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Villarreal

2018–19 season
President	Fernando Roig
Head coach	Javier Calleja (until 10 December) Luis García (from 10 December to 29 January) Javier Calleja (from 30 January)
Stadium	Estadio de la Cerámica
La Liga	14th
Copa del Rey	Round of 16
UEFA Europa League	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Karl Toko Ekambi (10) All: Karl Toko Ekambi (18)
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The 2018–19 season was Villarreal Club de Fútbol's 96th season in existence and the club's 6th consecutive season in the top flight of Spanish football. In addition to the domestic league, Villarreal participated in this season's editions of the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Europa League. The season covered the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.

Players

As of 4 September 2018

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  ESP Sergio Asenjo 2 DF  ESP Mario Gaspar (vice-captain) 3 DF  ESP Álvaro 4 DF  ARG Ramiro Funes Mori 5 MF  ARG Santiago Cáseres 6 DF  ESP Víctor Ruiz 7 FW  ESP Gerard 8 MF  ESP Pablo Fornals 9 FW  COL Carlos Bacca 10 FW  ITA Nicola Sansone 11 DF  ESP Jaume Costa 13 GK  ESP Andrés Fernández 14 MF  ESP Manu Trigueros

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  ESP Miguelón 16 MF  ESP Alfonso Pedraza 17 FW  CMR Karl Toko Ekambi 18 MF  ESP Javi Fuego 19 MF  ESP Santi Cazorla 20 MF  CHI Manuel Iturra 21 MF  ESP Bruno (captain) 22 MF  ESP Dani Raba 23 DF  ITA Daniele Bonera 24 DF  MEX Miguel Layún 25 GK  ARG Mariano Barbosa 28 MF  ESP Manu Morlanes

Reserve team

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 30 MF  NGA Samuel Chukwueze 40 MF  GHA Emmanuel Lomotey (on loan from Extremadura)

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 — GK  ESP Ander Cantero (at Rayo Majadahonda until 30 June 2019) — DF  ESP Juan Ibiza (at Almería until 30 June 2019) — DF  ESP Pau Torres (at Málaga until 30 June 2019) — DF  POR Ivan Abramovic (at Huesca until 30 June 2019) — MF  SEN Alfred N'Diaye (at Málaga until 30 June 2019) — MF  ESP Chuca (at Elche until 30 June 2019) — MF  URU Ramiro Guerra (at Gimnàstic until 30 June 2019)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  RUS Denis Cheryshev (at Valencia until 30 June 2019) — MF  ARG Leo Suárez (at Valladolid until 30 June 2019) — MF  ITA Roberto Soriano (at Torino until 30 June 2019) — FW  QAT Akram Afif (at Al Sadd until 30 June 2019) — FW  ARG Cristian Espinoza (at Boca Juniors until 31 December 2018) — FW  TUR Enes Ünal (at Valladolid until 30 June 2019)

Transfers

In

Date	Player	From	Type	Fee	Ref
6 June 2018	Karl Toko Ekambi	Angers	Transfer	€18,000,000
12 June 2018	Gerard	Espanyol	Transfer	€20,000,000
21 June 2018	Ramiro Funes Mori	Everton	Transfer	€20,000,000
30 June 2018	Akram Afif	Al Sadd	Loan return
30 June 2018	Cristian Espinoza	Boca Juniors	Loan return
30 June 2018	Alfred N'Diaye	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Loan return
30 June 2018	Matías Nahuel	Barcelona B	Loan return
30 June 2018	Alfonso Pedraza	Alavés	Loan return
11 July 2018	Miguel Layún	Porto	Transfer	€4,000,000
16 July 2018	Santiago Cáseres	Vélez Sarsfield	Transfer	€10,000,000
9 August 2018	Santi Cazorla	Unattached	Transfer	Free
17 August 2018	Carlos Bacca	Milan	Transfer	€7,000,000

Out

Date	Player	To	Type	Fee	Ref
24 May 2018	Rodri	Atlético Madrid	Transfer	€20,000,000
13 June 2018	Roger Martínez	Jiangsu Suning	Loan return
30 June 2018	Salem Al-Dawsari	Al-Hilal	Loan return
30 June 2018	Carlos Bacca	Milan	Loan return
4 July 2018	Antonio Rukavina	Astana	Transfer	Free
19 July 2018	Rúben Semedo	Huesca	Loan
6 August 2018	Pau Torres	Málaga	Loan
9 August 2018	Adrián Marín	Alavés	Transfer	Undisclosed
10 August 2018	Alfred N'Diaye	Málaga	Loan
14 August 2018	Denis Cheryshev	Valencia	Loan
17 August 2018	Samu Castillejo	Milan	Transfer	€25,000,000
17 August 2018	Roberto Soriano	Torino	Loan	€1,000,000
19 August 2018	Leo Suárez	Valladolid	Loan
19 August 2018	Enes Ünal	Valladolid	Loan
21 August 2018	Ramiro Guerra	Gimnàstic	Loan
31 August 2018	Matías Nahuel	Olympiacos	Transfer	Undisclosed

Competitions

Overall record

Source: Competitions

La Liga

League table

1. ^ Villarreal finished ahead of Levante on head-to-head points: Villarreal 1–1 Levante, Levante 0–2 Villarreal.
2. Valladolid finished ahead of Celta Vigo on head-to-head points: Celta Vigo 3–3 Valladolid, Valladolid 2–1 Celta Vigo.

Results summary

Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

Copa del Rey

Round of 32

Round of 16

UEFA Europa League

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VIL	RW	RAN	SPM
1	Villarreal	6	2	4	0	12	5	+7	10	Advance to knockout phase		—	5–0	2–2	2–0
2	Rapid Wien	6	3	1	2	6	9	−3	10			0–0	—	1–0	2–0
3	Rangers	6	1	3	2	8	8	0	6			0–0	3–1	—	0–0
4	Spartak Moscow	6	1	2	3	8	12	−4	5			3–3	1–2	4–3	—

1. ^ Head-to-head points: Villarreal 4, Rapid Wien 1.

20 September 2018 1	Villarreal	2–2	Rangers	Villarreal, Spain
18:55 CEST (UTC+2)	Bacca 1' Gerard 69' Miguelón  72'	Report	Goldson  17' Arfield 67' Lafferty 76' Dorrans  90+3'	Stadium: Estadio de la Cerámica Attendance: 15,982 Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

4 October 2018 2	Spartak Moscow	3–3	Villarreal	Moscow, Russia
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Zé Luís 34' (pen.), 82' Dzhikiya  81' Fernando  83' Melgarejo 85' Rasskazov  87'	Report	Toko Ekambi 13' Fornals 49' Sansone  52' Gerard  81' Cazorla 90+6' (pen.)	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 21,264 Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)

25 October 2018 3	Villarreal	5–0	Rapid Wien	Villarreal, Spain
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Trigueros  21' Fornals 26' Toko Ekambi 30' Cáseres  41' Barać 45' (o.g.) Raba 63' Costa  73'  79' Gerard 85'	Report	Murg  24'	Stadium: Estadio de la Cerámica Attendance: 14,158 Referee: Halis Özkahya (Turkey)

8 November 2018 4	Rapid Wien	0–0	Villarreal	Vienna, Austria
18:55 CET (UTC+1)	Schwab  75' Berisha  86' Sonnleitner  87'	Report	Cáseres  43' Layún  45' Pedraza  62' Fornals  85'	Stadium: Allianz Stadion Attendance: 22,100 Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

29 November 2018 5	Rangers	0–0	Villarreal	Glasgow, Scotland
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Candeias  36'  45+1' Flanagan  90' Middleton  90+5'	Report	Mario Gaspar  35' Álvaro  90+1'	Stadium: Ibrox Stadium Attendance: 50,171 Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

13 December 2018 6	Villarreal	2–0	Spartak Moscow	Villarreal, Spain
18:55 CET (UTC+1)	Chukwueze 11' Toko Ekambi 48' Álvaro  71' Costa  90' Fernández  90+2'	Report	Lomovitsky  22' Zé Luís  85' Dzhikiya  90' Kutepov  90+1'	Stadium: Estadio de la Cerámica Attendance: 12,903 Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)

Knockout phase

Round of 32

14 February 2019 First leg	Sporting CP	0–1	Villarreal	Lisbon, Portugal
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Acuña  6'  76' Luís  15' Raphinha  45+2' Fernandes  90+3' Phellype  90+4'	Report	Pedraza 3' Fernández  72' Cáseres  90+2'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 27,134 Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

21 February 2019 Second leg	Villarreal	1–1 (2–1 agg.)	Sporting CP	Villarreal, Spain
18:55 CET (UTC+1)	Gerard  51' Fornals 80'	Report	Jefferson  35'  50' Fernandes 45+1' Ilori  51'	Stadium: Estadio de la Cerámica Attendance: 14,098 Referee: Pavel Královec (Czech Republic)

Round of 16

7 March 2019 First leg	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–3	Villarreal	Saint Petersburg, Russia
18:55 CET (UTC+1)	Azmoun 35' Barrios  37' Smolnikov  76'	Report	Costa  14' Iborra 33' Gerard 64' Miguelón  68' Morlanes 71'	Stadium: Krestovsky Stadium Attendance: 51,826 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

14 March 2019 Second leg	Villarreal	2–1 (5–2 agg.)	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Villarreal, Spain
21:00 CET (UTC+1)	Gerard 29' Bacca 47' Ruiz  52' Costa  82'	Report	Shatov  56' Ivanović 90+1'	Stadium: Estadio de la Cerámica Attendance: 14,027 Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

Quarter-finals

11 April 2019 First leg	Villarreal	1–3	Valencia	Villarreal, Spain
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Cazorla  28', 36' (pen.) Álvaro  62' Quintillà  84'	Report	Guedes 6', 90+3' Gayà  39' Wass 90+1'	Stadium: Estadio de la Cerámica Attendance: 17,605 Referee: Michael Oliver (England)

18 April 2019 Second leg	Valencia	2–0 (5–1 agg.)	Villarreal	Valencia, Spain
21:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Lato 13' Parejo 54' Coquelin  88'	Report	Raba  24' Pedraza  34' Funes Mori  53' Ratiu  61'	Stadium: Mestalla Attendance: 26,403 Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Last updated on 19 May 2019.

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		La Liga		Copa del Rey		Europa League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	ESP	Sergio Asenjo	32	0	32	0	0	0	0	0
13	GK	ESP	Andrés Fernández	22	0	6	0	4	0	12	0
25	GK	ARG	Mariano Barbosa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	ESP	Mario Gaspar	40	1	30+1	1	1	0	8	0
3	DF	ESP	Álvaro	41	1	33	1	1	0	7	0
4	DF	ARG	Ramiro Funes Mori	42	2	29+2	2	1	0	9+1	0
6	DF	ESP	Víctor Ruiz	33	0	22	0	1	0	10	0
11	DF	ESP	Jaume Costa	29	1	18+3	1	2	0	6	0
15	DF	ESP	Miguelón	16	0	5+3	0	2+1	0	4+1	0
23	DF	ITA	Daniele Bonera	11	0	4+1	0	3	0	3	0
33	DF	ESP	Pepe Castaño	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
38	DF	ROU	Andrei Rațiu	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
39	DF	ESP	Xavi Quintillà	9	0	7	0	1	0	1	0
Midfielders
5	MF	ARG	Santiago Cáseres	34	0	17+6	0	2	0	7+2	0
8	MF	ESP	Pablo Fornals	50	5	28+7	2	0+3	0	10+2	3
10	MF	ESP	Vicente Iborra	25	4	19	3	0+1	0	3+2	1
14	MF	ESP	Manu Trigueros	34	0	18+6	0	2+1	0	6+1	0
16	MF	ESP	Alfonso Pedraza	45	4	22+12	3	2+1	0	6+2	1
18	MF	ESP	Javi Fuego	11	0	3+2	0	2	0	3+1	0
19	MF	ESP	Santi Cazorla	46	7	30+5	4	1	1	3+7	2
21	MF	ESP	Bruno	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	MF	ESP	Dani Raba	17	2	2+6	0	4	1	4+1	1
28	MF	ESP	Manu Morlanes	16	1	7+3	0	1	0	3+2	1
30	MF	NGA	Samuel Chukwueze	38	8	19+7	5	2+1	2	5+4	1
37	MF	ESP	Iván Martín	1	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0
Forwards
7	FW	ESP	Gerard Moreno	49	13	25+10	8	0+3	1	7+4	4
9	FW	COL	Carlos Bacca	43	11	12+21	6	3	3	4+3	2
17	FW	CMR	Karl Toko Ekambi	43	18	24+10	10	2	5	5+2	3
Players who have made an appearance or had a squad number this season but have left the club
10	FW	ITA	Nicola Sansone	7	1	0+3	1	1	0	3	0
20	MF	CHI	Manuel Iturra	4	0	1+2	0	1	0	0	0
24	DF	MEX	Miguel Layún	15	0	5+3	0	4	0	2+1	0
-	MF	URU	Ramiro Guerra	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
-	FW	ARG	Leonardo Suárez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
-	FW	TUR	Enes Ünal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
-	FW	ESP	Matías Nahuel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goalscorers

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