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Real Sociedad

2016–17 season
President	Jokin Aperribay
Head coach	Eusebio Sacristán
Stadium	Anoeta
La Liga	6th
Copa del Rey	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Willian José (12) All: Juanmi (15)
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The 2016–17 Real Sociedad season was the club's 70th season in La Liga. This article shows player statistics and all matches (official and friendly) the club played during the 2016–17 season.

Squad

As of 31 July 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ARG Gerónimo Rulli (on loan from Manchester City) 2 DF  ESP Carlos Martínez 3 DF  ESP Mikel González 4 MF  ESP Asier Illarramendi 5 MF  ESP Markel Bergara 6 DF  ESP Iñigo Martínez 7 FW  ESP Juanmi 8 MF  ESP Esteban Granero 9 FW  ESP Imanol Agirretxe 10 MF  ESP Xabi Prieto (captain) 11 FW  MEX Carlos Vela 12 FW  BRA Willian José 13 GK  ESP Ander Bardají

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 MF  ESP Rubén Pardo 15 DF  ESP Aritz Elustondo 16 MF  ESP Sergio Canales 17 MF  ESP David Zurutuza 18 MF  ESP Mikel Oyarzabal 19 DF  ESP Yuri Berchiche 20 DF  ESP Joseba Zaldúa 21 DF  ESP Héctor 22 DF  ESP Raúl Navas 23 MF  ESP Jon Gaztañaga 24 MF  ESP David Concha 25 GK  ESP Toño

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  SRB Srđan Babić (at Reus until 30 June 2017) — DF  ESP Alberto de la Bella (at Olympiacos until 30 June 2017) — MF  ESP Eneko Capilla (at Numancia until 30 June 2017)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ESP Pablo Hervías (at Elche until 30 June 2017) — MF  ESP Alain Oyarzun (at Mirandés until 30 June 2017)

Transfers

In

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
7	FW		Juanmi	23	EU	Southampton	Transfer	Summer	2021	N/A	Real Sociedad
25	GK		Toño	29	EU	AEK Larnaca	Transfer	Summer	2018	N/A	Real Sociedad
12	FW		Willian José	24		Deportivo Maldonado	Transfer	Summer	2021	N/A	Real Sociedad

Out

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
24	DF		Alberto de la Bella	30	EU	Olympiacos	Loan	Summer	none	Real Sociedad
18	FW		Alain Oyarzun	22	EU	Mirandés	Loan	Summer	none	Real Sociedad
22	FW		Jonathas	27	EU	Rubin Kazan	Transfer	Summer	none	Real Sociedad
	MF		Pablo Hervías	23	EU	Elche	Loan	Summer	N/A	Real Sociedad
14	MF		Rubén Pardo	24	EU	Betis	Loan	Winter	N/A	Real Sociedad
21	DF		Héctor	25	EU	Granada	Loan	Winter	N/A	Real Sociedad

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Competitions

Overall

Updated to match played 10 Feb 2017
Source: Competitions

La Liga

League table

1. Since the winners of the 2016–17 Copa del Rey, Barcelona, qualified for European competition based on league position, the spot awarded to the cup winners (Europa League group stage) was passed to the sixth-placed team and the spot awarded to the sixth-placed team (Europa League third qualifying round) was passed to the seventh-placed team.

Results summary

source:

Result round by round

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

21 August 2016 (2016-08-21) 1	Real Sociedad	0–3	Real Madrid	San Sebastián
20:15 CEST	Zaldúa  68' Berchiche  87'	Report	Bale 2', 90+4' Asensio 40' Casemiro  50' Morata  54' Ramos  87'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 27,720 Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera

27 August 2016 (2016-08-27) 2	Osasuna	0–2	Real Sociedad	Pamplona
18:15 CEST	Flaño  20' U. García  23'	Report	Juanmi 45+2' González  66' U. García 81' (o.g.)	Stadium: El Sadar Attendance: 16,610 Referee: Alfonso Álvarez Izquierdo

9 September 2016 (2016-09-09) 3	Real Sociedad	1–1	Espanyol	San Sebastián
20:45 CEST	Illarramendi  44' Zurutuza  75' Willian José 78'		Ó. Duarte  14' Piatti 62' R. Duarte  77' Fuego  88'  90+2'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 19,739 Referee: Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva

18 September 2016 (2016-09-18) 4	Villarreal	2–1	Real Sociedad	Villarreal
18:30 CEST	Ruiz  13' Sansone 22', 25' Bruno  80'	Report	Rulli  15' González  28' Berchiche 35' Zaldúa  45'  90+2' Zurutuza  85'	Stadium: El Madrigal Attendance: 18,692 Referee: Carlos Clos Gómez

21 September 2016 (2016-09-21) 5	Real Sociedad	4–1	Las Palmas	San Sebastián
22:00 CEST	Willian José 1', 53' (pen.) Vela 22' (pen.) Zurutuza 35' I. Martínez  61'	Report	Boateng  21' David Simón  52' Tana 56' Araujo  80'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 10,927 Referee: José Luis Munuera Montero

24 September 2016 (2016-09-24) 6	Eibar	2–0	Real Sociedad	Eibar
13:00 CEST	Kike  30' Gálvez  50' Illarramendi 57' (o.g.) Bebé 66' Escalante  78' García  90+1'	Report	Elustondo  24' I. Martínez  26' Vela  29'	Stadium: Ipurua Attendance: 4,798 Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez

30 September 2016 (2016-09-30) 7	Real Sociedad	1–0	Real Betis	San Sebastián
20:45 CEST	I. Martínez  44' Illarramendi  60' Vela 63'	Report	Brašanac  46' Bruno  54' Joaquín  59'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 18,310

16 October 2016 8	Athletic Bilbao	3–2	Real Sociedad	Bilbao
16:15 CEST	Aduriz  6', 60' García  11' San José  41' Muniain 51' Williams 72'	Report	I. Martínez  6', 83' Zurutuza 16' Illarramendi  28' Rulli  39'	Stadium: San Mamés Attendance: 47,428 Referee: José González González

22 October 2016 (2016-10-22) 9	Real Sociedad	3–0	Alavés	San Sebastián
18:30 CEST	Prieto 22' C. Martínez  33' Berchiche  39' Willian José  43', 57' Vela 87'	Report	Feddal  22' Deyverson  38' Katai  45+1' Santos  54' Édgar  89'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 24,224 Referee: Carlos Clos Gómez

28 October 2016 (2016-10-28) 10	Leganés	0–2	Real Sociedad	Leganés
20:45 CEST	Guerrero  15' Pérez  18' Timor  31' Rico  55' Medjani  84'	Report	Willian José 29' Prieto 59' I. Martínez  62' Zurutuza  75'	Stadium: Butarque Attendance: 10,922 Referee: Alejandro José Hernández Hernández

5 November 2016 (2016-11-05) 11	Real Sociedad	2–0	Atlético Madrid	San Sebastián
16:15 CET	Godín  59' Juanfran	Report	Vela 54' (pen.),  65' Willian José 75' Canales  80'  68' Torres  90' Thomas  90+1'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 24,013 Referee: Alfonso Álvarez Izquierdo

20 November 2016 (2016-11-20) 12	Sporting Gijón	1–3	Real Sociedad	Gijón
18:30 CET	Douglas  25' Čop 28' Torres  77'	Report	Prieto 19' Zurutuza 51' I. Martínez 56' Willian José  86'	Stadium: El Molinón Attendance: 25,059 Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera

28 November 2016 (2016-11-28) 13	Real Sociedad	1–1	Barcelona	San Sebastián
21:45 CET	Willian José 53' C. Martínez  62' Zurutuza  89'	Report	Ter Stegen  22' Mascherano  55' Messi 59' D. Suárez  84' Alba  90+3'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 27,639 Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano

5 December 2016 (2016-12-05) 14	Deportivo La Coruña	5–1	Real Sociedad	A Coruña
20:45 CET	Sidnei 13' I. Martínez 29' (o.g.) Andone 42', 77' Çolak  63' Babel 64'	Report	Berchiche 57',  66' I. Martínez  62' Granero  65' Juanmi  86'	Stadium: Riazor Attendance: 20,548 Referee: José Luis Munuera Montero

10 December 2016 (2016-12-10) 15	Real Sociedad	3–2	Valencia	San Sebastián
16:15 CET	Willian José 1', 23' Navas  35' Vela  62' Illarramendi  76' Zurutuza  89' Juanmi 90+1'	Report	Parejo 33' (pen.),  67' Cancelo  53'  82' Montoya  62' Abdennour  67' Bakkali  78', 90+3'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 22,817 Referee: Xavier Estrada Fernández

17 December 2016 (2016-12-17) 16	Granada	0–2	Real Sociedad	Granada
18:30 CET		Report	Granero  53' Bautista 56' Juanmi 69'	Stadium: Los Cármenes Attendance: 12,812 Referee: Daniel Ocón Arráiz

7 January 2017 (2017-01-07) 17	Real Sociedad	0–4	Sevilla	San Sebastián
20:45 CET	Willian José  44' Berchiche  76'	Report	Vázquez  10' Ben Yedder 25', 29', 83' Escudero  39' Sarabia 73' Vitolo  79'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 22,374 Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera

16 January 2017 (2017-01-16) 18	Málaga	0–2	Real Sociedad	Málaga
20:45 CET		Report	I. Martínez 50' Granero  55' Juanmi 62' Illarramendi  70'	Stadium: La Rosaleda Attendance: 18,057 Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz

23 January 2017 (2017-01-23) 19	Real Sociedad	1–0	Celta Vigo	San Sebastián
20:45 CET	Berchiche  66' Juanmi 72',  86'	Report	Planas  28' Rossi  79'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 19,845 Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande

29 January 2017 (2017-01-29) 20	Real Madrid	3–0	Real Sociedad	Madrid
20:45 CET	Kovačić 38' Kroos  39' Ronaldo 51' Vázquez  77' Morata 82'	Report	I. Martínez  6'  74' Rodrigues  71'	Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Attendance: 62,462 Referee: Mario Melero López

5 February 2017 (2017-02-05) 21	Real Sociedad	3–2	Osasuna	San Sebastián
18:30 CET	Berchiche  5' Navas 62' Vela 72' Illarramendi  75' Juanmi 77'	Report	Kodro 25' Čaušić  50' León 79' Torres  90'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 21,893 Referee: Santiago Jaime Latre

10 February 2017 (2017-02-10) 22	Espanyol	1–2	Real Sociedad	Cornellà de Llobregat
20:45	D. Reyes  30' Pérez 35',  78' J. Reyes  90+1'	Report	Vela 26',  85' Illarramendi 61' Zurutuza  90'	Stadium: RCDE Stadium Attendance: 17,849 Referee: David Fernández Borbalán

12 March 2017 (2017-03-12) 27	Real Sociedad	0–2	Athletic Bilbao	San Sebastián
12:00 CET	Illarramendi  26' I. Martínez  50' Berchiche  77'	Report	García 28' (pen.) Muniain  39' Laporte  50' Williams 56' San José  68' Beñat  73' Kepa  79' Balenziaga  90'	Stadium: Anoeta Attendance: 25,652 Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez

18 March 2017 (2017-03-18) 28	Alavés	1–0	Real Sociedad	Vitoria-Gasteiz
18:30 CET	Ely  40' Deyverson 44',  56' M. García  81'	Report	Granero  59'  67' Juanmi  70' Vela  80' Rulli  90+3'	Stadium: Mendizorrotza Attendance: 17,284 Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande

Copa del Rey

Round of 32

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

26 January 2017 (2017-01-26) Second leg	Barcelona	5–2 (6–2 agg.)	Real Sociedad	Barcelona
21:45 CET	D. Suárez 17', 82' Neymar  40' Alba  40' Messi 55' (pen.) L. Suárez  51', 63' Turan 80'	Report	Vela  40' Berchiche  43' I. Martínez  54' Juanmi 62' Willian José 73'	Stadium: Camp Nou Attendance: 58,560 Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Last updated on 21 May 2017.

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		La Liga		Copa del Rey
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	ARG	Gerónimo Rulli	44	0	38	0	6	0
13	GK	ESP	Ander Bardají	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	GK	ESP	Toño	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	ESP	Carlos Martínez	11	0	10	0	1	0
3	DF	ESP	Mikel González	11	0	8+1	0	2	0
6	DF	ESP	Iñigo Martínez	40	4	34	3	6	1
15	DF	ESP	Aritz Elustondo	12	0	4+5	0	3	0
19	DF	ESP	Yuri Berchiche	41	3	35	3	6	0
20	DF	ESP	Joseba Zaldúa	17	0	12+2	0	3	0
22	DF	ESP	Raúl Navas	35	1	31+1	1	3	0
29	DF	ESP	Álvaro Odriozola	16	0	15	0	0+1	0
32	DF	POR	Kévin Rodrigues	2	0	1+1	0	0	0
Midfielders
4	MF	ESP	Asier Illarramendi	39	1	33+1	1	5	0
5	MF	ESP	Markel Bergara	6	0	3+3	0	0	0
8	MF	ESP	Esteban Granero	22	0	8+11	0	0+3	0
10	MF	ESP	Xabi Prieto	43	8	32+6	8	5	0
16	MF	ESP	Sergio Canales	37	0	7+24	0	2+4	0
17	MF	ESP	David Zurutuza	37	3	29+2	3	6	0
18	MF	ESP	Mikel Oyarzabal	43	4	30+8	2	5	2
23	MF	ESP	Jon Gaztañaga	4	0	0+2	0	0+2	0
24	MF	ESP	David Concha	11	0	1+7	0	0+3	0
27	MF	ESP	Igor Zubeldia	4	0	3+1	0	0	0
33	MF	ESP	Jon Guridi	1	0	1	0	0	0
Forwards
7	FW	ESP	Juanmi	41	15	19+16	11	2+4	4
9	FW	ESP	Imanol Agirretxe	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	FW	MEX	Carlos Vela	39	10	31+4	9	4	1
12	FW	BRA	Willian José	34	14	27+1	12	6	2
35	FW	ESP	Jon Bautista	13	3	2+10	3	0+1	0
Players who have made an appearance or had a squad number this season but have left the club
14	MF	ESP	Rubén Pardo	4	0	2+1	0	1	0
21	DF	ESP	Héctor	4	0	2+2	0	0	0

References

1. "Primer equipo" [First team] (in Spanish). Real Sociedad. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
2. Dorsales definitivos para la temporada 16-17 Real Sociedad
3. "Primera División 2016/2017 - Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
4. "Soccer Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Fixtures, Results, Tables - ESPN".

External links

• Club's official website

• Spanish football clubs 2016–17 season
• Real Sociedad seasons
• 2016 in the Basque Country (autonomous community)
• 2017 in the Basque Country (autonomous community)