Cádiz CF

Cádiz

Full name	Cádiz Club de Fútbol, S.A.D.
Nickname(s)	El Submarino Amarillo ("Yellow Submarine")
Founded	1910
Ground	Ramón de Carranza, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain (Capacity: 22,000)
Chairman	Juan José Pina
Manager	José González
League	2ªB - Group 4
2010-11	2ªB - Group 4, 4th
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Cádiz Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Cádiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1910, it currently plays in Segunda División B - Group 4, holding home games at Estadio Ramón de Carranza, with a 22,000-seat capacity.

Salvadoran legend Mágico González, who played for the club during the '80s/'90s, is widely recognized as the greatest player to have ever played for the team.

History

Cádiz first reached La Liga in 1977–78, after having spent two decades in the second division. Relegated after just one season, it returned in 1980, managing a further 13-year stay.

Often led by the skills of Salvadoran Mágico González, the club managed to miraculously maintain its top flight status in the 1990–91 season, thanks to youth graduate Kiko (and 25 minutes of his inspiration against Real Zaragoza), who picked up the offensive burden after González left. During the late 1980s and early 1990s the club became known as "The Yellow Submarine", due to its capacity of "coming afloat" every year at the end of each season and remain in the top division, despite having been "sunk down" during most of the campaign.

However, in just two seasons, Cádiz dropped down two levels. After a long spell in Segunda División B the club was finally promoted in 2003, spectacularly returning to the top level in 2005, after taking the championship with a last-day victory at neighbours Xerez CD.

However, Cádiz was eventually relegated back to the second tier, in the 37th and penultimate matchday of 2005–06. For the following campaign, former Spanish international Oli took the reins of the team, being sacked after only a few months.

In June 2008, Cádiz dropped another level, returning to the Second B. However, after just one season, it managed to return to the second division, but was immediately relegated in the 2009–10 campaign.

Season to season

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1935/36 2ª 7th 1939/40 2ª 1st 1940/41 2ª 8th 1941/42 2ª 3rd 1942/43 2ª 7th 1943/44 3ª 10th 1944/45 Regional — 1945/46 Regional — 1946/47 3ª 2nd 1947/48 3ª 5th 1948/49 3ª 5th 1949/50 3ª 8th 1950/51 3ª 8th 1951/52 3ª 4th 1952/53 3ª 3rd 1953/54 3ª 3rd 1954/55 3ª 1st 1955/56 2ª 14th 1956/57 2ª 12th 1957/58 2ª 10th

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1958/59 2ª 7th 1959/50 2ª 14th 1960/61 2ª 4th 1961/62 2ª 10th 1962/63 2ª 4th 1963/64 2ª 7th 1964/65 2ª 14th 1965/66 2ª 12th 1966/67 2ª 8th 1967/68 2ª 5th 1968/69 2ª 18th 1969/70 3ª 1st 1970/71 2ª 12th 1971/72 2ª 16th 1972/73 2ª 7th 1973/74 2ª 5th 1974/75 2ª 5th 1975/76 2ª 13th 1976/77 2ª 2nd 1977/78 1ª 18th

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1978/79 2ª 8th 1979/80 2ª 8th 1980/81 2ª 2nd 1981/82 1ª 16th 1982/83 2ª 2nd 1983/84 1ª 16th 1984/85 2ª 2nd 1985/86 1ª 15th 1986/87 1ª 18th 1987/88 1ª 12th 1988/89 1ª 15th 1989/90 1ª 15th 1990/91 1ª 18th 1991/92 1ª 18th 1992/93 1ª 19th 1993/94 2ª 20th 1994/95 2ªB 10th 1995/96 2ªB 6th 1996/97 2ªB 7th 1997/98 2ªB 3rd

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1998/99 2ªB 5th 1999/00 2ªB 12th 2000/01 2ªB 1st 2001/02 2ªB 7th 2002/03 2ªB 4th 2003/04 2ª 7th 2004/05 2ª 1st 2005/06 1ª 19th 2006/07 2ª 5th 2007/08 2ª 20th 2008/09 2ªB 1st 2009/10 2ª 19th 2010/11 2ªB 3rd Third Round 2011/12 2ªB —

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• 12 seasons in La Liga
• 36 seasons in Segunda División
• 11 seasons in Segunda División B
• 11 seasons in Tercera División
• 2 seasons in Categorías Regionales

Current squad

As of 18 August 2011

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 Oinatz Aulestia 2 DF David de Coz 3 DF Juan Góngora 4 DF José Manuel Serrano 5 DF Pedro Baquero 7 MF Juanse 8 MF Héctor Yuste (on loan from Granada) 9 FW Kabiru Akinsola (on loan from Granada) 10 MF José Miguel Caballero 11 MF Pedro Barrancos (on loan from Granada) 12 FW Ikechi Anya (on loan from Granada) 14 DF Alex Goikoetxea (on loan from Granada)

No. Position Player 15 FW Juanjo (on loan from Granada) 16 DF Samuel Camille 17 MF David Ferreiro (on loan from Granada) 18 MF Óscar Pérez (on loan from Granada) 19 MF Dieguito 20 FW Dioni 21 MF Wilfried Moke 22 MF Toti (on loan from Granada) 23 GK Gonzalo Gutiérrez 24 DF Jeison Murillo (on loan from Granada) - MF Lolo Armario - MF Enrique

Promotions and relegations

• Promoted to Segunda División: 1935–36, 1954–55, 2002–03, 2008–09
• Relegated to Tercera División: 1942–43
• Promoted to La Liga: 1976–77, 1980–81, 2004–05
• Relegated to Segunda División: 1977–78, 1992–93, 2005–06
• Relegated to Segunda División B: 1993–94, 2007–08, 2009–10

Stadium information

• Name: Estadio Ramón de Carranza
• City: Cádiz
• Capacity: 22,000
• Inauguration: 1955
• Pitch size: 106 x 68 m

Famous players

Luis Cabrera Armando Husillos Alejandro Limia Lucas Lobos Matías Pavoni Luciano Vella Ariel Zárate Pintinho Darko Ljubojević Fernando Carvallo Osvaldo Hurtado José de la Cuesta Goran Milanko Igor Štimac Zoran Varvodić Zdeněk Zlámal Mágico González Yago

Benjamín Zarandona Cherno Samba Sambegou Bangoura József Szendrei Haruna Babangida James Obiorah Carlos Acuña Julio César Jorge dos Santos Kamil Kosowski Duda Mário Silva Laurenţiu Roşu Aleksandar Ilić Nenad Mirosavljević Dušan Galis Ján Pivarník Antonio Amarillo

Armando Carmelo Pedro Contreras Alfonso Cortijo Juan José Kiko Pepe Mejías Migueli Oli Pablo Hernández José María Quevedo Jonathan Sesma Diego Tristán Juan Ramón Carrasco Fabián Estoyanoff Andrés Fleurquin Alexander Medina José Zalazar

see also Category:Cádiz CF footballers

Famous coaches

• Roque Olsen
• Colin Addison
• Domènec Balmanya
• José González
• Enrique Mateos
• David Vidal
• Víctor Espárrago
• Dragoslav Milosevic

see also Category:Cádiz CF managers

Supporters

Cádiz fans are called "cadistas". They are quite famous among the country for being among the friendliest and most jovial, being voted Spain's best fans in a recent survey. At the end of 2006 Real Madrid, awarded the club the title of the best fans to visit the Santiago Bernabéu - after the large numbers which travelled to support their team earlier in the year.

Despite the population of the city of Cádiz being only 120,000, the stadium sold out every match for four consecutive years. Due to work on the stadium, the Carranza has been limited to a capacity of around 20,000. Cádiz maintained an average attendance of around 17,000 in the 2006–07 season - spectacular when compared with the more modest league average of around 7,000 in the second division.

Unlike other stadiums, supporters cheer opposition teams and players and sing songs such as, "Alcohol alcohol alcohol, hemos venido a emborracharnos el resultado nos da igual!" translating - "Alcohol alcohol alcohol, we came here to get drunk and the result doesn't matter!"; the tune was started somewhere during 2001–02, with the club in the third division, subsequently expanding all over Europe.^[1]

References

1. ^ Lowe, Sid (27 March 2006). "Adiós, Cádiz". The Guardian. http://football.guardian.co.uk/continentalfootball/story/0,,1740769,00.html. Retrieved 29 March 2006. 

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• Futbolme team profile (Spanish)
• Unofficial website (English)
• PortalCadista: News, downloads, forums, chats (Spanish)
• Club history (Spanish)
• Foro Cadista, fansite forum (Spanish)