Algeciras Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in

Algeciras Algeciras ( , ) is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Located in the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula, near the Strait of Gibraltar, it is the largest city on the Bay of Gibraltar ( es, Bahía de Algeci ...

, in the autonomous community of

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. Founded in 1909 it plays in

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– Group 1, holding home matches at ''

Estadio Nuevo Mirador Estadio Nuevo Mirador is the Municipal Stadium of Algeciras, Spain. It is the home stadium of the football club, Algeciras CF. The stadium with a capacity for 7,200 spectators, and measuring 105 by 68 metres, is a modern sports complex located in ...

''.

History

Football became of interest in Algeciras at the end of the 19th century from the British colony of

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. In their early years the teams of the city played in several sand fields around the city; one of these provisional camps was located near the fairgrounds of the city El Calvario. This field was the first in where Algeciras CF played its matches. The club was officially founded in 1909. When the club was founded, it did not have an official t-shirt, so they played with the players own clothes. But when they started to play very often, they decided that it was the moment to use new and exclusive equipment. In that moment, it was very difficult to get sport equipment, so some people who worked for the club, went to Gibraltar looking for t-shirts. They chose a red and white t-shirt that belonged to an English team called Southampton Football Club. In that moment, the team played in different sand pitches near the city. El Polvorín or El Calvario were some of them, In 1956, the club merged with

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to form ''España de Algeciras CF'' before switching back to ''Algeciras CF'' in the following year. After this, the club played between Third division and Second B many years, including some declines to regional categories, with three promotions to the Second Division in 1978, 1983 and 2003.

Season to season

---- *9 seasons in

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*2 seasons in

*18 seasons in

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*44 seasons in

Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segunda División'', and the semi-professional ''Segunda Di ...

Current squad

Reserve team

Former players

''see ''

Former coaches

* Vicente Campillo *

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Stadium

'' seats 7,500 spectators. Its opening took place in 1999, with a friendly with

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. Previously, the team played in "El Mirador" that was in the city center, and its opening took place in 1954.

Home kit

Algeciras' main uniform consists of red-and-white stripes shirt, blue shorts and red socks. The kit was adopted from

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in England, being chosen from different English kits that were brought to a shop in

, as this type of gear was not available in the area at the time.

References

External links

Official website

Futbolme team profile

''Algeciristas'', website containing weekly updates, historic database
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