2008–09 Segunda División

78th season of the second-tier football league in Spain March 2023 Segunda División 2008–09 Xerez XerezReal ZaragozaTenerife AlavésAlicanteEibarSevilla Atlético ESP Nino 462 1160 2007–08 2009–10 The 2008–09 Segunda División season (known from that season as Liga Adelante for sponsorship reasons) was the 78th since its establishment. The first matches of the season were played on 30 August 2008, and the season ended on 21 June 2009. Real Zaragoza, Real Murcia and Levante were the teams relegated from La Liga the previous season. Alicante, Girona, Huesca and Rayo Vallecano were the teams promoted from Segunda División B the previous season. The first goal of the season was scored by Alexandre Geijo, who scored in the 11th minute for Levante against Real Zaragoza in the early kick-off. The first red card of the season was given to Paco Peña from Real Murcia after a challenge on Sergio Pachón in their opening match against Rayo Vallecano. The first hat-trick was scored by Sebastián Abreu in the match between Xerez and Real Sociedad. Teams Spain 350 right Location of teams in Segunda División 2008–09 Spain 42.837078 -2.688250 Alavés bottom Spain 38.981136 -1.852131 Albacete left Spain 38.357331 -0.492706 Alicante right Spain 39.996128 -0.038628 Castellón top Spain 42.211842 -8.739706 Celta right Spain 37.872219 -4.764550 Córdoba top Spain 43.181736 -2.475861 Eibar left Spain 38.267111 -0.663272 Elche left Spain 41.127039 1.2728472 Gimnàstic right Spain 41.961197 2.8284917 Girona left Spain 38.357331 -0.492706 Hércules top Spain 42.131881 -0.424581 Huesca top Spain 39.494703 -0.363842 Levante Spain 38.042247 -1.144739 Murcia bottom Spain 40.391828 -3.658586 Rayo Vallecano right Spain 43.301364 -1.973536 Real Sociedad right Spain 40.995508 -5.665058 Salamanca right Spain 37.352275 -5.946197 Sevilla Atlético right Spain 36.689342 -6.120578 Xerez left Spain 41.636472 -0.901828 Zaragoza bottom Spain 35.0 -9.75 Arrows 12x12 sw.svg 18 Canary Islands (see below) Spain Canary Islands 150 right Canary Islands Spain Canary Islands 28.100367 -15.456714 Las Palmas right Spain Canary Islands 28.463289 -16.260528 Tenerife top The 2008–09 Segunda División was made up of the following teams: Team Home city Stadium Capacity Alavés Vitoria-Gasteiz Mendizorrotza 19,840 Albacete Albacete Carlos Belmonte 17,500 Alicante Alicante José Rico Pérez 29,500CastellónCastellónNou Estadi Castàlia14,485 Celta Vigo Vigo Balaídos 31,800 Córdoba Córdoba Nuevo Arcángel 18,280 Eibar Eibar Ipurua 6,267 Elche Elche Martínez Valero 36,017 Gimnàstic Tarragona Nou Estadi 14,500 Girona Girona Montilivi 9,500 Hércules Alicante José Rico Pérez 29,500 Huesca Huesca El Alcoraz 5,300 Las Palmas Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Gran Canaria 31,250Levante Valencia Ciutat de València 26,354 Rayo Vallecano Madrid Teresa Rivero 15,500 Real Murcia Murcia Nueva Condomina 31,179 Real Sociedad San Sebastián Anoeta 39,500 Salamanca Villares de la Reina El Helmántico 17,341 Sevilla Atlético Seville Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán 42,714Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife Heliodoro Rodríguez López 22,824 Xerez Jerez de la Frontera Chapín 20,523 Zaragoza Zaragoza La Romareda 33,608 League table main WDL PR 5 XER Xerez ZAR Zaragoza TEN Tenerife HÉR Hércules RVA Rayo Vallecano RSO Real Sociedad CAS Castellón LEV Levante SAL Salamanca GIM Gimnàstic HUE Huesca ELC Elche CÓR Córdoba MUR Murcia ALB Albacete GIR Girona CDV Celta de Vigo LPA Las Palmas ALA Alavés ALI Alicante EIB Eibar SAT Sevilla Atlético 24 10 8 73 42 C,P 23 12 7 79 42 P 24 9 9 79 47 P 21 15 6 82 43 18 16 8 55 39 17 16 9 48 38 17 14 11 55 42 18 10 14 59 59 16 12 14 59 50 14 15 13 60 50 13 14 15 47 46 13 14 15 52 50 14 11 17 47 54 14 10 18 48 58 13 12 17 42 54 11 16 15 43 54 10 18 14 46 56 10 17 15 46 51 11 10 21 42 64 R 8 11 23 38 69 R 8 11 23 31 63 R 2 13 27 29 89 R TEN 1–2 ZAR; ZAR 1–1 TEN TEN HUE: 7 pts; ELC: 5 pts; CÓR: 4 pts HUE HUE ALI 3–1 EIB; EIB 1–2 ALI ALI green1 Promotion to La Liga P P P red1 Relegation to Segunda División B R R R R 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head goals scored; 5th goal difference; 6th number of goals scored; 7th Fair-play points complete LFP – Liga Adelante Results main FBR ALA ALB ALI CAS CDV CÓR EIB ELC GIM GIR HÉR HUE LPA LEV MUR RVA RSO SAL SAT TEN XER ZAR Alavés 0–2 1–0 0–1 1–2 1–0 1–1 0–3 1–1 1–0 1–3 3–0 2–1 2–2 4–1 0–2 2–1 1–1 2–2 1–2 1–2 2–2 Albacete 1–0 0–2 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 2–1 3–2 1–1 0–3 0–2 1–0 0–1 0–0 2–1 2–1 2–2 2–1 0–1 0–2 1–1 Alicante 0–2 1–2 0–0 2–2 2–2 3–1 0–3 1–3 1–1 1–2 1–3 1–2 0–2 0–2 2–0 1–2 0–0 3–3 2–2 0–1 0–3 Castellón 0–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–1 4–0 2–2 2–1 1–2 0–0 1–1 1–1 4–1 2–0 0–0 0–3 2–0 3–0 2–2 2–2 1–1 Celta de Vigo 2–1 0–0 2–2 1–2 1–0 1–2 2–2 0–2 0–1 2–1 0–1 0–1 2–2 2–2 0–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 1–1 2–0 Córdoba 3–0 1–0 2–1 2–1 3–4 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–0 0–3 1–0 4–1 3–1 2–1 0–1 2–2 0–2 1–1 2–0 1–2 1–0 Eibar 1–0 1–1 1–2 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–2 1–0 2–2 0–1 2–0 1–2 0–0 3–1 0–1 1–1 1–2 2–2 3–2 1–1 2–3 Elche 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–1 3–1 0–1 2–0 2–1 2–2 2–2 1–1 0–2 1–1 2–0 1–2 3–1 2–0 2–4 0–1 2–0 Gimnàstic 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–0 3–0 2–2 1–1 0–0 2–0 3–0 3–1 1–2 2–0 3–1 0–1 2–1 0–0 Girona 0–1 3–3 3–0 1–0 2–2 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 1–0 2–0 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–0 0–1 0–2 1–0 Hércules 3–0 4–1 1–2 0–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 0–0 2–2 3–0 3–2 4–2 4–2 3–2 1–1 1–1 2–2 8–0 3–1 0–0 2–1 Huesca 2–0 1–2 0–1 2–2 0–0 3–1 2–0 3–2 3–2 3–1 0–0 2–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–2 0–0 3–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 Las Palmas 2–1 3–0 0–1 1–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 2–2 2–2 1–1 1–1 1–2 0–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 2–0 0–1 2–3 2–2 Levante 2–3 3–1 2–0 3–1 1–3 3–0 2–0 2–0 2–2 1–1 0–2 1–0 2–2 2–1 1–0 0–2 1–2 2–0 2–1 2–2 2–1 Murcia 1–0 1–0 3–1 2–2 1–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–2 0–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 2–2 1–2 1–4 Rayo Vallecano 2–1 0–3 0–0 4–2 4–1 5–0 4–1 1–2 3–2 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 4–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 3–3 2–2 Real Sociedad 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–3 2–2 0–2 0–0 0–0 0–0 2–0 1–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–2 0–0 1–1 Salamanca 0–0 3–1 2–0 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 4–0 2–2 1–5 2–0 2–2 3–0 2–3 0–1 0–1 6–0 1–2 2–1 1–3 Sevilla Atlético 1–1 1–1 2–3 0–2 0–0 0–2 0–0 0–2 1–3 2–1 1–2 1–1 2–2 1–2 3–3 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–4 1–2 0–4 Tenerife 3–0 1–1 3–1 1–2 3–0 2–0 2–0 3–2 3–2 4–1 3–2 1–1 2–0 5–1 3–1 2–0 1–1 2–3 2–1 2–0 1–2 Xerez 5–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 2–0 0–1 3–0 3–1 1–2 2–2 3–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 5–3 1–1 1–3 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–2 Zaragoza 4–2 3–0 3–0 1–1 3–0 3–1 3–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 2–2 2–2 2–0 2–1 2–1 2–3 2–2 1–0 4–0 1–1 2–1 complete BDFutbol Pichichi Trophy for Top Goalscorers Last updated 21 June 2009 GoalscorersGoalsPenaltiesTeam ESP Nino 294TenerifeBRA Ewerthon285Real ZaragozaESP Marcos Márquez217Las PalmasESP Alejandro Alfaro200TenerifeESP Momo173XerezARG Leonardo Ulloa162CastellónVEN Miku 152SalamancaESP Rubén Navarro151Hércules ESP Rubén Castro143HuescaESP Víctor142Gimnàstic de Tarragona Zamora Trophy for Top Goalkeepers Last updated 21 June 2009 GoalkeeperGoalsMatchesAverageTeamESP David Cobeño35400.88Rayo VallecanoCHI Claudio Bravo28320.88Real SociedadESP Chema41411XerezESP Carlos Sánchez34341CastellónESP Alberto Cifuentes34331.03SalamancaESP Juan Calatayud42401.05HérculesESP Eduardo Navarro39361.08HuescaARG Willy Caballero40361.11ElcheESP Rubén Pérez38331.15Gimnàstic de TarragonaESP Roberto Santamaría45391.15Las Palmas Season statistics Scoring First goal of the season: Alexandre Geijo for Levante against Real Zaragoza (30 August 2008) Fastest goal in a match: 14 seconds – Sergio Rodríguez for Real Sociedad against Alavés (27 September 2008) Goal scored at the latest point in a match: 90+8 minutes – Alexandre Geijo for Levante UD against Albacete Balompié (6 December 2008) Widest winning margin: 8 – Hércules 8–0 Sevilla Atlético (5 April 2009) Most goals in a match: 8 Xerez 5–3 Real Murcia (2 November 2008) Hércules 8–0 Sevilla Atlético (5 April 2009) First hat-trick of the season: Sebastián Abreu for Real Sociedad against Xerez (14 March 2009) First own goal of the season: Ricardo Cavas for Xerez against Valicante (30 August 2008) Most goals by one player in a single match: 3 Sebastián Abreu for Real Sociedad against Xerez (14 March 2009) Rubén Navarro for Hércules against Sevilla Atlético (5 April 2009) Leonardo Ulloa for Castellón against Eibar (14 June 2009) Most goals by one team in a match: 8 – Hércules 8–0 Sevilla Atlético (5 April 2009) Most goals in one half by one team: 5 – Xerez 5–3 Real Murcia (2 November 2008) Most goals scored by losing team: 3 Xerez 5–3 Real Murcia (2 November 2008) Córdoba 3–4 Celta Vigo (8 November 2008) Cards First yellow card: Lillo for Real Murcia against Rayo Vallecano (30 August 2008) First red card: Paco Peña for Real Murcia against Rayo Vallecano (30 August 2008). Teams by autonomous community Autonomous communityNumber of teamsTeams1Valencia5Alicante, Castellón, Elche, Hércules and Levante2Andalusia3Córdoba, Sevilla Atlético and XerezBasque Country3Alavés, Eibar and Real Sociedad4Aragon2Huesca and ZaragozaCanary Islands2Las Palmas and TenerifeCatalonia2Gimnàstic and Girona7Castile-La Mancha1AlbaceteCastile and León1SalamancaGalicia1CeltaMadrid1Rayo VallecanoMurcia1Murcia 2008–09 2 Spain