RCD Mallorca is facing the 2026/27 season in Spain's Segunda División amid discontent with the club's leadership and ownership. The Balearic side appears not to have psychologically accepted relegation, hindering its immediate sporting recovery. The team currently sits fifth in the table with 6 points from three matches, just one point behind leaders Granada CF.
The Mallorca squad for this campaign is now fully outlined following the closure of the transfer market. With a record of 5 goals scored and 2 conceded, the team has shown some effectiveness in set-piece situations. However, the squad's market value does not place it among the direct promotion contenders, a reality that contrasts with the lack of accountability taken by the board after the drop to the second tier.
Why is the American ownership facing criticism?
The management of RCD Mallorca's American owners has been described as a joke in the local media's analysis. The feeling is that the club is treated as a minor investment, lacking the seriousness an institution of its size requires. This perception is worsened because no one within the structure has been dismissed for the sporting failure that relegation represented, considered deserved by strict numerical criteria. Even the coach, Demichelis, was fired in a manner the report describes as disrespectful, after having begged for the position.
The leadership, headed by Díaz and Ortells, has described managing the club as 'managing a gentleman's club', a phrase that clashes with the reality of a team now competing in the silver category. The island's sports journalists are making, according to the publication, a Herculean effort to maintain informational dignity in the face of the national irrelevance into which the club has fallen.
How is the new team taking shape?
On the sporting front, Mallorca is close to finalizing two signings. Striker John Chetauya is on the verge of becoming a new player for the vermilion side. Also, the operation for young Guille Fernández, from Barcelona, is in a very advanced stage. These arrivals come after the confirmed departure of two players whose contracts were terminated following their detention.
The team that easily defeated Ceuta could aim for promotion by mid-next year, but the one that lost disheveled in Granada risks an absence from the top flight that could extend a decade. This duality defines the club's current moment. You can check the full squad composition on our squad page.
What is the club's context in the league?
While RCD Mallorca begins what the article calls 'the second-division desert journey', LaLiga continues its schedule without the Balearic team's presence and without notable disruption. The distance between the two giants, Madrid and Barcelona, and the rest has multiplied, an idea manager José Mourinho summarized by saying "Málaga or Rayo face the championship monopolizers as equals, but come away scalded by the firepower of the two big clubs."
In this scenario, Mallorca must focus on its own reality. Its next fixture is a home match against Sabadell, currently ninth in the table, on September 13, 2026. A win against the Catalan side would be an important step to stay in the upper part of the standings, where they now sit just one point off the top.
Motorcycle rider Enric Mas, in a completely unrelated context, recently expressed his euphoria after a victory by stating: "I have had the best sensations of my career." A phrase that, by contrast, reflects the lack of optimism surrounding the RCD Mallorca project at this time. The club's recovery depends on overcoming denial and building on the concrete data of a season that has just begun, with its next match scheduled for the 13th at Son Moix.
