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Celta de Vigo

Heartbreak#10014.3

Vigo, Vigo · Spain · La Liga

Top-4 finishes
2

Power-ranking history

Rank (1 = best)1486Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.069/7079/8089/9099/0009/1019/20

Against expectation

Every Spanish top-flight match this club has played in the Primera División, scored against the odds an Elo rating gave it before kick-off. Over 59 seasons from 1939-40 to 2024-25 it has fallen short of them by −14.3 match points.

1939-40 to 2024-25one bar per season · height in match points

Best season against expectation
2005-06 +13.4 league pts
64 points on 50.6 expected as Celta Vigo
Worst season against expectation
1943-44 −13.6 league pts
9 points on 22.6 expected as Celta Vigo

Season points use that season’s own scoring, two for a win before 1995-96 and three from it; the bars use match points so the whole series is comparable. The rating only starts telling you much after about 1960. Before that, knowing the era’s home-and-away split is almost as good as knowing the teams.

Vigo against expectation →How this is measured →

Title chances

This side's chance in each title race we forecast, frozen and scored like every forecast here.

Season simulation · 26 Oct 2026

Who will win the Europa League?

1%Celta de Vigo's chance

From 20,000 simulated seasons, updated weekly. The frozen, scored forecast names the leading sides only.

The title raceTrack record

Full odds: Europa League · every title race

What the squad was worth

Total market value of the squad, EUR millions, by month; the player count beside it is the size of the priced squad.

How this is measured

Drawn as a step, not a curve: Transfermarkt reprices every squad in December and June (marked with a small tick on the axis) and revalues continuously between, so the line only moves when a real valuation changed, never by interpolation.

A month renders no value at all once the priced squad falls below 15 players, so a thin squad is never shown as a cheap one. The series is floored at July 2012 on purpose: earlier Transfermarkt totals reflect which players happened to be priced yet rather than the squad’s real worth, and are excluded rather than shown misleadingly low.

Upstream (dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets) has been paused since July 2026, so the series ends where the source ends rather than where the season does.

Player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

What the squad was worth€190m
012424812-1314-1516-1718-1920-2122-2324-25

Peak
€230m in Jun 2019 · 25 players valued
Most recent
€190m in Jun 2026 · 28 players valued

Vigo on the rankings →

The money ledger

Fees paid and received each season, and what the squad was worth once the trading is netted out.

How this is measured

Spent is the fees paid for players arriving, received the fees for players leaving, both in EUR millions by the July-to-June season of the move. A move with no fee on record (a free, a loan, an undisclosed sum) is counted, never priced: the small figure beside each total is the moves with a fee, plus those without (so 4+3 is four priced arrivals and three unpriced), and a quiet window is not mistaken for a cheap one. Wages are not here: they are estimates nobody licenses, and fees are documented.

Appreciation is the season’s change in squad value with the net spend taken out: buy 100m of players and finish 100m higher is zero; finish 120m higher and the club made 20m of players better, or the market repriced them. It needs a priced squad at both ends of the season (the same 15-player floor as the value chart), so it is blank rather than guessed for a season that lacks one.

The source has been paused since 6 July 2026, so the final row holds only the opening days of its window.

Transfer fees and player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

The money ledger+€40m
Spent
€184m
39 arrivals with a fee
Received
€224m
27 departures with a fee
Net
+€40m
178 moves with no fee
Appreciation
+€147m
14 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2026-27, trading €0m and appreciation —. Over the last 5 seasons (2022-23–2026-27), trading +€57m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 75 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 89% EV-positive. €80m deployed for a 1.7× multiplier.

2026-27 spent — received —to 6 July 2026
1 moves, no fee on record
—
unpriced
2025-26 spent €14m received €57m
in: Ilaix Moriba €6m
+€122m
squad gain
2024-25 spent €11m received €18m
in: Unai Núñez €7m
−€1m
squad gain
2023-24 spent €31m received €46m
in: Anastasios Douvikas €12m
−€2m
squad gain
2022-23 spent €24m received €17m
in: Jørgen Strand Larsen €15m
+€1m
squad gain
2021-22 spent €9m received —
in: Franco Cervi €5m
−€15m
squad gain
2020-21 spent €3m received €3m
in: Miguel Baeza €3m
−€13m
squad gain
2019-20 spent €21m received €43m
in: Denis Suárez €13m
−€61m
squad gain

Money against football

Every priced club-season in the six leagues: points against expectation across, squad value gained beyond the net spend up. This club’s seasons are joined.

● the frontier: no other club-season beat it on both axes · ● this club, season by season, the largest dot the latest

Every club’s return on the transfer window →

Greatest games

Celta de Vigo's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play. H, A and N mark home, away and a neutral venue; a ★ is a curated all-time classic (tap it for the model's own score).All-time board.

1
1950-03-12 · LA Liga · Galicia Derby
82.6
game score
2
1950-04-16 · LA Liga
75.4
game score
3
2016-01-27 · Copa del Rey · Quarterfinals · 2nd leg, agg 3-2
72.7
game score
4
2017-01-18 · Copa del Rey · Quarterfinals · 1st leg
72.0
game score
5
2003-12-09 · Champions League · Group Stage · 2nd leg, agg 2-1
66.9
game score
6
2001-03-15 · UEFA Cup · Quarterfinals · 2nd leg, agg 4-4
66.7
game score
7
1949-04-17 · LA Liga
66.4
game score
8
2017-05-04 · Europa League · Semifinals · 1st leg
66.0
game score
9
2017-05-11 · Europa League · Semifinals · 2nd leg, agg 1-2
66.0
game score
10
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
2017-02-23 · Europa League · Round of 32 · 2nd leg, agg 2-1
64.7
game score

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
61
First season
1940
Most recent season
2026

The Heartbreak Index14.3 · #100

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1940

14.3
Heartbreak
#100
of 1,138 clubs
#45
in Football
14.3
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 194012.6
  • Major final appearance since 20015.0
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2007 · relegated from the top flight, 2004 · lost the national cup final, 2001 · lost the national cup final, 1994

One formula, every club the site covers. See the whole board →

YouTube

+455,972
views gained since 23 Oct 2026
-1,000
subscribers gained since 23 Oct 2026

Open the official channel on YouTube

Calculated by Citizen of Nowhere from YouTube channel statistics, as of 2 Nov 2026. Not part of the Fan Attention Index. Not ranked.

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Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers La Liga only. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

2027
La Liga (1) · P9● live
11 P · 2-6-3 · 10:10 · 0
12
pts
2026
La Liga (1) · P6
38 P · 14-12-12 · 53:48 · +5
54
pts
ELEL
2025
La Liga (1) · P7
38 P · 16-7-15 · 59:57 · +2
55
pts
EL
2024
La Liga (1) · P13
38 P · 10-11-17 · 46:57 · -11
41
pts
2023
La Liga (1) · P13
38 P · 11-10-17 · 43:53 · -10
43
pts
2022
La Liga (1) · P11
38 P · 12-10-16 · 43:43 · 0
46
pts
2021
La Liga (1) · P8
38 P · 14-11-13 · 55:57 · -2
53
pts
2020
La Liga (1) · P17
38 P · 7-16-15 · 37:49 · -12
37
pts
2019
La Liga (1) · P17
38 P · 10-11-17 · 53:62 · -9
41
pts
2018
La Liga (1) · P12
38 P · 13-10-15 · 59:60 · -1
49
pts
2017
La Liga (1) · P13
38 P · 13-6-19 · 53:69 · -16
45
pts
EL
2016
La Liga (1) · P6
38 P · 17-9-12 · 51:59 · -8
60
pts
EL
Domestic Cup Finals

Most recent first. Every domestic cup final the club has played, including losses. Scheduled finals (date not yet passed) are flagged.

2001
Copa del Rey
Runner-up
1994
Copa del Rey
Runner-up
1948
Copa del Rey
Runner-up
European competition appearances

Most recent first. One row per entry showing the deepest round reached. A Cup Winner badge marks tournaments the club won: gold for the European Cup / Champions League, silver for every other UEFA or Intercontinental trophy.

2025-26
Europa League(EL)
Quarter-final
2016-17
Europa League(EL)
Semi-final
2006-07
UEFA Cup(UC)
Round of 16
2003-04
Champions League(CL)
Round of 16
2002-03
UEFA Cup(UC)
Group stage
2001-02
UEFA Cup(UC)
Round of 32 / qualifying
2000-01
UEFA Cup(UC)
Quarter-final
1999-00
UEFA Cup(UC)
Quarter-final
1998-99
UEFA Cup(UC)
Quarter-final
1971-72
UEFA Cup(UC)
Round of 32 / qualifying