1999–2000 La Liga
The 1999–2000 La Liga season, the 69th since its establishment, began on 21 August 1999 and ended on 20 May 2000. Deportivo La Coruña won their first league title with 69 points, the lowest for a champion since three points for a win was introduced in 1995.[7]
Season | 1999–2000 |
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Dates | 21 August 1999 – 20 May 2000 |
Champions | Deportivo La Coruña 1st title |
Relegated | Betis Atlético Madrid Sevilla |
Champions League | Real Madrid (First group stage, via UEFA Champions League) Deportivo La Coruña (First group stage) Barcelona (First group stage) Valencia (Third qualifying round) |
UEFA Cup | Zaragoza (first round) Alavés (first round) Espanyol (first round, via Copa del Rey) Rayo Vallecano (qualifying round, via Fair Play) |
Intertoto Cup | Celta Vigo (third round) Mallorca (second round) |
Matches played | 380 |
Goals scored | 999 (2.63 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Salva (27 goals) |
Biggest home win | Atlético Madrid 5–0 Real Oviedo (22 December 1999)[1] |
Biggest away win | Real Madrid 1–5 Zaragoza (4 December 1999)[2] Athletic Bilbao 0–4 Barcelona (11 March 2000)[3] Sevilla 0–4 Mallorca (7 May 2000)[4] |
Highest scoring | Valencia 6–2 Real Oviedo (9 April 2000)[5] Celta Vigo 5–3 Real Oviedo (16 January 2000)[6] |
← 1998–99 2000–01 → |
Promotion and relegation
Twenty teams competed in the league – the top sixteen teams from the previous season and the three teams promoted from the Segunda División. The promoted teams were Málaga, Numancia, Sevilla and Rayo Vallecano. Sevilla and Rayo Vallecano returned to the top flight after an absence of two years while Málaga CF and Numancia were promoted for the first time. However, since CD Málaga played in the 1989–90 La Liga, the city of Málaga returned to the top fight after an absence of nine years. They replaced Extremadura, Villarreal (both teams relegated after a season's presence), Tenerife (ending their top flight spell of eleven years) and Salamanca (ending their top flight spell of two years).
Team information
Personnel and kits
Clubs and locations
1999–2000 season was composed of the following clubs:
Team | Stadium | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Barcelona | Camp Nou | 98,772 |
Real Madrid | Santiago Bernabéu | 80,354 |
Espanyol | Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc | 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 |
Real Oviedo | Carlos Tartiere | 30,500 |
Málaga | La Rosaleda | 30,044 |
Valladolid | José Zorrilla | 27,846 |
Mallorca | Son Moix | 23,142 |
Racing de Santander | El Sardinero | 22,222 |
Alavés | Mendizorrotza | 19,840 |
Rayo Vallecano | Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas | 14,505 |
Numancia | Los Pajaritos | 8,261 |
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | Position in table |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mallorca | Mario Gómez | August 1999 | Fernando Vázquez | September 1999 | 19th | |
Real Sociedad | Bernd Krauss | Sacked | 25 October 1999[8] | Javier Clemente | 26 October 1999[9] | 17th |
Real Madrid | John Toshack | Sacked | 17 November 1999[10] | Vicente del Bosque | 18 November 1999[11] | 8th |
Espanyol | Miguel Ángel Brindisi | Sacked | 17 January 2000[12] | Paco Flores | January 2000 | 17th |
Betis | Carlos Griguol | Sacked | January 2000 | Guus Hiddink | February 2000 | 16th |
Atlético Madrid | Claudio Ranieri | Sacked | February 2000 | Radomir Antić | March 2000 | 17th |
Sevilla | Marcos Alonso Peña | Sacked | March 2000 | Juan Carlos Álvarez | March 2000 | 20th |
Betis | Guus Hiddink | Sacked | 2 May 2000 | Faruk Hadžibegić | May 2000 | 18th |
Atlético Madrid | Radomir Antić | Sacked | May 2000 | Fernando Zambrano | May 2000 | 19th |
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Deportivo La Coruña (C) | 38 | 21 | 6 | 11 | 66 | 44 | +22 | 69 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage[lower-alpha 1] |
2 | Barcelona | 38 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 70 | 46 | +24 | 64[lower-alpha 2] | |
3 | Valencia | 38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 59 | 39 | +20 | 64[lower-alpha 2] | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
4 | Zaragoza | 38 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 60 | 40 | +20 | 63 | Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[lower-alpha 3] |
5 | Real Madrid | 38 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 58 | 48 | +10 | 62 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage[lower-alpha 3] |
6 | Alavés | 38 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 41 | 37 | +4 | 61 | Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round |
7 | Celta de Vigo | 38 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 45 | 43 | +2 | 53[lower-alpha 4] | Qualification for the Intertoto Cup third round |
8 | Valladolid | 38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 36 | 44 | −8 | 53[lower-alpha 4] | |
9 | Rayo Vallecano | 38 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 51 | 53 | −2 | 52 | Qualification for the UEFA Cup qualifying round[lower-alpha 5] |
10 | Mallorca | 38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 52 | 45 | +7 | 51 | Qualification for the Intertoto Cup second round |
11 | Athletic Bilbao | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 47 | 57 | −10 | 50 | |
12 | Málaga | 38 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 55 | 50 | +5 | 48 | |
13 | Real Sociedad | 38 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 42 | 49 | −7 | 47[lower-alpha 6] | |
14 | Espanyol | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 51 | 48 | +3 | 47[lower-alpha 6] | Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[lower-alpha 7] |
15 | Racing Santander | 38 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 52 | 50 | +2 | 46 | |
16 | Oviedo | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 44 | 60 | −16 | 45[lower-alpha 8] | |
17 | Numancia | 38 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 47 | 59 | −12 | 45[lower-alpha 8] | |
18 | Betis (R) | 38 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 33 | 56 | −23 | 42 | Relegation to the Segunda División |
19 | Atlético Madrid (R) | 38 | 9 | 11 | 18 | 48 | 64 | −16 | 38 | |
20 | Sevilla (R) | 38 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 42 | 67 | −25 | 28 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
- Deportivo La Coruña also qualified for the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship as a host nation representative, that ended up being cancelled.
- VAL 3–1 BAR; BAR 3–0 VAL
- Real Madrid qualified directly for the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League as holders. As a result, Zaragoza lost their spot in the UEFA Champions League and had to participate in the UEFA Cup.
- VLD 3–3 CEL; CEL 1–1 VLD
- Rayo Vallecano earned a spot in the qualifying round of the 2000–01 UEFA Cup as being elected by UEFA as one of the two best entries of UEFA Fair play.
- ESP 0–0 RSO; RSO 1–0 ESP
- Espanyol entered UEFA Cup as winners of 1999–2000 Copa del Rey.
- ROV 1–0 NUM; NUM 1–1 ROV
Results
The season results are as follows:
Overall
- Most wins – Deportivo La Coruña (21)
- Fewest wins – Sevilla (5)
- Most draws – Racing Santander (16)
- Fewest draws – Deportivo La Coruña (6)
- Most losses – Sevilla (20)
- Fewest losses – Zaragoza (7)
- Most goals scored – Barcelona (70)
- Fewest goals scored – Betis (33)
- Most goals conceded – Sevilla (67)
- Fewest goals conceded – Alavés (37)
Awards and season statistics
Top goalscorers
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Salva | Racing Santander | 27 |
2 | Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | Atlético Madrid | 24 |
Catanha | Málaga | 24 | |
4 | Roy Makaay | Deportivo La Coruña | 22 |
5 | Savo Milošević | Zaragoza | 21 |
6 | Diego Tristán | Mallorca | 18 |
7 | Raúl | Real Madrid | 17 |
8 | Patrick Kluivert | Barcelona | 15 |
9 | Gaizka Mendieta | Valencia | 13 |
Víctor | Valladolid |
Source: BDFutbol
Zamora Trophy
Goalkeeper | Goals | Matches | Average | Team |
---|---|---|---|---|
Martín Herrera | 37 |
38 |
0.97 |
Alavés |
Fair Play award
Rayo Vallecano was the winner of the Fair-play award with 102 points,[13] moreover it was elected on 8 June 2000 in Brussels as one of the two entries by UEFA to enter UEFA Cup in the qualifying round by the same condition of Fair Play.
- Source: El Mundo Deportivo (newspaper archive, web)[14]
Pedro Zaballa award
Alfonso Pérez, footballer[15]
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