2009–10 Sevilla FC season

Sevilla

2009–10 season
President	José María del Nido
Head coach	Manolo Jiménez (until 24 Mar) Antonio Álvarez (from 24 Mar)
La Liga	4th
Copa del Rey	Winners
UEFA Champions League	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Luís Fabiano (15) All: Luís Fabiano (21)
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The 2009–10 Sevilla FC season is the club's ninth consecutive season in La Liga. Manolo Jiménez was the team coach until 24 March 2010. On 19 May 2010, Sevilla won the Copa del Rey for the fifth time.^[1]

Category	Trophy	Started round	First match	Result	Last match
Friendly Trophy	2009 Peace Cup	Group Stage	24 July 2009	Group Stage	26 July 2009
	55th Ramón de Carranza Trophy	Semi-final	14 August 2009	Winner	15 August 2009
	2nd Antonio Puerta Trophy	Final	21 August 2009	Winner	21 August 2009
Competitive	Liga BBVA	—	30 August 2009	4th	15 May 2010
	Copa del Rey	Round of 32	27 October 2009	Winner	19 May 2010
	UEFA Champions League	Group Stage	16 September 2009	Round of 16	16 March 2010

Biggest win
	Home				Away
La Liga	12 September 2009	Matchday 2	v. Real Zaragoza	4–1	26 September 2009	Matchday 5	v. Athletic Bilbao	0–4
	3 April 2010	Matchday 30	v. Tenerife	3–0	5 May 2010	Matchday 36	v. Racing Santander	1–5
	17 April 2010	Matchday 33	v. Sporting Gijón
Copa del Rey	10 November 2009	Round of 32, 2nd leg	v. Atlético Ciudad	5–1	20 January 2010	Quarter-finals, 1st leg	v. Deportivo	0–3
Champions League	16 September 2009	Group Stage, Matchday 1	v. Unirea Urziceni	2–0	29 September 2009	Group Stage, Matchday 2	v. Rangers	1–4
Biggest loss
	Home				Away
Liga BBVA	19 December 2009	Matchday 15	v. Getafe	1–2	16 January 2010	Matchday 18	v. Barcelona	4–0
	9 January 2010	Matchday 17	v. Racing Santander
	8 May 2010	Matchday 37	v. Barcelona	2–3
Copa del Rey	13 January 2010	Round of 16, 2nd leg	v. Barcelona	0–1	10 February 2010	Semifinals, 2nd leg	v. Getafe	1–0
	27 January 2010	Quarterfinals, 2nd leg	v. Deportivo
Champions League	16 March 2010	Round of 16, 2nd leg	v. CSKA Moscow	1–2	24 November 2009	Group Stage, Matchday 5	v. Unirea Urziceni	1–0

Player	From	Fee
Sergio Sánchez	Espanyol	€3,000,000
Álvaro Negredo	Real Madrid (was on loan at Almería)	€14,000,000
Didier Zokora	Tottenham Hotspur	€10,000,000

Player	New Team	Fee
Aquivaldo Mosquera	América	€4,200,000
Pablo Ruiz	Cartagena (he was playing on loan in Córdoba)	Free
Duda	Málaga	€400,000
Enzo Maresca	Olympiacos	€1,200,000
Morgan De Sanctis	Napoli (he was playing on loan in Galatasaray)	€1,700,000

Player	From
Tom De Mul	Genk
Lolo	Málaga

Player	Team
José Ángel Crespo	Racing Santander
Alejandro Alfaro	Tenerife
Emiliano Armenteros	Xerez
José Manuel Casado
David Prieto

Player	From
Marius Stankevičius	Sampdoria

Player	Team
Javier Chevantón	Atalanta
Arouna Koné	Hannover 96

Players called during season from Sevilla Atlético and Sevilla C.

No	Player	Position	Called For First Time
30	José Carlos	MF	v Athletic Bilbao (26 September 2009)
34	Marc Valiente	DF	v Atlético Ciudad (10 November 2009)
33	Manuel Redondo	DF	v Tenerife (21 November 2009)
28	Cala	DF	v Sporting Gijón (13 December 2009)
26	Dani Jiménez	GK	v Atlético Madrid (2 January 2010)
27	Enrique Carreño	FW	v Racing Santander (9 January 2010)
31	Rodri	FW	v CSKA Moscow (24 February 2010)
42	Luis Alberto[2]	FW	v Xerez (23 March 2010)
37	Antonio Luna	DF	v Almería (15 May 2010)

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ESP Andrés Palop (captain) 2 DF  ARG Federico Fazio 3 DF  SRB Ivica Dragutinović 4 DF  FRA Sébastien Squillaci 5 MF  ARG Aldo Duscher 6 MF  BRA Adriano 7 MF  ESP Jesús Navas 8 MF  CIV Didier Zokora 10 FW  BRA Luís Fabiano 11 MF  BRA Renato 12 FW  MLI Frédéric Kanouté 13 GK  ESP Javi Varas 14 DF  FRA Julien Escudé 15 DF  LTU Marius Stankevičius (On loan from Sampdoria; No. 35 in UCL) 16 MF  ESP Diego Capel 18 DF  ESP Fernando Navarro

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW  ESP Álvaro Negredo 20 MF  BEL Tom De Mul 21 MF  ARG Lautaro Acosta 22 MF  CIV Romaric 23 DF  ESP Lolo 24 DF  FRA Abdoulay Konko 25 MF  ARG Diego Perotti 26 GK  ESP Dani Jiménez 27 FW  ESP Enrique Carreño 28 DF  ESP Cala 30 MF  ESP José Carlos 31 FW  ESP Rodri 33 DF  ESP Manuel Redondo 34 DF  ESP Marc Valiente 37 DF  ESP Antonio Luna 42 FW  ESP Luis Alberto [3]

On 1 January 2010, Sevilla's medical services detected some cardiac pathology in Sergio Sánchez's heart and they recommended to him to stop his activity with the team.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  ESP Sergio Sánchez [4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 FW  MLI Frédéric Kanouté (Out between 11 Jan and 20 Jan) 8 MF  CIV Didier Zokora (Out between 11 Jan and 24 Jan)

Updated to 4 April 2010

No. Player Pos. Status Played Minutes Sanctioned against 1 Andrés Palop GK 25 −31 1 0 2378 None yet 2 Federico Fazio DF 7 1 0 0 630 None yet 3 Ivica Dragutinović DF 17 2 6 0 1604 x5 v. Valencia (31 Jan) 4 Sébastien Squillaci DF 13 1 4 0 1031 None yet 5 Aldo Duscher MF 10 0 5 1 636 v. Racing Santander (9 Jan) 6 Gatão MF 21 0 5 0 1681 x5 v. Málaga (10 Apr) 7 Jesús Navas MF 26 3 4 0 2109 None yet 8 Didier Zokora MF 20 0 8 1 1729 x5 v. Real Valladolid (5 Dec) v. Athletic Bilbao (28 Feb) 9 Arouna Koné FW Out 12 0 1 0 371 None yet 10 Luís Fabiano FW 17 10 7 0 1246 x5 v. Sporting Gijón (13 Dec) 11 Renato MF 26 4 2 0 2120 None yet 12 Frédéric Kanouté FW 20 7 5 1 1312 v. Real Zaragoza (12 Sep) 13 Javi Varas GK 5 –4 0 0 477 None yet 14 Julien Escudé DF 17 0 4 0 1599 None yet 15 Marius Stankevičius DF 12 0 3 1 1101 v. Osasuna (14 Feb) Javier Chevantón FW Out 1 0 0 0 12 None yet 16 Diego Capel MF 23 0 3 0 1027 None yet 17 Sergio Sánchez DF 7 0 3 0 559 None yet 18 Fernando Navarro DF 24 0 8 0 2078 x5 v. Real Zaragoza (7 Feb) 19 Álvaro Negredo FW 28 7 0 2 1772 v. Osasuna (14 Feb) v. Athletic Bilbao (28 Feb) 20 Tom De Mul MF 0 0 0 0 0 None yet 21 Lautaro Acosta MF 5 0 0 0 163 None yet 22 Romaric MF 15 1 3 1 785 v. Real Madrid (6 Mar) 23 Lolo DF 15 0 2 0 711 None yet 24 Abdoulay Konko DF 15 1 1 0 1175 None yet 25 Diego Perotti MF 26 4 4 0 1742 None yet 26 Dani Jiménez GK 0 0 0 0 0 None yet 27 Enrique Carreño FW 1 0 0 0 46 None yet 28 Cala DF 1 0 0 0 96 None yet 30 José Carlos MF 7 1 0 0 235 None yet 31 Rodri FW 1 0 0 0 4 None yet 33 Manuel Redondo DF 0 0 0 0 0 None yet 34 Marc Valiente DF 3 0 2 0 183 None yet 36 Luis Alberto FW 0 0 0 0 0 None yet

Yellow cards Red cards Goals scored Received, if the number is negative (only for GK) x5 Sanctioned by the accumulation of 5 yellow cards Every 5 yellow cards, the player misses next match Sanctioned by double yellow card Sanctioned by sent off Ready to play Injured Out Out on loan From winter transfers to the end of the season € Sold during winter transfers Leader in this statistic

• All times are in GMT

GROUP A	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Juventus	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	6
Sevilla	2	0	1	1	1	2	-1	1
Seongnam Ilhwa	2	0	1	1	0	3	-3	1

	Semi-finals				Final
	13 August – Cádiz
	Cádiz	1
					15 August – Cádiz
	Deportivo	3
					Deportivo	0
	14 August – Cádiz
					Sevilla FC	1
	Sevilla	2
	Valencia	0
					Third place
					15 August – Cádiz
					Cádiz	2
					Valencia	1

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Result against	VAL	ZAR	OSA	MLL	ATH	RMA	DEP	ESP	XER	VIL	TEN	MGA	VAD	SPG	GET	ATM	RAC	FCB	ALM	VAL	ZAR	OSA	MLL	ATH	RMA	DEP	ESP	XER	VIL	TEN	MGA	VAD	SPG	GET	ATM	RAC	FCB	ALM
Venue	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Position	16	8	6	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	5	5	6	6	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	4
Goal Average (useful in case of tie)3																				Lost	Won	Won	Won	Won	Won	Lost	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Won	Lost	Won

		All							Home					Away
		Pts	W	D	L	F	A	Dif.	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A
4	Sevilla	63	19	6	13	65	49	16	10	6	3	33	18	9	0	10	32	31

• With Antonio Álvarez

Group G

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sevilla	6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	13
VfB Stuttgart	6	2	3	1	9	7	+2	9
Unirea Urziceni	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8
Rangers	6	0	2	4	4	13	−9	2

• Sevilla won 9–3 on aggregate.

• Sevilla 2–2 Barcelona on aggregate. Sevilla won on away goals.

• Sevilla won 3–1 on aggregate.

• Sevilla won 2–1 on aggregate.

SEVILLA FC GK 1 Andrés Palop  86' DF 24 Abdoulay Konko DF 4 Sébastien Squillaci  62' DF 14 Julien Escudé DF 37 Antonio Luna  36' MF 7 Jesús Navas 90+1' MF 8 Didier Zokora MF 11 Renato  7'  90+2' MF 16 Diego Capel 5'  88' FW 12 Frédéric Kanouté  84' FW 19 Álvaro Negredo  68' Substitutes: MF 22 Romaric  68' MF 25 Diego Perotti  88' DF 23 Lolo  90+2' GK 13 Javi Varas DF 18 Fernando Navarro DF 15 Marius Stankevičius FW 35 Rodri Manager: Antonio Álvarez

ATLÉTICO DE MADRID GK 13 David de Gea DF 17 Tomáš Ujfaluši  70' DF 21 Luis Perea DF 18 Álvaro Domínguez DF 3 Antonio López MF 19 José Antonio Reyes MF 12 Paulo Assunção  61' MF 5 Tiago MF 20 Simão  61' FW 7 Diego Forlán FW 10 Sergio Agüero Substitutes: MF 8 Raúl García  61' MF 9 José Manuel Jurado  61' GK 42 Joel Robles DF 16 Juanito DF 2 Juan Valera MF 6 Ignacio Camacho FW 14 Eduardo Salvio Quique Sánchez Flores

Man of the Match: Jesús Navas (Sevilla) Assistant referees: José Manuel Fernández Miranda Raúl Cabañero Martínez Fourth official: Carlos Clos Gómez Fifth official: Xavier Aguilar Rodríguez

During 23 March's midnight, Sevilla's directive accorded to sack Manolo Jiménez after the draw obtained against Xerez, as Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo (also known as Monchi) assured to press.^[5]
Among the most significant causes include:

• The aggregate defeat playing in Round of 16 in Champions League against CSKA Moscow.
• The number of 3 points out of 15 between matchdays 24 and 28.
• The image given by the players from the 12th matchday against Málaga (on 28 November 2009).
• The loss of a style of play that took the team under the leadership of another managers (mainly between 2005–2007).
• The constants injuries suffered by important players such as Luís Fabiano, Jesús Navas or Diego Capel.
• The dialectical clash between Jiménez and Ramón Orellana (Sevilla FC's physical preparer) during a training season in January.

The directive was searching a new team manager for the last part of the season in foreign countries, but Antonio Álvarez will lead the team from 24 March to the end of the season. On the directive's search, Luis Aragonés and Laurent Blanc had many chances to become the new manager of Sevilla, but for the disagreement with the contract offered by José María del Nido, none of them had taken the job except Álvarez.

^ 1: UEFA doesn't allow the incorporation of sponsors' names in the stadia's names.
^ 2: Neutral venue.
^ 3: The team that wins this variable will be qualified ahead of another with the same points but lost on goal average. If the goal average is drawn between two or more teams and, at the end of the season these teams have the same points, the overall Liga BBVA's goal average prevails over this goal average.
^ 4: Only if the Copa del Rey winners and runners-up end the season in Champions or Europa League positions.

• Sevilla F.C. season 2009–10 at ESPN