The final of Calderón era

 On an individual level, Iker Casillas won his first Zamora Trophy, ahead of the azulgrana goalkeeper, Víctor Valdés. Casillas signed a contract extension until 2017 and a termination clause of 113 million euros.

The 2008/09 season ended without titles for the team, finishing runners-up in La Liga and eliminated in the round of 32 of the Copa del Rey and against Liverpool FC in the round of 16 of the Champions League. At the institutional level, Ramón Calderón resigned as president of the club in January 2009, after uncovering the fraud that had taken place in the last Assembly, in which non-committed members had acted as such.

Elections were called for the summer of 2009, in which only the former president, Florentino Pérez, presented the necessary guarantee of 57.3 million euros in the registry of the Electoral Board, and was sworn in as the new president on June