CD Atlético Baleares

Atlético Baleares

Full name	Club Deportivo Atlético Baleares
Nickname(s)	Balearicos
Founded	1942
Ground	Estadi Balear, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain (Capacity: 18,000)
Chairman	Fernando Crespí
Manager	Gustavo Siviero
League	Segunda División B
2010–11	Segunda División B - Group 3, 13th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Club Deportivo Atlético Baleares is a Spanish football team based in Palma, Majorca, in the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. Founded on 27 May 1942, it currently plays in Segunda División B - Group 3.

History

Founded in 1942, Atlético Baleares reached Tercera División - the lowest rank in the national leagues - in the following year, going on to remain in that level for the better part of the following three decades. In the early years of the 50's and 60's, however, it did manage four appearances in the second division (1950–52, 1960–62), achieving two 10th-place finishes.

In 1977, Segunda División B was created as the new third division, and Atlético finished last in its first season in the category, subsequently playing mostly in the fourth level, but also being relegated to the regional leagues once.

In 2008, Atlético Baleares returned to the third division, being immediately relegated back. The club had three coaches during the ill-fated campaign, including Francisco López Alfaro (played nearly 600 official games for Sevilla FC and RCD Espanyol) and Paco Soler (appeared in almost 400 La Liga matches with Atlético's neighbours RCD Mallorca); it promoted again for the 2010–11 season, after finishing champions in its group, as in 2008.

Season to season

Seasons Division Place 1942/43 Regional 2nd 1943/44 3ª 8th 1944/45 3ª 7th 1945/46 3ª 3rd 1946/47 3ª 3rd 1947/48 3ª 8th 1948/49 3ª 9th 1949/50 3ª 7th 1950/51 3ª 1st 1951/52 2ª 10th 1952/53 2ª 14th 1953/54 3ª 7th

Seasons Division Place 1954/55 3ª 5th 1955/56 3ª 1st 1956/57 3ª 2nd 1957/58 3ª 2nd 1958/59 3ª 3rd 1959/60 3ª 2nd 1960/61 3ª 1st 1961/62 2ª 10th 1962/63 2ª 14th 1963/64 3ª 2nd 1964/65 3ª 1st 1965/66 3ª 2nd

Seasons Division Place 1966/67 3ª 3rd 1967/68 3ª 1st 1968/69 3ª 5th 1969/70 3ª 8th 1970/71 3ª 17th 1971/72 3ª 10th 1972/73 3ª 19th 1973/74 Regional 3rd 1974/75 Regional 1st 1975/76 3ª 15th 1976/77 3ª 6th 1977/78 2ªB 20th

Seasons Division Place 1978/79 3ª 17th 1979/80 3ª 13th 1980/81 3ª 19th 1981/82 Regional 3rd 1982/83 Regional 1st 1983/84 3ª 4th 1984/85 3ª 3rd 1985/86 3ª 2nd 1986/87 3ª 2nd 1987/88 2ªB 12th 1988/89 2ªB 6th 1989/90 2ªB 20th

Seasons Division Place 1990/91 3ª 3rd 1991/92 3ª 3rd 1992/93 3ª 8th 1993/94 3ª 2nd 1994/95 3ª 2nd 1995/96 3ª 3rd 1996/97 3ª 2nd 1997/98 3ª 1st 1998/99 3ª 4th 1999/00 3ª 1st 2000/01 3ª 1st 2001/02 3ª 1st

Seasons Division Place 2002/03 3ª 8th 2003/04 3ª 9th 2004/05 3ª 19th 2005/06 Regional 1st 2006/07 3ª 6th 2007/08 3ª 1st 2008/09 2ªB 20th 2009/10 3ª 1st 2010/11 2ªB 13th 2011/12 2ªB —

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• 4 seasons in Segunda División
• 7 seasons in Segunda División B
• 53 seasons in Tercera División
• 6 seasons in Regional Preferente

Current squad

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 Nico Bonis 2 DF Martín Mantovani 3 DF Marc Vales 4 MF David Sánchez 5 DF Carlos Quesada 6 DF Biobaku Taofeek 7 FW Dani 8 FW Antoñito 9 FW Peter Nworah 10 MF Thiago Benevides 12 MF Lawal Adewole

No. Position Player 14 MF Francesc Fullana 15 FW Jesús Perera 16 MF Abraham Noé 18 DF Javier Dorado 19 MF Mathias Coureur 20 DF Brayan Angulo 21 MF César Diop 22 GK Xavi Ginard 23 DF José Izquierdo 25 GK Biel Ribas

Technical staff

• Manager: Gustavo Siviero
• Assistant manager: Ángel Sánchez
• Fitness coach: Juan Manuel Alfano
• Goalkeeping coach: Plamen Nikolow
• Chief doctor: Joan Pericàs
• Physiotherapist: Eduard Nicuesa

Honours

• Tercera División: 1950–51, 1955–56, 1960–61, 1964–65, 1967–68, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2007–08, 2009–10
• Regional Preferente: 1974–75, 1982–83, 2005–06

Stadium

Atlético Baleares hold home games at Estadi Balear, with a 18,000-spectators capacity. It opened on 8 May 1960, with a 2–0 friendly win against Birmingham City.

3.000 seats are located on a covered tribune, and the pitch's dimensions are 102×67 metres.

Friendly tournament

Since 1966, Atlético Baleares hosts the Trofeo Nicolás Brondo, the oldest summer tournament in the region. The hosts have won the competition - which was not held in 1976, 1988, 1990 and 2006, and consisted mostly of a single match - on 19 occasions.

Sources

• AAVV: Gran Enciclopèdia de Mallorca. 19 Vol. Palma: Promomallorca edicions, 1988-91. ISBN 84-86617-02-2 (Catalan)
• Fábregas y Cuxart, Luis: Ca Nostra. 50 años de vida palmesana. Palma: Edicions Cort, 2007 (1965). ISBN 84-7535-595-5 (Spanish)
• Salas Fuster, Antoni: L'Atlètic Baleares. Una història de supervivència. Palma: Ingrama SA (impr.), 2009. ISBN 84-85932-78-1 (Catalan)

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• Futbolme team profile (Spanish)
• Unofficial forum (Spanish)