Deportivo Alavés

Deportivo Alavés
	Deportivo Alavés
Basic data
Surname	Club Deportivo Alavés
Seat	Vitoria-Gasteiz , Spain
founding	1921
president	Alfonso Fernández de Trocóniz
Website	deportivoalaves.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Pablo Machín
Venue	Estadio Mendizorrotza
Places	19,840
league	Primera División
2019/20	16th place

The Club Deportivo Alavés , or Deportivo Alavés for short , is a Spanish football club from Vitoria-Gasteiz , the capital of the Basque Country and the Basque province of Álava .

The club playing in the Primera División , the highest Spanish league, in the 2018/19 season plays its home games with blue and white striped jerseys and blue shorts at the Estadio Mendizorrotza ; it has a capacity of 19,840 viewers.

history

Deportivo La Coruña vs. Deportivo Alavés.

The association was founded in 1921. Initially called "Sport Friends", the name was changed to Club Deportivo Alavés on January 21, 1921.

Although Deportivo Alavés is the third largest club in the Basque Country behind Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad San Sebastián and was promoted to the top tier for the first time in 1930 , the club can hardly have any top division presence. In total, the club has spent fourteen seasons in the Primera División so far .

In the mid-1980s, the club was facing bankruptcy, which the team was able to avert with the help of Athletic Bilbao and the sale of the future national goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta .

The club's most successful period was from 1998 to 2003, when the club was top notch for five years in a row and in 2001 achieved the greatest success in the club's history when it made it to the UEFA Cup final . In this final in the Westfalenstadion, the team lost 4-5 after a golden goal against Liverpool .

El Glorioso ("the glorious") had to go into the second division after the 2002/03 season. For the 2005/06 season , the club was able to rise again to the Primera División, but finished 18th in the table at the end of the season and immediately rose again. In the following two years, the fall into the third class could initially be prevented. At the end of the 2008/09 season but the club had to transition into the Segunda División B compete. In the 2012/13 season, Alavés managed to return to the second division four years after relegation.

At the end of the 2015/16 season , he was promoted to the Primera División after ten years.

League affiliation

Primera División : 14 seasons
- 1930 / 31-1932 / 33; 1954 / 55-1955 / 56; 1998 / 99-2002 / 03; 2005/06; 2016 / 17–2018 / 19
Segunda División : 34 seasons
Segunda Division B : 12 seasons
Tercera: 22 seasons

Current squad 2018/19

As of February 1, 2019

No.	Nat.	Surname	birthday	in the team since	Contract until
goal
01	Spain	Fernando Pacheco	05/18/1992	2015	2023
13	Spain	Antonio Sivera	08/11/1996	2017	2021
Defense
02	Spain	Carlos Vigaray	09/07/1994	2016	2019
03	Spain	Ruben Duarte	October 18, 1995	2017	2020
04th	Spain	Rodrigo Ely	11/03/1993	2017	2021
05	Spain	Victor Laguardia	05/11/1989	2014	2022
06th	Chile	Guillermo Maripan	05/06/1994	2017	2021
15th	Spain	Ximo Navarro	01/23/1990	2018	2021
17th	Spain	Adrián Marín Gómez	01/09/1997	2018	2021
21st	Spain	Martín Aguirregabiria	05/10/1996	2017	2022
midfield
07th	Spain	Álex Blanco	December 16, 1998	2019	2019
08th	Spain	Tomás Pina	10/14/1987	2017	2021
11	Japan	Takashi Inui	06/02/1988	2019	2019
19th	Spain	Manu García (C)	04/26/1986	2012	2019
20th	Serbia	Darko Brašanac	02/12/1992	2018	2019
22nd	Ghana	Mubarak Wakaso	July 25, 1990	2017	2020
23	Spain	Jony Rodríguez	07/09/1991	2018	2019
24	Ghana	Patrick Twumasi	05/09/1994	2018	2022
Storm
9	Uruguay	Diego Rolán	March 24, 1993	2019	2019
10	Sweden	John Guidetti	04/15/1992	2018	2022
12	Argentina	Jonathan Calleri	09/23/1993	2018	2019
14th	Spain	Burgui	October 29, 1993	2017	2021
18th	Spain	Borja Bastón	08/25/1992	2018	2019