CD Logroñés

Logroñés

Full name	Club Deportivo Logroñés, S.A.D.
Founded	1940
Ground	Las Gaunas, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain (Capacity: 16,000)
Chairman	Juan Hortelano
League	None
2008–09	3ª - Group 16, (R)
Home colours Away colours

Club Deportivo Logroñés, S.A.D. was a Spanish football team based in Logroño, in the autonomous community of La Rioja. Founded in 1940, it last played in Regional Preferente de La Rioja.

Due to financial problems, the club who appeared in nine La Liga seasons was replaced by UD Logroñés and SD Logroñés.

History

After Club Deportivo Logroño, the new Club Deportivo Logroñés saw the light of day after the Civil War, on May 30, 1940. Until 1950, it played in Tercera División, after which it achieved a second level promotion.

After falling short of reaching the top flight in 1952, Logroñés fluctuated between various levels of Spanish football. On June 14, 1987, already promoted Valencia CF visited Estadio Las Gaunas, and were defeated 1–0, as the Riojans gained first division rights for the first time ever.

In 1989–90, the team finished an all-time best seventh, just two points short of a UEFA Cup qualification, and would remain in the top level until 1997, save for a short return to level two in 1995–96, after it finished last the previous season with just 13 points.

After a double relegation in 1999–2000 (on the pitch and off it^[1]), it quickly returned to the third level, but new and worse economic problems arose, and the club was again relegated to Tercera in July 2004.^[2]

At the end of 2007–08, Logroñés returned once more to the fourth division due to its substantial salary commitments, in spite of the club's 13th place finish in the season. Financial troubles continued into the first weeks of 2009, as only nine players took the field for its 4 January 2009 match against CD Arnedo, in protest against still overdue payments.

This was Logroñés' last match in the competition, as the side did not present itself at all for the next match, against CD Tedeón,^[3] and were therefore retired from the competition, being consequently relegated to Regional Preferente de La Rioja by the Royal Spanish Football Federation.

Season to season

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1940/41 3ª 4th 1943/44 3ª 1st 1944/45 3ª 4th 1945/46 3ª 2nd 1946/47 3ª 3rd 1947/48 3ª 4th 1948/49 3ª 4th 1949/50 3ª 2nd 1950/51 2ª 10th 1951/52 2ª 2nd 1952/53 2ª 5th 1953/54 2ª 10th 1954/55 2ª 5th 1955/56 2ª 16th 1956/57 2ª 17th 1957/58 3ª 3rd

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1958/59 3ª 1st 1959/60 3ª 4th 1960/61 3ª 6th 1961/62 3ª 2nd 1962/63 3ª 3rd 1963/64 3ª 3rd 1964/65 3ª 4th 1965/66 3ª 1st 1966/67 2ª 15th 1967/68 3ª 8th 1968/69 3ª 3rd 1969/70 3ª 1st 1970/71 2ª 15th 1971/72 2ª 6th 1972/73 2ª 17th 1973/74 3ª 3rd

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1974/75 3ª 3rd 1975/76 3ª 2nd 1976/77 3ª 13th 1977/78 3ª 1st 1978/79 2ªB 11th 1979/80 2ªB 10th 1980/81 2ªB 6th 1981/82 2ªB 5th 1982/83 2ªB 7th 1983/84 2ªB 2nd 1984/85 2ª 6th 1985/86 2ª 16th 1986/87 2ª 2nd 1987/88 1ª 13th 1988/89 1ª 14th 1989/90 1ª 7th 1990/91 1ª 10th 1991/92 1ª 10th

Season Division Place Copa del Rey 1992/93 1ª 15th 1993/94 1ª 16th 1994/95 1ª 20th 1995/96 2ª 2nd 1996/97 1ª 22nd 1997/98 2ª 18th 1998/99 2ª 16th 1999/00 2ª 20th[4] 2000/01 3ª 1st 2001/02 2ªB 10th 2002/03 2ªB 3rd 2003/04 2ªB 15th[4] 2004/05 3ª 3rd 2005/06 3ª 2nd 2006/07 2ªB 14th 2007/08 2ªB 13th[4] 2008/09 3ª (R)

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• 9 seasons in La Liga
• 18 seasons in Segunda División
• 11 seasons in Segunda División B
• 29 seasons in Tercera División

Selected former players

Toni Polster Oscar Ruggeri Gustavo Falaschi Leonardo Iglesias Ricardo Albis Luis Islas Nebojsa Gudelj Gilson Cléber Amarildo Souza Iván Rocha Kelly Silvio Maurílio Cassiano Viktorio Pavlov Nicolas Noudjeu Marcelo Vega Danko Matrljan Ruslan Ela Rubén Epitié Vincent Petit

Jochen Kientz Alan Campbell Boban Babunski Francisco Cruz Júlio Pinheiro Grzegorz Lewandowski Ramón Pereira Silviu Lung Marin Duna Oleg Salenko Željko Kalajdžić Dejan Marković Ivan Adžić Atila Kasaš Tibor Mičinec Enrique Romero Guillermo Gorostiza Salvador García Julen Lopetegui Miguel Muñoz Omar García Nayim

José Manuel Ochotorena Carlos Pita Zigor Aranalde José López Perez Miguel Ángel Lotina Cristóbal Parralo Quique Setién Manuel Sarabia Agustín Abadía José Luis Mendilibar Marcelo Tejera Fernando Carreño Hugo de León Amado Nadal Antonio Alzamendi Nelson Gutiérrez Rubén da Silva Danilo Baltierra Rubén Sosa

see also Category:CD Logroñés footballers

Famous coaches

Main article: List of CD Logroñés managers

• Javier Irureta
• Miguel Ángel Lotina
• Víctor Muñoz
• Juande Ramos
• Quique Setién

see also Category:CD Logroñés managers

References

1. ^ Mérida y Logroñés descienden por deudas con sus jugadores (Mérida and Logroñés relegated for debts to players) (Spanish)
2. ^ El Logroñés, en la calle (Logroñés, in the streets) (Spanish)
3. ^ Un gran VACÍO en la historia del Logroñés (A great VOID in Logroñés' history) (Spanish)
4. ^ ^{a b c} Relegated due to financial difficulties

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• Unofficial fansite (Spanish)