In the third, they lost and Girona, after two consecutive disappointments, once again celebrated a promotion to the First Division. He regained his lost place in the elite. In the highest category. There is nothing higher, it is the roof of state football. Where the best compete. This has been the case now and forever, since he started the competition a hundred years ago. With a format and at the same time a football that have nothing to do with what is known today, but after all, a league formed by the most powerful clubs. Time has passed, decades. The landscape has changed as more and more teams have been born and evolved. Until the present. During all this time, for First Division there have been clubs that have not moved and many others that have appeared and disappeared. Entities that accumulate years and locks among the largest. Others may not say the same. And here is the Girona. The more “novice”, right now, in the most powerful category. The first obstacle he will have to overcome.
There are 63 teams that have ever, throughout history, taken the lead for Primera. They are not few. Some have already become extinct. Others have been re-founded and now walk up and down under another name. Most, however, still compete. Higher or lower. Historic, all, but with a very different luck and reality. Girona is part of this group of 63 clubs. However, in the historical ranking, in a classification counting all the matches in this category, those of Montilivi appear below. Of course, because they have only tasted the top category two seasons. From 2017 to 2019 and it stops counting. With Pablo Machín on the bench, first, and then with Eusebio Sacristán at the helm of the white-and-red ship.
This makes the match counter quite meager. He has played only 76 in the Primera Division, with a record of 23 wins, 19 draws and up to 34 defeats.. There are only 13 clubs that have played less and none will compete this season in the top category. Therefore, the 19 clubs against which the Catalan team will have to face from the beginning of August will have more experience in this division. Much more. They accumulate more matches, more victories. More minutes, more points.
The closest is Almeria, who has also achieved promotion this season. This is the Unión Deportiva, an entity founded in 1989 and which, despite its youth, has already played 228 games in the First Division. There are 152 more than Girona accumulates. Not to be confused with the Agrupación Deportiva Almeria, with two seasons in the elite (from 1979 to 1981), but which disappeared in the early eighties. Girona will also face Cadiz, with 522 games in Primera. Also with Elche (754), Rayo Vallecano (718), Getafe (646) and Villarreal (836). They are the only ones who have not caught a thousand clashes in this division. The rest, surpasses them. Some do it out loud.
This is the case of real transatlantic ships. Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Club are the only clubs to have played the 2,952 matches in the history of the First Division, because none of them has ever lost the category. Who scored the most points was the white team, with 4,786, followed by the Barça team, with 4,676. They are behind in San Mamés, with 3,616. Atlético de Madrid and Valencia have added more, but with more matches: 3,824 in 2,804 appearances and 3,664 in 2,854, respectively. The classification continues and all those who think about it have frightening figures, along with those of Girona. Sevilla has 2,598 games in the Primera Division, while Espanyol has more: 2,778. There are 2,492 in the Royal Society. It continues with Betis (1,918), Celta (1,888), Valladolid (1,580), Osasuna (1,430) and Mallorca (1,064).
