Real Sporting de Gijón B is a Spanish football club based in Gijón, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1960 it is the reserve team of Sporting de Gijón, and currently plays in Tercera Federación – Group 2, holding home games at Escuela de Fútbol de Mareo with a 3,000-seat capacity.[1]

Sporting de Gijón B

Full name	Real Sporting de Gijón B
Founded	1960
Ground	Campo Pepe Ortiz, Gijón, Asturias, Spain
Capacity	1,600
President	Javier Fernández
Head coach	Damián Mori
League	3ª Federación – Group 2
2021–22	3ª RFEF – Group 2, 2nd of 20
Home colours Away colours

Reserve teams in the Spanish football league system play in the same football pyramid as their senior team rather than a separate league, although reserve teams cannot play in the same division as their senior team. Reserve teams are also no longer permitted to enter the Copa del Rey. In addition, only under-23 players, or under-25 players with a professional contract, can switch between senior and reserve teams.

History

La Camocha

Sociedad Deportiva La Camocha was founded in 1955, joining the Royal Spanish Football Federation two years later. On 30 July 1966, the team signed an agreement to be affiliated with Real Gijón as their reserve team.

The following year, La Camocha's rights in Tercera División were acquired by Gijón and the team was renamed Club Atlético Gijón, being relegated to Primera Regional after three seasons.[2]

Sporting Gijón B

Sporting de Gijón B was founded as Club Deportivo Gijón in 1960. Because the club started in the lowest level in Asturias, Segunda Regional, Real Gijón used other clubs to promote its youth players such as La Camocha. In 1970, La Camocha was replaced by Deportivo Gijón as sole affiliate after both clubs were to start in Primera Regional.[2] La Camocha eventually became an independent club and was renamed Atlético Camocha Sociedad Deportiva.[3][4] Deportivo Gijón finished as runner-up in 1971–72 and lost the promotion play-off to C.D. Acero 3–8 on aggregate,[5] promoting to the fourth level two years later after winning the regional league.[6]

In the following decades, Sporting B fluctuated between division four and Segunda División B, first reaching the latter in 1979–80, but being immediately relegated. In 1991, it first reached the promotion playoffs in the category, repeating the feat in 1996 and 1997, but consecutively falling short.

In early July 2011, despite finishing 19th in the third division table, with the subsequent relegation, Sporting B was reinstated in the category by buying the vacant place left by the administrative relegation of Universidad de Las Palmas CF.[7]

In 2018, the club qualified for the promotion playoffs to Segunda División, 21 years after their last participation. The club beat Cornellà in the first round but lost the two legs against Elche in the second.

Club background

• Club Deportivo Gijón (1960–79)[2]
• Sporting de Gijón Atlético CF (1979–91)
• Sporting de Gijón B (1991–)

Season to season

• As a farm team

• As a reserve team

• 26 seasons in Segunda División B
• 15 seasons in Tercera División
• 2 seasons in Tercera Federación

Current squad

As of 11 September 2022.[8]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  RUS Petr Kudakovskiy 2 DF  EQG Cristian Ebea 3 DF  ESP David Argüelles 4 DF  ESP Fernando Somolinos 5 DF  ESP Jordi Pola 6 MF  ESP Nacho Martín 7 MF  ESP Marcos Trabanco 8 MF  ESP Lucas Suárez (captain) 9 FW  ESP Álvaro Santamaría 10 MF  ESP Diego Tejón 11 FW  ESP Dani Queipo 12 DF  ESP Juan Aspra

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 GK  FRA Florentin Bloch 14 MF  FRA Jonathan Varane 15 DF  NED Leonel Miguel 16 MF  ESP Damián Cáceres 17 FW  ESP Junior 18 FW  ESP Enric Baquero 19 FW  ESP Álex Oyón 20 FW  ESP Ariel Herrero 24 DF  ESP Diego Sánchez — MF  ESP Aleix Grabulosa — MF  ESP Pelayo Pérez — FW  ESP Pelayo Morilla

From Youth Academy

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 FW  ESP Enol Prendes 25 GK  ESP Enol Muñiz 26 FW  ESP Sergio Dacal

No. Pos. Nation Player 27 DF  ESP Borja Montes 28 GK  ESP Damián García 29 FW  ESP Alejandro Lozano

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  ESP Joel Jiménez (at Real Unión until 30 June 2023) — DF  ESP Enol Coto (at Racing Ferrol until 30 June 2023)

Current technical staff

Role	Name
Head Coach	Damián Mori
Assistant Coach	Samuel Baños
Delegate	Carlos
Goalkeeping Coach	Jorge Sariego
Fitness Coaches	Álvaro Vázquez Rafa
Physiotherapists	Pedro Díaz Sergio Guerrero
Kit men	David

Honours

Official

• Segunda División B: 1995–96 (Group 2), 1996–97 (Group 1)
• Tercera División Group 2: 1978–79,[9] 1980–81,[10] 1988–89,[11] 2016–17
• Copa de la Liga: 1982–83 Segunda División B – Group I
• Copa RFEF (Asturias tournament): 1996, 2003, 2014, 2016[12]

Friendly

• Trofeo Emma Cuervo:[13] 2008

Stadium

Sporting de Gijón B play most of its home games at Escuela de Fútbol de Mareo (field 1, also named Pepe Ortiz), which also acts as both the training ground and football academy for the first team. It has a capacity of 3,000 spectators.

References

External links

• Official club website (in Spanish)
• BDFútbol team profile
• Sporting B history & stadium Estadios de España (in English)

На других языках

[de] Sporting Gijón B

[es] Real Sporting de Gijón "B"

[ru] Спортинг B (футбольный клуб, Хихон)