Girona were relegated from La Liga after being held to a 1-1 draw by Elche, a result that confirmed the rapid fall of a club that finished third two seasons ago and played in the Champions League last season.
Dani Carvajal made his 451st and final appearance for Real Madrid on the same final day, as fans following the survival and European permutations on flashscore.mobi watched results elsewhere seal Girona’s fate.
Girona went into the match knowing they needed a win to stay up; they were 18th while Elche sat 17th before kick-off, which meant Elche would survive if they avoided defeat. The draw replicated a season-long slide: Girona had failed to win any of their last eight league matches and had taken only three points from their last seven.
Elche entered the game having beaten Girona 3-0 in the teams’ first meeting, and a repeat of that resilience on the final day was enough to complete their survival. A 1-1 result at Girona’s home ground left the Catalans consigned to the second tier despite the late-day drama around the country.
Across La Liga, Mallorca won 3-0 at home to Real Oviedo and finished on 42 points, but they were still relegated after losing the head-to-head tiebreaker among three clubs level on points with Osasuna and Levante. The peculiar cruelty of the system — a victory not enough to guarantee survival — was among the stark outcomes of the season’s final minutes.
European places were settled on the final day as well. Celta Vigo beat Sevilla 1-0 to finish sixth and claim a Europa League berth; that margin delivered exactly what Celta needed after a scenario in which they would clinch the place by avoiding defeat. Getafe beat Osasuna 1-0 to take seventh and qualify for the Conference League, while Barcelona, already champions before the round began, lost 3-1 at Valencia.
At the Santiago Bernabeu, Real Madrid beat Athletic Bilbao 4-2 as Jude Bellingham and Kylian Mbappe were among the scorers in a match that also marked Carvajal’s final outing for the club. The domestic table’s final shuffle combined club-by-club consequences with personal farewells elsewhere on the fixture list.
The final weekend of La Liga had everything still to play for: relegation places and European qualification spots. Girona’s descent is notable because it undoes a brief period of elite-level progress — from third place two seasons ago to the Champions League last season, and now relegation in the span of just a few campaigns.
The tension in the story is sharp and simple. Girona’s inability to win at the end of the season — eight league matches without a victory and only three points from their last seven — made their margin for error microscopic, and they failed to find the required win at the one moment it mattered most. At the same time, Mallorca’s clean victory was rendered pointless by a head-to-head tiebreaker among three clubs, underscoring the bitter arithmetic that decides survival.
This collapse completes a swift reversal for Girona: having climbed to the top echelons of Spanish football in recent seasons, they now face the immediate reality of life outside La Liga. The club’s rapid rise has given way to an equally rapid fall, and their summer will be defined by the need to regroup and rebuild after a campaign that ended in relegation.
