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UD Salamanca

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Salamanca, Salamanca · Spain · La Liga

Power-ranking history

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Rank (1 = best)1565Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.074/7579/8084/8589/9094/95

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 12 seasons from 1974-75 to 1998-99 it has fallen short of them by 13.7 match points.

UD Salamanca: surplus against expectation, 1974-75 to 1998-991974-75: +3.5 league points vs expected (35 on 31.5, 2 for a win) · bar height +1.8 match points1975-76: +1.1 league points vs expected (34 on 32.9, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.5 match points1976-77: −1.0 league points vs expected (32 on 33.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.5 match points1977-78: +0.0 league points vs expected (34 on 34.0, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.0 match points1978-79: +1.5 league points vs expected (34 on 32.5, 2 for a win) · bar height +0.7 match points1979-80: −0.5 league points vs expected (32 on 32.5, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.2 match points1980-81: −8.0 league points vs expected (21 on 29.0, 2 for a win) · bar height −4.0 match points1982-83: −0.3 league points vs expected (28 on 28.3, 2 for a win) · bar height −0.2 match points1983-84: −6.3 league points vs expected (20 on 26.3, 2 for a win) · bar height −3.1 match points1995-96: −14.7 league points vs expected (33 on 47.7, 3 for a win) · bar height −5.4 match points1997-98: +6.0 league points vs expected (45 on 39.0, 3 for a win) · bar height +1.8 match points1998-99: −13.3 league points vs expected (27 on 40.3, 3 for a win) · bar height −5.2 match points
1974-75one bar per season · height in match points · hover for that season1998-99
Best season against expectation
1997-98 +6.0 league pts
45 points on 39.0 expected as UD Salamanca
Worst season against expectation
1995-96 14.7 league pts
33 points on 47.7 expected as UD Salamanca

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.

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Greatest games

UD Salamanca'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
11999-06-19LA LigaHL 1-2 v CD Tenerifegame score 54.4
21977-05-22LA LigaHL 0-1 v Racing Santandergame score 50.4
31981-04-19LA LigaHW 2-1 v AD Almeríagame score 48.7
41976-05-02LA LigaAW 1-0 v Sporting Gijongame score 48.3
51998-03-21LA LigaHW 5-4 v Atlético de Madridgame score 48.0
62003-12-17Copa del Rey · Third RoundHL 2-3 v Real Zaragozagame score 47.3
71996-05-12LA LigaAL 1-2 v Atlético de Madridgame score 46.4
81980-05-11LA LigaAW 1-0 v Atlético de Madridgame score 46.1
91976-03-21LA LigaHL 1-2 v Real Sociedadgame score 45.9
102001-11-28Copa del Rey · Second RoundHW 1-0 v Celta de Vigogame score 45.5

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
12
First season
1975
Most recent season
1999

The Heartbreak Index3.4 · #589

The Blessed · Never won it, waiting since 1975

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agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 19756.3
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 1999 · relegated from the top flight, 1996 · relegated from the top flight, 1981 · relegated from the top flight, 1984

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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.

1999
La Liga (1) · P20
38 P · 7-6-25 · 29:66 · -37
27
pts
1998
La Liga (1) · P15
38 P · 12-9-17 · 46:46 · 0
45
pts
1996
La Liga (1) · P22
42 P · 8-9-25 · 53:82 · -29
33
pts
1984
La Liga (1) · P18
34 P · 5-10-19 · 30:59 · -29
20
pts
1983
La Liga (1) · P13
34 P · 10-8-16 · 31:48 · -17
28
pts
1981
La Liga (1) · P17
34 P · 7-7-20 · 32:67 · -35
21
pts
1980
La Liga (1) · P14
33 P · 12-8-13 · 34:37 · -3
30
pts
1979
La Liga (1) · P10
34 P · 13-8-13 · 36:40 · -4
34
pts
1978
La Liga (1) · P9
34 P · 14-6-14 · 37:40 · -3
34
pts
1977
La Liga (1) · P12
34 P · 13-6-15 · 30:34 · -4
32
pts
1976
La Liga (1) · P9
34 P · 12-10-12 · 31:33 · -2
34
pts
1975
La Liga (1) · P7
34 P · 10-15-9 · 33:29 · +4
35
pts