Real Avilés
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| Full name | Real Avilés Club de Fútbol | ||
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| Founded | 1903 | ||
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Román Suárez Puerta, Avilés, Asturias, Spain | ||
| Capacity | 5,400 | ||
| Chairman | José María Tejero | ||
| Manager | Pablo Lago | ||
| League | 3ª – Group 2 | ||
| 2015–16 | 3ª – Group 2, 3rd | ||
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Real Avilés Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in Avilés, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1903 it plays in Tercera División, holding home matches at Nuevo Román Suárez Puerta, with a 5,400-seat capacity.
Club colours are white shirts with broad blue vertical stripes and blue shorts.
Its reserve team is Real Avilés B, which currently plays in Regional Preferente.
History
Avilés was originally founded in 1903 under the name Avilés Sport Club, hence being considered the oldest football club in Asturias. In 1906 it merged with Sociedad Obrera Industrial to form Círculo Industrial y de Sport, but this new club didn't play much football in the next years; subsequently, a group of the original team's fans decided to give birth to a new club, and thus Stadium Club Avilesino was born.
In 1925 Avilesino obtained the royal crown from Alfonso XIII, being renamed Real Stadium Club Avilesino. A new name change took place in 1940, according to a government's prohibition of foreign names, and the club became Real Avilés Club de Fútbol.
In 1983 Avilés absorbed Club Deportivo Ensidesa and changed its name again, to Real Avilés Industrial Club de Fútbol. It played in Segunda División B for two seasons and returned to that level at the end of the 1987–88 campaign, being crowned champions three years later and thus promoting to Segunda División: after comfortably finishing in midtable in its first season, the team ranked second from bottom in the following, spending a further eight years in the third category then two more from 2002–04, after which it returned to Tercera División.
The relegation to Tercera was followed by a serious economical and social crisis in the club, with almost all the supporters leaving the club. In 2010, the board of the club retook its old name Real Avilés Club de Fútbol.[1]
Following an agreement with the investment group "Golplus", Real Avilés failed to promote to Segunda División B in 2012, but the club could buy a vacant berth in the third tier.[2] Two years later, Real Avilés would play the promotion play-offs to Segunda División. They would eliminate FC Cartagena in the first round, but failed in the attempt to beat UE Llagostera in the second one. In October 2014, Golplus would leave the club due to the lack of support[3] and Real Avilés would start a new crisis that ended with the relegation to Tercera División after being beaten in the relegation playoffs by CD Eldense.
Club background
- Avilés Sport Club - (1903–06) → ↓
- Círculo Industrial y de Sport - (1906–15) →Stadium Club Avilesino (1915–25) →Real Stadium Club Avilesino (1925–31) →Stadium Club Avilesino (1931–40) → Real Avilés Club de Fútbol (1940–83)
- Avilés Sport Club - (1903–06) → ↓
- Sociedad Obrera Industrial - (¿?–1906) → ↑
Real Avilés Club de Fútbol → ↓
- Real Avilés Industrial - (1983–2010)
- Real Avilés Club de Fútbol - (2010–)
- Club Deportivo Ensidesa - (1965–83) → ↑
- Club Deportivo Llaranes - (1956–65) → ↑
Season to season
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- 13 seasons in Segunda División
- 18 seasons in Segunda División B
- 47 seasons in Tercera División
Current squad
- As of 9 March 2015
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Honours
- Segunda División B: 1989–90
- Tercera División: 1932–33, 1944–45, 1951–52, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1982–83
- Copa RFEF: 2002–03
- Copa RFEF (Asturias tournament): 1999, 2001, 2002
Famous players
Note: this list contains players that have played at least 100 league games and/or have reached international status.
References
- ↑ "El nombre del club pierde el «Industrial»" (in Spanish). La Nueva España. 31 December 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ↑ "El Avilés es equipo de Segunda División B" (in Spanish). El Comercio. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ↑ "El Real Avilés cambia de manos" (in Spanish). El Comercio. 28 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
External links
- Official website (Spanish)