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Córdoba CF

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Cordova, Cordova · Spain · La Liga

Power-ranking history

Hover a season for its rank and score
Rank (1 = best)1613Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.064/6569/7074/7579/8084/8589/9094/9599/0004/0509/1014/15

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 9 seasons from 1962-63 to 2014-15 it has fallen short of them by 11.4 match points.

Cordoba CF: surplus against expectation, 1962-63 to 2014-151962-63: +0.1 league points vs expected (27 on 26.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.0 match points1963-64: −0.8 league points vs expected (26 on 26.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.4 match points1964-65: +6.9 league points vs expected (35 on 28.1, 2 for a win) · bar height +3.5 match points1965-66: −4.1 league points vs expected (25 on 29.1, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.0 match points1966-67: −1.6 league points vs expected (26 on 27.6, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.8 match points1967-68: −1.1 league points vs expected (25 on 26.1, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.6 match points1968-69: −3.8 league points vs expected (21 on 24.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.9 match points1971-72: −3.7 league points vs expected (25 on 28.7, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.9 match points2014-15: −23.4 league points vs expected (20 on 43.5, 3 for a win) · bar height −7.4 match points
1962-63one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season2014-15
Best season against expectation
1964-65 +6.9 league pts
35 points on 28.1 expected as Cordoba CF
Worst season against expectation
2014-15 23.4 league pts
20 points on 43.5 expected as Cordoba CF

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.

Cordova against expectation →How this is measured →

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 2012on 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€9m
Córdoba CF: squad value by month, 2013-05 to 2019-110254912-1314-1515-1616-1717-1818-1919-20
Peak
€46m in Jan 2015 · 31 players valued
Most recent
€9m in Nov 2019 · 20 players valued

Cordovaon 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.

Appreciationis 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+€9m
Spent
€1m
2 arrivals with a fee
Received
€10m
8 departures with a fee
Net
+€9m
62 moves with no fee
Appreciation
+€12m
5 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2025-26, trading +€3m and appreciation . Over the last 5 seasons (2021-222025-26), trading +€2m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 15 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 100% EV-positive. €1m deployed for a 3.0× multiplier.

2025-26 spent received €3m
out: Álex Sala €2m
unpriced
2024-25 spent €1m received
in: Álex Sala €1m
unpriced
2023-24 spent received
2 moves, no fee on record
unpriced
2022-23 spent received
6 moves, no fee on record
unpriced
2021-22 spent received
3 moves, no fee on record
unpriced
2019-20 spent received
7 moves, no fee on record
unpriced
2018-19 spent received €5m
out: Sergi Guardiola €3m
+€7m
squad gain
2017-18 spent €0m received
in: Sasa Jovanovic €0m
−€0m
squad gain
Show all 13 seasons
2016-17 spent received
0 moves, no fee on record
−€4m
squad gain
2015-16 spent received €0m
out: Juan Carlos €0m
−€2m
squad gain
2014-15 spent received
8 moves, no fee on record
+€11m
squad gain
2013-14 spent received €2m
out: Fede Vico €2m
unpriced
2012-13 spent received €1m
out: Borja García €1m
unpriced

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.

Tap or drag on the plot: the nearest club-season, its points and its money.

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

Córdoba CF's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play.All-time board.

#DateStageResultScore
12012-01-11Copa del Rey · Round of 16 · 2nd leg, agg 4-5AL 2-4 v RCD Espanyolgame score 55.1
22012-01-05Copa del Rey · Round of 16 · 1st legHW 2-1 v RCD Espanyolgame score 51.7
31969-03-23LA LigaAW 2-1 v Atlético de Madridgame score 51.1
42001-12-12Copa del Rey · Round of 16 · 1st legHW 2-1 v RCD Mallorcagame score 49.6
52018-10-31Copa del Rey · Fourth Round · 1st legHL 1-2 v Getafegame score 47.5
62001-12-19Copa del Rey · Round of 16 · 2nd leg, agg 3-2AD 1-1 v RCD Mallorcagame score 47.3
72011-12-21Copa del Rey · Fourth Round · 2nd leg, agg 2-2AL 1-2 v Real Betisgame score 47.2
81972-05-07LA LigaHW 1-0 v CF Barcelonagame score 46.8
92010-11-09Copa del Rey · Round of 32 · 2nd leg, agg 3-3AL 1-3 v Racing Santandergame score 46.5
101968-03-24LA LigaAW 1-0 v CD Málagagame score 45.6

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
9
First season
1963
Most recent season
2015

The Heartbreak Index3.6 · #562

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1963

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agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 19636.3
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2015 · relegated from the top flight, 1969 · relegated from the top flight, 1972 · survived a relegation scare, 1968

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

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.

2015
La Liga (1) · P20
38 P · 3-11-24 · 22:68 · -46
20
pts
1972
La Liga (1) · P17
34 P · 6-13-15 · 32:51 · -19
25
pts
1969
La Liga (1) · P16
30 P · 5-11-14 · 31:57 · -26
21
pts
1968
La Liga (1) · P13PO
30 P · 11-3-16 · 35:57 · -22
25
pts
1967
La Liga (1) · P12
30 P · 9-8-13 · 28:44 · -16
26
pts
1966
La Liga (1) · P11
30 P · 10-5-15 · 34:42 · -8
25
pts
1965
La Liga (1) · P5
30 P · 16-3-11 · 36:34 · +2
35
pts
1964
La Liga (1) · P11
30 P · 10-6-14 · 32:38 · -6
26
pts
1963
La Liga (1) · P12
30 P · 12-3-15 · 35:39 · -4
27
pts