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Heartbreak#4494.8

Murcia, Murcia · Spain · La Liga

Power-ranking history

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Rank (1 = best)1427Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.064/6569/7074/7579/8084/8589/9094/9599/0004/05

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 18 seasons from 1940-41 to 2007-08 it has fallen short of them by −30.4 match points.

Real Murcia: surplus against expectation, 1940-41 to 2007-081940-41: −5.8 league points vs expected (13 on 18.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.9 match points1944-45: −2.9 league points vs expected (19 on 21.9, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.4 match points1945-46: −0.5 league points vs expected (20 on 20.5, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.3 match points1946-47: −1.8 league points vs expected (19 on 20.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.9 match points1950-51: −4.9 league points vs expected (19 on 23.9, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.5 match points1955-56: +0.5 league points vs expected (25 on 24.6, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.2 match points1963-64: −1.3 league points vs expected (26 on 27.3, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.6 match points1964-65: −2.5 league points vs expected (23 on 25.5, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.2 match points1973-74: −2.0 league points vs expected (29 on 31.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.0 match points1974-75: −6.1 league points vs expected (23 on 29.1, 2 for a win) · bar height −3.0 match points1980-81: −5.8 league points vs expected (23 on 28.8, 2 for a win) · bar height −2.9 match points1983-84: +1.4 league points vs expected (32 on 30.6, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.7 match points1984-85: −6.2 league points vs expected (22 on 28.2, 2 for a win) · bar height −3.1 match points1986-87: +4.5 league points vs expected (41 on 36.5, 2 for a win) · bar height +2.3 match points1987-88: −2.6 league points vs expected (31 on 33.6, 2 for a win) · bar height −1.3 match points1988-89: −7.5 league points vs expected (24 on 31.5, 2 for a win) · bar height −3.8 match points2003-04: −15.9 league points vs expected (26 on 41.9, 3 for a win) · bar height −5.2 match points2007-08: −10.3 league points vs expected (30 on 40.3, 3 for a win) · bar height −3.6 match points
1940-41one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season2007-08
Best season against expectation
1986-87 +4.5 league pts
41 points on 36.5 expected as Real Murcia
Worst season against expectation
2003-04 −15.9 league pts
26 points on 41.9 expected as Real Murcia

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.

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Greatest games

Murcia'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
12003-01-30Copa del Rey · Quarterfinals · 2nd leg, agg 4-4HW 4-3 v Deportivo de La Coruñagame score 60.6
21947-04-13LA LigaHL 1-2 v RCD Espanyolgame score 60.5
32003-01-15Copa del Rey · Round of 16 · 2nd leg, agg 2-1AW 2-1 v Deportivo Alavésgame score 55.3
42004-05-16LA LigaHW 2-1 v Real Madridgame score 54.4
51946-11-10LA LigaAW 2-1 v Valenciagame score 54.0
61946-12-15LA LigaAW 3-2 v RCD Espanyolgame score 53.5
71975-05-25LA LigaAW 2-1 v Valenciagame score 52.6
82001-01-10Copa del Rey · Round of 16 · 1st legHL 2-3 v Real Zaragozagame score 51.7
92003-01-22Copa del Rey · Quarterfinals · 1st legAL 0-1 v Deportivo de La Coruñagame score 51.6
101945-12-02LA LigaHL 2-3 v CD Castellóngame score 51.2

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
18
First season
1941
Most recent season
2008

The Heartbreak Index4.8 · #449

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1941

4.8
Heartbreak
#449
of 1,139 clubs
#288
in Football
4.8
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 19416.3
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2008 · relegated from the top flight, 2004 · relegated from the top flight, 1981 · relegated from the top flight, 1985

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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.

2008
La Liga (1) · P19↓
38 P · 7-9-22 · 36:65 · -29
30
pts
2004
La Liga (1) · P20↓
38 P · 5-11-22 · 29:57 · -28
26
pts
1989
La Liga (1) · P19↓
38 P · 9-6-23 · 27:58 · -31
24
pts
1988
La Liga (1) · P17PO
38 P · 9-13-16 · 31:42 · -11
31
pts
1987
La Liga (1) · P11
34 P · 13-6-15 · 31:43 · -12
32
pts
1985
La Liga (1) · P18↓
34 P · 6-10-18 · 24:52 · -28
22
pts
1984
La Liga (1) · P11
34 P · 10-12-12 · 42:38 · +4
32
pts
1981
La Liga (1) · P16↓
34 P · 8-7-19 · 35:49 · -14
23
pts
1975
La Liga (1) · P18↓
34 P · 7-9-18 · 31:66 · -35
23
pts
1974
La Liga (1) · P15
34 P · 10-9-15 · 27:37 · -10
29
pts
1965
La Liga (1) · P13↓
30 P · 5-13-12 · 28:49 · -21
23
pts
1964
La Liga (1) · P12
30 P · 11-4-15 · 41:54 · -13
26
pts
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1956
La Liga (1) · P13↓
30 P · 10-5-15 · 46:66 · -20
25
pts
1951
La Liga (1) · P14↓
30 P · 8-3-19 · 40:86 · -46
19
pts
1947
La Liga (1) · P12↓
26 P · 6-7-13 · 30:58 · -28
19
pts
1946
La Liga (1) · P11
26 P · 5-10-11 · 21:39 · -18
20
pts
1945
La Liga (1) · P11
26 P · 7-5-14 · 40:58 · -18
19
pts
1941
La Liga (1) · P12↓
22 P · 5-3-14 · 29:55 · -26
13
pts