2011–12 Sevilla FC season

Sevilla

2011–12 season
President	José María del Nido
Head coach	Marcelino (until 6 February) Míchel (from 7 February)
La Liga	9th
Copa del Rey	Round of 16
UEFA Europa League	Play-off round
Top goalscorer	League: Álvaro Negredo (14) All: Álvaro Negredo (14)
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The 2011–12 Spanish football season is Sevilla Fútbol Club's 11th consecutive season in La Liga and eighth consecutive playing European competitions since its participation in the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, despite the earlier fall in the Fourth Qualifying Round in August. The team manager in the previous season, Gregorio Manzano, did not continue in the club. During the summer of 2011, Sevilla signed Marcelino as new manager after he unilaterally severed his contract with Racing de Santander. On 6 February, after losing 1–2 at home against Villarreal and after Sevilla earned just two points in its previous seven matches, he was sacked and replaced with Míchel. Finishing in ninth, the team did not qualify for European competition for the first time since 2004.

Trophies balance

Category	Trophy	Started round	First match	Result	Last match
Friendly Trophy	4th Antonio Puerta Trophy	Final	4 August 2011	Winners	4 August 2011
	66th Teresa Herrera Trophy	Final	14 August 2011	Winners	14 August 2011
Competitive	Liga BBVA	—	28 August 2011[1]	9th	13 May 2012
	Copa del Rey	Round of 32	13 December 2011	Round of 16	11 January 2012
	UEFA Europa League	Fourth Qualifying Round	18 August 2011	Fourth Qualifying Round	25 August 2011

Competitive balance

Biggest win
	Home				Away
Liga BBVA	5 December 2011	Matchday 15	v. Getafe	3 – 0	22 March 2012	Matchday 29	v. Racing Santander	0 – 3
	12 April 2012	Matchday 33	v. Real Zaragoza
	5 May 2012	Matchday 37	v. Rayo Vallecano	5 – 2	26 March 2012	Matchday 30	v. Granada
Copa del Rey	20 December 2011	Round of 32, 2nd leg	v. San Roque Lepe	2 – 1	14 December 2011	Round of 32, 1st leg	v. San Roque Lepe	0 – 1
	11 January 2012	Round of 16, 2nd leg	v. Valencia
UEFA Europa League	None due to the elimination in the Fourth Qualifying Round
Biggest loss
	Home				Away
Liga BBVA	17 December 2011	Matchday 17	v. Real Madrid	2 – 6	16 April 2012	Matchday 34	v. Getafe	5 – 1
Copa del Rey	None registered				5 January 2012	Round of 16, 1st leg	v. Valencia	1 – 0
UEFA Europa League	None due to the elimination in the Fourth Qualifying Round				18 August 2011	Fourth Qualifying Round	v. Hannover 96	2 – 1

Summer transfers

In

In (5 players)
Player	From	Fee
Martín Cáceres[2]	Barcelona	€3M
Piotr Trochowski	Hamburger SV	Free
Manu	Getafe	€4.5M
Coke	Rayo Vallecano	€1.7M
Emir Spahić	Montpellier	€2M

Out

Out (10 players)
Player	New Team	Fee
Ivica Dragutinović	Retired
Renato	Botafogo	Free
Didier Zokora	Trabzonspor	€6M
Sergio Sánchez	Málaga	€2.8M
José Carlos	AEK Athens	Free
Diego Capel	Sporting CP	€3.5M
David Prieto	Córdoba	Free
Alejandro Alfaro	Mallorca	€0.7M
Rodri	Barcelona B	€1.5M
Mouhamadou Dabo	Lyon	€1M

Loan out

Loan out (5 players)
Player	Team
Cala	AEK Athens
Lautaro Acosta	Racing Santander
Arouna Koné	Levante
Romaric	Espanyol
Bernardo	Racing Santander

Loan return

Loan return (3 players)
Italics for players returning to the club but left it during pre-season
Player	From
Antonio Luna	Almería
Tom De Mul	Standard Liège
Emiliano Armenteros	Rayo Vallecano
José Carlos	Cartagena
Cala	Cartagena
David Prieto	Tenerife

Loan end

Loan end (1 player[2])
Player	Returns to
Luca Cigarini	Napoli
Martín Cáceres[2]	Barcelona

Winter transfers

In

In (2 players[3])
Player	From	Fee
José Antonio Reyes	Atlético Madrid	€3.5M
Baba Diawara	Marítimo	€3M
Javi Hervás[3]	Córdoba	€1.2M

Loan out

Loan out (4 players[3])
Player	Team
Emiliano Armenteros	Rayo Vallecano
Martín Cáceres	Juventus
Alexis	Getafe
Javi Hervás[3]	Córdoba

Loan return

Loan return (1 player)
Player	From
Cala	AEK Athens

Current squad

Squad

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  ESP Fernando Navarro 6 DF  BIH Emir Spahić 7 MF  ESP Jesús Navas 8 MF  CHI Gary Medel 9 FW  ESP Álvaro Negredo 10 MF  ARG Diego Perotti 11 MF  CRO Ivan Rakitić 12 FW  MLI Frédéric Kanouté 13 GK  ESP Javi Varas 14 DF  FRA Julien Escudé

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF  GER Piotr Trochowski 16 MF  ESP José Campaña 17 MF  ITA Tiberio Guarente 19 DF  ESP Antonio Luna 20 FW  ESP Manu 21 MF  ESP José Antonio Reyes 23 DF  ESP Coke 24 MF  BEL Tom De Mul 25 FW  SEN Baba Diawara 26 FW  ESP Luis Alberto 31 DF  ESP Cala

Youth system

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 27 MF  ESP Salva Rivas 28 FW  JPN Hiroshi Ibusuki 29 GK  ESP Dani Jiménez 30 GK  ESP Sergio Rico 32 MF  ESP Jozabed Sánchez

No. Pos. Nation Player 33 DF  ESP Samu de los Reyes 34 MF  ESP Deivid Rodríguez — GK  ESP Julián Cuesta — MF  ESP Manuel Asencio 'Tano'

Long-term injuries

Tiberio Guarente's injured leg

Out between: November 2010 – November 2011

On 6 November 2010, Sevilla's medical services discovered a strange injury in Tiberio Guarente's leg that required treatment. This injury caused that the Italian player was more than 6 months out of the stadiums.^[4] He officially played for first time after his injury in San Mamés, against Athletic Bilbao on 8 April 2012, 531 days after his last match.

Jesús Navas' left ankle

Out between: April 2011 – July 2011

In some training season before the match against Mallorca, Jesús Navas had discomfort in his left ankle, which had been twisted in the beginning of the last session in a Europa League match against PSG. He wasn't called to that match and medical tests were made. It was discovered that he suffered from a relapse of that injury, a stress fracture in his ankle. During the summer holidays Jesus Navas could successfully finish their recovery. He was seen at the usual level in the first pre-season game against UD Roteña.

Arouna Koné's problem of spasms and cold

Out between: July 2011 – August 2011

After finishing the first pre-season friendly match against UD Roteña the Ivorian player Arouna Koné had to be moved from the emergency to the hospital in Rota Naval Base and then to the Hospital de Jerez de la Frontera for suffering an abrupt spasms box with feeling intense cold and general malaise. According to the club through its website,^[5] the player will remain at Jerez de la Frontera to be diagnosed with the disease, evaluating whether or not it is transient and temporary, and replace it. He was discharged two days later but remained under observation at the Hospital in Seville for 48 hours. The player recovered earlier than expected, making it clear that it was a mild condition that could be easily retrieved. Still, the club's medical services recommended a lighter rhythm of training during the preseason to avoid repetition, returning to be one hundred percent in early August.

Frédéric Kanouté's injury in his biceps femoris

Out between: April 2012 – May 2012

During the second half of the match in San Mamés against Athletic Bilbao on 8 April 2012, Frédéric Kanouté felt some discomfort in the hamstring of his right leg that prevented him from playing. He was replaced by Baba Diawara, and medical tests confirmed days later that he suffered a grade II tear in the biceps femoris of the leg, an injury that kept him away from the fields from that matchday until the end of the season. He returned against Rayo Vallecano on Matchday 37, his last match at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán as a Sevilla player, scoring a goal.

Called up by their national football team

List of players called up by their national team
2	Federico Fazio	Argentina	v.  Nigeria (1 June 2011) v.  Poland (5 June 2011)
4	Martín Cáceres (Out)	Uruguay	v.  Netherlands (8 June 2011) v. Plaza Colonia (11 June 2011) v.  Estonia (23 June 2011) v. Uruguay U20 (29 June 2011) v.  Peru (4 July 2011) v.  Chile (8 July 2011) v. Mexico U22 (12 July 2011) v.  Argentina (16 July 2011) v.  Peru (19 July 2011) v.  Paraguay (24 July 2011) v.  Ukraine (2 September 2011) v.  Bolivia (7 October 2011) v.  Paraguay (11 October 2011) v.  Chile (11 November 2011)
6	Emir Spahić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	v.  Greece (10 August 2011) v.  Belarus (2 September 2011) v.  Belarus (6 September 2011) v.  Luxembourg (7 October 2011) v.  France (11 October 2011) v.  Portugal (11 November 2011) v.  Portugal (15 November 2011) v.  Brazil (28 February 2012) v.  Republic of Ireland (26 May 2012) v.  Mexico (30 May 2012)
7	Jesús Navas	Spain	v.  England (12 November 2011) v.  Costa Rica (15 November 2011) v.  Venezuela (29 February 2012) v.  Serbia (26 May 2012) v.  South Korea (30 May 2012) v.  China (3 June 2012) v.  Italy (10 June 2012) v.  Republic of Ireland (14 June 2012) v.  Croatia (18 June 2012) v.  France (23 June 2012) v.  Portugal (27 June 2012) v.  Italy (1 July 2012)
8	Gary Medel	Chile	v.  Estonia (19 June 2011) v.  Paraguay (23 June 2011) v. Mexico U22 (4 July 2011) v.  Uruguay (8 July 2011) v.  Peru (12 July 2011) v.  Venezuela (17 July 2011) v.  France (10 August 2011) v.  Spain (2 September 2011) v.  Mexico (4 September 2011) v.  Argentina (7 October 2011) v.  Peru (11 October 2011) v.  Uruguay (11 November 2011) v.  Paraguay (15 November 2011) v.  Ghana (29 February 2012)
9	Álvaro Negredo	Spain	v.  United States (4 June 2011) v.  Venezuela (7 June 2011) v.  Italy (10 August 2011) v.  Chile (2 September 2011) v.  Liechtenstein (5 September 2011) v.  Czech Republic (7 October 2011) v.  Scotland (11 October 2011) v.  Venezuela (29 February 2012) v.  Serbia (26 May 2012) v.  South Korea (30 May 2012) v.  China (3 June 2012) v.  Italy (10 June 2012) v.  Republic of Ireland (14 June 2012) v.  Croatia (18 June 2012) v.  France (23 June 2012) v.  Portugal (27 June 2012) v.  Italy (1 July 2012)
10	Diego Perotti	Argentina	v.  Nigeria (1 June 2011) v.  Poland (5 June 2011)
11	Ivan Rakitić	Croatia	v.  Greece (7 October 2011) v.  Latvia (11 October 2011) v.  Turkey (11 November 2011) v.  Turkey (15 November 2011) v.  Sweden (29 February 2012) v.  Estonia (25 May 2012) v.  Norway (2 June 2012) v.  Republic of Ireland (10 June 2012) v.  Italy (14 June 2012) v.  Spain (18 June 2012)
16	José Campaña	Spain U19	v.  Belgium (21 July 2011) v.  Serbia (23 July 2011) v.  Turkey (26 July 2011) v.  Republic of Ireland (29 July 2011) v.  Czech Republic (1 August 2011) v.  France (29 February 2012) v.  Montenegro (27 March 2012) v.  Montenegro (29 March 2012) v.  Armenia (23 May 2012) v.  Italy (25 May 2012) v.  Belgium (28 May 2012)
19	Antonio Luna	Spain U20	v.  Peru (24 July 2011) v.  Costa Rica (31 July 2011) v.  Ecuador (3 August 2011) v.  Australia (6 August 2011) v.  South Korea (10 August 2011) v.  Brazil (14 August 2011)
20	Manu	Spain	v.  United States (4 June 2011) v.  Venezuela (7 June 2011)

Match stats

No.	Pos.	Player
			Liga	Cup	UEL	Liga	Cup	UEL	Liga	Cup	UEL	Liga	Cup	UEL
1	GK	Andrés Palop				1
2	DF	Federico Fazio	2			8		1	1
3	DF	Fernando Navarro				12	1	1	1
4	DF	Martín Cáceres (Out)	1			3	2
5	DF	Alexis	1			1		1
6	DF	Emir Spahić				12	1
7	MF	Jesús Navas	5			5	1
8	MF	Gary Medel	2			16	2	1	1					1
9	FW	Álvaro Negredo	14			5
10	MF	Diego Perotti				2		1
11	MF	Ivan Rakitić		1		4	1
12	FW	Frédéric Kanouté	4	3	1	7	2	1				1
13	GK	Javi Varas				1
14	DF	Julien Escudé	1			9						1
15	MF	Piotr Trochowski	1			7	1		1
16	MF	José Campaña					1
17	MF	Tiberio Guarente				1
18	MF	Emiliano Armenteros (Out)				1
19	DF	Antonio Luna	1			2	1
20	FW	Manu	10			5		1				1
21	MF	José Antonio Reyes	1			1
23	DF	Coke				7	1		1
25	FW	Baba Diawara	3
26	FW	Luis Alberto					1
31	DF	Cala	1			2
34	MF	Deivid Rodríguez				2

Competitions

Pre-season and friendly tournaments

Friendly matches

4th Antonio Puerta Trophy

66th Teresa Herrera Trophy

La Liga

Matchday	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	1[1]	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	20[1]	37	38
Against	MGA	VIL	RSO	OSA	VAL	ATM	SPG	FCB	RAC	GRA	MLL	ATH	ZAR	GET	LEV	RM	RYV	ESP	BET	MGA	VIL	RSO	OSA	VAL	ATM	SPG	FCB	RAC	GRA	MLL	ATH	ZAR	GET	LEV	RM	BET	RYV	ESP
Venue	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A
Position	5	6	4	5	4	6	4	4	5	5	5	6	6	5	5	6	7	7	9	11	11	13	11	10	10	11	12	11	9	8	8	7	9	9	9	12	10	9
Goal Average (useful in case of tie)[8]																				Drawn	Lost	Lost	Won	Won	Drawn	Drawn	Lost	Won	Won	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Lost	Lost	Lost	Won	Drawn

  Win    Draw    Lost

		All							Home							Away
		Pts	W	D	L	F	A	Dif.	Pts	W	D	L	F	A	Dif.	Pts	W	D	L	F	A	Dif.
9	Sevilla	50	13	11	14	48	47	+1	31	9	4	6	32	25	+7	19	4	7	8	16	22	–6

  Liga BBVA Winner (also qualified for 2012–13 UEFA Champions League Group Stage)
  2012–13 UEFA Champions League Group Stage
  2012–13 UEFA Champions League 4th Qualifying Round
  2012–13 UEFA Europa League Group Stage
  2012–13 UEFA Europa League 4th Qualifying Round
  2012–13 UEFA Europa League 3rd Qualifying Round
  Relegation to Liga Adelante

• With Marcelino

• With Míchel

UEFA Europa League

Fourth Qualifying Round

Hannover 96 won 3–2 on aggregate.

Copa del Rey

Round of 32

Sevilla FC won 3–1 on aggregate.

Round of 16

Valencia 2–2 Sevilla on aggregate. Valencia won on away goals.

Others

AFE strike for the first two matchdays

On 11 August, the Spanish Players' Union, called AFE (Asociación de Futbolistas Españoles, in English, Association of Spanish Footballers) published by a press conference the official announcement of a strike for the first two matchdays of Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante (valid between 11 and 29 August) due to the existence of more than 50 professional footballers who do not charge, a greater number of footballers to whom there's still owed the share of wages in previous months and years and also the existence of discrepancies in the collective agreement. LFP (Liga de Fútbol Profesional), the patronal, grouping the 42 clubs in both categories of Spanish professional football did not understand at first this strike. LFP tried to resolve but it could not help that the opening matchday (to be played the weekend of 20 August) was not played. Seeing that the positions of both parties walked away, LFP began to convene several meetings to negotiate. After 7 meetings, on the morning of 25 August was announced that the strike had been called off thanks to an agreement in principle different AFE requests, among which the extension of a wage guarantee fund that would prevent, or try to avoid a strongest non-payment to the players.
AFE also ceded its claims about the controversial schedules of footballers' holiday, and also said to LFP that they would be able to re-play matchday 1 matches, suspended in the beginning. AFE president, Luis Rubiales, first told to press that these matches wouldn't be played, or in August or ever, talking about a "37-matchdays-Liga BBVA" and a "41-matchdays-Liga Adelante". José Luis Astiazarán, LFP president, announced at the end the calendar reform of both competitions, placing:

• Liga BBVA matchday 1 on the dates assigned for the matchday 20; and matchday 20 between days 1, 2 and 3 May 2012.
• Liga Adelante matchday 1 on 25, 26 and 27 October 2011.

4th Champions for Africa

Another year, and for the fourth consecutive time, Frédéric Kanouté and his foundation, along with support from UNICEF and other agencies and corporations, have organized this solidary Christmas friendly match in order to help children in Africa, especially Somalia and surrounding nations, in areas such as health and education. This time, Valencia have loaned its stadium, Mestalla, so as to help in this cause. The game was played by two teams composed by players from Liga BBVA, Liga Adelante and some famous people such as the motorcycle road racer Héctor Faubel. One of them, "Africa United", composed mostly by African players, was led by Juan Ignacio Martínez (Levante coach) and Juan Carlos Garrido (former Villarreal coach), and the other one, called "Selección Champions" (in English, Champions Team) and not "Liga BBVA XI" as on previous editions because of the absence of players from Real Madrid and Barcelona and the inclusion of players from the Liga Adelante, which was led by Unai Emery, Valencia coach.

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