Competitive Mobility Project

Spain

Córdoba

2025/26: 9th in the Segunda División

How high can Córdoba realistically go?

Based on finishing 9th in the Segunda División in 2025/26

About 5 in 10

Of the 128 times a club finished in the top half of the Segunda División without going up between 2004/05 and 2020/21, 60 went up within five seasons.

60 of 128 (47%); likely range 34%–59%, 44 different clubs.

Reached the top flight within ten seasonsabout 6 in 10
50 of 88; range 41%–72%

Córdoba itself: none of the last 10 seasons in LaLiga.

How do we know?

We took every season since 2004/05 in which a club finished in the same part of the same league, and followed each club forward. The figure is the share that reached each goal. Ten-year goals use finishes from 2004/05 to 2015/16, five-year goals from 2004/05 to 2020/21, so every case has had the full time to play out; results run to the end of 2025/26.

It describes what happened to clubs in this position, not a forecast for one club. A club with much more money or history than is usual for its position has better chances than the figure suggests, which is why the club's own record is shown underneath.

The likely range is a 95% interval worked out by resampling clubs rather than seasons, because the same club often appears several times. It is wide where only a few clubs have been in a position, and two leagues whose ranges overlap may not really differ. Reserve teams such as Barcelona B or Real Madrid Castilla are left out of these counts, because they cannot be promoted into their first team's division.

Counts: went up within five seasons: 60 of 128; reached the top flight within ten seasons: 50 of 88.

The story so far

Córdoba has played 20 seasons in the divisions covered here since 1999/00: 1 in LaLiga and 19 in the Segunda División. It returned to the Segunda División in 2024/25 after 5 seasons outside the divisions covered, and has been there for 2 seasons. Its best finish was 20th in LaLiga, in 2014/15. It has been promoted 4 times and relegated 3 times.

Final position each seasonRinged dots are titles
2025/262021/222017/182013/142009/102005/062001/021997/981993/941stLaLigaSegunda División
How to read this chart

Every club in the divisions covered is placed on one ladder each season: the champions are 1st, and the top club of the second division comes straight after the bottom club of the first. Shaded bands are the divisions. Hover over or tap a dot for the season.

20seasons since 1993/94
1seasons in LaLiga
0league titles
0top-four finishes
4promotions
3relegations

Against the money

Not available for Spain: wage bills are not published club by club in one place there, so this is shown for England and France only.

Clubs with a similar path

Clubs whose finishing positions over the last 15 seasons were closest to Córdoba's, with recent seasons counting more.

In Spain

Deportivo La CoruñaSpain · 2nd in the Segunda División, 2025/26CD NumanciaSpain · not in the divisions covered nowGimnàstic de TarragonaSpain · not in the divisions covered nowFC Barcelona BSpain · not in the divisions covered now

Elsewhere in Europe

CesenaItaly · 11th in Serie B, 2025/26AvellinoItaly · 8th in Serie B, 2025/261. FC KaiserslauternGermany · 6th in 2. Bundesliga, 2025/26

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