1995–96 La Liga

La Liga

Season	1995 (1995)–96
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)
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

La Liga 1995–96 season, the 65th since its establishment, started on September 9, 1995 and finished on May 26, 1996. Real Madrid's impressive start was cut short by a mass injuries to a key players, and they wound up having an unimpressive season. It was composed of the following clubs:

Albacete

Athletic

Atlético

Barcelona

Betis

Compostela

Celta

Deportivo

Mérida

Espanyol

Rayo Vallecano

Oviedo

Racing

Real Madrid

Real Sociedad

Salamanca

Sevilla

Sporting

Valencia

Valladolid

Zaragoza

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Location of teams in La Liga 1995–96

Tenerife

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Canary Islands

Teams

• Albacete
• Athletic Bilbao
• Atlético Madrid
• FC Barcelona
• Betis
• Celta de Vigo
• SD Compostela
• Deportivo de La Coruña
• RCD Espanyol
• CP Mérida
• Racing de Santander
• Rayo Vallecano
• Real Madrid
• Real Oviedo
• Real Sociedad
• UD Salamanca
• Sevilla FC
• Sporting de Gijón
• Tenerife
• Valencia CF
• Valladolid
• Zaragoza

• 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, wins worth 3 points instead of 2.

League table

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Positions by round

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	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42
At. Madrid	3	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Valencia	19	16	10	9	9	8	5	5	6	5	4	5	5	4	7	6	7	6	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2
Barcelona	7	5	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	3	3	3	2	4	4	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3
Espanyol	6	2	2	2	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	3	2	3	4	2	3	3	4	5	5	5	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Tenerife	8	15	12	12	17	12	8	10	12	12	12	11	10	11	11	8	9	9	9	9	9	6	9	9	8	7	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Real Madrid	1	7	13	13	13	15	13	11	7	8	6	7	7	6	5	7	6	7	6	6	7	8	7	6	6	6	7	6	6	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	8	8	6	6	6	6
R. Sociedad	18	11	15	17	18	13	16	17	15	13	14	14	16	16	13	16	15	17	14	13	12	11	11	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	8	7
Betis	11	5	5	5	4	5	7	7	4	7	7	8	6	7	6	5	5	5	8	8	6	7	6	8	9	8	6	7	7	6	5	4	5	5	5	6	6	7	8	8	7	8
Deportivo	4	11	9	8	5	7	9	12	8	9	10	10	13	10	9	10	8	8	7	7	8	9	8	7	7	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	7	6	7	7	9	9
Compostela	8	4	4	4	6	4	4	4	5	4	5	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	2	4	5	4	3	3	3	3	5	6	6	6	8	8	8	9	9	9	10	10	10
Celta Vigo	13	10	11	15	16	18	19	20	17	18	19	21	21	18	18	14	16	13	11	11	11	12	10	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	11	11	11	11	12	13	11	11	11	11	11	11
Sevilla	13	18	14	14	15	17	18	19	22	21	21	19	15	12	14	15	14	12	13	15	16	19	17	19	20	18	15	16	14	16	15	16	16	17	18	19	17	15	16	17	17	12
Zaragoza	8	13	17	16	10	9	12	8	11	10	13	15	17	17	16	13	11	11	12	12	13	14	14	14	12	13	13	12	11	11	13	13	14	14	15	14	16	17	13	12	12	13
Oviedo	13	9	8	7	8	14	15	18	18	19	15	16	11	14	12	11	12	14	15	16	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	17	15	13	14	12	13	13	13	11	12	13	14	13	13	14
Ath. Bilbao	2	3	7	6	7	6	6	9	10	11	8	9	8	9	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	12	12	13	12	12	13	13	14	15	17	17	18	16	15	13	14	15	16	16	15
Valladolid	17	20	19	19	14	16	14	14	16	16	18	20	20	21	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	21	20	18	19	19	19	19	18	20	20	18	18	18	16
Racing	22	22	22	21	22	19	17	15	19	20	16	12	12	15	15	18	18	16	17	17	17	20	21	20	16	17	17	14	16	15	12	15	12	12	11	12	15	12	12	15	14	17
Sporting	4	8	6	10	11	10	10	6	9	6	9	6	9	8	10	12	13	15	16	14	14	13	13	13	15	15	16	18	18	18	19	18	18	15	14	16	14	16	17	14	15	18
Rayo	21	21	21	22	20	21	22	22	20	22	22	22	22	22	20	20	21	21	20	19	20	16	18	16	17	19	20	19	19	17	17	14	15	16	17	17	19	21	21	19	19	19
Albacete	19	14	16	11	12	11	11	13	14	15	17	18	19	20	21	21	20	18	18	18	18	21	20	17	18	16	19	15	17	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	18	18	19	20	20	20
Mérida	11	17	18	18	19	20	21	16	13	14	11	13	14	19	19	19	19	20	21	21	21	18	16	18	19	20	18	20	20	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	19	20	21	21	21
Salamanca	16	19	20	20	21	22	20	21	21	17	20	17	18	13	17	17	17	19	19	20	19	17	19	21	21	21	21	21	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22

Source: LFP 1–4 5–8 9–12 13–16 17–20 21–22

Note: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup spot (in yellow) being non-related with a position in La Liga, does not appear until the winner is assured to not win La Liga, thus if wins La Liga has a spot in the UEFA Champions League, then 1995–96 Copa del Rey runners-up earns a spot in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Atlético Madrid won his 9th La Liga title in the last matchday, so after matchday 42 Barcelona's places are coloured in yellow. In light yellow the spot expected for 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

	Leader
	1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round
	1996–97 UEFA Cup First round
	Play-off relegation to 1996–97 Segunda División
	Relegation to 1996–97 Segunda División

Results

• Please note that the home teams are read down the left hand side while the away teams are indicated along the top.

	ALB	ATH	ATM	BAR	BET	CEL	COM	DEP	ESP	MÉR	RAC	RAY	RMA	ROV	RSO	SAL	SEV	SPG	TEN	VAL	VLD	ZAR
Albacete		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

Relegation playoff

Home Matches:
RCD Mallorca	1–0	Rayo Vallecano
CF Extremadura	1–0	Albacete

Away Matches:
Rayo Vallecano	2–0	RCD Mallorca	Agg:2-1
Albacete	0–1	CF Extremadura	Agg:0-2

Pichichi Trophy

Name	Team	Goals
Juan Antonio Pizzi	Tenerife	31
Predrag Mijatović	Valencia	28
Bebeto	Deportivo de La Coruña	25
Alen Peternac	Valladolid	23
Raúl	Real Madrid	19
Julio Salinas	Sporting de Gijón	18
Jordi Lardín	Espanyol	17
Lyuboslav Penev	Atlético Madrid	16
Davor Šuker	Sevilla	16
Vladimir Gudelj	Celta de Vigo	15
Juan Manuel Prieto Velasco	Mérida	15

Signings

• Source: http://www.bdfutbol.com/

Team	Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Atlético Madrid	Francisco Molina (Albacete) 0 0 0	Santi Denia (Albacete) 0 0 0	Quinton Fortune (Mallorca) Roberto Fresnedoso (Espanyol) Milinko Pantić (Panioonios) 0	Leonardo Biagini (Newell's Old Boys) Fernando Correa (River Plate (M)) Juan Carlos Gómez (Atlético Marbella) Luboslav Penev (Valencia)
Valencia		Patxi Ferreira (Atlético Madrid) Sietes (Oviedo)	Xabier Eskurza (Barcelona) José Ignacio Sáenz (Logroñés)	Iñaki Hurtado (Valladolid) Viola (Corinthians)
Barcelona		Gică Popescu (Tottenham) 0	Luís Figo (Sporting Portugal) Robert Prosinecki (Oviedo)	Ángel Cuéllar (Betis) Meho Kodro (Real Sociedad)
Espanyol		Nando Muñoz (Real Madrid) Cristóbal Parralo (Oviedo) 0	Goran Bogdanović (Mallorca) Àlex Fernández (Palamós) Alberto Toril (Celta)	Miguel Ángel Benítez (Atlético Madrid) Javi García (Palamós) Ismael Urzaiz (Salamanca)
Tenerife			Pavel Hapal (Bayer Leverkusen) Slaviša Jokanović (Oviedo)
Real Madrid		Miquel Soler (Sevilla) 0	Dejan Petković (Crvena Zvedza) Freddy Rincón (Napoli)	Juan Esnáider (Zaragoza) 0
Real Sociedad	Roberto Olabe (Salamanca) 0	Miguel Ramírez (Colo Colo) 0	Marcus Pürk (Rapid Wien) Joachim Yaw (Norrköping)	Gică Craioveanu (Univ. Craiova) Óscar de Paula (Badajoz)
Betis		Francesc Sànchez Jara (Barcelona) 0 0	Óscar Arpón (Barcelona) José Mari García (Barcelona) Robert Jarni (Juventus)	Pier Loggi (Sporting Gijón) Alfonso Pérez (Real Madrid) 0
Deportivo La Coruña			Rafael Martín Vázquez (Real Madrid) Branko Milovanović (OFK Belgrade)	Aitor Begiristain (Barcelona) Dmitri Radchenko (Racing Santander)
Compostela		Jesús Dulce (Logroñés) Virgilio Hernández (Lleida)	Iñaki Eraña (Logroñés) José Ramón González (Dep. La Coruña)	Festus Agu (Bolívar) José Antonio Vilaseca (Leganés)
Celta de Vigo	Antoni Prats (Mallorca) 0	Andoni Lakabeg (Athletic Bilbao) 0	Geli (Zaragoza) Eusebio Sacristán (Barcelona)	Goran Milojević (Mallorca) 0
Sevilla		Víctor Ferreras (Valladolid) 0 0 0	Joaquim Agostinho (Real Madrid B) Joško Jeličić (Croatia Zagreb) Tarik Oulida (Ajax) Emílio Peixe (Sporting Portugal)
Zaragoza		Paqui Veza (Tenerife) 0 0	Sergio Berti (River Plate) Gustavo López (Independiente) 0	Dani García (Real Madrid) Fernando Morientes (Albacete) Sebastián Rambert (Internazionale)
Oviedo	Carlos Cano (Celta) 0 0	Mitko Stojkovski (Crvena Zvezda) 0 0	Viktor Onopko (Spartak Moscow) Paco Sanz (Real Madrid B) Nebojša Šćepanović (Vojvodina)	Thomas Christiansen (Rac. Santander) 0 0
Athletic Bilbao				Joseba Etxeberría (Real Sociedad)
Valladolid	Diego Díaz (Atlético Madrid) 0 0 0 0 0	Mikel Antía (Celta) Alberto Marcos (Real Madrid) Juan Manuel Peña (Santa Fe) Juan Carlos Rodríguez (Valencia) Marco Sandy (Bolívar) José Luis Santamaría (R. Madrid B)	Álvaro Gutiérrez (Nacional Mont.) Sejad Halilović (Croatia Zagreb) José Luis Mosquera (Mérida) Francisco Ruano (Atlético Madrid) Fernando Sánchez (Real Madrid B) 0	Gregorio Fonseca (Albacete) Raúl Ibáñez (Valencia) Carlos Pavón (San Luis) Alen Peternac (Croatia Zagreb) José Antonio Vilaseca (Leganés) 0
Racing Santander	J.M. Otxotorena (Logroñés) 0 0 0	Txema Alonso (Lleida) 0 0 0		Álvaro Cervera (Valencia) Ilshat Faizulin (CSKA Moscow) Alberto López (Valladolid) Gontzal Suances (Athletic Bilbao)
Sporting Gijón		Fernando Giner (Valencia) 0 0	Ricardo Bango (Sevilla) Iván Iglesias (Barcelona) 0	Eloy Olaya (Valencia) Julio Salinas (Deportivo La Coruña) Rasheed Yekini (Olympiacos)
Rayo Vallecano	Abel Resino (Atlético Madrid) 0 0 0	Alfonso Cortijo (Sevilla) 0 0 0	Stjepan Andrijašević (Hajduk Split) Ezequiel Castillo (Tenerife) Ángel Martín González (Osasuna) Francisco Ruano (Valladolid)	Daniel Aquino (Betis) 0 0 0
Albacete	Yevgeni Plotnikov (CSKA M.) 0 0 0	Alejandro González (Nacional Mon.) Alejandro Sánchez (Atlético Madrid) Petar Vasiljević (Osasuna) 0	Juan Antonio Chesa (Rayo V.) Emilio Gutiérrez (Sporting Gijón) Juan José Maqueda (Valencia) Josico Moreno (Hellín)	Xavier Escaich (Barcelona) Vali Gasimov (Betis) Francisco Luke (Athletic Bilbao) Pedro Riesco (Dep. La Coruña)
Mérida	A. Iruarrizaga (Compostela) 0 0 0 0 0	Alfonso Dulanto (Univ. Deportes) César Mendiondo (Espanyol) 0 0 0 0	Ángel Luis Fernández (Mallorca) David Pirri (Barcelona B) Serhiy Pogodin (Shakhtar Donetsk) 0 0 0	Lluís González (Espanyol) Miguel Guerrero (Bari) Quique Martín (Barcelona B) Nikolai Pisarev (Spartak Moscow) Manolo Sánchez (Atlético Madrid) José Sinval (Servette)
Salamanca	Yosu Anuzita (At. Marbella) 0 0 0	Luis Manuel Arias (Oviedo) 0 0 0	Enrique Ayúcar (Espanyol) Luciano Iturrino (Real Sociedad) José del Solar (Tenerife) Ovidiu Stîngă (Universitatea Craiova)	Claudio Barragán (Dep. La Coruña) Diego Latorre (Tenerife) 0 0

External links

• Spanish La Liga Football Squads (1995–1996)