Real Oviedo

Real Oviedo

Full name	Real Oviedo, S.A.D.
Nickname(s)	Carbayones, Los Azules (Blues), Oviedistas
Founded	1926
Ground	Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain (Capacity: 30,500)
Chairman	Alberto González
Manager	Pacheta
League	2ªB - Group 1
2010–11	2ªB - Group 2, 8th
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Real Oviedo is a Spanish football club based in Oviedo, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded on 26 March 1926, it currently plays in Segunda División B - Group 2.

The club plays in blue shirts and white shorts in the Estadio Carlos Tartiere, which seats 30,500 spectators. It was the first team from the region ever to play in La Liga.

In the all time league table for the Spanish top division, Oviedo rank in 17th place.

History

Founded in 1926 after a merge with Stadium Ovetense, Oviedo first reached La Liga seven years later. Between 1933–36, the team gained success because of their revolutionary approach to football tactics. Their attacking quartet of Emilín, Galé, Herrerita and Isidro Lángara (all represented Spain in this period), as well as Casuco and Ricardo Gallart modernised the game with their pace and running off the ball tied with sharp passing and one-touch football, played in a style 30/40 years before its time, being dubbed Delanteras Eléctricas ("The electric forwards"); all this was connected with a rigid training and fitness regime started by a former manager of the club, English Fred Pentland.

Lángara won the Pichichi Trophy three years in a row prior to the Spanish Civil War, as Oviedo broke all scoring records (174 goals in 62 league games). With the outbreak of the conflict, however, the team broke up: Lángara emigrated to South America, Herrerita and Emilín signed with FC Barcelona, Galé with Racing de Santander and Gallart with Racing de Ferrol.

When football in the country resumed in 1939, Oviedo were relegated to the second division, as their pitch was deemed unplayable — Francisco Franco's troops had used the stadium as an ammunition dump. During the following decades, the club bounced back between the first (38 seasons) and second levels (32), the high point being qualifying for the UEFA Cup after finishing a best-ever third in 1962–63 (ranking joint-first with Real Madrid after the first 15 rounds), while the lowest was the side's first relegation to Segunda División B, in 1978 (for a single season).

With the FIFA World Cup to be held on home soil in 1982, the Estadio Carlos Tartiere was completely renewed, the first match being held with the Chilean national team (0–0). In 1984–85, Oviedo won the soon-to-be-defunct Spanish League Cup (second division), after successively defeating UD Salamanca, Bilbao Athletic, CF Lorca Deportiva, CE Sabadell FC and Atlético Madrileño (the latter with a 2–1 aggregate in the final).

In 1988, Oviedo returned to the top division, after ousting RCD Mallorca in the promotion playoffs (2–1 on aggregate, with striker Carlos, who would feature prominently for the club in the following years, scoring one of the goals), and remained in that level for 13 consecutive seasons - in 1990–91 it finished sixth, qualifying once again for Europe, and being knocked out in the first round by Genoa C.F.C. of Italy (2–3, although Oviedo bounced back from that defeat immediately, with a 2–1 win at the Camp Nou, over Barcelona).

After being relegated two consecutive times, Real Oviedo suffered severe economic troubles, which, when coupled with a profound lack of institutional support from the city's government, resulted in the team's inability to pay its players. The club was then forced to drop all the way to the fourth division of Spanish football, for the 2003–04 season. At this point the team nearly folded, but eventually recovered and regrouped, returning to level three in the following campaign.

Oviedo lasted two further seasons before dropping down a level again. In another playoff against a Mallorca team - this time the reserves, the club returned again to the third division, after a penalty shootout; however, its survival remained at risk in the following years, due to continuing financial difficulties.

Season to season

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1929 2ª 7th 1929/30 2ª 5th 1930/31 2ª 8th 1931/32 2ª 2nd 1932/33 2ª 1st 1933/34 1ª 6th 1934/35 1ª 3rd 1935/36 1ª 3rd 1940/41 1ª 8th 1941/42 1ª 11th 1942/43 1ª 6th 1943/44 1ª 4th 1944/45 1ª 4th 1945/46 1ª 5th 1946/47 1ª 8th

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1947/48 1ª 9th 1948/49 1ª 5th 1949/50 1ª 14th 1950/51 2ª 6th 1951/52 2ª 1st 1952/53 1ª 9th 1953/54 1ª 15th 1954/55 2ª 2nd 1955/56 2ª 2nd 1956/57 2ª 4th 1957/58 2ª 1st 1958/59 1ª 11th 1959/60 1ª 6th 1960/61 1ª 13th 1961/62 1ª 10th

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1962/63 1ª 3rd 1963/64 1ª 14th 1964/65 1ª 15th 1965/66 2ª 4th 1966/67 2ª 5th 1967/68 2ª 6th 1968/69 2ª 11th 1969/70 2ª 7th 1970/71 2ª 14th 1971/72 2ª 1st 1972/73 1ª 12th 1973/74 1ª 18th 1974/75 2ª 1st 1975/76 1ª 16th 1976/77 2ª 5th

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1977/78 2ª 17th 1978/79 2ªB 2nd 1979/80 2ª 11th 1980/81 2ª 10th 1981/82 2ª 16th 1982/83 2ª 12th 1983/84 2ª 13th 1984/85 2ª 16th 1985/86 2ª 8th 1986/87 2ª 14th 1987/88 2ª 4th 1988/89 1ª 12th 1989/90 1ª 11th 1990/91 1ª 6th 1991/92 1ª 11th

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1992/93 1ª 16th 1993/94 1ª 9th 1994/95 1ª 9th 1995/96 1ª 14th 1996/97 1ª 17th 1997/98 1ª 18th 1998/99 1ª 14th 1999/00 1ª 16th 2000/01 1ª 18th 2001/02 2ª 7th 2002/03 2ª 21st 2003/04 3ª 1st 2004/05 3ª 1st 2005/06 2ªB 7th 2006/07 2ªB 19th

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 2007/08 3ª 1st 2008/09 3ª 1st 2009/10 2ªB 2nd 2010/11 2ªB 8th Second Round 2011/12 2ªB —

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• 38 seasons in La Liga
• 32 seasons in Segunda División
• 6 seasons in Segunda División B
• 4 seasons in Tercera División

Current squad

The numbers are established according to the official website: www.realoviedo.es Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Francisco Lledó 3 DF Iván Candela 4 MF Pascual Puente 5 DF Juanma 6 MF Pelayo 7 MF Paul Abasolo 8 MF Aitor Sanz 9 FW Borja Rubiato 10 FW Manu Busto 11 FW Matar Diop 12 DF Lucien Owona

No. Position Player 13 GK Dani Barrio 14 DF César Negredo 15 MF Xavi Moré 16 MF Miguel Falcón 18 DF Jorge Rodríguez (captain) 19 FW Óscar Martínez 21 MF Nano 23 DF Juanpa 26 MF Jandrin 29 DF Álvaro Cuello

Notable former players

This list of former players includes those who received international caps while playing for the team, made significant contributions to the team in terms of appearances or goals while playing for the team, or who made significant contributions to the sport either before they played for the team, or after they left. It is clearly not yet complete and all inclusive, and additions and refinements will continue to be made over time.

Juan Borrelli Fernando Gamboa Gert Claessens Janko Janković Nikola Jerkan Robert Prosinečki Peter Møller Stan Collymore Kily Yago Idrissa Keita Mitko Stojkovski Franck Rabarivony

José Manuel de la Torre Julio Dely Valdés Florencio Amarilla Ramón Hicks Paulo Bento Abel Xavier Marius Lăcătuş Nicolae Simatoc Viktor Onopko Slaviša Jokanović Albert Nađ Veljko Paunović Peter Dubovský

Chus Alonso Alvarito Luis Aragonés Esteban Areta Carlos César Thomas Christiansen Cristóbal Lluís Elcacho Vicente Engonga Chus Herrera Isidro Lángara Marianín

Oli Paquito Mariano García Remón Antonio Rivas Francisco Uría Pedro Zaballa Bruno Berner Juan González Rafael Ponzo Milovan Đorić Ratomir Dujković Nenad Gračan Đorđe Tomić

See also Category:Real Oviedo players.

Sporsonships and manufacturers

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
1990–1991	Kelme	CLAS
1991–1993		Cajastur
1993–1998	Joluvi
1998–2000	Erima	None
2000–2001	Puma
2001–2003		Principality of Asturias
2003–2008	Joluvi
2008–present	Nike

Real Oviedo B

The reserve team, which played since 2010 in 3ª División, was renamed Real Oviedo Vetusta in 2008. Vetusta was also the original name of the team, before the Royal Spanish Football Federation decree which banned unique reserve club names in the early 1990s.

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• Futbolme team profile (Spanish)
• Club magazine (Spanish)
• Club blog (Spanish)
• Oviedín, fansite (Spanish)
• Big Soccer club entry