1929 La Liga Explained

Competition:Primera División
Season:1929
Winners:Barcelona (1st title)
League Topscorer:Paco Bienzobas
(Real Sociedad, 17 goals)
Matches:90
Total Goals:383
Longest Wins:6 matches
Arenas
Barcelona
Longest Unbeaten:11 matches
Barcelona
Longest Winless:7 matches
Racing Santander
Longest Losses:7 matches
Racing Santander
Nextseason:1929–30

The 1929 Primera División season was the inaugural season of the Primera División. It started on 10 February 1929 and finished on 23 June 1929. A total of 10 teams participated in the league.

After the failure to create a national league in 1928, that ended with the teams split into two unconcluded leagues, an agreement with the Royal Spanish Football Federation was finally reached for the creation of a national league.

Barcelona won the title after beating Real Unión in the last round and taking advantage of the loss of Real Madrid at Athletic Bilbao. Therefore, the Catalans were proclaimed the inaugural champions.

Election of teams

After months of discussion, on 23 November 1928 the creation of a championship divided in divisions was finalized.

The first division would be joined by the six teams that won any time the Spanish Championship (Arenas, Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Real Sociedad and Real Unión) and three teams that qualified for at least one final (Athletic Madrid, Español and Europa).

The tenth place would be decided in a tournament where only the winner would join La Liga, while the rest of the participant teams played the Segunda División with Racing Madrid.

Qualifying tournament

Racing Santander achieved the last place in the inaugural season of La Liga after beating Sevilla in the second tie-break match.

Team information

ClubCityStadium
San Mamés
Metropolitano
Les Corts
Sarriá
El Guinardó
El Sardinero
Chamartín
Atocha
Gal

Relegation play-off

Last placed team Racing Santander faced Sevilla, winner of the 1929 Segunda División, in a two-legged play-off. Racing won 3–2 on aggregate, thus remaining in La Liga.

Top scorers

RankGoalscorersGoalTeam
1 Paco Bienzobas17Real Sociedad
2 Cosme Vázquez15Athletic Madrid
3 Luis Marín12Athletic Madrid
LafuenteAthletic Bilbao
5 Manuel Parera11Barcelona
Manuel CrosEuropa
José María YermoArenas
Luis RegueiroReal Unión
Santiago UrtizbereaReal Unión
Jaime LazcanoReal Madrid
Gaspar RubioReal Madrid
Source:[1]

Note: This list is the alternative top scorers list provided by newspaper Diario Marca, it differs from the one above which is based on official match reports

GoalscorersGoalTeam
Paco BienzobasReal Sociedad
LafuenteAthletic Bilbao
Luis RegueiroReal Unión
Gaspar RubioReal Madrid

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. http://www.bdfutbol.com/en/t/t1928-29.html BDFútbol.com