Season 2014–15 Champion FC Barcelona Goals scored 1,009 Matches played 380 | Champions Barcelona
23rd title Dates 24 Aug 2014 – 24 May 2015 Location Spain | |
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Champions League Barcelona
Real Madrid
Atlético Madrid
Valencia
Sevilla Europa League Villarreal
Athletic Bilbao Top goalscorer Cristiano Ronaldo (48 goals) Best goalkeeper Claudio Bravo (0.51 goals/match) Relegated Elche CF, UD Almería, Córdoba CF Similar 2015–16 La Liga, 2012–13 La Liga, 2011–12 La Liga, 2016–17 La Liga, 2010–11 La Liga | ||
The 2014–15 La Liga season (known as the Liga BBVA for sponsorship reasons) was the 84th season of the premier association football league in Spain. The campaign began on 23 August 2014 and ended on 24 May 2015.
Contents
- Promotion and relegation pre season
- Personnel and sponsorship
- Overview
- Positions by round
- Results
- Scoring
- Zamora Trophy
- Hat tricks
- Discipline
- Attendances
- Seasonal
- References
Barcelona won its 23rd title on 17 May 2015 after defeating defending champions Atlético Madrid at the Vicente Calderón Stadium.
Promotion and relegation (pre-season)
A total of 20 teams contest the league, including 17 sides from the 2013–14 season and three promoted from the 2013–14 Segunda División. This includes the two top teams (Eibar and Deportivo La Coruña) from the Segunda División, and the winner of the play-offs, Córdoba.
Eibar became the first club from Segunda División to achieve promotion to La Liga after its 1–0 victory over Alavés on 25 May 2014. Eibar made their La Liga debut in the 2014–15 season.
Deportivo La Coruña won promotion back to La Liga after one season in Segunda División with a 1–0 victory over Real Jaén on 31 May 2014.
Córdoba won the promotion play-off against Las Palmas and returned to the top level after 42 years.
Personnel and sponsorship
1. ^ On the back of shirt. 2. ^ Barcelona makes a donation to UNICEF to display the charity's logo on the back of the club's kit. 3. ^ Málaga makes a donation to UNESCO in order to display the charity's logo on the club's kit. 4. ^ On the shorts. 5. Additionally, referee kits are now being made by Adidas, sponsored by Würth, and Nike has a new match ball, the Ordem LFP. 6. ^ On the sleeves.Overview
On 2 May, Córdoba were relegated with three games left to play in the season, after losing 0–8 at home against Barcelona. Eight days later, Villarreal confirmed sixth place and an entry into the UEFA Europa League with Joel Campbell's winning goal against Elche.
Barcelona, playing with a three-man attack of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suárez under new manager Luis Enrique, won the title on 17 May with a goal by Messi to defeat holders Atlético Madrid at the Vicente Calderón Stadium. It came exactly a year after Atlético had won their league title at Barcelona's Camp Nou. Real Madrid, with profound inconsistency in the second half of the season, secured second place on the same day as Barcelona won the title, with a 1–4 win at Espanyol.
The battle for the Champions League was settled in the last ten minutes of the season. Valencia, in fourth place with 74 points, went into the last match of the season at relegation-threatened Almería, facing all three possibilities of direct qualification to the group stage of the Champions League, qualification to the play-off round, or missing out on the Champions League altogether. Valencia won the match 3–2 to secure fourth place, as Atlético Madrid, three points ahead, drew at Granada. Sevilla, with a 3–2 win at Málaga, achieved a record 76 points total without Champions League qualification, finishing fifth. Sevilla however qualified for the Champions League by winning the 2015 UEFA Europa League Final.
Despite finishing the season in the 13th position, on 5 June, Elche was relegated to Segunda División due to its financial struggles. Newcomers Eibar, who finished the season in the 18th position, will take Elche's place in 2015–16 La Liga.
Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.
Last updated: 23 May 2015
Source: Liga BBVA
Results
Updated to games played on 23 May 2015.
Source: La Liga
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.
Scoring
Luis Alberto for Málaga against Athletic Bilbao (23 August 2014)
Marcelo for Real Madrid against Getafe (23 May 2015)
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 23 May 2015Hat-tricks
4 Player scored four goals
5 Player scored five goals
(H) – Home ; (A) – Away
Discipline
As of 26 April 2015.Attendances
Updated to games played on 23 May 2015
Source:
Notes:
1: Team played last season in Segunda División
Seasonal
La Liga's governing body, the Liga de Fútbol Profesional, honoured the competition's best players and coach with the LFP Awards.