2017–18 Levante UD season

Levante UD
2017–18 season
President	Quico Catalán
Head coach	Paco López
Stadium	Ciutat de València
La Liga	15th
Copa del Rey	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: ; José Luis Morales (10); All: ; José Luis Morales (12)
Highest home attendance	23,542
Lowest home attendance	12,942
Average home league attendance	17,681
	← 2016–17 2018–19 →

During the 2017–18 season, Levante UD participated in La Liga and the Copa del Rey. This was the 109th season in Levante UD ’s history and the 12th in the Primera División.

Squad

As of 1 December 2017^[2]^[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
15	DF	ESP	Sergio Postigo
16	FW	ESP	Nano (on loan from Eibar)
17	FW	ESP	Álex Alegría (on loan from Betis)
18	DF	URU	Erick Cabaco (on loan from Nacional)
19	DF	ESP	Pedro López (captain)
20	MF	SRB	Saša Lukić (on loan from Torino)
21	FW	GHA	Emmanuel Boateng
22	DF	ESP	Antonio Luna
23	MF	ESP	Jason
24	MF	ESP	José Campaña
25	GK	AUS	Mitchell Langerak
26	DF	USA	Shaq Moore
31	MF	MTN	Hacen

Transfers

List of Spanish football transfers summer 2017 § Levante

In

Date	Player	From	Type	Fee	Ref
8 June 2017	Antonio Luna	Eibar	Transfer	Free	^[4]
30 June 2017	Víctor Camarasa	Alavés	Loan return	Free	^[5]
30 June 2017	Juan Delgado	Hércules	Loan return	Free	^[6]
30 June 2017	Deyverson	Alavés	Loan return	Free	^[7]
30 June 2017	Álvaro Traver	Logroñés	Loan return	Free	^[8]
1 July 2017	Koke Vegas	Levante B	Promoted		^[9]
1 July 2017	Oier	Granada	Transfer	€200,000	^[10]
1 July 2017	Álex Alegría	Real Betis	Loan	Free	^[11]
17 July 2017	Enis Bardhi	Újpest	Transfer	€1,500,000	^[12]
3 August 2017	Róber	Deportivo La Coruña	Loan	Free	^[13]
4 August 2017	Cheick Doukouré	Metz	Transfer	€1,600,000	^[14]
7 August 2017	Ivi	Sevilla Atlético	Transfer	€1,200,000	^[15]
15 August 2017	Saša Lukić	Torino	Loan	Free	^[16]
16 August 2017	Emmanuel Boateng	Moreirense	Transfer	€2,000,000	^[17]
24 August 2017	Samu	Rubin Kazan	Transfer	Free	^[18]

Out

Date	Player	To	Type	Fee	Ref
6 June 2017	Natxo Insa	Johor Darul Ta'zim	Transfer	€400,000	^[19]
30 June 2017	Paco Montañés	Espanyol	Loan return	Free	^[20]
30 June 2017	Abraham Minero	Real Zaragoza	Loan return	Free	^[21]
30 June 2017	Juan Muñoz	Sevilla	Loan return	Free	^[22]
30 June 2017	Róber	Deportivo La Coruña	Loan return	Free	^[23]
1 July 2017	Víctor Camarasa	Real Betis	Transfer	€7,000,000	^[5]
5 July 2017	Víctor	Tenerife	Transfer	Free	^[24]
12 July 2017	Deyverson	Palmeiras	Transfer	€5,000,000	^[25]
28 July 2017	Rubén García	Sporting Gijón	Loan	Free	^[26]
4 August 2017	Esteban Saveljich	Albacete	Loan	Free	^[27]
7 August 2017	Javier Espinosa	Granada	Loan	Free	^[28]

Competitions

Overall

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
La Liga	21 August 2017	19 May 2018	Matchday 1	15th	38	11	13	14	44	58	−14	028.95
Copa del Rey	26 October 2017	11 January 2018	Round of 32	Round of 16	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	050.00
Total					42	13	14	15	49	62	−13	030.95

Last updated: 1 May 2022
Source: Competitions

Liga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
13	Celta Vigo	38	13	10	15	59	60	−1	49^[a]
14	Alavés	38	15	2	21	40	50	−10	47
15	Levante	38	11	13	14	44	58	−14	46
16	Athletic Bilbao	38	10	13	15	41	49	−8	43^[b]
17	Leganés	38	12	7	19	34	51	−17	43^[b]

Source: La Liga, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Fair-play points (Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played)^[29]
Notes:

Matches

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

21 August 2017 1	Levante	1–0	Villarreal	Valencia
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Lerma 34' Morales 88' (pen.)	Report	Trigueros 37' Ruiz 63' Rukavina 87'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 12,942 Referee: Alfonso Álvarez Izquierdo

26 August 2017 2	Levante	2–2	Deportivo	Valencia
20:15 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bardhi 35' Morales 68' 76' Ivi 83' (pen.)	Report	Cartabia 5', 56' Luisinho 11' Sidnei 31'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 17,370 Referee: Javier Alberola Rojas

9 September 2017 3	Real Madrid	1–1	Levante	Madrid
13:00	Vázquez 36' Ramos 54' Carvajal 66' Marcelo 89'	Report	Ivi 12' Lerma 45' Alegría 47' Boateng 60'	Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Attendance: 67,789 Referee: Alejandro Hernández Hernández

16 September 2017 4	Levante	1–1	Valencia	Valencia
13:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bardhi 37', 41' Postigo 3'	Report	Parejo 15' Rodrigo 31'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 23,084 Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande

21 September 2017 5	Levante	3–0	Real Sociedad	Valencia
22:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Chema 6' Bardhi 14', 45', 89' Morales 75' (pen.)	Report	Llorente 44' 88'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 17,415 Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano

25 September 2017 6	Real Betis	4–0	Levante	Seville
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Sanabria 47', 90+3' Mandi 51' Fabián 55' León 65'	Report		Stadium: Benito Villamarín Attendance: 48,237 Referee: Pablo González Fuertes

30 September 2017 7	Levante	0–2	Alavés	Valencia
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Bardhi 61' Boateng 78'	Report	Maripán 2' Munir 33' Vigaray 67' M. García 71' Medrán 81'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 18,528 Referee: David Fernández Borbalán

13 October 2017 8	Espanyol	0–0	Levante	Cornellà de Llobregat
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Hermoso 57' Fuego 68'	Report	Nano 24' Postigo 39' Morales 60'	Stadium: RCDE Stadium Attendance: 19,365 Referee: Alberto Mallenco

22 October 2017 9	Levante	1–1	Getafe	Valencia
13:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Lerma 42' Morales 62'	Report	Arambarri 5' Cala 14' Fajr 58' Portillo 90'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 17,287 Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea

29 October 2017 10	Eibar	2–2	Levante	Eibar
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Arbilla 51' Charles 74'	Report	Morales 35' Bardhi 37'	Stadium: Ipurua Attendance: 5,098 Referee: Javier Alberola Rojas

5 November 2017 11	Levante	1–2	Girona	Valencia
12:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Chema 11' Postigo 70' Lerma 86' Ünal 90+2'	Report	Juanpe 18' Muniesa 44' B. García 58' Maffeo 61' Pons 72' Stuani 83'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 17,524 Referee: José Luis Munuera Montero

19 November 2017 12	Las Palmas	0–2	Levante	Las Palmas
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Lemos 57'	Report	Campaña 18' Doukouré 71' Oier 73' Jason 79' Toño 81' Morales 89'	Stadium: Gran Canaria Referee: Mario Melero López

25 November 2017 13	Levante	0–5	Atlético Madrid	Valencia
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Chema 52' Morales 54'	Report	Róber 5' (o.g.) Gameiro 29', 59' Griezmann 65', 68' Koke 90+2'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 21,549 Referee: Daniel Trujillo Suárez

1 December 2017 14	Málaga	0–0	Levante	Málaga
21:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Hernández 30'	Report	Samu 36' Bardhi 51' Campaña 90+1'	Stadium: La Rosaleda Attendance: 18,172 Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea

10 December 2017 15	Levante	1–2	Athletic Bilbao	Valencia
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Toño 4' Laporte 73' (o.g.) Campaña 79' Chema 79'	Report	Aduriz 5' (pen.) García 40' Rico 69' Vesga 76' Postigo 79' (o.g.)	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 18,005 Referee: Xavier Estrada Fernández

15 December 2017 16	Sevilla	0–0	Levante	Seville
21:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Lenglet 72' Vázquez 76'	Report	Campaña 47' Lukić 50' Luna 60'	Stadium: Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Attendance: 25,803 Referee: Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva

19 December 2017 17	Levante	0–0	Leganés	Valencia
21:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Lerma 35' Campaña 50' 90+4' Bardhi 77' Morales 90+2' Cabaco 90+5'	Report	Dos Santos 23' Gumbau 61' Amrabat 63' 68' Zaldúa 68' Beauvue 80'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 14,270 Referee: Santiago Jaime

7 January 2018 18	Barcelona	3–0	Levante	Barcelona
16:15 CET (UTC+01:00)	Messi 12' Suárez 38' Paulinho 90+3'	Report	Lerma 8' Sergio Postigo 31' Boateng 70' Róber 84'	Stadium: Camp Nou Attendance: 54,617 Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande

14 January 2018 19	Levante	0–1	Celta de Vigo	Valencia
12:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Morales 21' Doukouré 80' Luna 87' Coke 88'	Report	Sisto 37' Hernández 78' M. Gómez 86' Blanco 90+4'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 16,732 Referee: Alfonso Álvarez Izquierdo

20 January 2018 20	Villarreal	2–1	Levante	Villarreal
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Trigueros 26' (pen.) Costa 39' Cheryshev 50' Álvaro 87'	Report	Lukić 31' Postigo 64' Roger 90+4' (pen.)	Stadium: La Cerámica Attendance: 16,773 Referee: José González González

27 January 2018 21	Deportivo La Coruña	2–2	Levante	A Coruña
13:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Borges 3' 34' Luisinho 17' Adrián 19' Andone 45', 85' Guilherme 72' Schär 88' Rubén 88'	Report	Lerma 30' Doukouré 36' Chema 48' Campaña 57' Roger 61' Ivi 80', 84'	Stadium: Abanca-Riazor Attendance: 20,160 Referee: Pablo González Fuertes

3 February 2018 22	Levante	2–2	Real Madrid	Valencia
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)	Doukouré 13' Ivi 26' Boateng 42' Coke 88' Pazzini 89'	Summary	Ramos 11', 21' Isco 81' Asensio 84' Varane 90+1'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 23,542 Referee: Mario Melero López

11 February 2018 23	Valencia	3–1	Levante	Valencia
20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)		[Report]		Attendance: 38,199

18 February 2018 24	Real Sociedad	3–0	Levante	San Sebastián
12:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		[Report]		Attendance: 18,189

26 February 2018 25	Levante	0–2	Real Betis	Valencia
21:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		[Report]		Attendance: 16,545

1 March 2018 26	Alavés	1–0	Levante	Vitoria-Gasteiz
21:30 CET (UTC+01:00)		[Report]		Attendance: 16,812

4 March 2018 27	Levante	1–1	Espanyol	Valencia
12:00 CET (UTC+01:00)		[Report]		Attendance: 17,143

10 March 2018 28	Getafe	0–1	Levante	Getafe
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Bruno 33' Amath 61' Suárez 82' Jorge Molina (footballer) 88'	Report	Campaña 3' Cabaco 33' López 34' Ivi 37' Coke 40', 79' Koke 83' Bardhi 90+3'	Stadium: Coliseum Alfonso Pérez Attendance: 8,136 Referee: Daniel Jesús Trujillo Suárez

16 March 2018 29	Levante	2–1	Eibar	Valencia
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Cabaco 19' Roger 25', 34' Lerma 61' Boateng 64' Lukić 90+2'	Report	García 33' Charles 63', 69' Arbilla 90+4'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 16,028 Referee: Ignacio Iglesias

31 March 2018 30	Girona	1–1	Levante	Girona
13:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Granell 54' Maffeo 90+1'	Report	Roger 28' Cabaco 29' Morales 68' Lerma 78'	Stadium: Montilivi Attendance: 11,391 Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea

8 April 2018 31	Levante	2–1	Las Palmas	Valencia
12:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Morales 25' Coke 35', 61' 86' Róber Pier 54' Campaña 90+2', 90+3' Rochina 90+3'	Report	Castellano 12' Aguirregaray 35' García 50' Gálvez 68'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 18,402 Referee: David Fernández Borbalán

15 April 2018 32	Atlético Madrid	3–0	Levante	Madrid
16:15 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Hernandez 29' Correa 33' Griezmann 41', 48' F. Torres 77'	Report	López 34'	Stadium: Wanda Metropolitano Attendance: 58,043 Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano

19 April 2018 33	Levante	1–0	Málaga	Valencia
21:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Lerma 37' Boateng 90+3'	Report	Adrián 90+2'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 17,372 Referee: Santiago Jaime Latre

23 April 2018 34	Athletic Bilbao	1–3	Levante	Bilbao
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	García 8', 53' Iturraspe 41' Núñez 88'	Report	Bardhi 42, 44', 45' Lerma 55' Jason 89' Morales 90'	Stadium: San Mamés Attendance: 24,587 Referee: José Luis Munuera Montero

27 April 2018 35	Levante	2–1	Sevilla	Valencia
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Roger 11' Morales 74' Luna 77'	Report	Fernández 16' Sarabia 87'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 17,240 Referee: González González

7 May 2018 36	Leganés	0–3	Levante	Leganés
21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Pérez 19' Amrabat 41' Zaldúa 57' Bustinza 61' Rico 74' Ramos 79'	Report	Jason 35' Morales 55' Bardhi 59' Coke 77'	Stadium: Butarque Attendance: 7,832 Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez

13 May 2018 37	Levante	5–4	Barcelona	Valencia
20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Boateng 9, 30, 49', 37' Bardhi 22', 46, 56' Coke 62' Campaña 70' Lerma 88' Pazzini 90+3'	Report	Vermaelen 20' Coutinho 38, 59, 64' Busquets 65' L. Suárez 71' (pen.), 88' D. Suárez 89' Mina 90+4' Piqué 90+4' Alba 90+5'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 22,384 Referee: Mario Melero López

19 May 2018 38	Celta de Vigo	4–2	Levante	Vigo
13:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Gómez 29, 63', 89' Aspas 41, 48'	Report	Rochina 12' Cabaco 22' Luna 35' Chema 35' Morales 74'	Stadium: Balaídos Attendance: 10,480 Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea

Copa del Rey

Round of 32

26 October 2017 First leg	Girona	0–2	Levante	Girona
20:30 CEST	Ramalho 7' Kayode 78'	Report	Lukić 1' Samu 31' Boateng 40' Morales 45' Doukouré 62' Ivi 90+1'	Stadium: Montilivi Attendance: 6,446 Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez

28 November 2017 Second leg	Levante	1–1 (3–1 agg.)	Girona	Valencia
21:30 CET	Douglas Luiz 44'	Report	Hacen 51' Cabaco 61' Morales 75' Jason 82' Samu 90'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 6,858 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco

Round of 16

4 January 2018 First Leg	Espanyol	1–2	Levante	Cornellà de Llobregat
21:00 CET	Gerard 28' Piatti 53' Darder 85'	Report	Cabaco 29' Morales 38' (pen.) Bardhi 53' Lerma 70' Ivi 74'	Stadium: RCDE Stadium Attendance: 12,602 Referee: David Fernández Borbalán

11 January 2018 Second Leg	Levante	0–2 (2–3 agg.)	Espanyol	Valencia
19:30 CET	Lukić 42' Boateng 61'	Report	Baptistão 14' Hermoso 21' Gerard 34'	Stadium: Ciutat de València Attendance: 9,978 Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Last updated on 20 May 2018.

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		La Liga		Copa del Rey
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	ESP	Raúl	13	0	11	0	2	0
13	GK	ESP	Oier	27	0	26	0	1	0
25	GK	ESP	Koke Vegas	1	0	1	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	ESP	Iván López	3	0	3	0	0	0
3	DF	ESP	Toño	15	0	12	0	3	0
4	DF	ESP	Róber	27	0	19+6	0	1+1	0
6	DF	ESP	Chema	27	1	23+2	1	1+1	0
12	DF	ESP	Coke	18	3	16+1	3	1	0
15	DF	ESP	Sergio Postigo	32	1	27+3	1	2	0
18	DF	URU	Erick Cabaco	18	0	12+2	0	4	0
19	DF	ESP	Pedro López	22	0	18+3	0	1	0
22	DF	ESP	Antonio Luna	24	0	22+1	0	1	0
26	DF	USA	Shaq Moore	8	0	5+1	0	2	0
30	DF	MTN	Aly Abeid	1	0	1	0	0	0
Midfielders
5	MF	ESP	Cheick Doukouré	21	2	12+7	1	1+1	1
8	MF	COL	Jefferson Lerma	28	0	25+1	0	1+1	0
10	MF	MKD	Enis Bardhi	30	9	16+10	9	3+1	0
11	MF	ESP	José Luis Morales	39	12	35	10	2+2	2
16	DF	ESP	Rubén Rochina	5	1	1+4	1	0	0
20	MF	SRB	Saša Lukić	18	0	12+4	0	2	0
23	MF	ESP	Jason	29	1	22+5	1	2	0
24	MF	ESP	José Campaña	38	1	33+2	1	3	0
31	MF	MTN	Hacen	3	0	1+1	0	1	0
34	MF	CIV	Youssouf Yalike	1	0	0	0	0+1	0
Forwards
7	FW	ALB	Armando Sadiku	6	0	4+2	0	0	0
9	FW	ESP	Roger	17	3	10+7	3	0	0
14	FW	ESP	Ivi	32	5	17+12	4	0+3	1
17	FW	ITA	Giampaolo Pazzini	9	1	5+4	1	0	0
21	FW	GHA	Emmanuel Boateng	29	7	10+15	6	3+1	1
25	FW	KSA	Fahad Al-Muwallad	2	0	0+2	0	0	0
—	FW	ESP	Álex Alegría	9	0	8+1	0	0	0
Players who have made an appearance or had a squad number this season but have left the club
7	FW	ESP	Samu	15	0	2+9	0	4	0
12	FW	TUR	Enes Ünal	7	1	7	1	0	0
16	FW	ESP	Nano	11	0	2+7	0	2	0
25	GK	AUS	Mitchell Langerak	1	0	0	0	1	0

Cards

Accounts for all competitions. Last updated on 22 December 2017.

No.	Pos.	Name
3	DF	Toño	2	0
6	DF	Chema	4	0
7	FW	Samu	2	0
8	MF	Jefferson Lerma	6	0
10	MF	Enis Bardhi	5	0
11	MF	José Luis Morales	6	1
13	GK	Oier	1	0
14	FW	Ivi	2	0
15	DF	Sergio Postigo	3	0
16	FW	Nano	1	0
17	FW	Álex Alegría	1	0
18	DF	Erick Cabaco	1	0
19	DF	Pedro López	1	0
20	MF	Saša Lukić	3	0
21	FW	Emmanuel Boateng	2	0
24	MF	José Campaña	5	1

Clean sheets

Last updated on 22 December 2017.

Number	Name	Matches Played	La Liga	Copa del Rey	Total
1	Raúl	11	3	0	3
13	Oier	7	4	1	5
25	Mitchell Langerak	0	0	0	0
TOTALS			7	1	8

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