The 2018–19

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commercially known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administrated by the Lig ...

season, also known as LaLiga 1, 2, 3 for sponsorship reasons, was the 88th season of the Spanish football second division since its establishment.

Summary

On 18 January 2019, just one day before the start of the second half of the season, the LFP expelled

Reus Reus () is the capital of Baix Camp, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain. The area has always been an important producer of wines and spirits, and gained continental importance at the time of the Phylloxera plague. Nowadays it is k ...

, due to their failure to pay their players. On 1 June 2019,

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player

José Antonio Reyes José Antonio Reyes Calderón (; 1 September 1983 – 1 June 2019) was a Spanish professional footballer who played mainly as a left winger and also as a forward. He made his debut for Sevilla aged 16 and signed for English club Arsenal in Ja ...

was killed in a car crash in his native hometown

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ahead of the last matchday 2018–19 season.

Team changes

This was the first edition without

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s since the 2002–03 season.

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

League table

Standings

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

Results

*¹ The opponents of Reus awarded a 1–0 w/o win each.

Promotion play-offs

Season statistics

Scoring

*First goal of the season:
Álex Fernández for

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against

Almería Almería (, , ) is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. It lies on southeastern Iberia on the Mediterranean Sea. Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. The city gr ...

(17 August 2018) *Last goal of the season:
''Regular season:'' Nano for

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against

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

(9 June 2019)
''Play-offs:''

Abdón Prats Abdón Prats Bastidas (born 7 December 1992), known simply as Abdón, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for RCD Mallorca as a forward. Club career Born in Artà, Balearic Islands, and a product of local RCD Mallorca's youth system, ...

for

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against

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(23 June 2019)

Top goalscorers

Top assists

Zamora Trophy

The

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was awarded by newspaper '' Marca'' to the goalkeeper with the least goals-to-games ratio. Keepers had to play at least 28 games of 60 or more minutes to be eligible for the trophy.

Hat-tricks

;Note ⁴ Player scored 4 goals; (H) – Home ; (A) – Away

Discipline

Player

* Most yellow cards: 20 ** Manuel Sánchez (Elche) * Most red cards: 3 ** Carlos Bellvís (Alcorcón) **

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(Albacete)

Team

* Most yellow cards: 141 ** Tenerife * Most red cards: 9 ** Deportivo La Coruña * Fewest yellow cards: 42 ** Reus * Fewest red cards: 0 ** Reus

Average attendances

Attendances include play-off games.

Monthly awards

References

External links

La Liga website
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