{"id":697273,"date":"2026-05-27T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697273\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T06:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:05:08","slug":"47-years-ago-the-19th-football-league-title-was-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697273\/","title":{"rendered":"47 years ago, the 19th football league title was won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 47 years since\u00a0Real Madrid\u00a0won their\u00a019th League\u00a0title. On May 27, 1979, our team mathematically clinched the championship in the penultimate matchday despite losing to Sevilla at the S\u00e1nchez-Pizju\u00e1n (2-1). Sporting&#8217;s draw against Celta in Gij\u00f3n allowed the madridistas to secure their second consecutive league title.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid\u00a0finished the 1978\/79 season four points ahead of Sporting, who were second in the standings, and remained unbeaten at the\u00a0Santiago Bernab\u00e9u\u00a0throughout the entire competition. In that squad coached by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/es-ES\/el-club\/historia\/leyendas-futbol\/luis-molowny-arbelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Molowny<\/a>, the standout in scoring was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/es-ES\/el-club\/historia\/leyendas-futbol\/carlos-alonso-gonzalez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Santillana<\/a>, who netted 18 goals in the League.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Translation generated by artificial intelligence. It may contain inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been 47 years since\u00a0Real Madrid\u00a0won their\u00a019th League\u00a0title. On May 27, 1979, our team mathematically clinched the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-697273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}