Betis Seville

Betis Seville
Basic data
Surname	Real Betis Balompié
Seat	Seville , Spain
founding	September 12, 1907
Colours	Green white
president	Ángel Haro
Website	realbetisbalompie.es
First soccer team
Head coach	Manuel Pellegrini
Venue	Estadio Benito Villamarín
Places	60,720
league	Primera División
2019/20	15th place
home Away Alternatively

Real Betis Balompié , Real Betis for short or just Betis and generally known in German-speaking countries as Betis Sevilla , is a football club from the southern Spanish city ​​of Seville , whose first team plays in the Primera División . The club colors are green and white.

The green and white club colors of Real Betis Balompié are based on the provincial colors of the Andalusia region . Betis fans and players are called “béticos”. The Estadio Benito Villamarín (60,720 seats, belongs to Betis and is located in the Heliópolis district ) can be found in the southern part of the city. In the Betis club crest there are two large “B” letters - these stand for Betis Balompié. The term balompié is equivalent to fútbol , i.e. football, in Spanish. A crown in the emblem sits enthroned above the two "B", which explains the last addition in the club name ( Real = royal). The city rivals Sevilla FC are considered to be the arch rivals of Real Betis and their direct encounter is known as Derbi sevillano .

history

History until 2009

The association was founded in 1907 by students of the technical school as Sevilla Balompié. In 1914, this club merged with Real Betis FC, which had emerged as a spin-off from Sevilla FC. The name Betis (Latin: Baetis ) is a holdover from Roman times. The Guadalquivir River that flows through the city of Seville was formerly called "Betis". In addition to the Real Betis Balompié football club, this old name is also honored by a street, Calle Betis , in Seville. The Calle Betis is located directly on the Guadalquivir and is one of the liveliest entertainment streets of the 720,000-inhabitant city in Andalusia, especially in the evening.

After Betis was stuck in the relegation battle until the penultimate match day in the 2005/06 season and the president Manuel Ruiz de Lopera was constantly faced with hostility from his own fans, he announced his resignation on June 30, 2006. "Don Manuel" was not accepted by the fans, even though it saved the club from ruin in 1992. The fans accused him of a number of criticisms. They disliked his "sole rule" and his despotic manner. Above all, the fact that he dismissed coach Llorenç Serra Ferrer , popular with the fans, after the bad 2005/06 season , angered the fans against Ruiz de Lopera. Serra Ferrer was the most successful Betis coach in history. In addition, despite injuries to numerous important players, they had played in the Champions League (third in the preliminary round) and in the UEFA Cup (failed in the second round). Another problem was that the president, who at the time bought Denílson for around 31.5 million euros, had been betting on cheap transfers over the last few seasons that did not meet Betis' requirements. From this point on, a clear turnaround in club policy can be seen, although a debt of around 55 million euros has not yet been paid off. In 2011, Betis Sevilla was behind with paying 22 million euros in gaming wages. The association filed for bankruptcy a year earlier and has been in bankruptcy proceedings ever since. According to newspaper reports, Betis had additional tax debts of 34 million euros in 2012.

Real Betis (since 2009)

Deportivo La Coruña versus Betis

After the 1-1 draw in the home game of the last match day of the 2008/09 season against Real Valladolid on May 31, 2009, the team had to start the road to the second division for the eleventh time after eight years of uninterrupted membership in the Primera División. As a result, there were a number of demonstrations against club and football association officials, including in connection with allegations of manipulation against Hércules Alicante .

At the end of the 2010/11 season, after reorganization in the club, first place and thus the return to the Primera División could be celebrated. After staying in the secured midfield there in the 2011/12 season, they achieved a very good result one season later when Betis qualified seventh for the UEFA Europa League . In the 2013/14 season Betis made it to the round of 16, in which they were unlucky enough to be eliminated from rivals Sevilla FC on penalties. In the domestic Primera División Betis rose as bottom of the table. After a season in the Segunda División , Betis rose directly back to the Primera División as first in the table .

For the first time in five years Betis Sevilla was able to qualify for the UEFA Europa League . This was preceded by 6th place in the 2017/18 season in the Primera Division .

Squad for the 2019/20 season

Status: October 22, 2019

No.	Nat.	Surname	birthday	in the team since	Contract until
goal
01		Joel Robles	06/17/1990	2018	2022
13		Dani Martín	07/08/1998	2019	2024
Defense
02		Francis Guerrero	03/11/1996	2017	2022
04th		Zouhair Feddal	December 23, 1989	2017	2021
05		Marc Bartra	01/15/1991	2018	2023
06th		Alfonso Pedraza	04/09/1996	2019	2020
12		Sidnei	08/23/1989	2018	2022
15th		Álex Moreno	06/08/1993	2019	2024
19th		Antonio Barragan	06/12/1987	2017	2020
22nd		Emerson	01/14/1999	2019	2021
23		Aïssa Mandi	10/22/1991	2016	2021
midfield
03		Javi García	02/08/1987	2017	2020
08th		Nabil Fekir	07/18/1993	2019	2023
10		Sergio Canales	02/16/1991	2018	2022
11		Cristian Tello	08/11/1991	2017	2022
14th		William Carvalho	04/07/1992	2018	2023
17th		Joaquín	07/21/1981	2015	2020
18th		Andrés Guardado	09/28/1986	2017	2020
20th		Diego Lainez	06/09/2000	2019	2024
21st		Wilfrid Kaptoum	07/07/1996	2019	2020
Storm
07th		Juanmi	05/20/1993	2019	2024
09		Borja Iglesias	01/17/1993	2019	2024
16		Loren Morón	12/30/1993	2018	2022

• Trainer: Rubi (since June 6, 2019)

successes

• Spanish champion : 1935
• Spanish Cup Winner : 1977 , 2005
• Spanish cup finalist: 1931,1997
• Spanish league cup finalist: 1986
• Spanish Super Cup finalist: 2005
• 2005/06: First participation in the UEFA Champions League

Trainer

• Domènec Balmanya (1963–1964)
• Ferenc Szusza (1971–1976)
• Rafael Iriondo (1976–1978, 1981–1982)
• Luis Aragonés (1981–1982, 1997–1998)
• Jozef Jarabinský (1991–1992)
• Luis Fernández (2006-2007)
• Gabriel Calderón (2014)
• Gustavo Poyet (2016)

Known players

• Rafael Gordillo (1977–1985, 1992–1995)
• Robert Jarni (1995-1998)
• Iulian Filipescu (1999-2003)
• Finidi George (1996-2000)
• Alfonso Pérez Muñoz (1995-2000, 2002-2005)
• Denilson (1998-2005)
• Joaquín (2001-2006, 2015-present)
• Ricardo Oliveira (2004-2006)
• David Odonkor (2006-2011)
• Damien Perquis (2012-2015)
• Rafael van der Vaart (2015-2016)
• Heiko Westermann (2015-2016)

President

Seville Balompié
1907	Alfonso del Castillo Ochoa
1909	Juan del Castillo Ochoa

Betis FC
1909	Eladio García de la Borbolla
1912	Guillermo Comesaña Arahal
1913	Pedro Rodriguez de la Borbolla

After the merger of the two clubs:

Real Betis Balompié
1914	Harry Jones
1916	Carlos Alarcon de la Lastra
1920	Jerónimo Dominguez
1921	Gil Gómez Bajuelo
1924	Juan del Castillo Ochoa
1924	Antonio Polo Roma
1925	Ramón Navarro Cáceres
1928	Antonio Laguardia
1929	Camilo Romero Sánchez
1929	Daniel Mezquita
1930	Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
1932	Jose Ignacio Mantecón Novasa
1933-1936	Antonio Moreno Sevillano
1936-1940	Valentín Pérez Martínez
1940-1942	Ramón Poll Carbonell
1942-1943	Alfonso Alarcon de Lastra
1943-1944	Francisco Cantalapiedra
1944-1945	Eduardo Benjumena Vázquez
1945-1946	Manuel Romero Puerto
1946-1947	Filomeno de Aspe Martínez
1947-1950	Pascual Aparicio García
1950-1952	Francisco de la Cerda Carmona
1952-1955	Manuel Ruiz Rodríguez
1955-1965	Benito Villamarín Prieto
1965-1966	Avelino Villamarín Prieto
1966	Andrés Gaviño
1966	José Mª Domenech (Provisional)
1967-1968	Julio de la Puerta Castro
1969	José León Gómez
1969-1988	José Núñez Naranjo
1979-1983	Juan Manuel Mauduit Caller
1983-1989	Gerardo Martínez Retamero
1989-1992	Hugo Galera Davidson
1992-1996	José León Gómez
1996-2006	Manuel Ruiz de Lopera
2006-2010	Pepe León
2010-2011	Rafael Gordillo
2011-2014	Miguel Guillén
2014-2015	Juan Carlos Ollero
2015-present	Ángel Haro

Web links

• Official homepage (span.)

• Squad of Betis Sevilla

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Real Betis entry on primera-division.com
2. ↑ ftd.de:Spain's political-sporting complex ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ marca.com:Atlético y Deportivo son los clubes más deudores
4. ↑ http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/futbol-betis-segunda/20090601dasdaiftb_12/Tes
5. ↑ El Betis cae al 'infierno' ( Memento of November 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ http://deinfussball.de/2010/08/12/hercules-alicante-unter-manipulationsverdacht-blod-fur-valdez-gut-fur-odonkor/
7. ↑ http://www.realbetisbalompie.es/en/primer-equipo/plantilla/