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Segunda División 2025/26 belonged to Racing de Santander, champions on 82 points and a modern-era record of 90 goals, while Deportivo went up automatically and Malaga survived the play-offs to complete a three-club return to La Liga.

At the bottom, Real Zaragoza, Cultural Leonesa, Huesca and Mirandes fell into Primera Federacion, with Zaragoza's relegation ending 77 consecutive years in professional football and leaving one of the season's deepest scars.

Total xTears

6,422.52

Avg xT per match

13.72

Absolute chaos

6.22

Late drama

4.22

All-out war

5.28

Referee scandal

1.52

Heart-Racing Games

All
Adrenaline Match

26.42

xT
FC Andorra crest

FC Andorra

13.64 xT

6-2
Racing de Santander crest

Racing de Santander

12.78 xT

Matchday 3405 Apr 2026Estadi de la FAF
Valladolid crestAlmeria crest

Valladolid 3-1 Almeria

Matchday 5|13 Sept 2025

25.70

xT
Almeria crestSporting de Gijón crest

Almeria 2-1 Sporting de Gijón

Matchday 6|20 Sept 2025

25.36

xT
SD Huesca crestReal Zaragoza crest

SD Huesca 1-0 Real Zaragoza

Matchday 37|26 Apr 2026

24.01

xT
Málaga crestValladolid crest

Málaga 3-3 Valladolid

Matchday 29|07 Mar 2026

23.64

xT
Almeria crestAlbacete crest

Almeria 4-4 Albacete

Matchday 1|18 Aug 2025

23.60

xT

xT XI

All
CH
Málaga crest57.55

Chupe

AE
Almeria crest45.41

Adri Embarba

JD
Sporting de Gijón crest40.81

Jonathan Dubasin

SA
Almeria crest55.33

Sergio Arribas

AM
Racing de Santander crest52.85

Andrés Martín

DG
Burgos crest41.40

David González

EC
Las Palmas crest23.39

Enrique Clemente

MG
Cultural Leonesa crest23.15

Matia Barzic Gutiérrez

ÁM
Racing de Santander crest23.09

Álvaro Mantilla

ÁM
Almeria crest22.67

Álex Muñoz

EA
Real Zaragoza crest12.65

E. Andrada

Pain Meter

All
1
Racing de Santander crest

Racing de Santander

42 played

8.37

xT for

2
Almeria crest

Almeria

46 played

7.78

xT for

3
Castellón crest

Castellón

44 played

7.62

xT for

4
Málaga crest

Málaga

46 played

7.24

xT for

5
Real Sociedad B crest

Real Sociedad B

42 played

7.14

xT for

Player Leaders

All
1

Chupe

Málaga crestMálaga | Forward

57.55

xT
2

Sergio Arribas

Almeria crestAlmeria | Midfielder

55.33

xT
3

Andrés Martín

Racing de Santander crestRacing de Santander | Midfielder

52.85

xT
4

Adri Embarba

Almeria crestAlmeria | Forward

45.41

xT
5

David González

Burgos crestBurgos | Midfielder

41.40

xT
6

Jonathan Dubasin

Sporting de Gijón crestSporting de Gijón | Forward

40.81

xT
7

Asier Villalibre

Racing de Santander crestRacing de Santander | Forward

40.40

xT
8

Carlos Fernández

Mirandés crestMirandés | Forward

40.32

xT
9

Ousmane Camara

Castellón crestCastellón | Forward

39.54

xT
10

Marcos Fernández

AD Ceuta crestAD Ceuta | Forward

38.07

xT
11

Gorka Carrera

Real Sociedad B crestReal Sociedad B | Forward

37.22

xT
12

J. Otero

Sporting de Gijón crestSporting de Gijón | Forward

37.14

xT
13

Léo Baptistão

Almeria crestAlmeria | Midfielder

36.83

xT
14

Jefté Betancor

Albacete crestAlbacete | Forward

35.76

xT
15

Z. Eddahchouri

Deportivo de A Coruña crestDeportivo de A Coruña | Forward

35.47

xT
16

Álex Calatrava

Castellón crestCastellón | Midfielder

34.20

xT
17

Fuentes

Córdoba crestCórdoba | Forward

33.96

xT
18

José Corpas

Eibar crestEibar | Forward

33.15

xT
19

Javi Martón

Eibar crestEibar | Forward

32.91

xT
20

Jacobo González

Córdoba crestCórdoba | Midfielder

32.53

xT

League Pain Table

League Pain Table
#
1Almeria crestAlmeria357.90337.4815.127.344.865.511.83
2Racing de Santander crestRacing de Santander351.46331.4816.268.134.896.242.10
3Castellón crestCastellón335.32311.0314.696.754.575.771.74
4Málaga crestMálaga333.18328.7214.396.814.935.381.77
5Real Sociedad B crestReal Sociedad B299.92283.5613.895.713.695.610.99
6FC Andorra crestFC Andorra295.10290.1913.946.024.125.451.12
7Córdoba crestCórdoba294.69295.6414.066.304.375.461.36
8Real Zaragoza crestReal Zaragoza293.49316.0714.516.164.776.321.96
9Deportivo de A Coruña crestDeportivo de A Coruña292.34267.7813.346.053.974.951.32
10Leganes crestLeganes287.57272.4513.335.784.525.121.54
11Mirandés crestMirandés285.49300.3613.956.724.455.511.80
12Sporting de Gijón crestSporting de Gijón282.62291.2113.666.714.715.091.92
13Valladolid crestValladolid280.91297.0413.765.864.165.621.59
14Eibar crestEibar279.59271.4713.125.683.845.201.56
15AD Ceuta crestAD Ceuta277.60288.7213.486.253.674.891.67
16Albacete crestAlbacete276.68282.4013.316.414.394.471.78
17SD Huesca crestSD Huesca272.32287.2413.326.184.015.081.72
18Burgos crestBurgos269.34258.0512.564.993.985.311.10
19Cadiz crestCadiz269.33256.4812.525.473.864.700.93
20Granada CF crestGranada CF269.21281.4113.115.633.055.171.23
21Las Palmas crestLas Palmas260.94277.1012.235.614.034.421.04
22Cultural Leonesa crestCultural Leonesa257.52296.6413.196.073.974.831.41

Tournament Curiosities

xTears Curiosities

7
  1. 1The edition broke through 6,000 xTears and finished on 6,422.52 xT across 468 matches. Emotional silence never stood a chance.
  2. 2FC Andorra 6-2 Racing de Santander was the season's wildest xTears match with 26.42 xT. Eight goals and a competition-high 18.98 chaos xT turned the scoreboard into an open tab.
  3. 3Almeria 0-0 Huesca was pure anesthesia: no goals and just 4.54 xT, the lowest emotional temperature of the edition.
  4. 4Huesca 1-0 Real Zaragoza made the Aragonese derby the capital of late pain: 14.07 late-drama xT and 12.92 referee-chaos xT, both season highs, plus ten cards, three dismissals and a missed penalty.
  5. 5Huesca 1-2 Cordoba delivered the sharpest scoreline-versus-xTears reversal. Huesca generated 13.43 xT to Cordoba's 6.80 and still lost. The pain meter kept the receipts.
  6. 6Almeria finished on both sides of the pain meter across the league and play-offs: a competition-high 357.90 xT for and 337.48 xT against. Meanwhile, champions Racing de Santander had the highest average match temperature at 16.26 xT.
  7. 7Chupe led the individual xTears ranking with 57.55 xT and scored 25 goals for Malaga, turning personal pressure into a ticket back to La Liga.

Overall Curiosities

8
  1. 1Racing de Santander won the title with 82 points and a modern-era Segunda record of 90 goals, returning to La Liga after 14 seasons away.
  2. 2Deportivo de A Coruna took the second automatic promotion place with 77 points and returned to the top flight eight years after its last relegation.
  3. 3Malaga finished fourth, then beat Las Palmas and Almeria in the play-offs. The decisive Almeria 1-2 Malaga ended another eight-year wait for La Liga.
  4. 4Real Zaragoza went down with 36 points, ending 77 consecutive years in professional football. Cultural Leonesa, Huesca and Mirandes joined them in Primera Federacion.
  5. 5The four newly promoted clubs found four different landings: Ceuta finished 11th, FC Andorra 13th and Real Sociedad B 15th, while Cultural Leonesa went straight back down.
  6. 6Castellon 5-4 Real Sociedad B was the highest-scoring match: nine goals and a scoreboard that forgot how to breathe.
  7. 7Real Zaragoza 0-5 Cultural Leonesa produced the biggest winning margin, five goals of one-way traffic between two clubs that would eventually go down.
  8. 8The full edition produced 1,229 goals across 468 matches, sailing past the 1,200 mark before the promotion play-off was done.

All statistics use finished matches in this competition edition with available xT data.