Competitive Mobility Project

Spain

Mallorca

2025/26: 18th in LaLiga, relegated · 2026/27: Segunda División

How high can Mallorca realistically go?

Based on finishing 18th in LaLiga in 2025/26 and going down

About 5 in 10

Of the 51 times a club was relegated from LaLiga between 2004/05 and 2020/21, 28 were back in the top flight within five seasons.

28 of 51 (55%); likely range 41%–67%, 35 different clubs.

Reached the top four within ten seasonsabout 1 in 12
3 of 36; range 0%–19%

Mallorca itself: 6 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: were back in the top flight within five seasons: 28 of 51; reached the top four within ten seasons: 3 of 36.

The story so far

Mallorca has played 32 seasons in the divisions covered here since 1993/94: 22 in LaLiga and 10 in the Segunda División. It has been in LaLiga since 2021/22 (5 seasons), after 1 season in the Segunda División. It drops to the Segunda División for 2026/27. Its best finish was 3rd in LaLiga, in 1998/99. Its biggest climb took five seasons: from 20th in the Segunda División in 2016/17 to 16th in LaLiga in 2021/22. It has been promoted 4 times and relegated 4 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.

32seasons since 1993/94
22seasons in LaLiga
0league titles
2top-four finishes
4promotions
4relegations

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 Mallorca's, with recent seasons counting more.

In Spain

ElcheSpain · 15th in LaLiga, 2025/26OsasunaSpain · 17th in LaLiga, 2025/26AlmeríaSpain · 3rd in the Segunda División, 2025/26Rayo VallecanoSpain · 8th in LaLiga, 2025/26

Elsewhere in Europe

LecceItaly · 17th in Serie A, 2025/26FulhamEngland · 11th in the Premier League, 2025/26Nottingham ForestEngland · 16th in the Premier League, 2025/26

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