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Club facts: Villarreal

Club facts: Villarreal
Club facts: Villarreal ©AFP/Getty Images

Villarreal CF
Formed:
1923
Nickname:
El Submarino Amarillo (The Yellow Submarine)

UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
• UEFA Europa League (1): 2021
• UEFA Super Cup: (2021)
• UEFA Intertoto Cup (2): 2003, 2004

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
None

Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2020/21:
UEFA Europa League winners
2019/20:
did not take part in UEFA competition
2018/19:
UEFA Europa League quarter-finals
2017/18: UEFA Europa League round of 32
2016/17:
UEFA Europa League round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs)
2015/16:
UEFA Europa Leaguesemi-finals
2014/15:
 UEFA Europa League round of 16
2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition
2012/13:
did not take part in UEFA competition
2011/12:
group stage

Records
UEFA club competition
• Biggest home win
6-1: Villarreal v NAC Breda
27/08/09, UEFA Europa League play-off second leg
5-0 twice, most recently v Rapid Wien
25/10/18, UEFA Europa League group stage

• Biggest away win
1-4:
Young Boys v Villarreal
20/10/21, UEFA Champions League group stage
0-3
four times, most recently v Juventus
16/03/22, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg

• Heaviest home defeat
0-4:
Villarreal v Roma
16/02/17, UEFA Europa League round of 32 first leg

• Heaviest away defeat
5-1:
Porto v Villarreal
28/04/11, UEFA Europa League semi-final first leg

UEFA Champions League (group stage to final)
• Biggest home win
6-3: Villarreal v Aalborg
21/10/08, group stage

• Biggest away win
1-4: Young Boys v Villarreal (see above)
0-3: Juventus v Villarreal (see above)

• Heaviest home defeat
0-3: Villarreal v Manchester City
02/11/11, group stage

• Heaviest away defeat
3-0: Arsenal v Villarreal
15/04/09, quarter-finals second leg