2013–14 Valencia CF season

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Valencia

2013–14 season
Owner	Peter Lim
President	Amadeo Salvo
Head coach	Miroslav Đukić (until 16 December 2013) Juan Antonio Pizzi (from 26 December 2013)
Stadium	Mestalla
La Liga	8th
Copa del Rey	Round of 16
UEFA Europa League	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Jonas (9) All: Paco Alcácer (14)
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The 2013–14 season was Valencia Club de Fútbol's 96th in existence and the club's 27th consecutive season in the top flight of Spanish football.

Valencia endured its worst domestic season since 2007–08, following a serious hamstring injury to star goalkeeper Diego Alves. Contrary to the previous four seasons under the guidance of Unai Emery, Mauricio Pellegrino, Ernesto Valverde and Miroslav Đukić, Valencia's offence malfunctioned, and in December, Đukić was fired by the club, with successful former San Lorenzo coach Juan Antonio Pizzi taking over.

With Pizzi at the helm, Valencia managed to salvage some respectability by reaching the semi-finals of the UEFA Europa League, where they were eliminated by eventual champions Sevilla. Following that narrow defeat, Valencia failed to qualify to Europe for the next season for the first time since 1997–98 due to a lowly eighth-place finish in La Liga. In June 2014, the club was sold to Singaporean consortium Meriton Holdings, owned by Peter Lim.

Valencia continued its increasingly frustrating run without the league title, which was extended to ten years following a chaotic season. Coach Miroslav Đukić was fired when the side did not perform to the expected level, and the season saw a further two coaches (Nicolás Estévez and Juan Antonio Pizzi) trying to lead Valencia without much success. Under Pizzi's reign, Valencia recorded a surprise 3–2 victory over Barcelona at Camp Nou in February and a 2–2 draw against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in May. Despite the chaos, the side managed to reach the semi-finals of the UEFA Europa League, where it lost to eventual champions Sevilla.

Another worry was the injury problems affecting goalkeeper Diego Alves, who only played in 26 of the 38 league matches.

After the season, Valencia signed Rodrigo De Paul from Racing Club for a fee of 4ドル.6 million to help out with the goalscoring, while successful ex-Rio Ave coach Nuno Espírito Santo was appointed in the hope he could help Valencia return to winning ways. José Sevilla Álvarez, owner of Bankia, sold the club to Singaporean Peter Lim to help Valencia clear its debt.

The numbers are established according to the official website: www.valenciacf.com

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Brazil BRA Diego Alves 2 FW Argentina ARG Pablo Piatti 3 DF Portugal POR Rúben Vezo 4 DF Switzerland SUI Philippe Senderos 5 DF Spain ESP Víctor Ruiz 6 MF Spain ESP Oriol Romeu (on loan from Chelsea) 7 FW Brazil BRA Jonas 8 MF Algeria ALG Sofiane Feghouli 11 MF Mali MLI Seydou Keita 12 DF Portugal POR João Pereira 13 GK Spain ESP Vicente Guaita (2nd captain) 14 MF Spain ESP Juan Bernat

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF Spain ESP Javi Fuego 16 FW Spain ESP Paco Alcácer 17 FW Chile CHI Eduardo Vargas (on loan from Napoli) 19 DF Spain ESP Antonio Barragán 20 DF Portugal POR Ricardo Costa (Captain) 21 MF Spain ESP Dani Parejo 22 DF France FRA Jérémy Mathieu 24 MF Spain ESP Míchel 25 FW Brazil BRA Vinícius Araújo 28 MF Argentina ARG Fede Cartabia 29 MF Spain ESP Portu 31 DF Spain ESP José Luis Gayà

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 GK Spain ESP Jaume Domènech — DF Spain ESP Carlos Delgado — DF Spain ESP Salva Ruiz

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW Spain ESP Robert — MF Spain ESP Mario Arqués — DF Spain ESP Alberto Tendillo

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF France FRA Aly Cissokho (at Liverpool until 30 June 2014) — MF Spain ESP Carles Gil (at Elche until 30 June 2014) — MF Spain ESP Jonathan Viera (at Rayo Vallecano until 30 June 2014) 4 DF France FRA Adil Rami (at Milan until 30 June 2014) 11 FW Colombia COL Dorlan Pabón (at São Paulo until 30 June 2015) 18 MF Mexico MEX Andrés Guardado (at Bayer Leverkusen until 30 June 2014) 9 FW Portugal POR Hélder Postiga (at Lazio until 30 June 2014) 10 MF Argentina ARG Éver Banega (at Newell's Old Boys until 30 June 2014) — DF Argentina ARG Nicolás Otamendi (at Atlético Mineiro until 30 June 2014)

Num	Pos	Nat	Name	Date of birth (Age)	Place of birth	Date signed	Signed from	Contract expires	Int	Notes
Goalkeepers
1	GK	Spain	Vicente Guaita	(1987年02月18日) 18 February 1987 (age 38)	Torrent, Spain Spain	2 October 2008 (d)	Youth system, signed from Aldaya	30 June 2015	Spain	Originally from youth system
13	GK	Brazil	Diego Alves	(1985年06月24日) 24 June 1985 (age 39)	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Brazil	4 June 2011	Brazil São Paulo	30 June 2015
–	GK	Spain	Yeray Gómez	(1992年06月10日) 10 June 1992 (age 32)	Selva, Spain Spain	11 July 2013	Spain Mallorca B	30 June 2014	On loan from Mallorca B, Valencia Mestalla member
Defenders
4	CB	France	Adil Rami	(1985年12月27日) 27 December 1985 (age 39)	Bastia, France France	3 January 2011	France Lille	30 June 2014	France
5	CB	Spain	Víctor Ruiz	(1989年01月25日) 25 January 1989 (age 36)	Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain Spain	30 August 2011	Italy Napoli	30 June 2016
12	RB	Portugal	João Pereira	(1984年02月25日) 25 February 1984 (age 41)	Lisbon, Portugal Portugal	24 May 2012	Portugal Sporting CP	30 June 2015	Portugal
19	RB	Spain	Antonio Barragán	(1987年06月12日) 12 June 1987 (age 37)	Pontedeume, Spain Spain	30 August 2011	Spain Real Valladolid	30 June 2015
20	CB	Portugal	Ricardo Costa	(1981年08月27日) 27 August 1981 (age 43)	Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal Portugal	17 May 2010	Germany VfL Wolfsburg	30 June 2015	Portugal
22	LB	France	Jérémy Mathieu	(1983年10月29日) 29 October 1983 (age 41)	Luxeuil-les-Bains, France France	10 June 2009	France Toulouse	30 June 2017	France
Midfielders
6	DM	Spain	Oriol Romeu	(1991年09月24日) 24 September 1991 (age 33)	Ulldecona, Spain Spain	12 July 2013	England Chelsea	31 June 2014	On loan from Chelsea
8	AM	Algeria	Sofiane Feghouli	(1989年12月26日) 26 December 1989 (age 35)	Levallois-Perret, France France	23 May 2010	France Grenoble	30 June 2016	Algeria
10	CM	Argentina	Éver Banega	(1988年06月29日) 29 June 1988 (age 36)	Rosario, Argentina Argentina	5 January 2008	Argentina Boca Juniors	30 June 2015	Argentina
11	LW	Argentina	Pablo Piatti	(1989年03月31日) 31 March 1989 (age 35)	Ucacha, Argentina Argentina	6 July 2011	Spain Almería	30 June 2016	Argentina
14	LW	Spain	Juan Bernat	(1993年03月01日) 1 March 1993 (age 32)	Cullera, Spain Spain	27 August 2011 (d)	Youth system, since beginnings	30 June 2015	Originally from youth system
15	DM	Spain	Javi Fuego	(1984年01月04日) 4 January 1984 (age 41)	Pola de Siero, Spain Spain	1 July 2013	Spain Rayo Vallecano	30 June 2017
17	AM	Spain	Jonathan Viera	(1989年10月21日) 21 October 1989 (age 35)	Las Palmas de G.C., Spain Spain	6 May 2012	Spain Las Palmas	30 June 2017
18	LW	Mexico	Andrés Guardado	(1986年09月28日) 28 September 1986 (age 38)	Guadalajara, Mexico Mexico	28 May 2012	Spain Deportivo La Coruña	30 June 2016	Mexico
21	CM	Spain	Dani Parejo	(1989年04月16日) 16 April 1989 (age 35)	Coslada, Spain Spain	14 June 2011	Spain Getafe	30 June 2016
23	AM	Spain	Sergio Canales	(1991年02月16日) 16 February 1991 (age 34)	Santander, Spain Spain	30 July 2011	Spain Real Madrid	30 June 2017
24	AM	Spain	Míchel	(1988年07月29日) 29 July 1988 (age 36)	Burjassot, Spain Spain	29 October 2008 (d)	Spain Levante	30 June 2016	Originally from youth system
Forwards
7	SS	Brazil	Jonas	(1984年04月01日) 1 April 1984 (age 40)	Bebedouro, Brazil Brazil	24 January 2011	Brazil Grêmio	30 June 2015	Brazil	Without European Union citizenship
16	ST	Spain	Paco Alcácer	(1993年08月30日) 30 August 1993 (age 31)	Torrent, Spain Spain	11 November 2010 (d)	Youth system, signed from Monte-Sión	30 June 2016

Notes: (d), debut in first team in an official match

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
15	DM	Spain	Javi Fuego	29	EU	Rayo Vallecano	Transfer	Summer	2016	Free	As.com
16	ST	Spain	Paco Alcácer	19	EU	Getafe	Loan return	Summer	2016	N/A	Terra.es
5	DM	Argentina	Fernando Gago	26	EU	Vélez Sarsfield Argentina	Loan return	Summer	2016	N/A	Clarín.com
24	AM	Spain	Míchel	24	EU	Levante	Transfer	Summer	2016	0ドル.42M	Superdeporte.es
6	DM	Spain	Oriol Romeu	21	EU	Chelsea England	Loan	Summer	2014	N/A	ValenciaCF.com
GK	Spain	Yeray Gómez	21	EU	Mallorca B	Loan	Summer	2014	N/A	Marca.com
28	MF	Spain	Fede Cartabia	20	EU	Valencia Mestalla	Promoted	Summer	2017	N/A	Superdeporte.es
36	DF	Spain	José Luis Gayà	18	EU	Valencia Mestalla	Promoted	Summer	2018	N/A	[]
27	FW	Spain	Robert	20	EU	Valencia Mestalla	Promoted	Summer	2014	N/A	Superdeporte.es
9	FW	Portugal	Hélder Postiga	31	EU	Zaragoza	Transfer	Summer	2016	3ドルM	Superdeporte.es
11	FW	Colombia	Dorlan Pabón	25	Non-EU	Monterrey Mexico	Transfer	Summer	2018	7ドル.5M	Superdeporte.es
17	FW	Chile	Eduardo Vargas	24	Non-EU	Napoli Italy	Loan	Winter	2014	0ドル.5M	Superdeporte.es

Total expenditure: Decrease 11ドル.42 million

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
24	MF	Argentina	Tino Costa	28	EU	Spartak Moscow Russia	Transfer	Summer	7ドルM	Superdeporte.es
6	MF	Spain	David Albelda	35	EU	End of contract	Summer	Free	Superdeporte.es
26	GK	Spain	Felipe Ramos	25	EU	Deportivo La Coruña	End of loan	Summer	N/A	Riazor.org
CM	Spain	Carles Gil	20	EU	Elche	Loan	Summer	N/A	ValenciaCF.com
16	ST	Paraguay	Nelson Valdez	29	EU	Al Jazira United Arab Emirates	Transfer	Summer	3ドルM	Marca.com
5	MF	Argentina	Fernando Gago	27	EU	Boca Juniors Argentina	Transfer	Summer	1ドル.7M	Superdeporte.es
9	ST	Spain	Roberto Soldado	27	EU	Tottenham Hotspur England	Transfer	Summer	30ドルM	ESPN
3	DF	France	Aly Cissokho	25	EU	Liverpool England	Loan	Summer	1ドルM	Superdeporte.es
DF	Spain	Salva Ruiz	18	EU	Tenerife	Loan	Summer	N/A	Superdeporte.es

Total income: Increase 42ドル.7 million

Position	Staff
Head coach	Juan Antonio Pizzi
Second coach	Manuel Suárez
Physical trainer	Alejandro Richino
Goalkeeping trainer	José Manuel Ochotorena
Delegate	Salvador González 'Voro'
Kit manager	Bernardo España Edo 'Españeta'
Kit manager	José Manuel López
Kit manager	Vicente Navarro Navarro 'Serreta'
Kit manager	Iván Montero Rodríguez
Kit manager	Vicente Ventura Deval

Source: Valencia CF Official Website

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
La Liga	—	—	17 August 2013	18 May 2014
Copa del Rey	Round of 32	Round of 16	7 December 2013
UEFA Europa League	Group stage	—	19 September 2013

Updated to match played 9 July 2013
Source: Competitions

Trophy	Organizer	Type	Result	Place	First match	Last match
International Champions Cup	International Champions Cup	Tournament	Mestalla, Valencia (Spain) MetLife Stadium, NYC (United States) Sun Life Stadium, Miami (United States)	27 July 2013	6/7 August 2013
XLII Trofeu Taronja – Estrella Damm	Valencia CF	One match trophy	Mestalla, Valencia (Spain)	10 August 2013

Source: Pre-season and friendlies

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
6	Villarreal	38	17	8	13	60	44	+16	59[a]	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round [b]
7	Real Sociedad	38	16	11	11	62	55	+7	59[a]	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round [b]
8	Valencia	38	13	10	15	51	53	−2	49
9	Celta Vigo	38	14	7	17	49	54	−5	49
10	Levante	38	12	12	14	35	43	−8	48

Valencia began in the last 32, beating Segunda División B side Gimnàstic de Tarragona before losing to Atlético Madrid in the last 16.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	VAL	SWA	KUB	STG
1	Spain Valencia	6	4	1	1	12	7	+5	13	Advance to knockout phase	—	0–3	1–1	5–1
2	England Swansea City	6	2	2	2	6	4	+2	8		0–1	—	1–1	1–0
3	Russia Kuban Krasnodar	6	1	3	2	7	7	0	6[a]	0–2	1–1	—	4–0
4	Switzerland St. Gallen	6	2	0	4	6	13	−7	6[a]	2–3	1–0	2–0	—

Valencia began training on 8 July 2013.^[9] The stage of pre-season was in Speyer, Germany, from Wednesday 10 July until Sunday 21 July,^[10] all players were invited and Mestalla members invited were Fede Cartabia, Mario Arqués, Salva Ruiz, José Luis Gayà and Robert. Players joining days later included Ricardo Costa, João Pereira, Adil Rami and Jérémy Mathieu on 9 July; Paco Alcácer on 10 July, Jonas, Éver Banega and Sofiane Feghouli on 13 July; Andrés Guardado, Juan Bernat and Gayà on 22 July; and Roberto Soldado on 27 July. Fernando Gago did not join the team.^[11] On 21 July, they returned to Valencia to participate in the International Champions Cup, which began in Valencia, then continued in the United States in August.^[12] Valencia presentations and the Orange Trophy were played on 10 August.^[9]

Last updated on 17 May 2014

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		La Liga		Copa del Rey		Europa League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	Brazil BRA	Diego Alves	35	0	27	0	1	0	7	0
13	GK	Spain ESP	Vicente Guaita	23	0	11+2	0	3	0	7	0
Defenders
3	DF	Portugal POR	Rúben Vezo	8	1	5+3	1	0	0	0	0
4	DF	Switzerland SUI	Philippe Senderos	11	1	7+1	0	0	0	2+1	1
5	DF	Spain ESP	Víctor Ruiz	19	1	8+3	1	1	0	6+1	0
12	DF	Portugal POR	João Pereira	38	0	23+2	0	2	0	11	0
14	DF	Spain ESP	Juan Bernat	49	2	26+6	1	4	0	11+2	1
19	DF	Spain ESP	Antonio Barragán	31	1	17+3	0	2	0	4+5	1
20	MF	Portugal POR	Ricardo Costa	32	3	20	3	3	0	7+2	0
22	DF	France FRA	Jérémy Mathieu	47	4	32	3	4	0	10+1	1
31	DF	Spain ESP	José Luis Gayà	4	0	1	0	0	0	2+1	0
Midfielders
6	MF	Spain ESP	Oriol Romeu	18	0	11+2	0	1	0	3+1	0
8	MF	Algeria ALG	Sofiane Feghouli	45	7	22+10	4	2+1	0	7+3	3
11	MF	Mali MLI	Seydou Keita	18	1	9+2	1	0	0	7	0
15	MF	Spain ESP	Javi Fuego	40	2	25+2	2	3	0	8+2	0
21	MF	Spain ESP	Dani Parejo	46	5	28+3	4	4	0	10+1	1
24	MF	Spain ESP	Míchel	27	0	13+6	0	2	0	5+1	0
28	MF	Argentina ARG	Fede Cartabia	40	3	16+9	0	3	0	10+2	3
29	MF	Spain ESP	Portu	2	0	1	0	0	0	0+1	0
Forwards
2	FW	Argentina ARG	Pablo Piatti	29	7	13+4	5	0+3	0	3+6	2
7	FW	Brazil BRA	Jonas	40	10	23+8	10	1	0	4+4	0
16	FW	Spain ESP	Paco Alcácer	37	14	17+6	6	1+2	1	8+3	7
17	FW	Chile CHI	Eduardo Vargas	25	5	13+4	3	0	0	7+1	2
25	MF	Brazil BRA	Vinícius Araújo	6	0	0+6	0	0	0	0	0
Players who have made an appearance or had a squad number this season but have been loaned out or transferred
4	DF	France FRA	Adil Rami	4	0	3	0	0	0	1	0
10	MF	Argentina ARG	Éver Banega	22	1	14+4	1	1+1	0	2	0
17	MF	Spain ESP	Jonathan Viera	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
18	MF	Mexico MEX	Andrés Guardado	22	0	12+4	0	3	0	3	0
23	MF	Spain ESP	Sergio Canales	27	2	7+12	0	1+2	0	5	2
9	FW	Portugal POR	Hélder Postiga	23	4	9+6	3	2+1	1	3+2	0
11	FW	Colombia COL	Dorlan Pabón	18	3	11+2	3	0+2	0	1+2	0

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