Celta Vigo

Celta Vigo
Basic data
Surname	Real Club Celta de Vigo
Seat	Vigo , Spain
founding	March 28, 1923
Colours	light blue-white
president	Carlos Mouriño
Website	rccelta.es
First soccer team
Head coach	Fran Escribá
Venue	Abanca Balaídos
Places	29,000
league	Primera División
2018/19	17th place
home Away

Athletic Bilbao (red-white-black) versus Celta Vigo (light blue-white) , on October 29, 2005, San Mamés , Bilbao .

The Real Club Celta de Vigo , known in German-speaking countries as Celta Vigo , is a Spanish football club based in the city of Vigo in Galicia .

The Celtiñas (little Celts ) play with light blue jerseys and white pants at home. Their home venue is the Abanca Balaídos with a capacity of 29,000 spectators.

history

The club was founded on August 28, 1923 through the merger of Real Vigo Sporting Club (also called Vigo FC ) and Real Fortuna Vigo . Vigo Sporting had made it to the Copa del Rey final in 1908 . Celta played in the Primera División for many years but has not yet won a championship or cup title.

In the 1970/71 season Celta Vigo remained undefeated in their own stadium and became known as the "giant slayers". Celta finished the season in sixth place in the table and was thus qualified for the UEFA Cup . However, they were eliminated from the competition in the first round against FC Aberdeen .

From 1997 to 2003 Celta was able to play regularly in the top of the Primera División . 2000/01 they stayed in the top six clubs in the league all season and never fell back to a lower place in the table. During these times the team was called "Eurocelta" because Celta Vigo took part in European competitions during this period.

In 2002/03 , fourth place was achieved, and thus entry into the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League . The team qualified for the group stage and were able to advance to the round of 16 of the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League before they were beaten by Arsenal . In the Spanish championship, however, the form of the club was disastrous in 2003/04 , and the season ended in penultimate place in the table. It was followed by relegation to the Segunda División .

With the second place in the Segunda 2004/05 , Celta managed to climb back to the top division. In the following season, the club qualified again for the UEFA Cup by reaching sixth place in the table, in which they played against Eintracht Frankfurt and failed in the round of 16 against Werder Bremen .

At the end of the 2006/07 season Celta Vigo was in 18th place and had to relegate again to the Segunda División. Here, in the 2007/08 season, further relegation could be avoided through sport; the forced relegation for economic reasons could only be averted by recourse to the Spanish bankruptcy law.

In the 2011/12 season , Vigo returned to the Primera División under coach Paco Herrera as runner-up in the table and was just able to prevent direct relegation in the 2012/13 season to 17th place in the table. Nevertheless, the club separated from head coach Abel Resino , who was replaced by Luis Enrique . The team finished the following season 2013/14 in ninth place, season 2014/15 under coach Eduardo Berizzo , who had already played as a defender at the Eurocelta, in eighth place, 2015/16 in sixth place, which means participation in the Europa League meant. In the Copa del Rey of the same year , Celta Vigo reached the semi-finals again after 15 years, in which they failed at Sevilla FC .

In the 2016/17 season, Celta Vigo took part in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League in a group with Ajax Amsterdam , Standard Liège and Panathinaikos Athens . Celta Vigo reached in the national season again the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey and the semi-finals of the UEFA Europa League, in which they failed to Manchester United .

Celta Vigo ended the 2017/18 season with coach Juan Carlos Unzué in 13th place. The 2018/19 season started with coach Antonio Mohamed , who was replaced by Miguel Cardoso on matchday 13 .

Current squad (2019/20 season)

Status: May 22, 2020

No.	Nat.	Surname	birthday	in the team since	Contract until
goal
01		Sergio Álvarez	08/03/1986	2011	2020
13		Rubén Blanco	07/25/1995	2014	2023
25th		Iván Villar	07/09/1997	2019	2023
Defense
02		Hugo Mallo	06/22/1991	2009	2023
04th		Néstor Araujo	08/29/1991	2018	2023
12		Wesley Hoedt	03/06/1994	2019	2019
15th		Lucas Olaza	07/21/1994	2019	2020
16		Jorge Sáenz	11/17/1996	2019	2021
17th		David Juncà	11/16/1993	2018	2023
18th		Joseph Aidoo	09/29/1995	2019	2024
20th		Kevin Vázquez	03/23/1993	2018	2023
21st		Jeison Murillo	05/27/1992	2020	2020
midfield
05		Okay Yokuşlu	03/09/1994	2018	2023
08th		Fran Beltran	02/03/1999	2018	2023
12		Rafinha	02/12/1993	2019	2020
14th		Filip Bradarić	01/11/1992	2020	2020
24		Pape Cheikh	08/08/1997	2019	2020
Storm
06th		Denis Suarez	01/06/1994	2019	2023
07th		Juan Hernández	December 6, 1994	2018	2020
09		Fedor Smolov	02/09/1990	2020	2020
10		Iago Aspas	08/01/1987	2015	2022
11		Pione Sisto	02/04/1995	2016	2021
19th		Gabriel Fernández	05/13/1994	2019	2023
22nd		Santi Mina	07/12/1995	2019	2024
23		Brais Mendez	07/01/1997	2018	2021

• Coach: Óscar García (since November 4, 2019)

successes

National

• Copa del Rey : 4 finals
  • 1908 against Real Madrid (1: 2)
  • 1948 against FC Sevilla (1: 4)
  • 1994 against Real Saragossa (4: 5 ae )
  • 2001 against Real Saragossa (1: 3)

European Cup balance sheet

• UEFA Champions League : 1 participation (2003/04), round of 16
• UEFA Europa League (formerly UEFA Cup ): 8 appearances, 1 semi-final
• UEFA Intertoto Cup : 1 participation (2000), final victory

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1971/72	Uefa cup	1 round	Aberdeen FC	0: 3	0: 2 (H)	0: 1 (A)
1998/99	Uefa cup	1 round	FC Argeş Piteşti	8-0	1: 0 (A)	7: 0 (H)
		2nd round	Aston Villa	3: 2	0: 1 (H)	3: 1 (A)
		3rd round	Liverpool FC	4: 1	3: 1 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		Quarter finals	Olympique Marseille	1: 2	1: 2 (A)	0: 0 (H)
1999/2000	Uefa cup	1 round	Lausanne Sports	6: 3	2: 3 (A)	4: 0 (H)
		2nd round	Aris Thessaloniki	4: 2	2: 2 (A)	2: 0 (H)
		3rd round	Benfica Lisbon	8: 1	7: 0 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		Round of 16	Juventus Turin	4: 1	0: 1 (A)	4: 0 (H)
		Quarter finals	RC Lens	1: 2	0: 0 (H)	1: 2 (A)
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3rd round	FK Pelister Bitola	5: 1	3: 0 (H)	2: 1 (A)
		Semifinals	Aston Villa	3: 1	1: 0 (H)	2: 1 (A)
		final	Zenit Saint Petersburg	4: 3	2: 1 (H)	2: 2 (A)
2000/01	Uefa cup	1 round	HNK Rijeka	1-0	0: 0 (H)	1: 0 a.d. (A)
		2nd round	FK Red Star Belgrade	3: 1	0: 1 (A)	03: 0 (H) 1
		3rd round	Shakhtar Donetsk	1-0	0: 0 (H)	1: 0 a.d. (A)
		Round of 16	VfB Stuttgart	2: 1	0: 0 (A)	2: 1 (H)
		Quarter finals	FC Barcelona	4: 4	1: 2 (A)	3: 2 (H)
2001/02	Uefa cup	1 round	SK Sigma Olomouc	7: 4	4: 0 (H)	3: 4 (A)
		2nd round	Slovan Liberec	3: 4	3: 1 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2002/03	Uefa cup	1 round	Odense BK	2: 1	2: 0 (H)	0: 1 (A)
		2nd round	Viking Stavanger	4: 1	3: 0 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		3rd round	Celtic Glasgow	(a)2: 2 ( a )	0: 1 (A)	2: 1 (H)
2003/04	UEFA Champions League	1 round	Slavia Prague	3: 2	3: 0 (H)	0: 2 (A)
		Group stage	Club Bruges	2: 2	1: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
			AC Milan	2: 1	0: 0 (H)	2: 1 (A)
			Ajax Amsterdam	3: 3	0: 1 (A)	3: 2 (H)
		Round of 16	Arsenal FC	2: 5	2: 3 (H)	0: 2 (A)
2006/07	Uefa cup	1 round	Standard Liege	4-0	1: 0 (A)	3: 0 (H)
		Group stage	Eintracht Frankfurt	1: 1	1: 1 (H)
			Newcastle United	1: 2	1: 2 (A)
			Fenerbahçe Istanbul	1-0	1: 0 (H)
			US Palermo	1: 1	1: 1 (A)
		Round of 16	Spartak Moscow	3: 2	1: 1 (A)	2: 1 (H)
		Round of 16	Werder Bremen	0: 3	0: 1 (H)	0: 2 (A)
2016/17	UEFA Europa League	Group stage	Standard Liege	2: 2	1: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
			Ajax Amsterdam	3: 4	1: 1 (H)	2: 3 (A)
			Panathinaikos Athens	4-0	2: 0 (H)	2: 0 (A)
		Round of 16	Shakhtar Donetsk	2: 1	0: 1 (H)	2: 0 a.d. (A)
		Round of 16	FK Krasnodar	4: 1	2: 1 (H)	2: 0 (A)
		Quarter finals	KRC Genk	4: 3	3: 2 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		Semifinals	Manchester United	1: 2	0: 1 (H)	1: 1 (A)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record: 75 games, 36 wins, 18 draws, 21 defeats, 117: 69 goals (goal difference +48)

¹ The second leg ended 3: 5 for Celta Vigo, but was rated 0: 3 for Celta Vigo, as Red Star Belgrade used two suspended players.

Club data

• Seasons 1ª: 51
• Seasons 2ª: 32
• Seasons 2ªB: 1
• Seasons 3ª: 1
• Best placement 1ª: 4th (47/48) / (02/03)
• Schl. Placement 1ª: 19. (89/90) / (03/04)
• First goal Primera: Nolete (Zaragoza-Celta 3: 2 71st min. December 3, 1939)
• Segunda first goal: Ramiro (Celta-Iberia 1: 2 February 1929)
• Most hits Primera: 69 (98/99)
• Most points Primera: 64 (98/99)
• Most wins of the season: 20 (2005/06)

Former players

Fernando Baiano Zvonimir Boban Fernando Cáceres Santiago Cañizares Pablo Contreras Diego Costa Jordi Cruyff Sergio Fernández Roger Guerreiro Ahmed Hossam, "Mido" Juanfran

Valery Karpin Gustavo López Peter Luccin Claude Makélélé Benni McCarthy Savo Milošević Alexander Mostovoi Miguel Muñoz Nolito Pahiño Diego Placente

Luboslav Penev Mazinho Eusebio Sacristan Florian Maurice Haim Revivo Míchel Salgado Gabriel Tamaş Carlos Vela Zisis Vryzas Maximiliano Gomez

Trainer

• Ferenc Plattkó (1938)
• Ricardo Zamora (1946–1948, 1954–1955, 1957–1960)
• Luis Casas Pasarín (1948–1951, 1957–1959)
• Víctor Fernández (1998-2002)
• Miguel Ángel Lotina (2002-2004)
• Radomir Antić (2004)
• Christo Stoitschkow (2007)
• Juan Ramón López Caro (2007-2008)
• Eusebio Sacristán (2009-2010)

Web links

Commons : Celta Vigo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celta Vigo. In: Soccerbase . Retrieved November 24, 2018 .