Espanyol Barcelona
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Surname | Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona | |||
| Seat | Barcelona , Spain | |||
| founding | October 28, 1900 (as Sociedad Española de Football) |
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| Colours | blue White | |||
| president | Chen Yansheng | |||
| Website | rcdespanyol.com | |||
| First soccer team | ||||
| Head coach | Abelardo Fernández Artuña | |||
| Venue | RCDE Stadium | |||
| Places | 40,500 | |||
| league | Primera División | |||
| 2018/19 | 7th place | |||
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The Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona , known in German-speaking countries as Espanyol Barcelona , is a football club from Barcelona .
history
The club was founded on October 28, 1900 under President Ángel Rodríguez Ruiz by students from the University of Barcelona in their auditorium. The club is thus one of the oldest football clubs in all of Spain. The name "Espanyol" (cat .: "Spanish") should show that the club is of Spanish origin.
At the time it was founded, it was still operating under the official name of Sociedad Española de Fútbol . The name “Spanish Football Community” was chosen due to the fact that all of the founding members were from Catalonia and Spain. In the course of the next few years, however, the club was increasingly structured by foreigners, especially the British.
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Espanyol, a founding member of the Primera División in 1929, is one of the Spanish associations that have the Spanish king as their patron and the title Real ("royal") in their name and coat of arms. This privilege goes to the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. from Spain , who gave the club this honor in 1912.
The RCD Espanyol achieved its first major success on February 3, 1929, when the team managed to win the Copa del Rey , the Spanish King's Cup, in the final against Real Madrid . 1933 turned into one of the club's most successful years. That year he managed to finish third in the Spanish league. The club's best result to date. Seven years later, in 1940, Espanyol triumphed 3-2 again over Real Madrid in the final of the King's Cup. After years in the middle of the table, the first major setback followed in the 1962/63 season. The team was relegated for the first time in their club's history. Nevertheless, the renewed promotion to the Primera División , the highest division in Spain, soon followed .
Internationally, the club caused an uproar for the first time in 1988, when the team led by then successful coach Javier Clemente surprisingly reached the final of the UEFA Cup . The final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen , which was played in two final games at the time, is still an important and sad aspect in the club's history to this day. After beating Leverkusen 3-0 at home, the team lost it Second leg in Leverkusen with 0: 3 and the subsequent penalty shootout with 2: 3. Many confidants around Espanyol still believe that the club has never been able to recover from this shock. In fact, their demands were no longer met in the next few years and the club got into a financial crisis in which, among other things, the stadium area had to be sold.
In 1995 the official club name was changed from Real Club Deportivo Español to Reial Club Sportiu Espanyol de Barcelona .
In the recent past the club has largely stabilized - both financially and athletically. He won the Copa del Rey two more times in 2000 and 2006 and reached another UEFA Cup final in May 2007, which was also lost on penalties against Sevilla FC .
After the 2019/2020 season, relegation to the second division had to be accepted.
Stadion
Espanyol plays its home games at the RCDE Stadium (previously: Estadi Cornellà-El Prat). As part of the economic stabilization of the club, the construction project for a new stadium in the suburb of Cornellà began in autumn 2004 . It was built according to the most modern standards of UEFA and after two expansion stages should meet the requirements of the association for a so-called “4-star stadium” - today all the places are covered. The Estadi Cornellà-El Prat was inaugurated at the beginning of the 2009/10 season. With the construction of its own stadium, the club wanted to make itself independent of the city of Barcelona, which owns the Olympic stadium and which it leased to Espanyol for the home games. It has direct access to the motorway and is geographically located in the triangle of the cities of Cornellà de Llobregat , L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Sant Boi de Llobregat . Traditionally, a large part of Espanyol's fan culture lives in these neighboring cities of Barcelona. The training ground is located exactly on the other side of the Barcelona metropolitan area, in San Adrián de Besos . Both here and in the neighboring Badalona and Santa Coloma de Gramanet you will also find a high fan potential.
Initially, Espanyol Barcelona played its games on a wide promenade near the Sagrada Família . In 1923 the association then moved to the newly opened Estadi Sarrià in the elegant Sarrià district . This was a venue for the 1982 World Cup . The club remained loyal to this venue until the 1996/97 season, when it had to sell the site for financial reasons. This was followed by a move to Montjuïc , to the 1992 Olympic Stadium, the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys (55,000 seats).
shirt
Nowadays, Espanyol's official colors are blue and white, but when it was founded, players wore yellow jerseys for the simple reason that one of the team's first sponsors made them available. It was only in the next few years that the current colors of the club developed.
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Fans
In contrast to the Catalan FC Barcelona, Espanyol is still seen by many Catalans as a symbol of the Spanish central state. Nevertheless, the club has changed in recent years and now Espanyol is also a Catalan club. The fan groups still partly differ in Spanish and Catalan.
The club's mascot is a budgie, the "Perico" or "Periquito", in the club's colors blue and white. This also gives the club's supporters their name.
rivalry
Due to the location, there is a sporting rivalry between Espanyol and FC Barcelona, the so-called derbi barceloni. With the significantly higher number of titles and victories won in direct duels, FC Barcelona is clearly the more dominant club. In only four seasons Espanyol managed to place themselves in the table before FC Barcelona, the last time in 1941-42, but Espanyol can still record the highest victory between the two teams, a 6-0 in 1951. At the end of the 2006 season –07 FC Barcelona lost the championship in the long-distance duel with Real Madrid with a 2-2 at Espanyol on the penultimate matchday.
Squad of the 2018/19 season
As of February 1, 2019
| No. | Nat. | Surname | birthday | in the team since | Contract until | |
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Roberto | 02/10/1986 | 2016 | 2019 | |
| 13 |
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Diego Lopez | 11/03/1981 | 2017 | 2020 | |
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| 5 |
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Naldo | 08/25/1988 | 2017 | 2020 | |
| 6th |
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Óscar Duarte | 06/03/1989 | 2016 | 2019 | |
| 8th |
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Roberto Rosales | 11/20/1988 | 2018 | 2019 | |
| 12 |
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Dídac Vilà | 06/09/1989 | 2017 | 2020 | |
| 15th |
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David López | 09.10.1989 | 2016 | 2023 | |
| 16 |
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Javi Lopez 
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01/21/1986 | 2009 | 2019 | |
| 22nd |
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Mario Hermoso | 06/18/1995 | 2017 | 2020 | |
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| 2 |
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Alfa Semedo | 08/30/1997 | 2019 | 2019 | |
| 4th |
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Víctor Sánchez | 09/08/1987 | 2012 | 2021 | |
| 10 |
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Sergi Darder | 12/22/1993 | 2018 | 2023 | |
| 14th |
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Óscar Melendo | 08/23/1997 | 2017 | 2022 | |
| 18th |
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Álex López | 06/02/1997 | 2018 | 2022 | |
| 21st |
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Marc Roca | 11/26/1996 | 2016 | 2022 | |
| 23 |
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Esteban Granero | 07/02/1987 | 2017 | 2020 | |
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| 7th |
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Borja Iglesias | 01/17/1993 | 2018 | 2022 | |
| 9 |
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Sergio Garcia | 06/09/1983 | 2017 | 2019 | |
| 11 |
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Facundo Ferreyra | 03/14/1991 | 2019 | 2020 | |
| 17th |
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Hernán Pérez | 02/25/1989 | 2015 | 2020 | |
| 19th |
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Pablo Piatti | March 31, 1989 | 2017 | 2020 | |
| 20th |
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Javi Puado | 05/25/1998 | 2018 | 2022 | |
| 24 |
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Wu Lei | 11/19/1991 | 2019 | 2020 | |
- Trainer: David Gallego (since June 6, 2019)
Trainer
After Rubi moved to Betis Sevilla for the 2019/20 season, David Gallego , the club's B-team coach , took over the post in June 2019 and received a two-year contract until 2021.
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player
Over the years Espanyol has had a number of well-known players in its ranks. For example, goalkeeping legend Ricardo Zamora , Alfredo Di Stéfano and club record goal scorer Raúl Tamudo .
- Ricardo Zamora (1916-1919)
- Marcel Domingo (1948/49 and 1952–1956)
- Zoltán Czibor (1963-1965)
- Alfredo Di Stéfano (1964–1966)
- Daniel Solsona (1970–1978)
- Thomas N'Kono (1982-1991)
- Wolfram Wuttke (1990–1992)
- Dmitri Kuznetsov (1991–1994)
- Florin Răducioiu (1994–1997)
- Constantin Gâlcă (1997-2001)
- Juan Esnáider (1997–1999)
- Antonio Pacheco (2002-2002)
- Moreno Torricelli (2002-2004)
- Jordi Cruyff (2003-2004)
- Pierre Nlend Womé (2003-2004)
- Tayfun Korkut (2003-2004)
- Walter Pandiani (2006-2007)
- Sergio
- Daniel Jarque (2002-2009)
- Iván de la Peña (2002-2011)
- Simão (2012-2014)
successes
- UEFA Cup finalist (2): 1988 , 2007
- Intertoto Cup (1): 1968
- Copa del Rey (4): 1929 , 1940 , 2000 , 2006
- Copa Macaya / Campeonato de Catalunya : 1903, 1904, 1912, 1915, 1918, 1929, 1933, 1937, 1940
- Copa Catalunya (7): 1995, 1996, 1999, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2016
Espanyol Barcelona women
Web links
- rcdespanyol.com: Official website
- lafutbolteca.es: Real Club Deportivo Espanyol de Barcelona, SAD
Individual evidence
- ^ Por qué el Espanyol se llamó Español. El País , February 5, 2018, accessed April 22, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.rcdespanyol.com/ca/equips/
- ↑ Rubi from Espanyol to Betis, Gallego new coach in Barcelona. In: welt.de . SID , June 6, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019 .
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Deportivo Alavés | Espanyol Barcelona | FC Barcelona | Athletic Bilbao | SD Eibar | Getafe CF | Granada CF | CD Leganés | Levante UD | Atlético Madrid | Real Madrid | RCD Mallorca | CA Osasuna | Real Sociedad | Betis Seville | Sevilla FC | Valencia CF | Real Valladolid | Celta Vigo | Villarreal CF
Sergi Darder | Óscar Duarte | Facundo Ferreyra | Sergio Garcia | Víctor Gómez | Esteban Granero | Mario Hermoso | Borja Iglesias | Álex López | David López | Diego López | Javi López | Óscar Melendo | Naldo | Oier Olazábal | Hernán Pérez | Pablo Piatti | Javi Puado | Roberto | Marc Roca | Roberto Rosales | Víctor Sánchez | Alfa Semedo | Dídac Vilà | Lei Wu
Head coach: Abelardo Fernández Artuña