts sponsor
Alavés	Mario Luna	Umbro	Stevenson Electrodomésticos	Stevenson Electrodomésticos, Abba Hoteles/Grecogres	Caja Vital-Vital Kutxa, Álava.net, Rioja Grupo Inmobiliario	Abba Hoteles, Grecogres
Athletic Bilbao	Javier Clemente	100% Athletic	Euskadi (in UEFA matches)	None	None	None
Atlético Madrid	José Murcia	Nike	Columbia Pictures/Kia	Kyocera	None	AXN
Barcelona	Frank Rijkaard	Nike	None	None	TV3	None
Betis	Lorenzo Serra Ferrer	Kappa	Andalucía/Globet	Globet/Andalucía	None	Grupo Azabache
Cádiz	Víctor Espárrago	Kelme	Caja San Fernando/Millan Chiclana/Andalucía	Diario de Cádiz	Diario AS	Mapfre-El Salvador, Visita El Salvador
Celta de Vigo	Fernando Vázquez	Umbro	Citroën	None	None	Citroën
Deportivo	Joaquín Caparrós	Joma	Fadesa	None	None	None
Espanyol	Miguel Ángel Lotina	uhlsport	Grup Tarradellas	Interapuestas.com	TV3	Hoteles Hesperia
Getafe	Bernd Schuster	Joma	Propietarios del Suelo de Getafe	Opción Centro de Ocio	Diezma Parquets y Tarimas	Neovision Ficciones
Málaga	Manolo Hierro	Umbro	Unicaja/Andalucía	None	None	None
Mallorca	Gregorio Manzano	Reial	Viajes Iberia	None	IB3	Illes Balears
Osasuna	Javier Aguirre	Astore	Caja Navarra/Reyno de Navarra (in UEFA matches)	None	Caja Navarra	None
Racing Santander	Nando Yosu	Joma	Cantabria 2006: Liébana Tierra de Júbilo	Santander 250	Cantabria	Cantabria
Real Madrid	Juan Ramón López Caro	Adidas	Siemens	None	None	None
Real Sociedad	José Mari Bakero	Astore	FIATC Seguros	NGS Europe	NGS Europe	FIATC Seguros, NGS Europe
Sevilla	Juande Ramos	Joma	Stevenson Electrodomésticos	Andalucía	Andalucía	www.sevillafc.es
Valencia	Quique Sánchez Flores	Nike	Toyota/Toyota Aygo	None	Canal Nou	None
Villarreal	Manuel Pellegrini	Puma	Aeroport Castelló	Armiñana Promociones Inmobiliarias	Canal Nou	None
Zaragoza	Víctor Muñoz	Lotto	Expo Zaragoza 2008 Telefónica	None	None	None

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Barcelona (C)	38	25	7	6	80	35	+45	82	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Real Madrid	38	20	10	8	70	40	+30	70
3	Valencia	38	19	12	7	58	33	+25	69	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
4	Osasuna	38	21	5	12	49	43	+6	68
5	Sevilla	38	20	8	10	54	39	+15	68	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
6	Celta Vigo	38	20	4	14	45	33	+12	64
7	Villarreal	38	14	15	9	50	39	+11	57	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup third round
8	Deportivo La Coruña	38	15	10	13	47	45	+2	55
9	Getafe	38	15	9	14	54	49	+5	54
10	Atlético Madrid	38	13	13	12	45	37	+8	52
11	Zaragoza	38	10	16	12	46	51	−5	46
12	Athletic Bilbao	38	11	12	15	40	46	−6	45
13	Mallorca	38	10	13	15	37	51	−14	43
14	Real Betis	38	10	12	16	34	51	−17	42
15	Espanyol	38	10	11	17	36	56	−20	41	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[a]
16	Real Sociedad	38	11	7	20	48	65	−17	40
17	Racing Santander	38	9	13	16	36	49	−13	40
18	Alavés (R)	38	9	12	17	35	54	−19	39	Relegation to the Segunda División
19	Cádiz (R)	38	8	12	18	36	52	−16	36
20	Málaga (R)	38	5	9	24	36	68	−32	24

Source: LFP
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th goal difference; 6th number of goals scored; 7th Fair-play points
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Espanyol qualified for the UEFA Cup first round as the 2005–06 Copa del Rey winners.

Results

Home \ Away	ATH	ATM	FCB	BET	CÁD	CEL	ALV	RCD	ESP	GET	MCF	MLL	OSA	RAC	RMA	RSO	SFC	VCF	VIL	ZAR
Athletic Bilbao		1–1	3–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–2	3–0	0–1	0–3	1–1	1–0
Atlético Madrid	1–0		2–1	1–1	3–0	0–3	1–1	3–2	1–1	0–1	5–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–3	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–0
Barcelona	2–1	1–3		5–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–2	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	4–1	1–1	5–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	2–2
Betis	1–1	1–0	1–4		1–1	0–2	3–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	0–2	2–3	0–0
Cádiz	1–0	1–1	1–3	1–1		1–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	5–0	1–2	1–3	1–1	1–2	2–2	0–4	0–1	1–1	1–2
Celta de Vigo	0–1	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–0		2–1	0–3	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	4–0
Alavés	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0		1–0	1–1	3–4	3–2	0–3	1–2	2–2	0–3	3–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–2
Deportivo La Coruña	1–2	1–0	3–3	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–2		1–2	1–0	2–1	2–2	0–1	2–0	3–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–2	1–1
Espanyol	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–2		0–2	3–1	2–0	2–4	0–2	1–0	1–0	5–0	1–3	1–2	2–2
Getafe	1–1	0–3	1–3	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	5–0		3–2	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	5–2
Málaga	2–1	0–2	0–0	5–0	0–2	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–2	1–2		0–2	1–2	2–3	0–2	3–1	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–1
Mallorca	0–1	2–2	0–3	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–4		0–1	0–0	2–1	5–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–1
Osasuna	3–2	2–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	2–0	3–2	1–2	2–0	0–4	1–1	1–0		1–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–1
Racing Santander	0–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–2	0–3	1–0	1–3	1–1	0–0	2–1		2–3	2–2	2–3	2–1	1–0	0–0
Real Madrid	3–1	2–1	0–3	0–0	3–1	2–3	3–0	4–0	4–0	1–0	2–1	4–0	1–1	1–2		1–1	4–2	1–2	3–3	1–0
Real Sociedad	3–3	3–2	0–2	1–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	3–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–2		1–2	1–2	1–3	1–3
Sevilla	2–1	0–0	3–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–2	1–1	3–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	4–3	3–2		1–0	2–0	1–1
Valencia	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	5–3	2–0	3–0	2–2	4–0	1–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–2		1–1	2–2
Villarreal	3–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	3–2	1–1	4–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–0		0–0
Zaragoza	3–2	0–2	0–2	4–3	1–2	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–2	0–1

Source: LFP (in Spanish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Overall

• Most wins - Barcelona (25)
• Fewest wins - Málaga (5)
• Most draws - Zaragoza (16)
• Fewest draws - Celta de Vigo (4)
• Most losses - Málaga (24)
• Fewest losses - Barcelona (6)
• Most goals scored - Barcelona (80)
• Fewest goals scored - Betis (34)
• Most goals conceded - Málaga (68)
• Fewest goals conceded - Celta de Vigo and Valencia (33)

Awards

Pichichi Trophy

The Pichichi Trophy is awarded to the player who scores the most goals in a season.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Samuel Eto'o	Barcelona	26
2	David Villa	Valencia	25
3	Ronaldinho	Barcelona	17
4	Diego Milito	Zaragoza	15
5	Ronaldo	Real Madrid	14
6	Fernando Baiano	Celta Vigo	13
	Fernando Torres	Atlético Madrid
8	Éwerthon	Zaragoza	12
	Juan Román Riquelme	Villarreal

Zamora Trophy

The Ricardo Zamora Trophy is awarded to the goalkeeper with the lowest ratio of goals conceded to matches played.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals against	Matches	Average
1	José Manuel Pinto	Celta Vigo	28	37	0.76
2	Santiago Cañizares	Valencia	29	36	0.81
3	Víctor Valdés	Barcelona	29	35	0.83
4	Leo Franco	Atlético Madrid	31	34	0.91
5	Iker Casillas	Real Madrid	38	37	1.03
	Andrés Palop	Sevilla	37	36
	Sebastián Viera	Villarreal	30	29
8	Toni Prats	Mallorca	36	31	1.16
9	Ricardo	Osasuna	35	30	1.17
10	José Francisco Molina	Deportivo La Coruña	45	38	1.18

Fair Play award

Rank	Club	Points
1	Barcelona	86
2	Valencia	98
3	Celta Vigo	99
4	Real Sociedad	106
5	Alavés	114
6	Villarreal	116
7	Espanyol	124
	Mallorca
9	Cádiz	125
10	Athletic Bilbao	128
11	Getafe	130
12	Deportivo La Coruña	131
	Real Madrid
14	Zaragoza	136
15	Sevilla	163
16	Osasuna	171
	Racing Santander
18	Málaga	179
19	Real Betis	183
20	Atlético Madrid	187

• Source: Guia As de La Liga 2006–07, p. 144 (sports magazine)

Pedro Zaballa award

Cádiz supporters^[10]

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of La Liga hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Juan Arango	Mallorca	Real Sociedad	5–2 (H)	17 September 2005
Nenê	Alavés	Getafe	3–4 (H)	18 September 2005
Zinedine Zidane	Real Madrid	Sevilla	4–2 (H)	15 January 2006
Dani	Real Betis	Zaragoza	3–4 (A)	5 February 2006
Luis García	Espanyol	Sevilla	5–0 (H)	26 February 2006
David Villa	Valencia	Athletic Bilbao	3–0 (A)	23 April 2006

See also

• List of transfers of La Liga – 2005-06 season
• 2005–06 Segunda División
• 2005–06 Copa del Rey