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Levante will receive Mallorca on Sunday, 17 May 2026 at 19:00 in the penultimate round of LaLiga EA Sports 2025/2026, and the Ciutat de València is expected to be a packed house for what Las Provincias calls a possible farewell to José Luis Morales after ten seasons with the club.
Both clubs sit level on 39 points heading into Jornada 37, and local reporting says all tickets at Orriols were sold out — a sign of how the fixture has been recast as a direct fight for permanence. Las Provincias warned that a win could mean salvation and a defeat could mean relegation to Segunda, depending on other results.
The raw numbers underline the stakes: it is a penultimate-round fixture with two teams tied on points and a stadium at full capacity. Levante’s coach Luís Castro has tried to strip away panic, saying he knows his players and that he is not thinking about falling, while stressing the match’s importance: "En este momento, el partido más importante de mi vida es contra el Mallorca." He added that, mathematically, it is still possible to lose this game and remain in Primera, and that previous wins have led the team to this point.
Diario de Mallorca frames the meeting the same way, calling it a battle for permanence in Primera División and noting Mallorca’s poor record when visiting Levante. The island side’s only Primera División away win at Levante came on 15 October 2006, a 0-1 victory sealed by Juan Arango. More recent trips have been less kind: Mallorca lost 2-0 at Levante on 8 January 2022 and lost 2-1 at the Ciutat in the 2019/20 season.
Across Primera and Segunda, Mallorca have visited Levante 19 times, compiling five wins, six draws and eight losses. The clubs’ history contains extremes — Levante’s biggest win over Mallorca is an 8-0 result from 26 October 1947 — and moments of significance for both, including Mallorca’s 1-2 victory on 17 April 1960 at the old Vallejo ground that secured the islanders’ first promotion to Primera División.
The context is simple and sharp: with the final matchday looming, this is as close to a six-pointer as the league offers. One side can move away from immediate danger; the other could tumble toward Segunda if other results go against it. Diario de Mallorca’s coverage underscores how badly Mallorca have fared historically at the Ciutat, which only adds to the psychological weight of the occasion.
Tension arrives in the small, stubborn gaps between words and facts. Castro insists he is not imagining relegation and that the team is focused and ready to “play to win,” yet he readily acknowledged the mathematical realities: you cannot say a win guarantees safety or a loss guarantees the opposite. He also would not confirm whether this will be Morales’ final home game, saying he has not spoken with him about it and that in football "no hay nada cierto." That uncertainty amplifies an already raw scenario at a stadium sold out for a contest that will determine so much.
For Morales, who has been at the club for ten seasons, the match has taken on an outsized public meaning — possibly a last walk through Orriols in front of a capacity crowd. For the clubs and their supporters, the immediate consequence is clearer: victory will reshape the final round and afford breathing room; defeat will hand control of survival to other results and to the last matchday.
This is not a rehearsal. With both teams level on 39 points and one round left after Sunday, the Levante Vs Mallorca meeting at Ciutat de València is likely to settle the immediate question of who can realistically aim for safety in the season’s final 90 minutes.
