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The 2009–10 La Liga (known as the Liga BBVA for sponsorship reasons) was the 79th season of La Liga since its establishment. Barcelona were the defending champions, having won their 19th La Liga title in the previous season. The campaign began on 29 August 2009, and concluded on 16 May 2010; all top-flight European leagues ended earlier than the previous season due to the impending 2010 FIFA World Cup. A total of 20 teams contested the league, 17 of which already contested in the 2008–09 season, and three of which were promoted from the Segunda División. In addition, a new match ball – the Nike T90 Ascente – served as the official ball for all matches.

On 16 May 2010, Barcelona secured a second consecutive La Liga title, and twentieth league title overall, following a 4–0 home victory against Valladolid. Barcelona's Lionel Messi won the La Liga award for Best Player for a second straight season.

Real Madrid's 96 points made them the runners-up with the highest points total in the history of Europe's top five leagues, until this was surpassed by Liverpool's 97 points in the 2018–19 Premier League.

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from 2008–09 Segunda División

• Xerez CD (debut in top tier)
• Real Zaragoza
• CD Tenerife

Teams relegated to 2009–10 Segunda División

• Real Betis
• CD Numancia
• Recreativo de Huelva

Team information

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsoring

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Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor	Shirt sponsor (back)	Shirt sponsor (sleeve)	Shorts sponsor	Socks sponsor
Almería	Alfonso García	Juanma Lillo	UDA	None	Andalucía	None	None	None
Athletic Bilbao	Fernando García Macua	Joaquín Caparrós	Umbro	Petronor	Euskadi	Diputación Foral de Vizcaya	None	None
Atlético Madrid	Enrique Cerezo	Quique Sánchez Flores	Nike	Kia	Kyocera	None	Paf	None
Barcelona	Joan Laporta	Pep Guardiola	Nike	UNICEF	None	TV3	None	None
Deportivo La Coruña	Augusto Lendoiro	Miguel Ángel Lotina	Lotto	Estrella Galicia	None	None	None	None
Espanyol	Daniel Sánchez Llibre	Mauricio Pochettino	Uhlsport	Interapuestas.com	Trina Solar	TV3	Abasol	None
Getafe	Ángel Torres	Míchel	Joma	Burger King	Grupo Galco	None	SDS Seguridad	None
Málaga	Fernando Sanz	Juan Muñiz	Umbro	William Hill	Andalucía	Tesesa	Clínicas Rincón Torre del Mar, Málaga 2016 Capital Europea de la Cultura	None
Mallorca	Tomeu Vidal	Gregorio Manzano	In-house/Macron	Illes Balears/Air Europa	Construcciones Llabrés Feliu	ib-red	Meliá Hoteles, Illes Balears	Quely
Osasuna	Patxi Izco	José Antonio Camacho	Diadora	Yingli Solar	NGS Technology	Caja Navarra	Reyno de Navarra, NGS Technology	None
Racing Santander	Francisco Pernía	Miguel Ángel Portugal	SLAM	None	None	Cantabria Infinita	None	None
Real Madrid	Florentino Pérez	Manuel Pellegrini	Adidas	bwin.com	None	None	None	None
Sevilla	José María del Nido	Antonio Álvarez	Joma	12BET	Andalucía	12BET	12BET	None
Sporting	Manuel Vega-Arango	Manolo Preciado	Astore	Gijón, Asturias	Vegasol	Asturias Paraíso Natural, Deporte Asturiano	Asturias Paraíso Natural, Gijón, Deporte Asturiano	None
Tenerife	Miguel Concepción	José Luis Oltra	Puma	CajaCanarias (H)/Tenerife disfruta de todo (A)	Televisión Canaria, Cepsa	Televisión Canaria (H)/Islas Líneas Aéreas (A), CajaCanarias	CajaCanarias, Televisión Canaria	None
Valencia	Manuel Llorente	Unai Emery	Kappa	Unibet	None	None	Herbalife	None
Valladolid	Carlos Suárez Sureda	Javier Clemente	Puma	Caja Duero	En tu corazón Valladolid	Vino Emina Sin	Banco de Castilla, Del Cura y Miranda AXA	None
Villarreal	Fernando Roig	Juan Carlos Garrido	Puma	Aeroport Castelló	None	Canal Nou	None	None
Xerez	Federico Souza	Néstor Gorosito	Legea	Cajasol	None	None	None	None
Zaragoza	Agapito Iglesias	José Aurelio Gay	Adidas	Telefónica	None	None	None	None

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Málaga	Antonio Tapia	Mutual consent	1 June 2009	Juan Muñiz	13 June 2009	8th (2008–09)
Real Madrid	Juande Ramos	End of contract	1 June 2009	Manuel Pellegrini	2 June 2009	2nd (2008–09)
Villarreal	Manuel Pellegrini	Signed for Real Madrid and thus purchased rights for €4m	2 June 2009	Ernesto Valverde	2 June 2009	5th (2008–09)
Racing Santander	Juan Muñiz	Mutual consent	13 June 2009	Juan Carlos Mandiá	26 June 2009	12th (2008–09)
Xerez	Esteban Vigo	Mutual consent	28 June 2009	José Ángel Ziganda	8 July 2009	1st in Segunda División (2008–09)
Atlético Madrid	Abel Resino	Sacked	23 October 2009	Quique Sánchez Flores	23 October 2009	15th
Racing Santander	Juan Carlos Mandiá	Sacked	9 November 2009	Miguel Ángel Portugal	19 November 2009	17th
Zaragoza	Marcelino	Sacked	12 December 2009	José Aurelio Gay	23 December 2009	17th
Almería	Hugo Sánchez	Sacked	20 December 2009	Juanma Lillo	23 December 2009	17th
Xerez	José Ángel Ziganda	Sacked	12 January 2010	Néstor Gorosito	19 January 2010	20th
Villarreal	Ernesto Valverde	Sacked	31 January 2010	Juan Carlos Garrido	1 February 2010	9th
Valladolid	José Luis Mendilibar	Sacked	1 February 2010	Onésimo Sánchez	1 February 2010	17th
Sevilla	Manolo Jiménez	Sacked	23 March 2010	Antonio Álvarez	26 March 2010	5th
Valladolid	Onésimo Sánchez	Sacked	5 April 2010	Javier Clemente	6 April 2010	19th

League table

1. ^ Mallorca could not qualify for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League due to being immersed in a creditor contest, a situation against UEFA criteria. Then, Villarreal was invited to replace this spot.
2. ^ DEP 2–1 ATM; ATM 3–0 DEP
3. Since Atlético Madrid won the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League they earned a spot in the group stage of the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League.
4. ^ VLD 3–3 TEN; TEN 0–0 VLD. As the aggregate score is a draw (3–3), the team with the higher goal difference between these two teams qualifies first and over the other one (Valladolid 18th, with −25; Tenerife 19th with −34)

Results

Awards

La Liga Awards

La Liga's governing body, the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, honoured the competition's best players and coach with the La Liga Awards.

Award	Recipient
Best Player	Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
Best Coach	Pep Guardiola (Barcelona)
Best Goalkeeper	Víctor Valdés (Barcelona)
Best Defender	Gerard Piqué (Barcelona)
Best Midfielder(s)	Xavi (Barcelona) Jesús Navas (Sevilla)
Best Forward	Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

Pichichi Trophy

The Pichichi Trophy is awarded to the player who scores the most goals in a season.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	34
2	Gonzalo Higuaín	Real Madrid	27
3	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	26
4	David Villa	Valencia	21
5	Diego Forlán	Atlético Madrid	18
6	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Barcelona	16
	Roberto Soldado	Getafe
8	Luís Fabiano	Sevilla	15
9	Fernando Llorente	Athletic Bilbao	14
	Nino	Tenerife

• Source: futbol.sportec

Zamora Trophy

The Ricardo Zamora Trophy is awarded by newspaper Marca to the goalkeeper with the lowest ratio of goals conceded to matches played. A goalkeeper had to play at least 28 matches of 60 or more minutes to be eligible for the trophy.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals against	Matches	Average
1	Víctor Valdés	Barcelona	24	38	0.63
2	Iker Casillas	Real Madrid	36	38	0.95
3	César Sánchez	Valencia	29	30	0.97
4	Daniel Aranzubia	Deportivo La Coruña	42	36	1.17
5	Ricardo	Osasuna	45	37	1.22

• Source: futbol.sportec

Top assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Xavi	Barcelona	14
2	Dani Alves	Barcelona	10
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona
4	Guti	Real Madrid	9
	Pedro León	Getafe
	Marcelo	Real Madrid
	Jesús Navas	Sevilla
8	Éver Banega	Valencia	8
	Chory Castro	Mallorca
	Momo	Xerez
	Pedro Munitis	Racing Santander
	Borja Valero	Mallorca

• Source: ESPN Soccernet Archived 30 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine

Fair Play award

This award is given annually since 1999 to the team with the best fair play during the season. This ranking takes into account aspects such as cards, suspension of matches, audience behaviour and other penalties. This section not only aims to determine the best fair play, but also serves to break the tie in teams that are tied in all the other rules: points, head-to-head, goal difference and goals scored.

Rank	Club	Matches								Points
1	Real Madrid	38	85	2	3	–	–	–	–	98
2	Tenerife	38	86	2	2	–	1	–	–	101
3	Deportivo La Coruña	38	68	1	3	–	4	1 Mild	–	104
4	Barcelona	38	73	2	3	–	4	–	–	106
5	Mallorca	38	93	1	2	–	2	–	–	111
6	Almería	38	98	3	2	–	–	1 Mild	–	115
7	Atlético Madrid	38	90	4	3	–	2	1 Mild	–	122
8	Osasuna	38	83	3	6	–	–	2 Milds, 1 Serious	–	123
	Sporting Gijón	38	98	2	2	–	1	2 Milds	–	123
10	Espanyol	38	110	6	1	–	–	–	–	125
11	Racing Santander	38	104	1	1	–	4	–	–	129
12	Villarreal	38	95	5	4	–	1	2 Milds	–	132
13	Athletic Bilbao	38	96	4	5	–	1	2 Milds	–	134
	Getafe	38	107	2	1	–	3	1 Mild	–	134
	Valladolid	38	100	3	6	–	2	–	–	134
16	Valencia	38	113	3	4	–	1	2 Milds	–	146
17	Sevilla	38	101	4	6	–	2	2 Milds	–	147
18	Xerez	38	100	4	5	–	5	1 Mild	–	153
19	Zaragoza	38	129	2	2	–	2	1 Mild	–	154
20	Málaga	38	135	1	8	–	–	1 Mild	–	166

• Source: Guia As de La Liga 2010–11, p. 129 (sports magazine)

Source: RFEF Referee's reports, Competition Committee's Sanctions, Appeal Committee Resolutions, Spanish Sports Disciplinary Committee Resolutions and RFEF's Directory about Fair Play Rankings Legend:

Icon	Term	Points of sanction	Description
	Yellow Card	1 point/yellow card
	Double Yellow Card/Ejection	2 points/double yellow card
	Direct Red Card	3 points/red card
	Games of Suspension (Player)	As many as banned games	When a player is banned for play more than 3 future games. This punishment overrides the possible red card which caused this sanction
	Games of Suspension (Club's Personnel)	5 points/banned game	When some person of the club (not player) is banned for x future games. This punishment overrides the possible red card which caused this sanction
	Audience Behaviour	Mild (5 points) Serious (6 points) Very Serious (7 points)	When the audience makes some altercations such as explosions, flares, throwing objects to the ground, racist chanting, etc.
	Closure of Stadium	10 points/match with closured stadium	When serious incidents happen which are punished by the closure of the stadium
It also accounts cards to non-players
The number in superscript is the corresponding round to the sanction
Important note: This table is not a count of cards and sanctions resulting from the matches, this table takes into account the removal or application of some cards and sanctions by the competent bodies (Competition Committee, Appeal Committee and Spanish Sports Disciplinary Committee)

Pedro Zaballa award

Atlético Madrid and Sevilla supporters

Season statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season:
  Raúl for Real Madrid against Deportivo (29 August 2009).
• Last goal of the season:
  Rafael van der Vaart for Real Madrid against Málaga (16 May 2010).

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Reference
Roberto Soldado	Getafe	Racing Santander	4–1 (A)	30 August 2009
Seydou Keita	Barcelona	Zaragoza	6–1 (H)	25 October 2009
Roberto Soldado	Getafe	Xerez	5–1 (H)	29 November 2009
Lionel Messi	Barcelona	Tenerife	5–0 (A)	10 January 2010
Lionel Messi	Barcelona	Valencia	3–0 (H)	14 March 2010
Gonzalo Higuaín	Real Madrid	Valladolid	4–1 (A)	14 March 2010
Lionel Messi	Barcelona	Zaragoza	4–2 (A)	21 March 2010
Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	Mallorca	4–1 (A)	5 May 2010

Discipline

• First yellow card of the season: Dani Aranzubia for Deportivo La Coruña against Real Madrid (29 August 2009)
• First red card of the season: Leandro Gioda for Xerez against Mallorca (30 August 2009)

See also

• List of Spanish football transfers summer 2009
• List of Spanish football transfers winter 2009–10
• 2009–10 Segunda División
• 2009–10 Copa del Rey

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External links

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