2026/2027 season

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Getafe CF
Head coach: José Bordalás · 3-5-2
Rank
16th
Pts
8
P
8
Form
🟡 Average

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
2/10
Attack
7/10
Defence
3/10
Form
3/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:High

16th with 8 pts from 8 matches: 2 wins, 2 draws, 4 defeats.

4 goals scored, 10 conceded.

At 34 years of age, the right side, which has just engaged with Getafe until 30 June 2027 after his departure from Real Madrid, remains hopeful that the (...)

Foot Mercato · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

After that, fierce opponents like FC Midtjylland, Sint-Truiden and Getafe wait. seasoned fans of Ajax and Hajduk will have remembered the meetings in 1993 and 1995 in the run-up to the Dalmatian coast duel.

NOS Voetbal · 15 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Dani Carvajal said he was looking forward to meeting himself again and redeem himself as a player after the injuries, in his presentation on Friday as a new player of the Getafe of José Bordalás, where he will play until the end of the current season.

Mundo Deportivo · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

The Getafe has begun its work at the Conference League with a tie at home (1-1) to the Romanian Craiova University. In addition, it has done so with the support of 400 Azulon fans who have moved to the city of Eastern Europe thanks, in part, to the help provided by the club by giving them the tickets. & nbsp;

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 FC Barcelona (A) · 0-3
Wvs Málaga CF (H) · 1-0
Lvs Real Betis Balompié (A) · 0-1
Dvs RC Deportivo La Coruña (H) · 1-1
Dvs RC Celta de Vigo (H) · 1-1
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4 scored / 10 conceded over 8 matches played
Rest: 8 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
2W - 2D - 0L
Away form
0W - 0D - 4L
Statistics

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

Goals scored per match
0.6
Goals conceded per match
1.2
At home
3 scored · 2 conceded in 3 matches
Away
0 scored · 4 conceded in 2 matches
Over 2.5 goals
1 of 5
Both teams score
2 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 Getafe CF play

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

Playing identity
Preferred system
3-5-2
Philosophy
Bordalás stays true to a compact-block football, aggressive in the duel and geared towards efficiency, with a system of three centre-backs and two wing-backs seen from matchday 1.
Attacking strengths
Very low output in the league: just 1 goal scored in 3 LaLiga matchdays. The production has mainly come in Europe (3-1 against Partizan in the first leg of the play-off, goals from Ünal, Andrés García and Mojica).
Defensive solidity
4 goals conceded in 3 matchdays, including a 0-3 suffered at the outset at Mendizorroza; goalkeeper David Soria reached the mark of 193 consecutive LaLiga matches played on 31/08.
Pressing
No verified figures. Bordalás mainly describes a season “of demands and difficulty” linked to juggling three competitions, with no public detail on the height of the pressing.
Transitions
Not reliably documented in the sources consulted.
StrengthQualification for the Conference League league phase (first European campaign in six years), an experienced defensive core (Soria, Djené) and a substantial summer recruitment (Ünal, Mojica, Mangala, Terrats, Satriano, Gudelj).
WeaknessAttacking sterility in the Liga (1 goal in 3 matches), a thin squad flagged by the head coach himself, and the long-term loss of Christantus Uche, a central piece of the system.

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
Measured, and now openly acknowledged as such by the board itself. After the defeat in Pamplona, the club still have only one goal scored in three league matchdays, and on 2 September sporting director Toni Muñoz acknowledged that “with two or three more players, the team would have been better balanced”. The credit comes from elsewhere: publication of the Conference League league-phase schedule gives the dressing room a horizon the club has not had for six years. The award announced for David Soria, due to receive the Insignia de Oro y Brillantes for his 193 consecutive starts, sustains a feeling of continuity and home-grown pride. The trip to Celta on 7 September will say whether the attack can finally get going.
Coach / players / board relationship
No open conflict, but a new candour in the public message. Toni Muñoz admitted that the window closed without the two or three additions requested, while pointing to president Ángel Torres, of whom he says “he sometimes works magic”, as the hope of an addition outside the window. In the same breath the sporting director confirmed Yvan Neyou's departure to Volos, fully signed, and the failure of the Obed Vargas deal. Bordalás, for his part, has never criticised his board: the line remains a thin squad offset by versatility. The relationship between bench, sporting directors and presidency is therefore strained by resources, not by people.
Mood with the supporters
The Coliseum is entering an unprecedented autumn: the club has set out three European home fixtures, Lugano on 22 October, Brighton on 5 November and Inter Escaldes on 10 December, and three trips to Craiova, Tbilisi and Amsterdam. Brighton's visit and the trip to the Johan Cruijff Arena are already the fixtures season-ticket holders most look forward to. The announcement of the Insignia de Oro y Brillantes for David Soria was received as a tribute to one of the club's few long-term reference points, at a time when the dressing room has been heavily renewed. The downside remains the attack: one goal in three matchdays sustains a quiet worry about the squad's ability to cope with three competitions. Since Toni Muñoz spoke, the public also knows that the board itself judges the squad too thin.
Pressure on the head coach
Low and unchanged. Bordalás remains the man who took Getafe back into Europe after six years, and his sporting directors have publicly taken responsibility for an incomplete squad rather than shifting it onto the bench. September's schedule, with Celta, Deportivo, Betis and then Málaga, precedes the European opener on 15 October: the head coach therefore has a month to establish a rhythm before the fixtures pile up. No source consulted suggests the slightest question over his position. Pressure would come from a prolonged run without a goal rather than from an internal disagreement.
Club objectives
Survival remains the stated priority, now explicitly linked to managing a third front. The club has published six league-phase fixtures spread from 15 October to 17 December, including three trips to Romania, Georgia and the Netherlands. The sporting directors accept going into them with a squad they judge too thin, banking on versatility and on players returning from loan. In the short term the objective is more prosaic: scoring, after a single goal in three matchdays. September, with no European fixture, is identified as the window in which to build a cushion of points.
Recent internal tensions
No internal rift, but two public irritants. The first is refereeing: on 31 August Bordalás complained of unequal treatment after the penalty conceded at El Sadar. The second is budgetary: on 2 September the sporting director acknowledged that the club had had to accept late departures, which reduced its room to recruit, and that two or three more players would have balanced the squad. Yvan Neyou's move to Volos, confirmed just after the deadline, illustrates that permanent constraint. No tension between players, staff and board is reported by the sources consulted.
Absences
InjuredChristantus Uche — Ligament rupture in the right knee, operated on in early August 2026. The press mentions an absence that could cover the whole season; Bordalás confirmed him unavailable on 30/08. Exact duration not confirmed by the club.
InjuredJuanmi Jiménez — Long-term knee injury; confirmed absent by Bordalás on 30/08/2026.
DoubtfulMario Martín — Physical discomfort after the European effort; announced as a doubt by Bordalás on 30/08/2026 for the away trip to Pamplona.
DoubtfulAbdel Abqar — Physical discomfort after the European effort; announced as a doubt by Bordalás on 30/08/2026.
BackKiko Femenía — Back in the squad after a spell out; the sources disagree on its nature (suspension according to FútbolFantasy, injury according to Jornada Perfecta).

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

Getafe CF — Rayo Vallecano

At homeMonday 19 October at 21:00Matchday 9
It's tomorrow. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction
EstimateGetafe CF — Rayo Vallecano
43 %
1 · Getafe CF
26 %
X · draw
31 %
2 · Rayo Vallecano
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 8 matches played by Getafe CF, 7 matches by Rayo Vallecano. Confidence: medium
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
    Getafe CF — attack4 in 8 matches0.330.62
    Getafe CF — defence10 in 8 matches0.840.91
    Rayo Vallecano — attack11 in 7 matches1.051.03
    Rayo Vallecano — defence16 in 7 matches1.531.28
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.57 for Getafe CF and 0.54 for Rayo Vallecano. 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%.
    Getafe CF at home: 2.00 pts/match versus 1.00 overall over 4 matches → ×1.120
    Rayo Vallecano away: 0.25 pts/match versus 1.14 overall over 4 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.
    λGetafe CF = 1.50 × 0.62 × 1.28 × 1.11 × 1.120 = 1.48
    λRayo Vallecano = 1.50 × 1.03 × 0.91 × 0.880 = 1.23
  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 43.0%, draw 25.6%, away win 31.4% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 12.1%, 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
  • David Soria
  • Jiří Letáček
Defenders
  • Djené Dakonam
  • Abdel Abqar
  • Saba Sazonov
  • Zaid Romero
  • Sebastián Boselli
  • Kiko Femenía
  • Johan Mojica
  • Andrés García
  • Juan Berrocal
  • Davinchi
  • Jean-Yves Valou
Midfielders
  • Nemanja Gudelj
  • Orel Mangala
  • Mario Martín
  • Francho Serrano
  • Ramón Terrats
  • Yvan Neyou
  • Christantus Uche
Forwards
  • Enes Ünal
  • Borja Mayoral
  • Martín Satriano
  • Juanmi Jiménez
This team's current captain could not be confirmed with certainty at the last check — no armband is shown above until the information is reliable.
Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: “Plantilla” page of the official getafecf.com site cross-checked with the BeSoccer squad page (es.besoccer.com/equipo/plantilla/getafe), accessed on 31/08/2026.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss15 Oct 2026
Getafe make offer to sign free agent Sancho
Source: BBC Sport
rss15 Oct 2026
The revolutionary idea of Getafe for the hobby to support his team at the Conference
Source: Mundo Deportivo
rss13 Oct 2026
Carvajal is already from the Getafe: a galactic for Bordalás
Source: Marca
rss10 Oct 2026
Barcelona Cilindra Getafe and maintains leadership in La Liga
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
rss15 Oct 2026
Conference League, Grifo and Salah drag Fribourg and Trabzonspor. Brighton Poker, equal to Getafe
Source: Corriere dello Sport
rss15 Oct 2026
1-1: The Getafe spider a point in its premiere at the Conference before the University Craiova
Source: Mundo Deportivo
Club3 Sep 2026
Matchday 4 sends Getafe to face Celta on Monday 7 September, eight days after the 1-0 defeat at El Sadar; José Bordalás's team will arrive with a single goal scored in three league matchdays.
Source: LaLiga (site officiel)
European competition3 Sep 2026
The club has published its full Conference League league-phase schedule: Universitatea Craiova away on 15 October, Lugano at the Coliseum on 22 October, Brighton at the Coliseum on 5 November, Iberia Tbilisi in Georgia on 26 November, Inter Escaldes at the Coliseum on 10 December and Ajax in Amsterdam on 17 December, three home fixtures and three away, two of them very distant.
Source: Getafe CF (site officiel)
Club3 Sep 2026
President Ángel Torres has announced that David Soria will receive the club's Insignia de Oro y Brillantes, a distinction Getafe present as unique in their history, in recognition of his record of 193 consecutive LaLiga starts.
Source: Getafe CF (site officiel)
Club3 Sep 2026
On the academy front, Getafe's cadete A side won the 2026 Sanxenxo Cup, a result the club highlighted at a time when the professional squad relies on several players returning from loan and on its youngsters.
Source: Getafe CF (site officiel)
Institutional2 Sep 2026
Sporting director Toni Muñoz acknowledged that the window closed without the hoped-for additions: “with two or three more players, the team would have been better balanced”. He confirmed Yvan Neyou's move to Volos (“it is all signed”), the failure of the Obed Vargas deal, and pointed to the president as the hope of a late addition: “Ángel Torres sometimes works magic”.
Source: El Desmarque
Transfers2 Sep 2026
Eleven additions over the summer, including Nemanja Gudelj, Iván Azón, Saba Sazonov and Orel Mangala, on top of several players returning from loan (Satriano, Romero, Boselli, Martín).
Source: Infobae
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Forward Iván Azón, on loan from Como 1907, is among the very last registrations validated by LaLiga at 20:00 on 1 September, alongside André Almeida (Racing) and Héctor Fort (Real Sociedad).
Source: Infobae (dépêche EFE)
Result31 Aug 2026
A 1-0 defeat in Pamplona against Osasuna on matchday 3.
Source: Unánimo Deportes
Other31 Aug 2026
Beaten 1-0 at El Sadar by a Budimir penalty, Bordalás disputed the decision (“the penalty was very harsh, I think there's a foul on Djené beforehand”) and denounced unequal refereeing treatment.
Source: Infobae (dépêche EFE)
Transfers30 Aug 2026
Getafe have officially confirmed the signing of Serbian midfielder Nemanja Gudelj (34), a free agent after seven seasons at Sevilla FC (261 official matches, two Europa Leagues).
Source: Infobae (dépêche EFE)
News last verified on 16 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.