2014–15 La Liga

	Leader
	2015–16 UEFA Champions League group stage
	2015–16 UEFA Champions League Play-off round
	2015–16 UEFA Europa League group stage
	2015–16 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
	Relegation to 2015–16 Segunda División

La Liga
Season	2014–15
Matches played	271
Goals scored	706 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer	Lionel Messi; (32 goals)
Biggest home win	Barcelona 6–0 Granada; (27 September 2014)
Biggest away win	Deportivo La Coruña 2–8 Real Madrid; (20 September 2014); Elche 0–6 Barcelona; (24 January 2015)
Highest scoring	Deportivo La Coruña 2–8 Real Madrid; (20 September 2014)
Longest winning run	12 games; Real Madrid
Longest unbeaten run	12 games; Real Madrid
Longest winless run	16 games; Granada
Longest losing run	8 games; Eibar
Highest attendance	87,151; Barcelona 6–1 Rayo Vallecano
Lowest attendance	4,109; Eibar 0–1 Elche
Average attendance	26,592
	← 2013–14 2015–16 → All statistics correct as of 16 March 2015.

The 2014–15 La Liga season (known as the Liga BBVA for sponsorship reasons) is the 84th since its establishment. The campaign began on 23 August 2014 and will end on 24 May 2015. Atlético Madrid are the defending champions.

Teams

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 Deportivo Alavés on 25 May 2014. Eibar will make their La Liga debut this season.^[5]

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.^[6]

Córdoba won the promotion play-off against Las Palmas and returned to the top level after 42 years.^[7]

Stadia and locations

Location of teams in 2014–15 La Liga

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity^{[citation needed]}
Almería	Almería	Juegos Mediterráneos	21,350
Athletic Bilbao	Bilbao	San Mamés	53,289
Atlético Madrid	Madrid	Vicente Calderón	54,907
Barcelona	Barcelona	Camp Nou	99,786
Celta de Vigo	Vigo	Balaídos	31,800
Córdoba	Córdoba	El Arcángel	21,822
Deportivo La Coruña	A Coruña	Riazor	34,600
Eibar	Eibar	Ipurua	6,000
Elche	Elche	Martínez Valero	36,017
Espanyol	Barcelona	Power8 Stadium	40,500
Getafe	Getafe	Coliseum Alfonso Pérez	17,393
Granada	Granada	Nuevo Los Cármenes	23,156
Levante	Valencia	Ciutat de València	26,354
Málaga	Málaga	La Rosaleda	30,044
Rayo Vallecano	Madrid	Vallecas	14,708
Real Madrid	Madrid	Santiago Bernabéu	81,044
Real Sociedad	San Sebastián	Anoeta	32,076
Sevilla	Seville	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán	45,500
Valencia	Valencia	Mestalla	55,000
Villarreal	Villarreal	El Madrigal	25,000

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Almería	Alfonso García	Juan Ignacio Martínez	Corona	Nike	Urcisol.com
Athletic Bilbao	Josu Urrutia	Ernesto Valverde	Carlos Gurpegui	Nike	Petronor & BBK
Atlético Madrid	Enrique Cerezo	Diego Simeone	Gabi	Nike	Azerbaijan: Land of Fire & Plus500
Barcelona	Josep Maria Bartomeu	Luis Enrique	Xavi	Nike	Qatar Airways, UNICEF & Beko¹ ² ⁶
Celta Vigo	Carlos Mouriño	Eduardo Berizzo	Borja Oubiña	Adidas	Citroën, Abanca & Estrella Galicia⁴
Córdoba	Carlos González	José Antonio Romero	Abel Gómez	Acerbis	RD Impagos
Deportivo La Coruña	Constantino Fernández Pico	Víctor Fernández	Manuel Pablo	Lotto	Estrella Galicia & Abanca
Eibar	Alex Aranzabal	Gaizka Garitano	Txema Añibarro	Hummel^[8]	Hierros Servando & Wiko¹
Elche	José Sepulcre	Fran Escribá	Edu Albácar	Kelme	Gioseppo
Espanyol	Ramón Condal	Sergio González Soriano	Sergio García	Puma	Power8
Getafe	Ángel Torres	Pablo Franco	Jaime Gavilán	Joma	Tecnocasa Group
Granada	Quique Pina	Abel Resino	Diego Mainz	Joma	Solver Sports Capital
Levante	Quico Catalán	Lucas Alcaraz	Juanfran García	Nike	East United
Málaga	Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani	Javi Gracia	Duda	Nike	UNESCO³
Rayo Vallecano	Raúl Martín Presa	Paco Jémez	Roberto Trashorras	Erreà	QBAO.com & Nevir¹
Real Madrid	Florentino Pérez	Carlo Ancelotti	Iker Casillas	Adidas	Fly Emirates
Real Sociedad	Jokin Aperribay	David Moyes	Xabi Prieto	Adidas	QBAO.com & Kutxa¹
Sevilla	José Castro Carmona	Unai Emery	Fernando Navarro	Warrior	Visit Malaysia
Valencia	Amadeo Salvo	Nuno Espírito Santo	Dani Parejo	Adidas	La Caixa & Gol Televisión¹
Villarreal	Fernando Roig Alfonso	Marcelino García Toral	Bruno Soriano	Xtep	Pamesa Cerámica

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.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Celta de Vigo	Luis Enrique	Resigned	15 May 2014	Pre-season	Eduardo Berizzo	2 June 2014
Málaga	Bernd Schuster	End of contract	16 May 2014		Javi Gracia	30 May 2014
Espanyol	Javier Aguirre	End of contract	16 May 2014		Sergio González	28 May 2014
Barcelona	Gerardo Martino	Resigned	17 May 2014		Luis Enrique	19 May 2014
Granada	Lucas Alcaraz	End of contract	28 May 2014		Joaquín Caparrós	28 May 2014
Levante	Joaquín Caparrós	Signed by Granada	28 May 2014		José Luis Mendilibar	30 May 2014
Valencia	Juan Antonio Pizzi	Sacked	2 July 2014		Nuno Espírito Santo	4 July 2014
Deportivo La Coruña	Fernando Vázquez	Sacked	8 July 2014		Víctor Fernández	10 July 2014
Córdoba	Albert Ferrer	Sacked	20 October 2014	20th	Miroslav Đukić	20 October 2014^[9]
Levante	José Luis Mendilibar	Sacked	20 October 2014	19th	Lucas Alcaraz	21 October 2014^[10]
Real Sociedad	Jagoba Arrasate	Sacked	2 November 2014	19th	David Moyes	10 November 2014^[11]
Almería	Francisco	Sacked	9 December 2014^[12]	17th	Juan Ignacio Martínez	12 December 2014^[13]
Getafe	Cosmin Contra	Signed by Guangzhou R&F	18 December 2014^[14]	13th	Quique Sánchez Flores	5 January 2015^[15]
Granada	Joaquín Caparrós	Sacked	13 January 2015^[16]	20th	Abel Resino	19 January 2015^[17]
Getafe	Quique Sánchez Flores	Resigned	26 February 2015^[18]	13th	Pablo Franco	11 March 2015^[19]
Córdoba	Miroslav Đukić	Sacked	16 March 2015	20th	José Antonio Romero	16 March 2015^[20]

League table

Template:2014–15 La Liga table

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.

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Team \ Round
Template:Fb team Barcelona	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1
Template:Fb team Real Madrid	3	10	13	7	5	5	4	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
Template:Fb team Valencia	11	2	2	2	1	2	2	4	4	2	3	4	5	5	5	4	4	5	5	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	3
Template:Fb team Atlético Madrid	12	6	4	4	4	3	5	5	5	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4
Template:Fb team Sevilla	10	5	3	3	3	4	3	2	2	5	5	5	4	4	4	6	5	4	4	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5
Template:Fb team Villarreal	4	9	8	6	7	7	7	6	8	8	8	8	6	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Template:Fb team Málaga	7	13	11	10	10	13	11	8	7	7	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Template:Fb team Athletic Bilbao	15	7	12	15	18	16	18	17	15	11	11	9	9	10	10	11	12	13	13	13	11	13	13	12	10	8	8
Template:Fb team Espanyol	9	16	19	18	11	12	8	11	10	13	12	14	12	13	11	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	10	9
Template:Fb team Real Sociedad	16	8	7	12	14	15	15	16	17	19	15	16	14	14	14	14	13	12	12	11	13	12	12	10	12	11	10
Template:Fb team Celta de Vigo	2	3	5	8	6	6	6	7	6	6	7	7	8	8	8	8	9	9	11	12	10	10	9	8	8	9	11
Template:Fb team Rayo Vallecano	13	14	16	17	13	9	12	9	9	12	13	11	10	11	12	13	11	11	10	10	12	15	11	14	11	13	12
Template:Fb team Getafe	17	12	15	16	19	14	14	10	12	10	9	10	13	12	13	12	14	14	15	14	15	14	15	13	14	12	13
Template:Fb team Eibar	6	11	14	9	9	8	9	12	11	9	10	12	11	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	10	11	13	14	14
Template:Fb team Elche	20	19	10	13	16	18	16	18	19	17	18	19	19	20	20	20	20	19	16	17	19	17	17	17	17	15	15
Template:Fb team Deportivo	14	15	9	14	15	17	20	15	16	16	17	18	18	19	16	17	16	16	17	16	14	11	14	15	15	16	16
Template:Fb team Almería	8	17	17	11	12	10	10	13	13	14	16	17	17	17	19	16	15	17	18	18	16	16	16	16	16	18	17
Template:Fb team Levante	19	20	20	20	17	19	17	19	20	18	19	13	15	15	15	15	17	18	19	19	20	18	19	18	18	17	18
Template:Fb team Granada	5	4	6	5	8	11	13	14	14	15	14	15	16	16	17	18	19	20	20	20	18	20	18	19	19	19	19
Template:Fb team Córdoba	18	18	18	19	20	20	19	20	18	20	20	20	20	18	18	19	18	15	14	15	17	19	20	20	20	20	20	20

Last updated: 16 March 2015
Source: Liga BBVA

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	32
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	30
3	Neymar	Barcelona	17
4	Carlos Bacca	Sevilla	16
5	Alberto Bueno	Rayo Vallecano	15
6	Antoine Griezmann	Atlético Madrid	14
7	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	13
8	Gareth Bale	Real Madrid	12
	Luciano Vietto	Villarreal
	Mario Mandžukić	Atlético Madrid

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	14
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	11
3	Luis Suárez	Barcelona	9
3	Denis Cheryshev	Villarreal	9
5	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	8
	Isco	Real Madrid
	Koke	Atlético Madrid
8	Toni Kroos	Real Madrid	7
	James Rodríguez	Real Madrid
	Nolito	Celta Vigo

Rank	Name	Club	Goals Against	Matches	Average
1	Claudio Bravo	Barcelona	16	26	0.62
2	Diego Alves	Valencia	19	27	0.70
3	Sergio Álvarez	Celta Vigo	29	26	1.12
4	Carlos Kameni	Málaga	30	26	1.12
5	Gorka Iraizoz	Athletic Bilbao	31	26	1.19

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Barcelona	964,355	87,151	60,005	74,181	+3.1%^†
2	Real Madrid	963,619	85,450	63,634	74,125	+3.8%^†
3	Atlético Madrid	655,958	54,069	37,000	46,854	+1.0%^†
4	Valencia	628,452	51,200	41,084	44,889	+27.7%^†
5	Athletic Bilbao	531,471	48,437	28,000	40,882	+21.7%^†
6	Sevilla	422,191	35,984	19,925	30,157	−1.7%^†
7	Real Sociedad	320,305	28,748	14,836	22,879	−1.7%^†
8	Elche	332,500	31,512	14,162	22,167	−11.5%^†
9	Málaga	309,565	29,025	16,181	22,112	−1.6%^†
10	Deportivo	290,903	30,334	14,167	20,779	−6.2%¹
11	Celta de Vigo	243,416	23,811	14,386	18,724	−11.0%^†
12	Espanyol	245,270	22,732	12,710	17,519	−10.8%^†
13	Villarreal	222,167	23,000	12,284	17,090	+5.0%^†
14	Córdoba	227,032	21,495	13,092	16,217	+44.5%¹
15	Granada	210,152	18,939	14,637	16,166	+5.3%^†
16	Levante	204,754	23,506	10,558	15,750	+3.0%^†
17	Rayo Vallecano	140,749	14,070	7,776	10,827	+6.5%^†
18	Almería	136,275	13,950	8,575	10,483	+2.6%^†
19	Getafe	106,073	10,591	4,570	7,577	+11.1%^†
20	Eibar	60,973	5,859	4,109	4,690	+55.2%¹
	League total	7,216,180	87,151	4,109	26,628	+1.1%^†

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

League table

Positions by round

Results

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Top assists

Zamora Trophy

Hat-tricks

Scoring

Penalties

Clean sheets

Discipline

Attendances

Awards

Number of teams by autonomous community

References