Sporting de Huelva

Sporting de Huelva
Full name Sporting Club de Huelva
Founded 1979 / 2004
Ground El Conquero,[1]
Trigueros
Ground Capacity 800[1]
Chairman Spain J. Antonio Muñoz Lozano
Manager Spain Antonio Toledo
League Primera División
2014-15 Primera División, 8th
Website Club home page

Sporting Club de Huelva, also known as Cajasol Trigueros Sporting for sponsorship reasons, is a Spanish women's football club from Trigueros, Huelva. It was founded in Huelva in 2004 as a restructuring of an homonymous junior (men's) football club, which had been founded in 1979 and dissolved nine years later, by its original founder, Antonio Toledo, who has also served as the team's manager and sporting director.[2]

History

2006-07 Superliga match against Levante UD

Gaining promotion to the Superliga Femenina in just two seasons, Sporting Huelva debuted at the 2006–07 season. It has successfully avoided relegation for the past three seasons, actually ending the 2008–09 season just one point short for qualifying to the Copa de la Reina, losing the spot at the last matchday.[3]

Next year Sporting was third in their group in the first stage of the newly reformed competition, narrowly missing qualification for the title contenders group. The team ranked again 3rd in its group in the second stage, qualifying for the Copa de la Reina for the first time. They qualified for the quarter-finals, eliminating Atlético Madrid before being ousted by Torrejón.

Financial difficulties conditioned the club's 2010-11 season. Following a weak performance in the first stage the team managed to recover in the second half of the season and was 2nd in their group, but Sporting had to renounce taking part in the Copa de la Reina.[4]

Sporting chained four wins in the first weeks of the 2011-12 season, holding the lead of the table for the first time in its history.[5] As of the end of 2011 the team stood 4th with 9 wins in 15 games, but after a less successful second half the team ended in the 8th position, was anyway is its best result to date. During the Christmas break president José Antonio Muñoz announced Sporting was in negotiations to become Recreativo Huelva's women's team for the 2012-13 season,[6] but an agreement wasn't reached and Sporting was instead relocated to nearby Trigueros for the 2012–13 season.[7]

On May 17, 2015, Sporting de Huelva won its first national title after achieving the 2015 Copa de la Reina by defeating Valencia CF in the final match by 2–1.[8]

Current squad

As of 17 March 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Spain GK María Sampalo
3 Romania DF Elena Pavel
4 Spain DF Sandra García
5 Germany MF Imke Wübbenhorst
6 Spain DF Maite Albarrán
7 Spain FW Anita Hernández
8 Bulgaria MF Valentina Asenova
8 Italy MF Martina Capelli
9 Spain FW Cristina Martín-Prieto
10 Spain MF Virginia García
11 Spain MF Esperanza Carrasco
No. Position Player
12 Spain MF Irene Rodríguez
13 Spain GK Sara Serrat
14 Spain MF Patricia Gavira
15 Spain FW Alicia Muñoz
15 Italy MF Veronica Napoli
16 Spain DF Sandra Castelló
19 Spain MF Jennifer Benítez
20 Spain FW Marina Martí
21 Spain DF Paula Perea
22 Spain GK Marta Gayà
Spain FW Noelia Aybar "Rivi"

Sources:

Former internationals

Competition record

Season Div. Pos. Copa de la Reina
2004–05 3
2005–06 2 (Gr. 5) 1st
2006–07 1 10th
2007–08 1 11th
2008–09 1 9th
2009–10 1 (Gr. C) 3rd Quarterfinals
2010–11 1 (Gr. C) 5th
2011–12 1 8th
2012–13 1 9th
2013–14 1 8th Quarterfinalist
2014–15 1 8th Champion

Titles

References

  1. 1 2 "Ciudad Deportiva El Conquero". soccerway.com. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  2. Sporting de Huelva, July 2, 2009. 30th anniversary of the club.
  3. Soccerway.com
  4. ADN
  5. Futfem.com
  6. A women's team for Recreativo Huelva? Blanquiazules
  7. Trigueros takes in Sporting de Huelva, which will be able to keep playing in the Superliga. Andalucía Información, 3 July 2012
  8. "El CD Sporting Club de Huelva, un histórico e inesperado gran campeón de la Copa de la SM La Reina" (in Spanish). RFEF. 18 May 2015.
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