Primera División 2016/17

La Liga 2016/17
master	real Madrid
Champions League	Real Madrid FC Barcelona Atlético Madrid
Champions League qualification	Sevilla FC
Europe League	Villarreal CF Real Sociedad
Europa League qualification	Athletic Bilbao
Relegated	Sporting Gijón CA Osasuna Granada CF.
Teams	20th
Games	380
Gates	1,118  (ø 2.94 per game)
Top scorer	Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona)
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The Primera División 2016/17 (officially LaLiga Santander ) was the 86th season of the top Spanish division in football . It started on August 19, 2016 and ended on May 21, 2017.

Real Madrid became Spanish champions for the 33rd time.

Before the season

FC Barcelona started the season as defending champions .

The three relegated members of the preseason Rayo Vallecano , Getafe FC (both from Madrid and the surrounding area) and UD Levante (from Valencia) were no longer represented in the Primera División . After ten years of abstinence, Deportivo Alavés , a 2001 UEFA Cup finalist , managed to return to the Primera División as champions, after the club had only been third-rate from 2009 to 2013. For the first time in the top Spanish league was CD Leganés from near Madrid. Third promoted was CA Osasuna from Pamplona , who was able to secure promotion in the playoff games and thus returned to the first division after two years.

With the resurgence of Deportivo Alavés, the Basque Country is represented with four clubs in the Primera División for the first time since 1933, four clubs also came from Andalusia.

Attendees

In the 2016/17 season the Spanish Primera División played in the following venues:

Atl. Bilbao real Madrid Atlético Madrid CD Leganés CA Osasuna FC Barcelona Espanyol Barcelona Valencia CF Deport. Alavés Sevilla FC Betis Seville SD Eibar ↓ Villarreal CF Dep. La Coruña Sp. Gijón CD Málaga Celta Vigo Granada CF. Real Sociedad UD Las Palmas Canary Islands

Venues of the Spanish Primera División 2016/17

Surname	city	Stadion	capacity
Athletic Bilbao	Bilbao	San Mamés	53,289
Atlético Madrid	Madrid	Vicente Calderón	54,851
Betis Seville	Seville	Benito Villamarín	60,720
CA Osasuna	Pamplona	Estadio El Sadar	18,375
CD Leganés	Leganés	Estadio Municipal de Butarque	11,454
Celta Vigo	Vigo	Balaídos	31,800
Deportivo Alavés	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Estadio Mendizorrotza	19,840
Deportivo La Coruña	A Coruña	Municipal de Riazor	34,611
Espanyol Barcelona	Barcelona	Cornellà-El Prat	40,500
FC Barcelona	Barcelona	Camp Nou	99.354
Granada CF.	Granada	Nuevo Los Cármenes	22,524
Málaga CF	Málaga	La Rosaleda	28,963
Sevilla FC	Seville	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	45,500
Valencia CF	Valencia	Mestalla	52,200
Villarreal CF	Villarreal	El Madrigal	22,000
real Madrid	Madrid	Santiago Bernabeu	85,454
Real Sociedad San Sebastian	Donostia-San Sebastian	Anoeta	32,076
SD Eibar	Eibar	Municipal de Ipurua	05,250
Sporting Gijón	Gijón	El Molinón	29,538
UD Las Palmas	Las Palmas	Estadio de Gran Canaria	32,392

Closing table

League leader

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	real Madrid	38	29	6th	3	106: 410	+65	93
2.	FC Barcelona (M, P)	38	28	6th	4th	116: 370	+79	90
3.	Atlético Madrid	38	23	9	6th	070:270	+43	78
4th	Sevilla FC	38	21st	9	8th	069:490	+20	72
5.	Villarreal CF	38	19th	10	9	056:330	+23	67
6th	Real Sociedad	38	19th	7th	12	059:530	+6	64
7th	Athletic Bilbao	38	19th	6th	13	053:430	+10	63
8th.	Espanyol Barcelona	38	15th	11	12	049:500	−1	56
9.	Deportivo Alavés (N)	38	14th	13	11	041:430	−2	55
10.	SD Eibar	38	15th	9	14th	056:510	+5	54
11.	Málaga CF	38	12	10	16	049:550	−6	46
12.	Valencia CF	38	13	7th	18th	056:650	−9	46
13.	Celta Vigo	38	13	6th	19th	053:690	−16	45
14th	UD Las Palmas	38	10	9	19th	053:740	−21	39
15th	Betis Seville	38	10	9	19th	041:640	−23	39
16.	Deportivo La Coruña	38	8th	12	18th	043:610	−18	36
17th	CD Leganés (N)	38	8th	11	19th	036:550	−19	35
18th	Sporting Gijón	38	7th	10	21st	042:720	−30	31
19th	CA Osasuna (N)	38	4th	10	24	040:940	−54	22nd
20th	Granada CF.	38	4th	8th	26th	030:820	−52	20th

Placement criteria: 1st points - 2nd direct comparison (points, goal difference, goals scored) - 3rd goal difference - 4th goals scored

Spanish champions and participation in the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League

Participation in the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League

Participation in the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League play-offs

Participation in the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League

Participation in the third qualifying round for the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League

Relegation in Segunda División 2017/18

(M)	Spanish champion 2015/16
(P)	Cup winner 2015/16
(N)	Promoted from the Segunda División 2015/16

Crosstab

2016/17
real Madrid		2: 3	1: 1	4: 1	1: 1	3-0	2: 1	2-0	3-0	1: 1	2: 1	2: 1	2: 1	3: 3	2: 1	3: 2	3-0	2: 1	5: 2	5-0
FC Barcelona	1: 1		1: 1	3-0	4: 1	3: 2	3-0	4: 1	1: 2	4: 2	0-0	4: 2	5-0	5-0	6: 2	4-0	2: 1	6: 1	7: 1	1-0
Atlético Madrid	0: 3	1: 2		3: 1	0: 1	1-0	3: 1	0-0	1: 1	1-0	4: 2	3-0	3: 2	1-0	1-0	1-0	2-0	5-0	3-0	7: 1
Sevilla FC	2: 1	1: 2	1-0		0-0	1: 1	1-0	6: 4	2: 1	2-0	4: 1	2: 1	2: 1	2: 1	1-0	4: 2	1: 1	0-0	5-0	2-0
Villarreal CF	2: 3	1: 1	3-0	0-0		2: 1	3: 1	2-0	0: 2	2: 3	1: 1	0: 2	5-0	2: 1	2-0	0-0	2: 1	3: 1	3: 1	2-0
Real Sociedad	0: 3	1: 1	2-0	0: 4	0: 1		0: 2	1: 1	3-0	2: 2	2: 2	3: 2	1-0	4: 1	1-0	1-0	1: 1	3: 1	3: 2	2: 1
Athletic Bilbao	1: 2	0: 1	2: 2	3: 1	1-0	3: 2		2-0	0-0	3: 1	1-0	2: 1	2: 1	5: 1	2: 1	2: 1	1: 1	2: 1	1: 1	3: 1
Espanyol Barcelona	0: 2	0: 3	0: 1	3: 1	0-0	1: 2	0-0		1-0	3: 3	2: 2	0: 1	0: 2	4: 3	2: 1	1: 1	3-0	2: 1	3-0	3: 1
Deportivo Alavés	1: 4	0: 6	0-0	1: 1	2: 1	1-0	1-0	0: 1		0-0	1: 1	2: 1	3: 1	1: 1	1-0	0-0	2: 2	0-0	0: 1	3: 1
SD Eibar	1: 4	0: 4	0: 2	1: 1	2: 1	2-0	0: 1	1: 1	0-0		3-0	1-0	1-0	3: 1	3: 1	3: 1	2-0	0: 1	2: 3	4-0
Málaga CF	0: 2	2-0	0: 2	4: 2	0: 2	0: 2	2: 1	0: 1	1: 2	2: 1		2-0	3-0	2: 1	1: 2	4: 3	4-0	3: 2	1: 1	1: 1
Valencia CF	2: 1	2: 3	0: 2	0-0	1: 3	2: 3	2-0	2: 1	2: 1	0: 4	2: 2		3: 2	2: 4	2: 3	3-0	1-0	1: 1	4: 1	1: 1
Celta Vigo	1: 4	4: 3	0: 4	0: 3	0: 1	2: 2	0: 3	2: 2	1-0	0: 2	3: 1	2: 1		3: 1	0: 1	4: 1	0: 1	2: 1	3-0	3: 1
UD Las Palmas	2: 2	1: 4	0: 5	0: 1	1-0	0: 1	3: 1	0-0	1: 1	1-0	1-0	3: 1	3: 3		4: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1-0	5: 2	5: 1
Betis Seville	1: 6	1: 1	1: 1	1: 2	0: 1	2: 3	1-0	0: 1	1: 4	2-0	1-0	0-0	3: 3	2-0		0-0	2-0	0-0	2-0	2: 2
Deportivo La Coruña	2: 6	2: 1	1: 1	2: 3	0-0	5: 1	0: 1	1: 2	0: 1	2: 1	2-0	1: 1	0: 1	3-0	1: 1		1: 2	2: 1	2-0	0-0
CD Leganés	2: 4	1: 5	0-0	2: 3	0-0	0: 2	0-0	0: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	1: 2	0: 2	3-0	4-0	4-0		0: 2	2-0	1-0
Sporting Gijón	2: 3	0: 5	1: 4	1: 1	1: 3	1: 3	2: 1	1: 1	2: 4	2: 3	0: 1	1: 2	1: 1	1-0	2: 2	0: 1	2: 1		3: 1	3: 1
CA Osasuna	1: 3	0: 3	0: 3	3: 4	1: 4	0: 2	1: 2	1: 2	0: 1	1: 1	1: 1	3: 3	0-0	2: 2	1: 2	2: 2	2: 1	2: 2		2: 1
Granada CF.	0: 4	1: 4	0: 1	2: 1	1: 1	0: 2	1: 2	1: 2	2: 1	1: 2	0: 2	1: 3	0: 3	1-0	4: 1	1: 1	0: 1	0-0	1: 1

After the season

International competitions

• 1. - Real Madrid - UEFA Champions League
• 2. - FC Barcelona - UEFA Champions League
• 3rd - Atlético Madrid - UEFA Champions League
• 4th - Sevilla FC - UEFA Champions League, qualification
• 5th - Villarreal CF - UEFA Europa League , group stage
• 6th - Real Sociedad - UEFA Europa League, group stage
• 7th - Athletic Bilbao - UEFA Europa League Third Qualifying Round

Relegated to the Segunda División

• 18 - Sporting Gijon
• 19. - CA Osasuna
• 20 - FC Granada

Promoted to the Primera División

• Levante UD
• FC Girona
• Getafe CF.

The Real Madrid championship team

1.

real Madrid

Goal : Keylor Navas (27 / -); Kiko Casilla (11 / -) Defense : Marcelo (30/2); Sergio Ramos (28/7); Nacho (28/2); Raphael Varane (23/1); Dani Carvajal (23 / -); Danilo (17/1); Pepe (13/2); Fábio Coentrão (3 / -); Álvaro Tejero (1 / -) Midfield : Isco (30/10); Toni Kroos (29/3); Mateo Kovačić (27/1); Casemiro (25/4); Luka Modrić (25/1); Marco Asensio (23/3); James Rodríguez (22/8) Forward : Lucas Vázquez (33/2); Cristiano Ronaldo (29/25); Karim Benzema (29/11); Álvaro Morata (26/15); Gareth Bale (19/7); Mariano (8/1) Coach : Zinédine Zidane

Pichichi trophy

The Pichichi trophy is awarded annually to the best goalscorer of the season by Marca magazine .

Pl.	Surname	team	Gates
1	Lionel Messi	FC Barcelona	37
2	Luis Suarez	FC Barcelona	29
3	Cristiano Ronaldo	real Madrid	25th
4th	Iago Aspas	Celta Vigo	19th
5	Antoine Griezmann	Atlético Madrid	16
	Aritz Aduriz	Athletic Bilbao
7th	Álvaro Morata	real Madrid	15th
8th	Sandro Ramírez	Málaga CF	14th
9	Ruben Castro	Betis Seville	13
	Gerard Moreno	Espanyol Barcelona
	Neymar	FC Barcelona

Web links

• Spain - List of Champions rsssf.com
• Season 2016/17 laliga.es
• Spanish football league site

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Primera División 2016/17. In: eu-football.info. Retrieved June 21, 2019 . 
2. ↑ List of goalscorers on weltfussball.de.