2021–22 Primera División (women)

Primera División
Season	2021–22
Dates	5 September 2021 – 15 May 2022
Champions	Barcelona
Champions League	Barcelona
Matches played	184
Goals scored	588 (3.2 per match)
Top goalscorer	Asisat Oshoala; (19 goals)
Biggest home win	Barcelona 9–1 Alavés; (1 October 2021)
Biggest away win	Sevilla 1–10 Barcelona; (19 November 2021)
Highest scoring	Sevilla 1–10 Barcelona; (19 November 2021)
Longest winning run	Barcelona; (23 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Barcelona; (23 matches)
Longest winless run	Sporting de Huelva; (15 matches)
Longest losing run	Madrid CFF; (9 matches)
	← 2020–21 → All statistics correct as of 12 March 2022.

The 2021–22 Primera División Femenina de Fútbol is the 34th edition of Spain's highest women's football league, the 21st since the inception of the Superliga Femenina. The league began on 5 September 2021 and will finish on 15 May 2022.^[1]

Barcelona are the defending champions.

Teams[]

Community of Madrid

Real Sociedad

Valencia

Villarreal

Sevilla

Sporting de Huelva

Community of Madrid teams:
At. de Madrid
Rayo
Real Madrid
Madrid CFF

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Location of the 2021–22 Primera División teams

At. de Madrid

Rayo

Real Madrid

Madrid CFF

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Location of Community of Madrid teams in 2021–22 Primera División

2021–22 Primera División (women) is located in Canary Islands

Granadilla

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Canary Islands location of the 2021–22 Primera División teams

Stadia and locations[]

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Alavés^[a]	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Ciudad Deportiva José Luis Compañón	2,500
Athletic Club	Bilbao	Instalaciones de Lezama	3,200
Atlético de Madrid	Madrid	Centro Deportivo Wanda	2,500
Barcelona	Barcelona	Johan Cruyff	6,000
Betis	Seville	Luis del Sol	1,300
Eibar	Eibar	Unbe	500
Granadilla	Granadilla de Abona	La Palmera	2,700
Levante	Valencia	Campo Municipal El Terrer	600
Madrid CFF	Madrid	Estadio Antiguo Canódromo	3,500
Rayo Vallecano	Madrid	Ciudad Deportiva	2,500
Real Madrid	Madrid	Alfredo Di Stéfano	6,000
Real Sociedad	San Sebastián	Zubieta	2,500
Sevilla	Seville	Jesús Navas	5,000
Sporting de Huelva	Huelva	La Orden	2,000
Valencia	Valencia	Antonio Puchades	3,000
Villarreal^[a]	Vila-real	Mini Estadi	5,000

^ ^a ^b Promoted from the 2020–21 Segunda División Pro (women).

Personnel and sponsorship[]

Team	Head Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main shirt sponsor
Alavés		Alba Aznar	Kelme	Ingevel
Athletic Club	Iraia Iturregi	Garazi Murua	New Balance	Euskaltel
Atlético de Madrid		Amanda Sampedro	Nike	Herbalife
Barcelona		Alexia Putellas	Nike	Stanley
Betis	Juan Carlos Amorós	Nuria Ligero	Kappa	Betway
Eibar		Sheila Elorza	Joma	Euskaltel
Granadilla		Pisco	Hummel	Egatesa
Levante		Alharilla	Macron	Germaine de Capuccini
Madrid CFF		Paola Ulloa	Adidas	Thermor
Rayo Vallecano	Carlos Santiso	Patricia Larqué	Umbro	Genova International School of Soccer
Real Madrid	Alberto Toril	Ivana Andrés	Adidas	Emirates - Fly Better
Real Sociedad	Natalia Arroyo	Nerea Eizagirre	Macron	Euskaltel
Sevilla	Cristian Toro	Isabella Echeverri	Nike
Sporting de Huelva		Sandra Castelló	Mercury	Huelva
Valencia	Andrea Esteban	Marta Carro	Puma	Teika
Villarreal	Sara Monforte	Lara Mata	Joma	Pamesa Cerámica

Managerial changes[]

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Manner of departure	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Real Madrid	David Aznar	29 Nov 2021	Sacked	10th	Alberto Toril	29 Nov 2021
Madrid CFF	Víctor Miguel Fernández	25 Jan 2022	Sacked	11th	María Pry	27 Jan 2022
Rayo Vallecano	Miguel Ángel Quejigo	28 Jan 2022	Sacked	16th	Carlos Santiso	28 Jan 2022

League table[]

Standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Barcelona (Q, C)	23	23	0	0	131	6	+125	69	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Real Sociedad	24	17	2	5	52	33	+19	50^[a]	Qualification for the Champions League second round
3	Atlético de Madrid	23	13	6	4	55	24	+31	45	Qualification for the Champions League first round
4	Granadilla	22	13	4	5	33	32	+1	43
5	Real Madrid	21	13	2	6	33	23	+10	41
6	Athletic Club	24	12	3	9	36	35	+1	39
7	Levante	22	9	5	8	33	28	+5	29^[b]
8	Sevilla	23	7	8	8	24	38	−14	29
9	Betis	24	7	6	11	27	44	−17	27
10	Alavés	23	7	6	10	24	45	−21	27
11	Madrid CFF	24	7	2	15	37	54	−17	23
12	Valencia	23	6	3	14	22	43	−21	21
13	Sporting de Huelva	24	3	12	9	18	36	−18	21
14	Villarreal	22	7	2	13	22	49	−27	17^[c]
15	Eibar	24	5	1	18	23	51	−28	16	Relegation to
16	Rayo Vallecano	22	2	4	16	18	47	−29	10	Relegation to

Updated to match(es) played on 12 March 2022. Source: RFEF Primera Iberdrola
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored
(C) Champion; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated
Notes:

^ Real Sociedad were deducted 3 points for failure to wear the logo of the RFEF on their sleeve.^[2]
^ Levante were deducted 3 points for failure to wear the logo of the RFEF on their sleeve.^[3]
^ Villarreal were deducted 6 points for failure to wear the logo of the RFEF on their sleeve.^[4]

Results[]

Home \ Away	ALA	ATH	ATM	BAR	BET	EIB	GRA	LEV	MAD	RAY	RMA	RSO	SEV	SPH	VAL	VIL
Alavés	—		1–1	0–6	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1			0–4	1–1	0–0	3–1	2–0
Athletic Club	4–1	—	2–1	0–3	1–1	3–1		2–3	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–1		2–2		2–1
Atlético de Madrid	3–2		—	0–3	6–1		4–1	2–1	3–2	5–0	0–2	0–1	5–0	3–2		3–0
Barcelona	9–1	4–0		—	4–0	7–0	5–0	4–0	7–0	4–0	e	8–1		5–0	8–0
Betis	4–1	4–2		0–5	—	2–0	2–2	1–0	4–5		1–4	0–3	0–0	0–0		0–1
Eibar		1–2	0–3	0–3	1–2	—	0–2	1–2	2–1	4–0	0–2	2–3	3–2	1–2
Granadilla	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–7			—	2–0	1–2	3–2	1–1			1–0	2–1	3–1
Levante		2–3		1–4	1–1	5–0		—	4–0	4–2	4–0	1–0		0–0	1–0	1–2
Madrid CFF	0–1	0–2	2–2			1–3	0–1		—	4–2	1–3	1–2	1–2	2–1		2–4
Rayo Vallecano	1–2	0–2			0–2	0–1			3–2	—		1–3	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–2
Real Madrid	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–3	1–0	2–1				1–0	—	0–1	3–1	3–0	2–1
Real Sociedad		1–0	2–2	1–9	4–0	2–1	3–0	0–1			1–3	—	2–0	2–2	4–1	4–0
Sevilla	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–10	0–0		1–2	0–0	2–2	2–1	3–0		—		3–1	0–3
Sporting de Huelva		2–0	0–3	0–5	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–1		1–1			0–0	—	2–0	0–0
Valencia	1–0	1–3	1–1		1–0	2–0	1–2	2–0	1–3	1–0		0–3	1–2	2–2	—	h
Villarreal	3–1		0–5	0–8		1–0	0–2		0–3	1–0	0–2	1–4	2–3		0–2	—

Updated to match(es) played on 12 March 2022. Source: RFEF Primera Iberdrola
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round[]

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Team ╲ Round
Barcelona	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Real Sociedad	4	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Atlético de Madrid	1	2	2	2	3	3	5	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3					4	4	3
Granadilla	15	15	13	13	10	10	11	11	8	7	8	6	5	4	4	4				3		3	4
Athletic Club	5	7	5	4	4	4	3	4	5	3	4	5	4	5	5							5	6
Alavés	7	4	4	5	5	7	6	6	7	6	6	4	6	6	7	7					8	9	10
Madrid CFF	12	9	6	7	7	6	7	7	6	5	7	8	7	7	9						11	12	11
Real Madrid	14	16	14	14	14	13	13	12	11	10	10	9	9	8	6							6	5
Levante	3	5	7	6	6	5	4	5	4	8	5	7	8	9	10						9	7	7
Sevilla	10	11	11	11	9	8	8	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10					7	8	8	8
Betis	11	14	12	12	11	11	9	8	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11					10	10	9
Valencia	13	12	15	16	16	16	14	15	14	14	14	13	14	12	12	12				12	11	11	12
Eibar	6	8	9	10	8	9	10	10	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13					15	15	15
Sporting de Huelva	8	10	10	9	13	12	12	13	13	13	13	14	13	14	14	14					14	13	13
Rayo Vallecano	16	13	16	15	15	15	16	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15			16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Villarreal	9	6	8	8	12	14	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16						13	14	14

	Leader and UEFA Champions League group stage
	UEFA Champions League second round
	UEFA Champions League first round
	Relegation to
	Relegation to

Updated to match(es) played on 9 January 2022. Source: RFEF Primera Iberdrola

Statistics[]

Top goalscorers[]

Rank	Player	Team	Goals^[5]
1	Asisat Oshoala	Barcelona	19
2	Lieke Martens	Barcelona	16
2	Geyse Ferreira	Madrid CFF	16
4	Alexia Putellas	Barcelona	14
5	Jennifer Hermoso	Barcelona	12
5	Esther González	Real Madrid	12
7	Nerea Eizagirre	Real Sociedad	10
7	Amaiur Sarriegi	Real Sociedad	10
9	Cristina Martín-Prieto	Granadilla	9
	Deyna Castellanos	Atlético Madrid
	Ane Azkona	Athletic Club
	Lucía García	Athletic Club

Most assists[]

Rank	Player	Team	Assists^[6]
1	Lieke Martens	Barcelona	13
2	Alexia Putellas	Barcelona	11
3	Ángela Sosa	Real Betis	10
4	Caroline Hansen	Barcelona	9
5	Patricia Guijarro	Barcelona	8
	Amaiur Sarriegi	Real Sociedad
	Claudia Zornoza	Real Madrid
8	Fridolina Rolfö	Barcelona	7
8	Kerolin Nicoli	Madrid CFF	7

Hat-tricks[]

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Round
Alexia Putellas	Barcelona	Valencia	8-0 (H)	24 September 2021	Round 3
Geyse Ferreira⁴	Madrid CFF	Real Betis	4-5 (A)	9 October 2021	Round 6
Mari Paz Vilas	Real Betis	Athletic Club	4-2 (H)	31 October 2021	Round 8
Alba Redondo	Levante	Madrid CFF	4-0 (H)	19 November 2021	Round 11
Jennifer Hermoso⁴	Barcelona	Sevilla	10-1 (A)	19 November 2021	Round 11
Alexia Putellas	Barcelona	Madrid CFF	7-0 (H)	22 December 2021	Round 15
Lieke Martens	Barcelona	Sporting Huelva	5-0 (H)	12 January 2022	Round 17

Scoring[]

First goal of the season:
Bruna Vilamala for Barcelona against Granadilla (4 September 2021)^[7]

Last goal of the season:

Discipline[]

Player

Most yellow cards: 8
- Ana González (Real Betis)

Most red cards: 1
- 15 players

Team

Most yellow cards: 53
- Real Betis

Most red cards: 4
- Real Betis^[8]

Number of teams by autonomous community[]

Rank	Autonomous Community	Number	Teams
1	Basque Country	4	Alavés, Athletic Bilbao, Eibar, and Real Sociedad
1	Community of Madrid	4	Atlético Madrid, Madrid CFF, Rayo Vallecano, and Real Madrid
3	Andalusia	3	Betis, Sevilla, and Sporting de Huelva
3	Valencian Community	3	Levante, Valencia and Villarreal
5	Canary Islands	1	Granadilla
5	Catalonia	1	Barcelona

References[]

^ "Calendario, resultados y actas Futbol femenino. Primera Iberdrola".
^ "Real Sociedad deducted 3 points". footbalada.com. 15 November 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ "Levante deducted 3 points". footbalada.com. 15 November 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ "Villarreal deducted 6 points". villarrealusa.com. 17 November 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
^ Spanish women first division https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/stats
^ (women)&stat=total_assists_ranking "All leaders in Assists". La Liga. Retrieved 4 December 2021. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
^ League results - https://www.laliga.com/en-ES/futbol-femenino/results/2021-22/gameweek-1
^ Spanish football first division stats (women) - https://www.laliga.com/en-ES/stats

External links[]

Official Website (in Spanish)
Primera División (women) at La Liga (in Spanish)

[up-2] Promoted from the 2020–21 Segunda División Pro (women).

[table_hth_RSO0.32011689446872-4] Real Sociedad were deducted 3 points for failure to wear the logo of the RFEF on their sleeve.^[2]

[table_hth_LEV0.32011689446872-6] Levante were deducted 3 points for failure to wear the logo of the RFEF on their sleeve.^[3]

[table_hth_VIL0.32011689446872-8] Villarreal were deducted 6 points for failure to wear the logo of the RFEF on their sleeve.^[4]

[1] "Calendario, resultados y actas Futbol femenino. Primera Iberdrola".

[3] "Real Sociedad deducted 3 points". footbalada.com. 15 November 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.

[5] "Levante deducted 3 points". footbalada.com. 15 November 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.

[7] "Villarreal deducted 6 points". villarrealusa.com. 17 November 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021.

[9] Spanish women first division https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/stats

[10] (women)&stat=total_assists_ranking "All leaders in Assists". La Liga. Retrieved 4 December 2021. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)

[11] League results - https://www.laliga.com/en-ES/futbol-femenino/results/2021-22/gameweek-1

[12] Spanish football first division stats (women) - https://www.laliga.com/en-ES/stats

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