Club Deportivo Numancia de Soria, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club in

Soria Soria () is a municipality and a Spanish city, located on the Douro river in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and León and capital of the province of Soria. Its population is 38,881 ( INE, 2017), 43.7% of the provincial populati ...

, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded on 9 April 1945, it plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2, holding home games at ''

Nuevo Estadio Los Pajaritos Nuevo Estadio Los Pajaritos is a multi-purpose stadium in Soria, Spain. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of CD Numancia. The stadium holds 8,261 seats and was built in 1999. It is notoriously cold and over ...

''. Besides football it had other departments in sports, such as volleyball, women's handball, and rhythmic gymnastics.

History

The club was founded on 9 April 1945. Numancia was named after the ancient Celtiberian town of

Numantia Numantia ( es, Numancia) is an ancient Celtiberian settlement, whose remains are located on a hill known as Cerro de la Muela in the current municipality of Garray ( Soria), Spain. Numantia is famous for its role in the Celtiberian Wars. In ...

, near where

would be later founded. Having spent a long time in the ''

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 ...

'', the club made consistent progress, reaching the first division on three occasions: 1999, 2004 and 2008. The club became first widely known in Spain in 1995–96, while still playing at the

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, for its extraordinary run in the

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, eliminating three top flight clubs ( Real Sociedad,

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and

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) and only being knocked out in the quarter-finals by

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, after Numancia drew in the first leg and took the lead in the second. Numancia's most important milestone came in 1999, when the team managed to promote to La Liga for the first time. In the 1998–99 season, Numancia finished third in Segunda, only behind Málaga CF and

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, meaning the promotion to the top tier. Their first ever season in the Spanish elite proved to be challenging. Numancia eventually finished 17th, thus avoiding an immediate relegation to Segunda. Their survival was made possible because of unexpectedly good home results. Numancia won 9 home games, drew 6, and lost only 4 games at home. Their second season in the elite was less successful, as the team finished in last place. Numancia again displayed strong results at home, winning eight of their ten wins at home. However, that was eventually not enough to avoid a drop to Segunda, after a two-year spell in La Liga. Numancia spent three seasons in Segunda Division, before promotion again after the 2003–04 season, as the club finished third. Numancia'second spell in the Spanish top tier was not successful as it only won 6 games. This meant that relegation followed just one season after. Following another three years in Segunda, Numancia came back to La Liga for season 2008–09. Following a 1–3 loss at Sporting de Gijón on 2 November 2008, Numancia had conceded a total of 200 goals in the top division in slightly more than three seasons, reaching 44th in the all-time list. It battled bravely against relegation, but eventually returned to level two after just one year, as second from bottom, even though the season had started on a high note with a 1–0 home win against eventual champions Barcelona. Numancia was relegated to third division followed at the end of the 2019-20 season after 23 years playing between first and second division. On next season, due to restructuring of the

Spanish football league system The Spanish football league system consists of several professional, semi-professional and non-professional leagues bound together hierarchically by promotion and relegation. The top two tiers of the male league pyramid— Primera División ( La Li ...

, Numancia failed to survive in the third-tier and finding themselves dropped in the fourth-tier, in the newly formed Segunda División RFEF, for the 2021–22 season. On next season, Numancia achieved promoted back to newly third division,

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Honours

* Segunda División: 2007–08 *

: 1961–62, 1962–63, 1965–66, 1988–89 *Promotion to

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: 1998–99, 2003–04, 2007–08

Season to season

---- *4 seasons in

*20 seasons in Segunda División *1 seasons in

*9 seasons in Segunda División B *1 seasons in Segunda División RFEF *33 seasons in

*9 seasons in Categorías Regionales

Current squad

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Reserve team

Out on loan

Current technical staff

Former players

Coaches

* José Antonio Saro (1989–90) * Jesús Tartilán (1991) * Manuel García Calderón (1992–93) *

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(1993–96) *

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(1998) *

(1998–99) * Andoni Goikoetxea (1999–00) *

(2000) *

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(2000–01) * Celestino Vallejo (2001) * Luis Sánchez Duque (2001–02) *

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(2002) *

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(2002–03) *

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(2003–04) *

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(2004–05) *

(2004–05) * Enrique Martín (2005) * Andoni Goikoetxea (2005–07) *

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(2007–08) * Sergio Krešić (2008–09) *

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(2009) *

(2009–10) *

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(2010–11) * Pablo Machín (2011–13) *

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(2013–15) *

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(2015–2018) *

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(2018–)

References

External links

Official website

Futbolme team profile

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