2012–13 Sevilla FC season explained

Club:	Sevilla
Season:	2012–13
Manager:	Míchel (until 14 January) Unai Emery (from 14 January)
Mgrtitle:	Head coach
Chairman:	José María del Nido
Chrtitle:	President
Stadium:	Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán
League:	La Liga
League Result:	9th
Cup1:	Copa del Rey
Cup1 Result:	Semi-finals
League Topscorer:	Álvaro Negredo (25)
Season Topscorer:	Álvaro Negredo (31)
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Prevseason:	2011–12
Nextseason:	2013–14

The 2012–13 season was Sevilla Football Club's 12th consecutive season in La Liga and its first season without participating in European competitions since 2004–05. The team manager in the previous season, Míchel, continued with the team.

Transfers

In

In (6 players)
Player	From	Fee
Diego López	Villarreal	€3,500,000
Hedwiges Maduro	Valencia	Free
Bryan Rabello	Colo-Colo	Free
Geoffrey Kondogbia	Lens	€3,000,000
Cicinho	Palmeiras	€2,000,000
Alberto Botía	Sporting Gijón	€3,000,000

Out

Out (7 players)
Player	New Team	Fee
Martín Cáceres	Juventus	€9,500,000
Arouna Koné	Levante	Free
Frédéric Kanouté	Beijing Guoan	Free
Emiliano Armenteros	Osasuna	Free
Julien Escudé	Beşiktaş	Free
Romaric	Zaragoza	Free
Tom de Mul	Free agent

Loans out

Loan out (6 players)
Player	Team
Javi Varas	Celta Vigo
Alexis	Getafe
Tiberio Guarente	Bologna
Luis Alberto	Barcelona B
Lautaro Acosta	Boca Juniors
Hiroshi Ibusuki	Eupen

Loan returns

Loan return (2 players)
Italics for players returning to the club but left it during pre-season
Player	From
Bernardo	Racing Santander
Javi Hervás	Córdoba
Martín Cáceres	Juventus
Arouna Koné	Levante
Emiliano Armenteros	Rayo Vallecano
Alexis	Getafe
Romaric	Espanyol
Lautaro Acosta	Racing Santander

Promotion from youth system

Promotion from youth system (1 player)
Italics for players who were promoted from youth system but left the team during pre-season
Player	Date of birth (Age)
Álex Rubio	2012 7, df=yes
Hiroshi Ibusuki	2012 7, df=yes

Winter transfers

Loan out

Loan out (2 players)
Player	Team
Bernardo	Sporting Gijón
Antonio Luna	Mallorca

Promotion from youth system

Promotion from youth system (1 player)
Italics for players who were promoted from youth system but left the team during pre-season
Player	Date of birth (Age)
Julián Cuesta	2013 1, df=yes

Players

Long-term injuries

Congenital abnormality in Maduro's heart

Out between: July 2012 – September 2012On 28 July, Sevilla announced that Hedwiges Maduro was suffering from a congenital anomaly in his heart. It was detected in a special examination by physicians during the second part of the team's summer concentration in Costa Ballena, near Rota. The club said days after that the player had traveled to Houston, Texas, for an examination and a full diagnosis. Maduro said after the first extensive revisions made in Spain that his life was not in danger. After being investigated in Houston by Dr. Paolo Angelini, Sevilla medical services made public that Maduro's abnormality would not prevent him from playing football professionally, and he could rejoin the squad as normal, in late August.

Trochowski's knee injury

Out between: September 2012 – May 2013After scoring the first goal of the match against Barcelona on 29 September, Piotr Trochowski had to leave the match with a knee injury. Sevilla's medical services analyzed his illness during the following days. The treatment he received first failed, and doctors thought it was appropriate to operate him in late October in Denver, Colorado. After the surgery, the club told press that the time without playing would be eight months, figuring that his reappearance could be in May 2013, meaning he would miss the remainder of the season.

Called up by their national football team

List of players called up by their national team
Updated to 22 January 2013
4	Emir Spahić		v. (15 August 2012) v. (7 September 2012) v. (11 September 2012) v. (12 October 2012) v. (16 October 2012) v. (14 November 2012)
7	Jesús Navas		v. (15 August 2012) v. (7 September 2012) v. (11 September 2012) v. (12 October 2012) v. (16 October 2012) v. (14 November 2012)
8			v. (15 August 2012) v. (7 September 2012) v. (11 September 2012) v. (12 October 2012) v. (16 October 2012)
16	José Campaña	Spain U19	v. (3 July 2012) v. (6 July 2012) v. (9 July 2012) v. (12 July 2012) v. (15 July 2012)
22	Geoffrey Kondogbia	France U20	v. (13 November 2012)
28	Álex Rubio	Spain U20	v. (17 August 2012) v. (19 August 2012) v. (21 August 2012) v. (22 August 2012) v. (23 August 2012)
30	Bryan Rabello	Chile U20	v. France U21 (10 September 2012) v. (10 January 2013) v. (12 January 2013) v. (13 January 2013) v. (16 January 2013) v. (20 January 2013) v. (23 January 2013) v. (27 January 2013) v. (30 January 2013) v. (3 February 2013)

Match statistics

Updated to 29 January 2013

No.	Pos.	Player
			Liga	Cup	Liga	Cup	Liga	Cup	Liga	Cup
1	GK	Andrés Palop
2	DF	Federico Fazio
3	DF	Fernando Navarro
4	DF	Emir Spahić
5	DF	Cala
6	MF	José Campaña
7	MF	Jesús Navas
8	MF	Gary Medel
9	FW	Álvaro Negredo
10	MF	Diego Perotti
11	MF	Ivan Rakitić
12	MF	Hedwiges Maduro
13	GK	Diego López (Out)
14	FW	Manu
15	MF	Piotr Trochowski (LTI)
16	MF	Antonio Luna (Out)
19	MF	José Antonio Reyes
20	FW	Baba Diawara
21	DF	Cicinho
22	MF	Geoffrey Kondogbia
23	DF	Coke
24	DF	Alberto Botía

Competitions

Pre-season and friendly tournaments

5th Antonio Puerta Trophy

La Liga

See main article: 2012–13 La Liga.

Matches

Copa del Rey

See main article: 2012–13 Copa del Rey.