Real Sporting Gijon

Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D., better known as Sporting de Gijón or simply Sporting, is a Spanish professional football club from municipality of Gijón, Asturias. It was founded under the name of Sporting Club Gijonés.

Since 2017, it has participated in the second category of the National Professional Soccer League, the Second Division of Spain, of which it is the leader in its historical classification, although it is considered one of the leading clubs in Spanish soccer and its the highest category of the First Division, in which it occupies sixteenth place after its 42 presences since it was established in 1929. 1982) of the Spanish Cup Championship, the oldest tournament in the country. In the international section, he has six participations in the UEFA Cup —current Europa League—. It obtained other recognitions and minor titles, among which five Second Division League Championships stand out -the same as its greatest rival, Real Oviedo, with whom it disputes the Asturian derby-, in addition to being one of the nine Spanish teams that have never competed in a category lower than the second.

Identified by its red and white colors, and with the legal status of a sports corporation (S.A.D.), it has played its home matches at the El Molinón stadium since 1913, under its original name of Sporting Gijonés. It has organized the Villa de Gijón Trophy since 1962, and has 22,912 subscribers and 126 official fan clubs.

History

The history of Real Sporting begins on July 1, 1905, when a fourteen-year-old boy named Anselmo López founded a team he called Sporting Club Gijonés, as the original expression of a sport brought to the city, probably, by sailors from foreign ships docked in the port of El Musel. He is accompanied in his foundation by Ignacio de Loyola Lavilla Nava, who was ten years old at the time and acted as a scribe in the club's founding act, whose whereabouts are unknown. As Ignacio Lavilla explained decades later, they made the decision to found the club after witnessing a match between Juventud Sportiva Gijonesa and Sporting Ovetense on the San Lorenzo beach.

Plate in memory of Fernando Villaverde at the stadium El Molinón.

It was not, however, the first soccer team in the city: in 1902, Luis Adaro Porcel had already founded the Gijón Sport Club. It was made up of young students and wore a uniform that made reference to the maritime flag of the city: a white shirt with red cuffs and collar, black pants and black socks with red cuffs. Shortly after, in 1904, the Juventud Sportiva Gijonesa was born. Initially, matches are played against teams from the region. Sporting's first recorded match took place on August 18, 1907 in Oviedo and pitted the Gijón squad against Sport Ovetense. Anselmo López, founder of the club and goalkeeper of the entity, was 16 years old at the time. The decline of other teams in the city, such as Gijón Sport Club or Sportiva Gijonesa, will gradually yield football hegemony to Sporting. In 1912, King Alfonso XIII, who went to Gijón to participate in the Copa del Rey de regatta organized by the Real Club Astur de Regatas, accepted the honorary presidency of Sporting Gijonés, which was renamed Real Sporting Club Gijonés. .

Little by little, the entity is consolidating and expanding its borders, and begins to play matches against some of the great national teams. In 1914 and in 1916 he won the Asturias Regional Championship. On April 2, 1916, the board of directors met and made two decisions: to change the name of the entity to Real Sporting de Gijón and to start the negotiations for the purchase of the El Molinón field, where He played his matches at home for a long time.

The year 1917 marks the debut of Sporting in the Spanish Championship, in a match played at El Molinón that they lose by zero goals to one against Arenas Club. Fernando Villaverde, who played that match, was the first great rojiblanca star. After an unfortunate injury in a match against Real Vigo S.C. in 1920, which forced him to end his sports career prematurely, he was succeeded as team captain by Manuel Meana, the undisputed leader of the team during the twenties and who will be the first Sportinguista international, making his debut with the national team on October 9, 1921 in a friendly match against the Belgium national team. Corsino and Argüelles will also receive, shortly after, the call from the Spanish team.

The transition from amateurism to professionalism at the end of the 1920s will greatly harm Sporting, as its potential will be reduced as a result of the departure of many of its stars, such as Ramón Herrera to Athletic Club de Madrid; Morilla to Celta de Vigo; or Loredo to Real Santander; in search of better salaries, which will make the team, which also maintains a bad relationship with the regional and national federations, play the 1928-29, first season of the League, in the Second Division. They will face Celta de Vigo in their first game, with whom they will tie at one goal, and will finish that campaign in fourth position. In addition, El Molinón hosted in 1928 the first international match played in Asturias, between the teams of Spain and Italy.

It will take Sporting to debut in the top flight. The promotion was achieved in the 1943-44 season. By then, Sporting will have changed its name, which will become Real Gijón until the 1970s, as a result of the ban on foreign words decreed in Spain. In any case, it will continue to be popularly known as Sporting.

The debut in the First Division will take place against R. C. D. Español, forming Lerín, Ceballos, Sion, Tamayo, Tamargo, Cervigón, Dindurra, Gundemaro, Adolfo, Domingo and Liz. The result of this match was a goalless tie. It was not until the second day, when the Gijon team faced Deportivo de La Coruña, to see the team's first goal in the First Division, scored by Gundemaro. The first elite Asturian derby was also played that year, Real Oviedo beating Real Gijón at home by two goals to one. Gijón will finish that season in seventh position. They will maintain the category for another four seasons, recovering it in the 1950-51 campaign, with a tremendous rise in which one hundred goals are scored.

Flag of the Real Sporting de Gijón, which is permanently located at its social headquarters in Mareo.

Until the 1970s, when it began a long and successful career of more than two decades in the First Division, Real Gijón would be one of those teams called ascensores: it was relegated in the 1953-54 season, They were promoted again in 1956-57, and were relegated again in the 1958-59 campaign, beginning an eleven-year career in the Second Division. They will be years of serious crisis in which there will be fears for the disappearance of the team, which will even flirt, without consummating it, with relegation to the Third Division. He will achieve his fourth return to the elite in the 1969-70 season, after cleaning up his economy and with a young generation of promising footballers. The sale of one of them, the Basque player Ignacio Churruca, along with the sale of the Fresno Brothers stadium in El Llano -owned by Sporting- will make it possible to build the Mareo Soccer School. Others, like Maceda, from C. D. Acero; Table, from the Real Balompédica Linense; Ferrero, from C. A. Boca Juniors, joins homegrown players such as Cundi or the Castro brothers, Jesús and Quini, and gradually shape what will be the squad of the golden years, those of the late 1970s and early 1970s. that of the eighties, when Sporting will reach what, to this day, are its highest levels, placing itself in the upper zone of the First Division, where it will reach a runner-up (1978-79), some semifinals and even two finals of the Copa del Rey in 1980-81 and 1981-82, and qualifying to participate in the UEFA Cup for the first time in its history. In addition, El Molinón was chosen as one of the venues for the 1982 Soccer World Cup, held in Spain.

After a certain decline in the second half of the eighties, produced in part by the departure of some of the team's most important players (Quini, to F. C. Barcelona; Maceda, to Real Madrid C. F.; etc.), the last years of that decade and the first of the nineties, they will attend the gestation of a new batch of homegrown players, Luis Enrique, Abelardo, Manjarín or Juanele, in addition to others such as Arturo, Óscar, Alcázar, Tati or Luis Sierra. This new generation of gold will make possible a certain sporting recovery for the team, which is contesting the UEFA Cup for the sixth and last time in the 1991-92 season. In 1992, in compliance with Law 10/1990, of October 15, the club became a sports limited company and its name is, from that moment, Real Sporting de Gijón, S. A. D.

The departure of the main banners of the team, together with a growing economic crisis, will cause a rapid decline to begin that will lead the team to prowl the lower zone of the classification. In the 1994-95 season, the team managed to remain in the First Division after winning a double promotion match against U. E. Lleida by the minimum. However, three years later, in the 1997-98 campaign, the team was relegated to Segunda after finishing last in the standings.

Celebration of promotion to First Division of the 2007-08 season at the El Molinón stadium.

Between the 1998-99 and 2007-08 seasons, Sporting played in the silver category. These are hard years for sportinguism, since the bad sporting situation is compounded by an institutional crisis that brings the team to the brink of disappearance. The crisis reached such an extent that the club was forced to sell its brands and the Mareo Football School to the Gijón town hall, for 12 million euros, in August 2001. The fans and the team met again in the 2003 season. -04, which had started with many doubts due to the sale of Mareo's latest pearl, David Villa, to Real Zaragoza and the choice as coach of Marcelino García Toral, who had been relegated with Real Sporting de Gijón "B&# 3. 4; to Third Division. However, and against all odds, the team comes close to promotion, leading the standings for a good part of the season and even managing to be proclaimed winter champion. Finally, the team ends in fifth position and has to stay another year in the Second Division.

After this failed attempt to return to the elite, financial hardship once again brought the club to a critical situation. In 2005, due to difficulties in paying debts to a large number of creditors, the club entered bankruptcy proceedings urged by the Coral Golf company, which was in charge of caring for the El Molinón lawn. In 2007, once the intervention of the administrators appointed by the judge to carry out said process had concluded, it was concluded that the economic situation could not be blamed on anyone in particular and that it had been something fortuitous, so the board of directors could continue in charge of the club. With this process, Sporting's debt, which two years earlier the administrators valued at 51 million euros, became 35.8 million according to the budgets presented by the board of directors.

The promotion to the First Division was consummated in the 2007-08 season under the baton of coach Manolo Preciado. After a spectacular start, without knowing defeat in the first nine rounds, Sporting ended the year in third position after beating SD Eibar by two goals to nil in the last game, on June 15, 2008, in El Molinón. The 2008-09 campaign marks the relaunch of the team in the First Division after ten years. It is a course marked by irregularities, with several heavy losses and only one draw throughout the season, although Sporting managed to stay in the category in the last game, played in El Molinón against RC Recreativo de Huelva, in which they won by two goals to one. Curiously, the record for permanence in the First Division is broken with the most defeats and the most goals against, as well as with fewer draws.

Party disputed between F. C. Barcelona and Sporting on the 26th of the 2011-12 season.

The 2009-10 season began with a much more regular Sporting team than the previous season, managing to occupy most of the competition in mid-table positions and even coming within one position of playing in the Europa League. After finishing the first round in tenth position, the team's performance went down and it was necessary to wait until the penultimate day for the team to seal their mathematical permanence in the category by drawing a goal with Atlético de Madrid at El Molinón.

The 2010-11 campaign concludes as Sporting's best since its return to the elite, finishing the competition in tenth place. After a first round in which they ended up on the verge of relegation, with eleven consecutive games without knowing victory, the team staged a comeback in the second part of the championship, obtaining a resounding victory against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium. and a draw against Barcelona, in addition to other favorable results against the most powerful teams in the championship. A solid defense, the third least thrashed after Barcelona and Real Madrid, contrasted, in turn, with a poor scoring ability: Sporting was the second team with the fewest goalscorers in the championship, behind the relegated Deportivo de La Coruña.

The beginning of the 2011-12 academic year is, once again, complicated for the interests of Sporting. The first victory of the season does not come until the ninth game and the team remains in relegation positions except for five rounds in the entire tournament. On January 31, 2012, the services of Manolo Preciado were dispensed with on the bench and Iñaki Tejada took his place, first, and Javier Clemente, next, but the team's situation was not managed. Although the last day was reached with chances of salvation, the defeat against Málaga C.F. at the La Rosaleda stadium caused Sporting to be relegated to the Second Division.

Party disputed between the R. C. Deportivo de La Coruña and the Sporting on the 7th of the 2016-17 season.

After three seasons in the silver category, the club managed to return to the First Division in the 2014-15 campaign with Abelardo Fernández as coach. A sanction imposed by LaLiga due to contracted debts, deprived the team of being able to incorporate players who did not belong to the subsidiary. Even so, he managed to add eighty-two points at the end of the championship, which allowed them to qualify in second position, after obtaining twenty-one victories, nineteen draws and two defeats. In addition, goalkeeper Iván Cuéllar was awarded the Zamora Trophy for the goalkeeper with the fewest goals scored in the category with twenty-one goals conceded in thirty-six games —an average of 0.58.

On June 28, 2022, it was acquired by Orlegi, passing the presidency to the Mexican Alejandro Irarragorri.

Timeline

Uniform

Uniform season 2022-23 at the official Sporting store.

The current official uniform of the team consists of a shirt with red and white vertical stripes, representing the colors of the Gijón flag, blue pants and blue socks with red and white details. The shirt has remained unchanged throughout the centenary history of the club, making it the Spanish professional team that has worn the red and white shirt for the longest years; however, the rest of the kit elements have undergone different modifications (white, black or blue shorts; white socks with red cuffs, blue with red and white cuffs, red with three thin white bands on the cuff and red and white stripes, as well as black with red and white stripes).

The second and third uniforms have also changed throughout history: white, blue, red, black, green or yellow.

Evolution

1905

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

History of uniform manufacturers and sponsors

Symbols

Shield

Team bus.

Throughout its history, the Real Sporting shield has undergone different changes. In any case, the scheme has almost always been the same: an inverted isosceles triangle with four vertical red and three white stripes and the letters S (for Sporting) and G (for Gijón) intertwined, and with a royal crown on it, which represents the Real status of the team. During the Second Republic (1931-1936), the royal crown was replaced by a mural crown and the shape of the shield became round. After the Civil War (1936-1939), with the prohibition of foreign words in the names of sports associations, Real Sporting de Gijón was renamed Real Gijón and the shield changed, the triangle forming a G in beak with the red and white colors inside. The current shield is an evolution of the traditional one made by the company CYAN Gestión Editorial in 1997 under the signature of the creator Juan Jareño. The colors were defined as red in Pantone 485 and gold in Pantone Oro, which can be substituted for Pantone 117 when direct gold cannot be applied.

Anthem

The current Sporting anthem was composed in 1974 by Rafael Moro Collar and, in it, written in the usual triumphant and proud tone of sports anthems (...of great tradition and brilliant history... ) reference is made, in addition to the city of Gijón and the fame that the team has given it (...that you gave Gijón great fame...), to his quarry (...from your quarry values arose that nobody and never will be able to forget...). Between 1997 and 2004 dance, salsa and rock versions have been made thanks to the arrangements by José Fernández Avello, Chez García, Banda Nocturna and with the collaboration of the Asturian Choir of Gijón, the Camerata Revillagigedo and Anusca.

On the occasion of the centenary, celebrated in 2005, the Mierense singer-songwriter Víctor Manuel composed a song with the collaboration of piper José Ángel Hevia and the Turón Mining Choir called Puxa Sporting!.

Flag

The club's official flag is made up of nine horizontal stripes, five red and four white, with the entity's shield, lined in white and with a height equivalent to 5/9 the width of the flag, in the center. Its width:length ratios are 2:3.

The first recorded flag was triangular, made up of the club's colors in horizontal stripes. Over the years, rectangular flags were always used, generally with a width:length ratio of 2:3. Today the one designed for the fiftieth anniversary of the club in 1955, which had seven stripes and the name of the club in gold letters, is preserved.

Flag commemorating the first centenary of Sporting.

Centenary symbols

On the occasion of the celebrations for the centenary of the club in 2005, a commemorative logo was designed that consisted of an underlined red number 100 and with a schematic golden crown on it, the work of graphic designer Javier Sáez Adana, from Bitacora Group. Said logo was embroidered on the team's shirt that season and also appeared on a commemorative flag with a white background, with wavy lines underlining the logo and crossing the whole, as a reference to the maritime character of the city of Gijón and to the sportinguista fans, popularly known as la mareona rojiblanca.

Other symbols

In 1997 the club updated its corporate image, designing what is still the main hallmark of its commercial brand. It is a schematic drawing of some jaws under which the word Sporting can be read.

Corporate identity

Sporting's corporate colors are white, red in Pantone 485, and gold in Pantone Gold or, when direct Pantone Gold cannot be used, Pantone 117. The primary color palette includes Pantone Reflex Blue Blue, Pantone 368 green and Pantone Cool Gray 11. The corporate font family is Stone Sans (regular, bold and semibold).

Stadium

The stadium El Molinón during the meeting between Sporting and the Athletic Club of the season 2011-12.

Old playing fields

During its first years of existence, Sporting used various locations in the city to organize training sessions and play matches. However, none of them was adequate enough for playing football, nor did they have the minimum comforts for an increasingly large audience:

• Playa de San Lorenzo: was the first playing field of the team.
• Prado Redondo: communal field located in the vicinity of El Humedal.
• The Matona: farm located in the area of La Guide, owned by Joaquín Menchaca, which the Sporting rented for three months in 1910 for the price of 100 pesetas.
• La Flor de Valencia: another farm in La Guide, owned by Anselmo Piñole, in which the team played its games since 1911.

The Windmill

The first reference to the existence of El Molinón dates back to 1908. The local newspaper El Comercio refers, on May 20 of that year, to a match played «in the El Molinón field", without specifying more information, between the teams La Bella Sportiva and El Balón. This makes it the oldest field in Spanish professional football.

Exterior aspect of the refurbishment of the El Molinón stadium in its northern graph.

In any case, Sporting did not use it as a host until 1915, eventually buying it thanks to a great financial effort. The name of the stadium, it is said, comes from the existence, on the land where it was built, of a large old mill, owned by an Englishman named Rimmel, in the extension of the then Calle del Molino, currently Avenida de Torcuato. Fernández-Miranda, where the Molino Viejo National Parador is located today.

The stadium in Gijón has undergone several renovations throughout its history, the first of which took place in 1917. Among all of them, it is worth highlighting the one that underwent the 1982 Soccer World Cup, held in Spain, during which the stadium hosted several Group B matches, shared with the Carlos Tartiere Stadium in Oviedo.

In 2006, a new comprehensive remodeling project for the stadium was announced, which affected, among other things, its exterior image, in which the artist Joaquín Vaquero Turcios collaborated. The reform was financed, on the one hand, with the privatization of the existing premises under the stands, since a company exploits them commercially and, on the other, with municipal funds. The project included the reinforcement of the structure of the entire stadium, the expansion of the north end and an area of the west stand, the change of all the stadium roofs, the replacement of all the seats, the creation of new changing rooms and mixed areas for press, radio and television, as well as a room for interviews.

With all these improvements, the stadium underwent a radical change in its external appearance and in all its facilities, and was approved with category 3 by UEFA. In addition, the total capacity increased to 30,000 spectators.

Academy

Escuela de Football de Mareo.

Sporting's training camps, as well as those of the grassroots soccer categories, are located at the Mareo Soccer School, located in the Gijón parish of Leorio. It has an area of 111,700 m² and was inaugurated on July 28, 1978; its construction was then made possible thanks to the large income obtained from the transfer of the Basque player Ignacio Churruca to Athletic Club. Since 2001, it has been owned by the Gijón city council, which acquired it to alleviate the enormous economic crisis that the club was going through at the time. In addition, Sporting also has a Mareo soccer school in Logroño, whose teams compete in the soccer divisions. Riojan base.

Mareo is a prolific youth academy from which footballers have emerged who, over time, achieved national and international renown, such as Eloy, Ablanedo, Luis Enrique, Abelardo, Manjarín, Juanele or Villa. In 2009, Sporting received the Soccer Draft award for the team that had made the most homegrown players debut in the First Division in the 2008-09 season.

Real Sporting Gijón "B"

Sporting's affiliate team is Real Sporting de Gijón "B", known until 1991 as Sporting de Gijón Atlético. In the 2017-18 season, they competed in Second Division B after finishing the previous season in the 1st position of group 2 of the Third Division and moving up in category. It occupies 18th place in the historical classification of Second B, with 948 games played and 1112 points, being the 6th affiliate team of the same. In 1983 they won the Second Division B League Cup.

Basic football

Sporting's youth team plays in one of the 7 Division of Honor groups, the highest national category of youth soccer. In the 2003-04 campaign, they won the Champions Cup, in which the champions of each Honor Division group participate. The following year, they were runner-up in the Copa del Rey after losing in the final against FC Barcelona.

The second youth team plays in the National League, a category immediately below the Division of Honor, to which it cannot be promoted because it is a subsidiary. Sporting also has two teams in the cadet category, two in children's, three in juniors and two in youngest.

Honours of Prizes

• Spain League Cup Second Division B (1): 1983
• Youth Honor Division (5): 1994, 2004, 2005, 2012 and 2018
• Youth Champions Cup (1): 2004
• Junior Champions Cup champion (2): 2005 and 2018
• Junior King Cup Champion (1): 2005
• Spanish Cadet Football Championship (1): 2000
• Spanish national football championship Benin (4): 2010, 2012, 2018 and 2019

Villa de Gijón Trophy

The Villa de Gijón Trophy is a summer tournament that Real Sporting de Gijón has organized since 1962; It began to be contested under the name Costa Verde Trophy and, in 1994, received its current name. It takes place in the month of August at the El Molinón stadium and, since 2001, it has been played in a single match. The champion of the 2016 edition was Real Sporting de Gijón, who beat R. C. Deportivo de La Coruña in a 4-2 penalty shootout after having finished the match with the result of 1-1. The trophy that was awarded to the winner is a reproduction of the Elogio del Horizonte, a sculpture by Eduardo Chillida that has become a symbol of the city of Gijón since its construction in 1990.

Club details

Denominations

• Sporting Club Gijonés: (1907-12) Regularization of the club.
• Real Club Sporting Gijonés: (1912-16) He is added the title of "Real" given by Monarch Alfonso XIII of Spain.
• Real Sporting de Gijón: (1916-31) It drops the "club" rating and readapta the rating of your city.
• Sporting Club de Gijón: (1931-40) The Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed so that all monarchical symbol or allusion is eliminated and in its place takes up the “club” qualification.
• Real Sporting de Gijón: (1940-41) After the establishment of the Spanish State, monarchical allusions are restored and its previous denomination is resumed.
• Real Gijón: (1941-70) In the same way there was a Castroization of Anglicisms adopting the club a year later to a simplified form.
• Real Sporting de Gijón: (1970-92) There was a liberalisation of terms that could adopt denominations in other languages.
• Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D.: (1992-Act.) Conversion of the entity into an anonymous sports company (S.A. D.).

Trajectory

• Seasons in First Division42
  • Historical positionSixteenth
  • Better post2.o (1978-79)
  • Worse post: 20.o (1997-98)
  • Big deal.: Sporting 7 - C. A. Osasuna 1 (1993-94)
  • Major welcome: F. C. Barcelona 9 - Sporting 0 (1951-52) and Athletic Club 9 - Sporting 0 (1958-59)
• Seasons in Second Division: 50
  • Historical position: 1.o
  • Better post: 1.o (1943-44, 1950-51, 1956-57, 1969-70 and 1976-77)
  • Worse post: 17.o (Second Division of Spain 2021-22)
  • Big deal.: Sporting 11 - U. E. Lleida 0 (1956-57)
  • Major welcome: Deportivo Alavés 6 - Sporting 0 (1928-29), C. A. Osasuna 6 - Sporting 0 (1933-34), Sporting 0 - Real Oviedo 6 (1955-56) and Real Racing Club de Santander 6 - Sporting 0 (1962-63)
• Participation in the King’s Cup: 93
  • Best classification: subfield (1980-81 and 1981-82)
• Participation in the UEFA Cup: 6
  • Best classification: 16th finals (1978-79 and 1991-92)
• Maximum scorer: Quini (272)
• More contested parties: Joaquín Alonso (644)
• More targeted parties: José Manuel Díaz Novoa (282)

Players and coaching staff

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Players	Technical body		More used tactical scheme
N.o Nac. Pass. Pos. Name Age Eq. provenance Cont. INT. Porteros 1 Spain! 0BY Iván Cuéllar 38 years C. D. Leganés 2023 Sub-21 13 Uruguay! 0BY Guillermo de Amores 28 years Lanús 2023 Absolute 26 France! 0BY Florentin Bloch 23 years Unionists of Salamanca C.F. 2023 Sub-20 Defense 2 Spain! 1DEF Guille Rosas 22 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2025 Sub-21 3 Spain! 1DEF José Angel "Cote" 33 years C.A. Osasuna 2024 4 Spain! 1DEF Paul Insua 29 years S.D. Huesca 2024 Sub-20 5 Spain! 1DEF Bruno González 32 years Leganese Sports Club 2023 6 Spain! 1DEF José Marsà 21 years Sporting C.P. 2023 Sub-19 22 Spain! 1DEF Pol Valentín 26 years C.F. Fuenlabrada 2024 24 Argentina! 1DEF Carlos "Cali" Izquierdoz 34 years Boca Juniors 2024 27 Spain! 1DEF David Argüelles 21 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2023 28 Spain! 1DEF Fernando Somolinos 21 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2024 29 Spain! 1DEF Jordi Pola 23 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2023 32 Spain! 1DEF Diego Sánchez 19 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2027 35 Spain! 1DEF Juan Aspra 20 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2024 36 Spain! 1DEF Marcos Trabanco 22 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2023 Ivory Coast! 1DEF Axel Bamba 23 years Paris F.C. 2025 Campers 8 Spain! 2MED Pedro Díaz 24 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2025 10 Spain! 2MED Nacho Méndez 25 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2025 17 Spain! 2MED Christian Rivera 25 years U.D. Las Palmas 2025 Sub-19 18 Uruguay! 2MED Gio Zarfino 31 years A.D. Alcorcón 2024 33 Spain! 2MED Nacho Martín 21 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2025 34 Spain! 2MED Lucas Suárez 21 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2023 37 France! 2MED Jonathan Varane 21 years Rodez A.F. 2024 38 Spain! 2MED Damián Cáceres 19 years C.F. Fuenlabrada 2024 Delanteros 7 Spain! 3OF THE Aitor García 29 years Cadiz C.F. 2023 9 Spain! 3OF THE Jony Rodriguez 31 years S.S. Lazio 2023 11 Spain! 3OF THE Victor Campuzano 25 years R.C.D. Espanyol 2025 12 Spain! 3OF THE Christ González 25 years Udinese 2023 14 Chile! 3OF THE Ignatius Jeraldino 27 years Santos Laguna 2023 Absolute 16 Spain! 3OF THE Dani Queipo 20 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2027 19 Colombia! 3OF THE Juan Otero 27 years Club America 2023 Sub-20 20 Mexico! 3OF THE Jordan Carrillo 21 years Santos Laguna 2023 Absolute 21 Serbia! 3OF THE Uroš Milovanović 22 years F.K. Radnik Surdulica 2026 Sub-21 23 Montenegro! 3OF THE Uroš Đurđević 29 years Olympiakos F.C. 2027 Absolute 31 Spain! 3OF THE Alex Oyón 20 years Sporting de Gijón "B" 2024 40 Spain! 3OF THE Marcos Fernández 17 years Sporting youth Gijón 2024 Cessions N.o Nac. Pass. Pos. Name N. Age Lost to Cont. -- Spain! 1DEF Pablo García 22 years A.D. Alcorcón 2025 -- Spain! 3OF THE Gaspar Campos 23 years Burgos C.F. 2025 Sub-21 -- Spain! 2MED Fran Villalba 24 years Málaga C.F. 2026 Sub-17 -- Cuba! 0BY Christian Sánchez 23 years Real Club Celta de Vigo "B" 2026	Coach(s) Miguel Ángel Ramírez Deputy(s) Endika Gaviña Luis Piedrahita Caco Morán Physical Preparer(s) Cristóbal Fuentes Carlos Castroagudín Coach(s) of porters Jorge Sariego Physical therapist(s) César Castaño Pablo Fueyo Pelayo Merediz Doctor(s) Antonio Maestro Gonzalo Revol Juan Cachero Legend Captain Mission quarry (club-trained) Training (association-trained) European passport Aliens Extracommunity without restriction Lost to the club Granted to another club Discarded / No chip Updated on February 2, 2023 Official web template		4-2-3-1 ESP! BY 1 DEF 2 DEF 24 DEF 4 DEF 32 MED 37 OF THE 12 MED 6 MED 19 MED 16 MED 8 Incorporation 2022-23 Paul Insua ( S.D. Huesca) Gio Zarfino ( A.D. Alcorcón) Juan Otero ( Club America) Pol Valentín ( C.F. Fuenlabrada) Christ González ( Udinese) Jordan Carrillo ( Santos Laguna) Jony Rodriguez ( S.S. Lazio) "Cali" Izquierdoz ( Boca Juniors) Cote ( C.A. Osasuna) Axel Bamba ( Paris F.C.) Uroš Milovanović ( F.K. Radnik Surdulica) Bruno González ( Free Agency) Ignatius Jeraldino ( Santos Laguna) Guillermo de Amores ( Lanús) José Marsà ( Sporting C.P.) Filials with participation Dani Queipo (13 August 2022) Diego Sánchez (3 September 2022) Nacho Martín (7 October 2022) Jordi Pola (31 October 2022) David Argüelles (6 November 2022) Marcos Trabanco (19 November 2022) Jonathan Varane (3 January 2023)

• Players with dorsals above 25 are, for all purposes, Real Sporting players from Gijón "B" and as such, will be able to match matches with the first and second team. As LFP standards require since the 1995-96 season, first-staff players will have to carry the dorsals from 1 to 25. From 26 to 50 they will be players of the subsidiary team.
• A canteran must remain at least three years in formative age at the club (15-21 years) to be considered as such. A training player is a foreign player trained in the country of his current team between the ages of 15 and 21 (EUFA Regulation).
• According to UEFA regulations, each club can only have a maximum of three extra-community players in staff occupying a foreign position.
• Giovanni Zarfino does not count as extracommunity as he has Uruguayan and Spanish nationality.
• Carlos Izquierdoz does not count as extra-community when he has Argentine and Italian nationality.
• Uroš Đurđević does not count as extra-community by the European Union Association Agreement.
• Axel Bamba has the double nationality of Costa Rican and French. After long-term injury, the club proceeded to shed the drop of its federative chip.

Players

The twenty international soccer players with the Spanish team stand out in the list of names, making Sporting the twelfth team with the most players contributed to the national team: Meana, Adolfo, Quini, Churruca, Uría, Megido, Morán, Mesa, Cundi, Joaquín, Maceda, Jiménez, Ablanedo, Eloy, Luis Enrique, Abelardo, Juanele, Pier, Julio Salinas and Manu García; as well as others who also played international matches before or after playing for the Asturian team, such as Campanal, Herrerita, Emilín, Campos, Aldecoa, Miera, Marañón, Aguilar, Villarroya, Giner, Bango, Leal, Manjarín, Marcos Vales, Marcelino or David Villa.

The first foreign soccer player to pass through Sporting's ranks was the Argentine Óscar Garro, who joined the team in 1950, beginning a long list of foreign soccer players who, with greater or lesser glory, went through the Gijón team and, among which, the South Americans have always had a special weight. Among non-Spanish Europeans, the bulk of soccer players came from Eastern European countries.

Statistics

• International players:
  • Total: 20
  • Matches played: 162
  • First: Meana (Spain 2 - Belgium 0, October 9, 1921, friendly party)
  • Ultimate: Manu García (Spain 4 - Lithuania 0, 8 June 2021, friendly party)
  • Last in debut while playing at Sporting: Manu García (Spain 4 - Lithuania 0, 8 June 2021, friendly party)
• Players with individual titles:
  • Maximum First Division scorer:
    • Quini: 20 goals (1973-74), 21 goals (1975-76) and 24 goals (1979-80)
  • Maximum 2nd Division scorer:
    • Ricardo: 46 goals (1956-57)
    • Solabarrieta: 24 goals (1966-67)
    • Quini: 24 goals (1969-70) and 27 goals (1976-77)
  • Lower goalkeeper of First Division:
    • Ablanedo II: 22 matched goals (1984-85), 27 matched goals (1985-86) and 25 matched goals (1989-90)
  • Second Division less scorched door:
    • Roberto: 31 matched goals (2005-06)
    • Necklace: 21 fit goals (2014-15)
• First Division:
  • More games:
    • Joaquin (479; 1977-1992)
    • Jiménez (420; 1979-1991)
    • Ablanedo II (399; 1982-1998)
  • More goals:
    • Quini (165; 1970-1987, in three stages)
    • Joaquín (65; 1977-1992)
    • Ferrero (54; 1975-1985, in two stages)
  • Days followed by marking:
    • Quini, 12 goals in 7 days (1st to 7th, 1979-80)
    • Quini, 9 goals in 5 days (13th to 17th, 1978-79)
    • Luhový, 6 goals in 5 days (30.a to 34.a, 1990-91)
  • More expulsions:
    • Ablanedo II (4, 1982-1998)
    • Luis Sierra (4, 1984-1994)
    • Manjarin (4, 1989-1993)
  • Younger:
    • Play: Orlando, 17 years and 16 days (1984)
    • In marking gol: Eloy, 18 years and 112 days (1983)
  • Older:
    • Play: Molinucu, 38 years and 129 days (1954)
    • In marking gol: Quini, 37 years and 132 days (1987)

Coaches

Manolo Preciado, coach with more consecutive and second seasons with more games directed at Sporting.

Real Sporting de Gijón has had a total of fifty-nine coaches throughout its history. The first professional coach was the Austrian Karl Orth, who led the team between 1922 and 1923. Until then, no had a specific coach as it was common practice in football clubs for the squad to be drawn up by the president and the board of directors, who were in charge of deciding on signings, transfers and, in most cases, also the lineups of the players. matches. Training sessions, which at that time were few since football was not professional, were usually self-managed by the players themselves. Unlike Karl Orth, most of the coaches Sporting has had have been Spanish; Of the fifty-nine total, fifteen have been foreigners. The nationalities of these have been Argentina, with three; the Austrian, the English, the Dutch and the Serbian, with two technicians; in addition to the Uruguayan, the Brazilian, the French and the Hungarian, with one.

The greatest sporting successes in the club's history were achieved by Vicente Miera, who achieved second place in the League in the 1978-79 season, led the team to play in a Copa del Rey final for the first time, in 1981, and qualified it on two occasions —1977-78 and 1978-79— to play in the UEFA Cup; with José Manuel Díaz Novoa, who led Sporting to its second Copa del Rey final in 1982 and obtained three qualifications for the UEFA Cup —1979-80, 1984-85 and 1986-87—; and with Ciriaco Cano, with whom the last European participation was achieved after fifth place in the 1990-91 campaign. In the promotion chapter to the First Division, Amadeo Sánchez occupied the rojiblanco bench —1943-44 and 1950-51—, Jesús Barrio —1956-57—, Carriega —1969-70—, Vicente Miera —1976-77—, Manolo Preciado —2007-08— and Abelardo Fernández —2014-15—. Other prominent names are the Serbian Vujadin Boškov, Marcelino García Toral, who emerged from the club's youth ranks, or outstanding Spanish football references such as Benito Floro, Vicente Cantatore, Antonio Maceda and Javier Clemente.

The coach who has led the team in the most matches, including all competitions, is José Manuel Díaz Novoa with 282 official matches —230 in the League, 36 in the Copa del Rey, 6 in the UEFA Cup and 10 in the Copa del Rey League-; followed by Manolo Preciado, who led the team in 232 games —218 in the League and 14 in the Cup—; and in third place is Vicente Miera, who sat on the Sporting bench for 215 games —166 in the League, 43 in the Cup and 6 in the UEFA Cup. However, it is the Cantabrian Manolo Preciado who holds the record of permanence of a coach on the rojiblanco bench, with six seasons, surpassing the four that José Manuel Díaz Novoa had consecutively in one of his various stages in charge of it.

Presidents

Real Sporting has had thirty-seven presidents in thirty-nine presidencies throughout its history. In 1992, after the law on sports corporations came into force, the system for electing the president was modified, going from being chosen by the members of the club to being chosen by the shareholders of the company.

Hobby

According to the May Barometer (2007) of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), Sporting was then the fourteenth club by number of supporters in Spain (0.8%).

The Federation of Peñas Sportinguistas annually awards the Gesto Sportinguista awards to people or institutions that have been significant in some positive action for the club, and Molinón de Plata, the most outstanding player of the season. The last Sportinguista Gesture, in its twelfth edition, was awarded posthumously to the architect Joaquín Vaquero Turcios, in recognition of the authorship of the El Molinón stadium remodeling project. The XLVI Molinón de Silver was awarded to Alberto Lora from Madrid.

Sporting's fans are recognized, nationally and internationally, as one of the most spirited and traveling fans in Spain. The displacements bring together thousands of followers, both in the Second and First Division, in a popular movement known as La Mareona.

Honours of Prizes

National tournaments

• Spanish First Division subfield (1): 1978-79
• Second Division of Spain (5): 1943-44, 1950-51, 1956-57, 1969-70 and 1976-77
• Subcampion of the Second Division of Spain (4): 1929-30, 1963-64, 1966-67 and 2014-15
• King Cup Champion (2): 1980-81 and 1981-82

Regional tournaments

• Regional Championship in Asturias (13): 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1931 and 1940
• Sub-camp of the Regional Championship of Asturias (6): 1925, 1929, 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1935

Picture of the Trophy Ramon de Carranza, conquered by the Sporting in its 1984 edition.

Friendly tournaments

• Trofeo Villa de Gijón (24): 1962, 1963, 1965, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2014 and 2015
• Trofeo Ramón Losada (9): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
• Trophy Saint Augustine (9): 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1983, 1995, 1997 and 2022
• Trophy Emma Cuervo (7): 1957, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1972, 2007 and 2012
• Trophy Count of Fontao (6): 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1989
• Trofeo Villa de Jovellanos (6): 1979, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1999
• Trophy City Hall of Langreo (5): 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993
• Principal Trophy (5)1988, 1991, 1993, 1994 and 2006
• Trophy Memorial Alfonso Magdalena: (3) 2000, 2001
• Trophy Conception Arenal (2): 1970 and 1971
• Iberian Trophy (2): 1972 and 1979
• Trophy City of Oviedo (2): 1980 and 1986
• Trofeo Luis Otero (2): 2003 and 2008
• Trophy City of Santiago (1): 2000
• Trofeo Reyno de Navarra (1): 1979
• City of Cid Trophy (1): 1981
• Trofeo Ramón de Carranza (1): 1984
• Triangular de León (1): 1997
• Trophy of the Centenary of Portugalete (1): 2009
• Trophy City of Vigo (1): 2011
• Trophy Memorial Julio Alvarez (Langreo) (1): 2011
• Trophy City of Santa Cruz (1)2015
• Trophy City of Pontevedra (1): 2017

Awards

• Copa Stadium (2): 1979 and 1981
• Trophy to Deportivity (2): 1981 and 1986
• Trophy Antwerp (1): 1963
• Plaque to the Best Sports Entity (1): 1978
• Gold AFE (1): 1979
• Trophy Juan Antonio Samaranch (1): 1979
• Plate to the Sports Merit (1): 1981

Sports sections

In the past, Sporting had sections in sports disciplines such as roller hockey, athletics, rugby, handball and indoor soccer.

Women's Soccer

The women's soccer team Real Sporting de Gijón, which until 2016 was called the Mareo Soccer School, plays in the Second Division under the direction of coach Alejandro Menéndez. It also has a subsidiary that competes in the regional category.

Indoor soccer

Sporting competed in the Indoor Soccer League in its fourth edition, held in 2011, when the tournament was expanded to include the twenty clubs with the most number of seasons in the First Division. The rojiblancos were placed in group 2, along with with Real Oviedo, Real Valladolid C. F., R. C. Celta de Vigo and R. C. Deportivo de La Coruña. After finishing the group stage as champions, they faced Club Atlético de Madrid in the quarterfinals, and Real Betis Balompié in the semifinals. In the final they faced R. C. D. Mallorca, whom they beat 11-4, thus achieving their first title in their debut season.

Honours of Prizes

• Indoor Football League (1): 2011
• Indoor Spanish Cup Champion (1): 2011
• Indoor Spanish Super Cup Champion (1): 2011

Rivalry

Sporting's historical rival is Real Oviedo, with which they have been competing for sports supremacy in Asturias for a long time, the region of which they are the two most representative teams. Sporting is the Asturian team with the most seasons in the First Division (42, compared to Oviedo's 38), in whose historical classification they occupy positions 16th -Sporting- and 19th -Oviedo-, having met twenty times, with a balance favorable to Real Oviedo in the total number of games played. In the Second Division they have coincided in eighteen seasons, with a favorable balance for Sporting. Other derbies have been played in the Copa del Rey, in the Principality Trophy and in the extinct Asturias Regional Championship.

Filmography

• Documentary TVE (1-5-2014), « Vintage Connection - 'History of Sporting and the Oviedo'» on RTVE.es.
• Start again (1982). Director: Jose Luis Garci. Oscar Best Foreign Film in 1983