Reus Deportiu is a
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sports club
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best known for its professional
roller hockey team based in
Reus
Reus () is the capital of Baix Camp, in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain. The area has always been an important producer of wines and spirits, and gained continental importance at the time of the Phylloxera plague. Nowadays it is k ...
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Catalonia
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History
CD Reus was founded on 23 November 1909 after the dissolution of Reus Sport Club. On 29 September 1917, the club merged with Club Velocipedista and SC Olímpia becoming the multi-sports club Reus Deportiu. In 1951, Reus Deportiu was restructured into two independent entities: CF Reus Deportiu, entirely dedicated to football, and Reus Deportiu, for the rest of the sections. Apart from the roller hockey team, which plays in the
OK Liga
The OK Liga is the Spanish rink hockey league.
History
The league was founded in 1969 as División de Honor as an expansion to all the Spanish territory of the Catalan Championship. Until 1971 teams from outside Catalonia did not join the competit ...
, it also has
athletics
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rhythmic gymnastics
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hiking
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karate
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artistic roller skating
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rugby
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table tennis
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tennis
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Reus enjoyed its golden era between 1967 and 1973, winning six
European Cups in a row, four
Spanish Leagues and four
national Cups. One decade later, it won the 1983 national Cup and Supercup and the 1984
Cup Winners' Cup
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The club had to wait nearly two decades for its next trophies, the
CERS Cup
The WSE Cup is an annual European club roller hockey competition organised by the World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey The World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey,World Championship
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in 2008 and its seventh European League in 2009 plus the consequent
Continental Cup and
Intercontinental Cup.
In 2011, Reus Deportiu achieved its eighth OK Liga in 2011, 38 years after their last title of the national League. On 14 May 2017, Reus conquered its eighth European League, exactly 50 years after the first one in the history of the club.
Women's team
In addition to these achievements, Reus Deportiu created a women's section in 2007 that would get a vacant berth in the
women's OK Liga in 2011, but would resign to continue in the first division two years later, due to the financial problems of the club.
Six years later, the club came back after finishing in the third position of the Nacional Catalana and the resigns of HC Borbolla and CP Coslada to promote.
Season to season
Trophies
*Campeonato de España: 2
**1947, 1952.
*Liga Nacional: 3
**1965–66, 1966–67, 1968–69.
*
OK Liga
The OK Liga is the Spanish rink hockey league.
History
The league was founded in 1969 as División de Honor as an expansion to all the Spanish territory of the Catalan Championship. Until 1971 teams from outside Catalonia did not join the competit ...
: 5
**1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 2010–11.
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Copa del Rey
The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footbal ...
: 6
**1966, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1983, 2006.
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Supercopa de España
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: 2
**2006, 2019.
*
European Cup/Champions League: 8
**1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 2009, 2017.
*
CERS Cup
The WSE Cup is an annual European club roller hockey competition organised by the World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey The World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey,Cup Winners Cup
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-European club competition organised by UEFA. The tournam ...
: 1
**1984.
*
Continental Cup/European Super Cup: 1
**2009.
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World Club Championship: 1
**2008.
*
Intercontinental Cup: 1
**2009.
*Catalan Championships: 1
**1967.
*Little World Cup: 1
**1969.
Presidents
References
External links
Official websiteTecnol main sponsor of the team*
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Catalan rink hockey clubs
Multi-sport clubs in Spain
Sports clubs established in 1909
Sport in Reus