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Granada CF

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Granada, Granada · Spain · La Liga

Power-ranking history

Hover a season for its rank and score
Rank (1 = best)1616Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.059/6069/7079/8089/9099/0009/1019/20

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 27 seasons from 1941-42 to 2023-24 it has fallen short of them by 19.0 match points.

Granada CF: surplus against expectation, 1941-42 to 2023-241941-42: +1.3 league points vs expected (25 on 23.7, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.6 match points1942-43: −2.0 league points vs expected (22 on 24.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.0 match points1943-44: +2.2 league points vs expected (26 on 23.8, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.1 match points1944-45: −4.0 league points vs expected (19 on 23.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.0 match points1957-58: −2.7 league points vs expected (24 on 26.7, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.4 match points1958-59: −0.1 league points vs expected (26 on 26.1, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.0 match points1959-60: −1.0 league points vs expected (25 on 26.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.5 match points1960-61: −7.3 league points vs expected (17 on 24.3, 2 for a win) · bar height −3.7 match points1966-67: −3.0 league points vs expected (23 on 26.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.5 match points1968-69: +3.4 league points vs expected (29 on 25.6, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.7 match points1969-70: −2.0 league points vs expected (26 on 28.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.0 match points1970-71: +1.4 league points vs expected (28 on 26.6, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.7 match points1971-72: +4.1 league points vs expected (36 on 31.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +2.0 match points1972-73: −3.7 league points vs expected (29 on 32.7, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.8 match points1973-74: +3.8 league points vs expected (36 on 32.2, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.9 match points1974-75: −2.0 league points vs expected (31 on 33.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.0 match points1975-76: −5.6 league points vs expected (26 on 31.6, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.8 match points2011-12: −3.8 league points vs expected (42 on 45.8, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.8 match points2012-13: −0.7 league points vs expected (42 on 42.7, 3 for a win) · bar height −0.2 match points2013-14: −2.1 league points vs expected (41 on 43.1, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.3 match points2014-15: −4.0 league points vs expected (35 on 39.0, 3 for a win) · bar height −0.4 match points2015-16: +1.7 league points vs expected (39 on 37.3, 3 for a win) · bar height +0.7 match points2016-17: −15.8 league points vs expected (20 on 35.8, 3 for a win) · bar height −5.3 match points2019-20: +15.1 league points vs expected (56 on 40.9, 3 for a win) · bar height +4.8 match points2020-21: −0.1 league points vs expected (46 on 46.1, 3 for a win) · bar height −0.4 match points2021-22: −5.0 league points vs expected (38 on 43.0, 3 for a win) · bar height −1.0 match points2023-24: −16.1 league points vs expected (21 on 37.1, 3 for a win) · bar height −5.5 match points
1941-42one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season2023-24
Best season against expectation
2019-20 +15.1 league pts
56 points on 40.9 expected as Granada CF
Worst season against expectation
2023-24 16.1 league pts
21 points on 37.1 expected as Granada 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.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.

Granada 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€30m
Granada CF: squad value by month, 2012-07 to 2025-1206913912-1314-1516-1718-1920-2122-2324-25
Peak
€129m in Oct 2021 · 28 players valued
Most recent
€30m in Dec 2025 · 17 players valued

Granadaon 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+€23m
Spent
€99m
38 arrivals with a fee
Received
€122m
29 departures with a fee
Net
+€23m
254 moves with no fee
Appreciation
−€0m
13 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2026-27, trading +€1m and appreciation . Over the last 5 seasons (2022-232026-27), trading +€61m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 57 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 88% EV-positive. €27m deployed for a 0.9× multiplier.

2026-27 spent received €1mto 6 July 2026
out: Martin Hongla €1m
unpriced
2025-26 spent €4m received €16m
in: Souleymane Faye €4m
unpriced
2024-25 spent €1m received €33m
in: Luca Zidane €1m
+€5m
squad gain
2023-24 spent €19m received €6m
in: Lucas Boyé €9m
+€20m
squad gain
2022-23 spent €3m received €31m
in: Víctor Meseguer €2m
−€15m
squad gain
2021-22 spent €19m received €3m
in: Matías Arezo €6m
−€45m
squad gain
2020-21 spent €24m received
in: Luis Suárez €10m
+€20m
squad gain
2019-20 spent €10m received
in: Darwin Machís €5m
+€19m
squad gain
Show all 15 seasons
2018-19 spent received
12 moves, no fee on record
+€8m
squad gain
2017-18 spent received €5m
out: Dimitri Foulquier €2m
−€29m
squad gain
2016-17 spent €3m received €22m
in: Sverrir Ingi Ingason €2m
+€11m
squad gain
2015-16 spent received
25 moves, no fee on record
+€17m
squad gain
2014-15 spent €5m received €3m
in: Dimitri Foulquier €3m
−€4m
squad gain
2013-14 spent €3m received €3m
in: Douglas Santos €2m
−€7m
squad gain
2012-13 spent €9m received
in: Youssef El Arabi €5m
−€1m
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.

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

Granada 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
11976-05-09LA LigaHL 1-2 v Real Madridgame score 67.0
22021-02-03Copa del Rey · QuarterfinalsHL 3-4 v FC Barcelonagame score 64.6
32020-03-05Copa del Rey · Semifinals · 2nd leg, agg 2-2HW 2-1 v Athletic Bilbaogame score 63.7
42020-02-04Copa del Rey · QuarterfinalsHW 2-1 v Valenciagame score 62.4
51945-05-13LA LigaHW 2-1 v Valenciagame score 59.9
62021-04-29LA LigaAW 2-1 v FC Barcelonagame score 59.4
72020-02-12Copa del Rey · Semifinals · 1st legAL 0-1 v Athletic Bilbaogame score 58.1
82020-12-03Europa League · Group StageHL 0-1 v PSV Eindhovengame score 55.7
91943-03-14LA LigaHW 4-3 v Sevilla FCgame score 55.2
102021-02-25Europa League · Round of 32 · 2nd leg, agg 3-2AL 1-2 v SSC Napoligame score 54.9

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
27
First season
1942
Most recent season
2024

The Heartbreak Index12.1 · #130

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1942

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in Football
12.1
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 194211.6
  • Major final appearance since 19595.8
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2017 · relegated from the top flight, 2022 · relegated from the top flight, 2024 · relegated from the top flight, 1961

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.

2024
La Liga (1) · P20
38 P · 4-9-25 · 38:79 · -41
21
pts
2022
La Liga (1) · P18
38 P · 8-14-16 · 44:61 · -17
38
pts
2021
La Liga (1) · P9
38 P · 13-7-18 · 47:65 · -18
46
pts
EL
2020
La Liga (1) · P7
38 P · 16-8-14 · 52:45 · +7
56
pts
EL
2017
La Liga (1) · P20
38 P · 4-8-26 · 30:82 · -52
20
pts
2016
La Liga (1) · P16
38 P · 10-9-19 · 46:69 · -23
39
pts
2015
La Liga (1) · P17
38 P · 7-14-17 · 29:64 · -35
35
pts
2014
La Liga (1) · P15
38 P · 12-5-21 · 32:56 · -24
41
pts
2013
La Liga (1) · P15
38 P · 11-9-18 · 37:54 · -17
42
pts
2012
La Liga (1) · P17
38 P · 12-6-20 · 35:56 · -21
42
pts
1976
La Liga (1) · P17
34 P · 8-10-16 · 29:50 · -21
26
pts
1975
La Liga (1) · P15
34 P · 10-11-13 · 35:47 · -12
31
pts
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1974
La Liga (1) · P6
34 P · 12-12-10 · 34:35 · -1
36
pts
1973
La Liga (1) · P13
34 P · 9-11-14 · 25:32 · -7
29
pts
1972
La Liga (1) · P6
34 P · 14-8-12 · 40:34 · +6
36
pts
1971
La Liga (1) · P10
30 P · 10-8-12 · 33:34 · -1
28
pts
1970
La Liga (1) · P12
30 P · 8-10-12 · 20:31 · -11
26
pts
1969
La Liga (1) · P8
30 P · 11-7-12 · 26:38 · -12
29
pts
1967
La Liga (1) · P14
30 P · 8-7-15 · 32:46 · -14
23
pts
1961
La Liga (1) · P16
30 P · 5-7-18 · 32:61 · -29
17
pts
1960
La Liga (1) · P12
30 P · 10-5-15 · 38:52 · -14
25
pts
1959
La Liga (1) · P13PO
30 P · 11-4-15 · 30:43 · -13
26
pts
Copa
1958
La Liga (1) · P13
30 P · 11-2-17 · 35:53 · -18
24
pts
1945
La Liga (1) · P12
26 P · 7-5-14 · 40:55 · -15
19
pts
1944
La Liga (1) · P8
26 P · 9-8-9 · 41:46 · -5
26
pts
1943
La Liga (1) · P12PO
26 P · 9-4-13 · 56:68 · -12
22
pts
1942
La Liga (1) · P10
26 P · 10-5-11 · 64:52 · +12
25
pts
Domestic Cup Finals

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

1959
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.

2020-21
Europa League(EL)
Quarter-final