2026/2027 season

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Deportivo Alavés
Head coach: Quique Sánchez Flores · 4-4-2
Rank
7th
Pts
11
P
8
Form
🟠 Poor

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
7/10
Attack
9/10
Defence
3/10
Form
5/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:High

7th with 11 pts from 8 matches: 3 wins, 2 draws, 3 defeats.

12 goals scored, 8 conceded.

Still not to digest the blow that it meant to lose to the Juventus in the elongation, the Celta receives on Sunday the Alavés in Balaídos, where five months ago Quique Sánchez Flores celebrated his first victory as a Vitorian technician after the epic dating back from his team, which raised a 3-0 in the second part.

Mundo Deportivo · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

The lions have not been competing since September 19, before the long border paron, before the Alavés in San Mamés. It is not the ideal situation and more at the beginning of a stage like the one that Terzic has started. The lions played about a quarter of an hour last Saturday in Vallecas and then the game was suspended. & nbsp;

Mundo Deportivo · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

& nbsp; The coach of the Alavés Sports, Quique Sánchez Flores, rejected that they are playing to "add a point of twelve," after not winning in the last four games and added that "there are many teams that have not yet achieved 11 points," as they have.

Mundo Deportivo · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

It is precisely what Nicolás Valentini (25), a central Argentine, has done that has been gaining weight in the saga of the Deportivo Alavés until winning the present vitola of indispensable for Quique Sánchez Flores.

Mundo Deportivo · 15 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Lvs Club Atlético de Madrid (H) · 1-2
Dvs Athletic Club (A) · 0-0
Lvs Valencia CF (H) · 0-1
Lvs Real Racing Club de Santander (A) · 1-2
Wvs CA Osasuna (H) · 5-2
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12 scored / 8 conceded over 8 matches played
Rest: 8 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
3W - 0D - 2L
Away form
0W - 2D - 1L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
1.4
Goals conceded per match
1.4
At home
6 scored · 5 conceded in 3 matches
Away
1 scored · 2 conceded in 2 matches
Over 2.5 goals
3 of 5
Both teams score
3 of 5
Clean sheets
1 of 5
Failed to score
2 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Deportivo Alavés play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-4-2
Philosophy
Organised block, positional discipline and priority given to defensive balance, with direct play down the flanks and quick breaks on the counter — a 4-4-2 setup noted from matchday 1.
Attacking strengths
5 goals in 3 matchdays, including an opening 3-0 win against Getafe; against Villarreal, Lucas Boyé's goal (31') came from a counter-attack started by Antonio Blanco and finished off a pass from Ángel Pérez.
Defensive solidity
Only one goal conceded in 3 matchdays, level with the league's best defence, including a clean sheet against Villarreal where Sivera made several decisive saves.
Pressing
High, sustained pressing described by the local press against Villarreal: “the pressing work was constant from kick-off” (El Gol Digital, 28/08/2026). No verified statistical data.
Transitions
Fast offensive transitions down the wings, notably through Ángel Pérez, identified as the main creative mechanism against Villarreal.
StrengthThe club's best-ever start to a season equalled (7 points from 9, matching 1930-31 and 2001-02 according to EFE), a defence with just 1 goal conceded, and a goalkeeper-captain extended until 2030.
WeaknessOffensive output still modest outside the opening 3-0, a squad without its centre-back Facundo Garcés until November 2026 for disciplinary reasons, and external interest reported in key players (Denis Suárez, Ángel Pérez) at the end of the transfer window.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
Very good and now validated beyond the Basque Country: with seven points from three matchdays, Alavés have matched their best-ever start and sit fourth before hosting Osasuna. The nominations of Quique Sánchez Flores for coach of the month for August and Nahuel Tenaglia for player of the month confirm that the performance has not gone unnoticed. Lucas Boyé, a scorer against Villarreal, summed up the mood by saying he was “very happy for the team, for the three points and for this start”. The squad approach the visit of Osasuna as a direct meeting between two sides in the top half, which would have seemed improbable in August. The one shadow is Toni Martínez's small tear, which further reduces already limited attacking options.
Coach / players / board relationship
Calm and legible: the sporting directors kept their key players, extended captain Antonio Sivera until 2030 and closed the window without a forced sale, which reinforced the line the head coach defends. The only late departures involved players who were not playing, such as goalkeeper Jesús Owono, transferred permanently to Andorra after a successful loan. Quique Sánchez Flores made no public request that went unanswered, unlike several of his LaLiga counterparts. The consistency between the message from the bench and the one from the boardroom remains one of the club's least visible but most solid assets.
Mood with the supporters
The Mendizorroza crowd are experiencing an unusual start to autumn: fourth in LaLiga, the team beat Villarreal in front of 15,556 spectators and now host Osasuna in a fixture that matters for the top of the table. On 30 August the stadium also hosted the first appearance of Alavés Gloriosas in the women's top division, a 2-0 win against Valencia that widened the club's audience. Keeping the senior players at the close of the window was read as a signal of respect towards season-ticket holders. No protest or hostile banner is reported by the sources consulted.
Pressure on the head coach
Low and falling further. Results protect Quique Sánchez Flores, whose nomination for LaLiga's August coach of the month award formalises the credit he enjoys. FútbolFantasy's data describe him as one of the most predictable coaches in the league, with 96% consistency in his selections and no rotation expected against Osasuna, which reflects a first eleven already settled. Nothing in the sources consulted suggests the slightest question, internally or in the media.
Club objectives
No official numerical objective has been published for 2026-27 and the club, entering their fourth consecutive season in the top flight, stick publicly to the logic of survival. Before the restart the local press pointed out that the league looked “tremendamente igualado” with Racing, Deportivo and Málaga coming up. The start of seven points from nine changes the implicit horizon, without any source consulted reporting a European ambition owned by the board. The club has also widened its institutional footprint by launching its women's team in Liga F.
Recent internal tensions
No internal tension is reported by the sources consulted. The one potential point of friction, Facundo Garcés's prolonged unavailability for disciplinary reasons, is being handled without public controversy and the player continues to train with the group. The late departures, including goalkeeper Owono's, happened without apparent conflict. The most notable disagreement is in fact among the sources themselves, which differ on how long Toni Martínez will be out.
Absences
InjuredToni Martínez — Small tear in the soleus confirmed by tests on 1 Sep 2026, an injury sustained on 28 Aug. No timeline retained: FútbolFantasy first announced him available for matchday 4 and then out until mid-September, with no second source to settle it.
SuspendedFacundo Garcés — A twelve-month FIFA suspension still running; FútbolFantasy puts his reintegration at LaLiga matchday 12. He can train but not play competitive matches.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Celta de Vigo — Deportivo Alavés

AwaySunday 18 October at 16:15Matchday 9
It's today. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says
  • El Celta busca oxígeno y el Alavés romper su mala rachaStill not to digest the blow that it meant to lose to the Juventus in the elongation, the Celta receives on Sunday the Alavés in Balaídos, where five months ago Quique Sánchez Flores celebrated his first victory as a Vitorian technician after the epic dating back from his team, which raised a 3-0 in the second part.Mundo Deportivo · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated
Prediction
EstimateCelta de Vigo — Deportivo Alavés
39 %
1 · Celta de Vigo
30 %
X · draw
31 %
2 · Deportivo Alavés
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 8 matches played by Celta de Vigo, 8 matches by Deportivo Alavés. Confidence: fair
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 238 goals scored over 159 team-matches played (19 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.50 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Celta de Vigo — attack8 in 8 matches0.670.81
    Celta de Vigo — defence6 in 8 matches0.500.71
    Deportivo Alavés — attack12 in 8 matches1.001.00
    Deportivo Alavés — defence8 in 8 matches0.670.81
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.57 for Celta de Vigo and 0.57 for Deportivo Alavés. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.76 goal scored on average by the host against 1.38 by the visitor, over the 45 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.27; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.43, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.11. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Celta de Vigo at home: 1.00 pts/match versus 1.00 overall over 4 matches → ×1.000
    Deportivo Alavés away: 0.67 pts/match versus 1.38 overall over 3 matches → ×0.880
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λCelta de Vigo = 1.50 × 0.81 × 0.81 × 1.11 × 1.000 = 1.09
    λDeportivo Alavés = 1.50 × 1.00 × 0.71 × 0.880 = 0.94
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 38.6%, draw 30.4%, away win 31.0% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-0 (only 14.3%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Antonio SiveraC
  • Adrián Rodríguez
  • Grégoire Swiderski
Defenders
  • Nahuel Tenaglia
  • Jonny Otto
  • Facundo Garcés
  • Nicolás Valentini
  • Ville Koski
  • Youssef Enríquez
  • Hugo Novoa
  • Xanet Oláiz
Midfielders
  • Antonio Blanco
  • Denis Suárez
  • Carles Aleñá
  • Ander Guevara
  • Pablo Ibáñez
  • Mikel Rodríguez
  • Carlos Benavídez
  • Selu Diallo
  • Tomás Mendes
Forwards
  • Lucas Boyé
  • Toni Martínez
  • Ángel Pérez
  • Abde Rebbach
  • Miguel Rodríguez
  • Aitor Mañas
  • Mariano Díaz
Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: BeSoccer squad page (es.besoccer.com/equipo/plantilla/alaves) cross-checked against the official 2026-27 squad-number list published by Norte Exprés on 15/08/2026; the squad page on the official deportivoalaves.com site could not be accessed.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
The Celta seeks oxygen and the Alavés break their bad streak
Source: Mundo Deportivo
rss15 Oct 2026
Nicolás Valentini, the new indispensable in the Alavés de Quique
Source: Mundo Deportivo
rss13 Oct 2026
Simeone leaves Koke out of the call but recovers the two discards before the Alavés
Source: Mundo Deportivo
rss12 Oct 2026
The schedule of the visit of the Alavés to the Sanchez-Pizjuan is already known
Source: ABC Deportes
rss10 Oct 2026
Alavés - Atlético124; One stop to measure two rachas
Source: Marca
rss10 Oct 2026
The Atletico Madrid goes to Alaves house and remains second in the standings
Source: Corriere dello Sport
Result3 Sep 2026
Matchday 4: Alavés host Osasuna on Sunday 6 September 2026 at 18:30 at Mendizorroza, a direct meeting between fourth and fifth in the table after three matchdays.
Source: FútbolFantasy
Club2 Sep 2026
The Vitoria side's start to the season is rewarded with two nominations for LaLiga's monthly awards for August: Quique Sánchez Flores is among the candidates for coach of the month, alongside Hansi Flick and José Mourinho, and full-back Nahuel Tenaglia is nominated for player of the month.
Source: Yahoo Sports
Injury1 Sep 2026
The tests Toni Martínez underwent confirmed on 1 September a small tear in the soleus sustained on 28 August; the forward missed the return to team training. Note: the same outlet had previously announced him available for matchday 4 and now has him out until mid-September, so no timeline is retained here.
Source: FútbolFantasy
Result31 Aug 2026
A 1-0 win against Villarreal on matchday 3: Alavés are fourth with 7 points, their best start in recent LaLiga history.
Source: El Debate
Club30 Aug 2026
The club's women's team, Alavés Gloriosas, made a successful debut in the Spanish top division by beating Valencia 2-0 at Mendizorroza on matchday 1 of the Liga F Moeve, thanks to goals from Kumba Brima and Ainhoa Guallar.
Source: Kirolak EITB
Other29 Aug 2026
The decisive scorer against Villarreal, Lucas Boyé summed up the dressing room's mood: “Estoy muy contento por el equipo, los tres puntos y este arranque”, as Alavés recorded their best start in twenty-five years.
Source: Kirolak EITB
Other28 Aug 2026
Alavés beat Villarreal 1-0 at Mendizorroza (goal by Lucas Boyé, 31', in front of 15,556 spectators) and finished matchday 3 with 7 points from 9, equalling the best start to a season in their history (1930-31 and 2001-02).
Source: Infobae (dépêche EFE)
Head coach27 Aug 2026
Before hosting Villarreal, Quique Sánchez Flores had warned his players to expect “a rebellious Villarreal”, while judging that his team had the weapons needed to hurt the opposition; the message was borne out with a 1-0 win.
Source: Kirolak EITB
Transfers26 Aug 2026
Goalkeeper Jesús Owono has been transferred permanently to FC Andorra, where he was on loan last season, on a two-year contract with an option for two more; he leaves Vitoria after a decade at the club, kept out by Antonio Sivera and Adrián Rodríguez.
Source: Kirolak EITB
Contract24 Aug 2026
Goalkeeper Antonio Sivera has extended his contract until 2030, a signal of stability from the sporting directors.
Source: FútbolFantasy
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.