1997–98 La Liga

La Liga
Season 1997–98
Champions Barcelona
15th title
Relegated Compostela (relegation playoff)
Mérida
Sporting
Champions League Real Madrid (group stage) (via UEFA Champions League)
Barcelona (group stage)
Athletic Bilbao (second qualifying round)
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Mallorca (first round) (Copa del Rey runner-up)
UEFA Cup Real Sociedad (first round)
Celta Vigo (first round)
Atlético Madrid (first round)
Betis (first round)
Intertoto Cup Valencia (third round)
Espanyol (second round)
Matches played 380
Goals scored 1009 (2.66 per match)
Top goalscorer Christian Vieri (24)
Biggest home win Salamanca 6–0 Valencia
(12 April 1998)[1]
Biggest away win Real Oviedo 0–5 Real Sociedad
(19 October 1997)[2]
Highest scoring Salamanca 5–4 Atlético Madrid
(21 March 1998)[3]

The 1997–98 La Liga season, the 67th since its establishment, started on 30 August 1997 and finished on 16 May 1998.

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from 1996–97 Segunda División

Teams relegated to 1997–98 Segunda División

Team information

Clubs and locations

Canary Islands

1997-98 season was composed of the following clubs:

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
Head-to-head
1 Barcelona (C) 38 23 5 10 78 56+22 74 1998–99 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2 Athletic Bilbao 38 17 14 7 52 42+10 65 1998–99 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round bgcolor="white" rowspan=2
4 Real Madrid 38 17 12 9 63 45+18 RMA 2–0 RSO
RSO 4–2 RMA
3 Real Sociedad 38 16 15 7 60 37+23 63 1998–99 UEFA Cup First round 1998–99 UEFA Champions League Group stage 1
5 Mallorca 38 16 12 10 55 39+16 60 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round 2 MLL: 9 pts
CEL: 5 pts
ATM: 2 pts
6 Celta de Vigo 38 17 9 12 54 47+7 60 1998–99 UEFA Cup First round
7 Atlético Madrid 38 16 12 10 79 56+23 60
8 Betis 38 17 8 13 49 501 59
9 Valencia 38 16 7 15 58 52+6 55 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
10 Espanyol 38 12 17 9 44 31+13 53 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round
11 Valladolid 38 13 11 14 36 4711 50
12 Deportivo La Coruña 38 12 13 13 44 462 49
13 Zaragoza 38 12 12 14 45 538 48
14 Racing Santander 38 12 9 17 46 559 45
RAC: 8 pts
SAL: 4 pts → SAL 2-0 TEN
TEN: 4 pts → TEN 2-0 SAL
15 Salamanca 38 12 9 17 46 460 45
16 Tenerife 38 11 12 15 44 5713 45
17 Compostela (R) 38 11 11 16 56 6610 44 Relegation Playoffs 1998
18 Oviedo (O) 38 9 13 16 36 5115 40
19 Mérida (R) 38 9 12 17 33 5320 39 Relegation to Segunda División
20 Sporting de Gijón (R) 38 2 7 29 31 8049 13

Source: LFP
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
1Real Madrid was qualified directly for the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League as holders.

2Since Barcelona, winners of 1997–98 Copa del Rey, was qualified for the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League, losing cup finalists RCD Mallorca earned a spot in the first round of the 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

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
Barcelona 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Athletic Bilbao 17 16 13 15 15 13 11 9 8 8 8 8 9 11 9 8 7 5 6 4 4 5 4 5 6 7 8 7 6 6 6 6 6 3 3 2 2 2
Real Sociedad 20 12 15 8 10 8 7 4 6 5 6 6 6 4 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 4 3 3 3 3 5 4 4 3 3
Real Madrid 10 7 3 3 4 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 4
Mallorca 6 9 2 2 2 4 4 5 7 6 7 7 7 8 10 11 9 8 9 9 9 9 6 6 7 5 7 8 9 8 7 4 4 4 5 5 5 5
Celta de Vigo 7 10 4 4 3 5 5 6 4 3 3 3 5 6 6 6 6 4 7 7 6 6 7 7 5 6 5 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 8 6
Atlético Madrid 9 2 9 10 6 3 3 7 5 4 5 5 3 3 3 3 4 6 4 5 5 4 5 4 4 3 3 4 7 7 8 9 8 7 8 9 7 7
Betis 2 5 12 14 7 9 9 8 9 10 10 12 11 10 7 7 8 9 8 8 8 8 9 8 8 10 6 6 5 5 5 7 7 8 7 6 6 8
Valencia 14 18 18 18 17 16 17 16 17 17 18 17 17 18 19 16 13 13 13 15 13 11 10 11 11 9 10 9 8 9 9 8 9 9 9 8 9 9
Espanyol 3 6 8 7 8 6 6 3 2 7 4 4 4 5 4 4 5 7 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 8 9 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Valladolid 16 20 19 20 20 18 19 19 18 18 17 18 18 17 18 14 16 14 16 18 16 19 19 16 15 14 12 12 13 13 12 11 11 10 11 11 11 11
Deportivo La Coruña 12 13 16 11 11 15 14 14 15 16 12 13 15 14 14 15 17 17 17 14 14 14 11 12 13 12 14 13 14 11 13 12 12 11 12 13 13 12
Zaragoza 13 14 11 13 13 12 15 12 10 11 13 11 10 9 11 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 13 10 9 11 11 10 10 12 11 13 13 14 13 12 12 13
Racing Santander 8 11 6 9 5 7 8 11 14 15 14 15 13 12 12 12 12 11 12 11 11 13 14 14 14 15 16 16 16 17 19 16 14 13 14 14 14 14
Salamanca 15 17 14 16 16 17 18 18 19 19 19 19 19 19 16 17 14 15 14 16 18 15 17 19 19 18 17 15 17 16 17 17 15 15 15 15 15 15
Tenerife 11 8 5 5 9 11 12 10 12 13 15 16 16 16 17 19 19 19 18 19 19 16 18 18 18 16 18 18 19 18 18 18 18 17 16 16 16 16
Compostela 4 3 10 12 12 14 13 15 13 14 16 14 14 15 15 18 18 18 19 17 15 18 15 15 17 19 19 19 18 19 16 19 19 19 18 17 17 17
Real Oviedo 5 4 7 6 14 10 10 13 11 9 9 9 8 7 8 10 11 12 11 12 12 12 12 13 12 13 13 14 12 14 14 14 16 16 17 19 18 18
Mérida 18 15 17 17 18 19 16 17 16 12 11 10 12 13 13 13 15 16 15 13 17 17 16 17 16 17 15 17 15 15 15 15 17 18 19 18 19 19
Sporting de Gijón 19 19 20 19 19 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20

Source: LFP 1-4 5-8 9-12 13-16 17-20

Note: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup spot (in yellow) being non-related with a position in La Liga, does not appear until the team is assured to be qualified. Conditions to be assured are: Copa del Rey winner cannot reach UEFA Champions League's places or one of finalists' Copa del Rey cannot qualify mathematically to UEFA Champions League. Barcelona was qualified to UEFA Champions League since 33rd round, since this round, Mallorca's places are coloured in yellow where place is not of Champions League. In light yellow the spot expected for 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

Leader
1998–99 UEFA Champions League Group stage
1998–99 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round
1998–99 UEFA Cup First round
1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round
Play-off relegation to 1998–99 Segunda División
Relegation to 1998–99 Segunda División

Results

Home ╲ Away ATH ATM BARBETCELCOMDEPESPMLLMERRACRMAROVRSOSALSPGTENVALVLDZAR
Athletic Bilbao 10 30 00 21 20 11 13 31 51 43 11 30 11 10 22 30 03 20 10
Atlético Madrid 30 52 00 33 31 30 02 23 40 21 11 41 22 11 21 22 31 50 21
Barcelona 40 31 13 32 20 21 31 00 31 20 30 21 30 14 21 32 34 12 10
Betis 11 23 02 20 10 10 13 21 21 02 32 11 00 21 21 30 10 30 33
Celta de Vigo 11 11 31 20 33 21 10 10 20 12 21 30 21 41 10 00 10 20 21
Compostela 14 21 22 23 00 00 11 22 30 31 23 10 13 20 20 12 31 00 20
Deportivo La Coruña 30 22 31 20 11 26 11 11 01 41 22 21 11 10 21 10 12 13 21
Espanyol 01 22 11 50 11 10 20 10 00 00 10 00 03 30 11 20 30 20 01
Mallorca 40 21 01 12 42 21 00 22 10 21 00 11 01 10 62 51 21 11 02
Mérida 00 21 12 13 40 33 10 11 00 12 22 21 31 10 10 11 10 00 01
Racing Santander 00 01 24 20 21 11 01 11 01 20 12 00 31 10 41 21 21 12 23
Real Madrid 00 11 23 10 31 21 00 21 20 10 22 51 20 10 30 30 12 31 02
Oviedo 12 02 10 00 31 11 11 11 01 20 01 11 05 20 21 10 00 01 30
Real Sociedad 11 00 22 20 21 51 11 20 10 21 10 42 22 11 21 11 11 30 01
Salamanca 00 54 43 00 01 01 41 21 11 31 00 02 02 00 40 20 60 10 12
Sporting de Gijón 12 23 14 23 01 02 03 10 13 00 21 02 12 02 11 02 03 12 23
Tenerife 02 22 11 31 13 51 00 00 14 11 22 43 10 00 20 21 32 10 00
Valencia 11 41 03 10 21 41 10 00 00 30 61 02 11 32 01 22 12 12 21
Valladolid 30 21 12 13 00 41 10 00 00 00 00 11 10 04 12 11 21 03 40
Zaragoza 11 15 12 31 10 22 12 11 23 11 20 22 33 00 11 00 10 02 00

Source: LFP (Spanish)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Relegation playoff

Home Matches:
Villarreal CF 0–0 SD Compostela
Real Oviedo 3–0 UD Las Palmas
Away Matches:
SD Compostela 1–1 Villarreal CF Agg:1-1(ag)
UD Las Palmas 3–1 Real Oviedo Agg:3-4

Awards

Pichichi Trophy

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

Rank Goalscorers Goals Club
1
Italy Christian Vieri
24
Atlético Madrid
2
Brazil Rivaldo
19
Barcelona
3
Spain Luis Enrique
18
Barcelona
4
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Darko Kovačević
17
Real Sociedad
5
Bulgaria Lyuboslav Penev
16
Compostela
6
Portugal Pauleta
15
Salamanca
7
Uruguay Fernando Correa
14
Racing Santander
8
Argentina Juan Esnáider
13
Espanyol
Croatia Alen Peternac
13
Valladolid
Argentina Gabriel Amato
13
Mallorca

Zamora Trophy

The Zamora Trophy is awarded to the goalkeeper with least goals to games ratio.

Rank Goalkeeper Goals Matches Average Team
1
Spain Toni Jiménez
31
37
0.84
Espanyol
2
Spain Alberto López
37
38
0.97
Real Sociedad
3
Romania Bogdan Stelea
32
30
1.07
Salamanca
4
Spain Imanol Etxeberria
42
38
1.11
Athletic Bilbao
5
Spain Andoni Zubizarreta
40
34
1.18
Valencia

Signings

Source: http://www.bdfutbol.com/es/t/t1996-97.html

Team Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards
Barcelona Netherlands Ruud Hesp (Roda)

Netherlands Winston Bogarde (Milan)
Netherlands Michael Reiziger (Milan)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragan Ćirić (Partizan)

Brazil Sonny Anderson (Monaco)
France Christophe Dugarry (Milan)
Brazil Rivaldo (Dep. La Coruña)
Athletic Bilbao Spain Rafael Alkorta (Real Madrid)
Spain Patxi Ferreira (Valencia)
Spain Jesús Lacruz (Osasuna)
Spain Mikel Lasa (Real Madrid)
Spain Roberto Ríos (Betis)
Spain Gaizka Garitano (Lleida)
Spain Javi González (Celta)
Spain Txomin Nagore (Osasuna)

Spain Aitor Huegun (Eibar)



Real Sociedad Spain Mikel Antía (Valladolid)
Spain Iker Sarriegi (Eibar)
Austria Dietmar Kühbauer (Rapid Wien)
Croatia Igor Cvitanović (Croatia Zagreb)
Portugal Ricardo Sá Pinto (Sporting Portugal)
Real Madrid Spain Aitor Karanka (Athletic Bilbao)
Brazil Sávio Bortolini (Flamengo)
France Christian Karembeu (Sampdoria)
Spain Manuel Canabal (Mérida)
Spain Fernando Morientes (Zaragoza)
Mallorca Argentina Carlos Roa (Lanús)




Spain Iván Campo (Valencia)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milan Milijaš (Zemun)
Spain Enrique Romero (Valencia)


Spain Vicente Engonga (Valencia)
Spain Xabier Eskurza (Valencia)
Argentina Óscar Mena (Lanús)
Brazil Palhinha (Cruzeiro)
Spain Paco Sanz (Racing Santander)
Spain Juan Carlos Valerón (Las Palmas)
Argentina Gabriel Amato (Hércules)
Spain Gabi Moya (Valencia)



Celta Vigo Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Goran Đorović (Crvena Zvezda)
Norway Dan Eggen (Brøndby)
Spain Michel Salgado (Salamanca)
Spain Ito Álvarez (Extremadura)
Portugal Bruno Caires (Benfica)
Russia Valeri Karpin (Valencia)
Portugal Jorge Cadete (Celtic)

Atlético Madrid Spain Pedro Jaro (Betis)


Argentina Cristian Dáiz (Málaga)
Brazil Andrei Frascarelli (At. Paranaense)
Spain Ramón González (Valladolid)
Portugal Paulo Futre (West Ham)
Israel Avi Nimni (Maccabi Tel Aviv)

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Rade Bogdanović (JEF United)
Spain Jordi Lardín (Espanyol)
Spain José Mari Romero (Sevilla)
Italy Christian Vieri (Juventus)
Betis Spain Jorge Otero (Valencia)
Spain Roberto Solozábal (At. Madrid)
Spain Joaquín Valerio (Albacete)
Spain Fernando Sánchez (Valladolid)

Spain Oli Álvarez (Oviedo)
Spain Ángel Cuéllar (Barcelona)
Spain Iván Pérez (Extremadura)
Valencia Argentina Gustavo Campagnuolo (Dep. Español)




France Jocelyn Angloma (Internazionale)
Italy Amedeo Carboni (Roma)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Miroslav Đukić (Dep. La Coruña)
Spain Juanfran García (Levante)

Brazil Marcelinho Carioca (Corinthians)
Spain Gerard López (Barcelona B)
Spain Luis Milla (Real Madrid)
Argentina Guillermo Morigi (Vélez Sarsfield)
Algeria Moussa Saïb (Auxerre)
Peru José del Solar (Celta)
Romania Adrian Ilie (Galatasaray)
Uruguay Nico Olivera (Defensor)



Espanyol Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Goran Milošević (Iraklis)

Spain Roberto Fresnedoso (At. Madrid)
Romania Constantin Gâlcă (Mallorca)
Spain José Mari García (Alavés)
Argentina Juan Esnáider (Atlético Madrid)
Spain Quique Martín (Mérida)
Valladolid Spain José Belman (Zaragoza)

Uruguay Chavo Díaz (River Plate (M))
Spain José García Calvo (Real Madrid)
Argentina Gabriel Heinze (Newell's Old Boys)
Spain Chema Jiménez (Atlético Madrid B)
Spain Eusebio Sacristán (Celta)
Spain Juan Carlos Gómez
Argentina Diego Klimowicz (Rayo Vallecano)
Deportivo La Coruña Nigeria Peter Rufai (Hércules)


Spain Luis Ramis (Sevilla)
Argentina Lionel Scaloni (Estudiantes LP)

Brazil Djalminha (Palmeiras)
Morocco Mustapha Hadji (Sporting Port.)

Uruguay Sebastián Abreu (San Lorenzo)
Morocco Salaheddine Bassir (Al-Hilal)
Brazil Luizão Goulart (Palmeiras)
Uruguay Manteca Martínez (Boca Juniors)
Zaragoza Sweden Gary Sundgren (AIK)


Paraguay Roberto Acuña (Independiente)
Spain José Ignacio Sáenz (Valencia)
Spain Marcos Vales (Sporting Gijón)
Netherlands Nordin Wooter (Ajax)
Spain Yordi González (Atlético Madrid)
Brazil Paulo Jamelli (Kashiwa Reysol)
Spain Pier Loggi (Betis)
Racing Santander Spain José Manuel Sietes (Valencia)
Uruguay Washington Tais (Peñarol)

Uruguay Nelson Abeijón (Nacional Montev.)
Spain Ignacio Conte (Tenerife)
Spain José Félix Guerrero (Eibar)
Portugal Hugo Porfírio (Sporting Portugal)
Guinea-Bissau Nando Có (Vitória Setubal)


Salamanca Romania Bogdan Stelea (Steaua)




Portugal Rogerio Brito (Os Belenenses)
Spain Sergio Korino (Athletic Bilbao)
Italy Marco Lanna (Roma)
Argentina Gustavo Lombardi (River Plate)
Croatia Dubravko Pavličić (Hércules)
Belgium Axel Smeets (Gent)
Spain Edu Alonso (Athletic Bilbao)
Romania Gabi Popescu (University of Craiova)
Portugal Manuel Tulipa (Boavista)


Israel Ronen Harazi (Beitar)
Argentina Walter Silvani (Extremadura)



Tenerife Spain Juan Carlos Unzué (Sevilla)
Brazil André Luiz Moreira (Corinthians)
Netherlands Ferdi Vierklau (Vitesse)
Brazil Emerson Costa (Mifddlebrough)
Slovakia Samuel Slovák (Slovan Bratislava)
Netherlands Roy Makaay (Vitesse)
Portugal Domingos Paciência (Porto)
Compostela Netherlands René Ponk (Utrecht)



Spain Francisco Agirretxu (Celta)
Spain Toño Castro (Almería)
France Jean-Fr. Hernandez (Ol. Marseille)
France Pignol (Aubargne)
Spain Óscar Tabuenka (Athletic Bilbao)
Netherlands Romano Sion (Emmen)



Oviedo Argentina José María Buljubasich (Lleida)
Panama Joyce Moreno (Real Madrid B)
Argentina Roberto Pompei (Boca Juniors)
Panama Julio Dely Valdés (PSG)
Uruguay Juan González (Nacional Montev.)
Mérida Argentina Leo Franco (Independiente)
Colombia Carlos N. Montoya (Extremadura)



Spain Pablo Alfaro (Atlético Madrid)
Spain José Cortés (Extremadura)
Spain Ramón de Quintana (Rayo Vallec.)


Spain Marcos Martín (Sevilla)
Spain Pirri Mori (Compostela)
Spain Francisco Ruano (Levante)
Uruguay Gonzalo de los Santos (Peñarol)

Spain David Ávila (Barcelona B)
Argentina Leonardo Biagini (Atlético Madrid)
Brazil Cléber Eduardo (At. Paranaense)
Argentina Iván Gabrich (Ajax)
Russia Dmitri Radchenko (Rayo Vallecano)
Spain Juan Sabas (Betis)
Sporting Gijón Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragoje Leković (Kilmarnock)



Spain Carles Mingo (Barcelona B)
Argentina Roberto Trotta (Rac. Avellaneda)


Spain José Manuel Colmenero (Mallorca)
Spain Mario Cotelo (Badajoz)
Brazil Rodrigão Días (Sporting Braga)
Russia Alexei Kosolapov (Lokomotiv Mos.)
Spain Antonio Poyatos (Valencia)
Poland Cezary Kucharski (Legia)
Spain Kaiku Martín (Levante)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vladimir Popović (Zemun)

See also

References

  1. "Salamanca 6-0 Valencia". LFP. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
  2. "Real Oviedo 0–5 Real Sociedad". LFP. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
  3. "Salamanca 5-4 Atlético Madrid". LFP. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
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