2012–13 La Liga

Teams

A total of 20 teams contested the league, including 17 sides from the 2011–12 season and three promoted from the 2011–12 Segunda División. This included the two top teams from the Segunda División, and the victorious team of the play-offs.

Villarreal CF, Sporting de Gijón and Racing de Santander were relegated to 2012–13 Segunda División the previous season: Villarreal were relegated after twelve years in La Liga, Sporting de Gijón returned to Segunda División after a four-year tenure in La Liga, while Racing de Santander ended ten consecutive seasons in La Liga, the longest period in its history.

The three teams that were relegated were replaced by three 2011–12 Segunda División sides: Deportivo de La Coruña made an immediate return to the top level as Segunda División champion. The second-placing team Celta de Vigo was also promoted to La Liga after a five-year absence. The third promoted team was decided in the promotion play-offs where Real Valladolid returned to La Liga after two seasons in Segunda División.

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsorship

:1. Huawei is the sponsor for select matches. :2. On the back of shirt. :3. Barcelona makes a donation to UNICEF in order to display the charity's logo on the back of the club's kit. :4. On the shorts. :5. Málaga makes a donation to UNESCO in order to display the charity's logo on the club's kit. :6. On the left sleeve.

Managerial changes

League table

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 LFP Awards.

Top goalscorers

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

Top assists

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.

Source: Marca

Fair Play award

This award was 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.

Source: 2012–13 Fair Play Rankings Season

Sources of cards and penalties: Referee's reports, Competition Committee's Sanctions, Appeal Committee Resolutions and RFEF section about Fair Play

Season statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season: CMR Fabrice Olinga for Málaga against Celta Vigo (18 August 2012)
• Last goal of the season: ESP Piti for Rayo Vallecano against Athletic Bilbao (1 June 2013)

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of La Liga hat-tricks

• 4 Player scored 4 goals
• 5 Player scored 5 goals

Clean sheets

• Most clean sheets: 20
  • Atlético Madrid
• Fewest clean sheets: 5
  • Mallorca

Discipline

• Most yellow cards (club): 139
  • Espanyol
• Fewest yellow cards (club): 56
  • Barcelona
• Most yellow cards (player): 19
  • Cristian Săpunaru (Zaragoza)
• Most red cards (club): 12
  • Sevilla
• Fewest red cards (club): 2
  • Barcelona
  • Real Sociedad
• Most red cards (player): 4
  • Alejandro Arribas (Osasuna)

Overall

• Most wins - Barcelona (32)
• Fewest wins - Deportivo La Coruña (8)
• Most draws - Real Sociedad (12)
• Fewest draws - Barcelona (4)
• Most losses - Zaragoza (22)
• Fewest losses - Barcelona (2)
• Most goals scored - Barcelona (115)
• Fewest goals scored - Osasuna (33)
• Most goals conceded - Mallorca (72)
• Fewest goals conceded - Atlético Madrid (31)

Attendances

FC Barcelona drew the highest average home attendance in the 2012-13 edition of La Liga. !#!!Football club!!Home games!!Average attendance |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || FC Barcelona || 19 || 71,120 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Real Madrid || 19 || 69,988 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Atlético de Madrid || 19 || 44,296 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Valencia CF || 19 || 36,919 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Athletic Club || 19 || 36,105 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Real Betis || 19 || 34,983 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Deportivo de La Coruña || 19 || 29,517 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Sevilla FC || 19 || 28,026 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Málaga CF || 19 || 27,109 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Real Sociedad || 19 || 23,367 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Real Zaragoza || 19 || 22,632 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || RCD Espanyol || 19 || 20,978 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Celta de Vigo || 19 || 19,944 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Granada CF || 19 || 19,669 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Osasuna || 19 || 16,337 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Real Valladolid || 19 || 16,311 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Levante UD || 19 || 14,792 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || RCD Mallorca || 19 || 14,449 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Rayo Vallecano || 19 || 9,650 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Getafe CF || 19 || 8,553 |- |} }}

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