SD Eibar Femenino is a Spanish women's football team from

Eibar Eibar ( eu, Eibar, es, Éibar) is a city and municipality within the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country of Spain. It is the head town of Debabarrena, one of the '' eskualde / comarca'' of Gipuzkoa. Eibar has 27,138 inhabitants ( Eusta ...

Gipuzkoa Gipuzkoa (, , ; es, Guipúzcoa ; french: Guipuscoa) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. Its capital city is Donostia-San Sebastián. Gipuzkoa shares borders with the French depa ...

, Basque Country, currently playing in the

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. It is the women's section of

SD Eibar Sociedad Deportiva Eibar (in eu, Eibar Kirol Elkartea) is a professional Spanish football club based in Eibar, Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous Basque Country. Founded on 30 November 1940, the team currently plays in the Segunda División, the s ...

. Below the first team, the club also incorporates a senior B-team playing at the provincial fourth level, plus three youth teams.

History

Eibar women's team was founded in 1991 as Eibartarrak Futbol Taldea. Eibartarrak reached the

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final and won the Supercopa in 1999, and was the League's runner-up two years later. However, it wasn't included in the unified 2001–2002 Superliga Femenina, instead playing in

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. In 2003 it adopted SD Eibar's name (as Eibar-Eibartarrak) and kit, while remaining an independent club. In 2009 it finally became a section of SD Eibar, and was promoted to the Superliga following a reform of the competition. Eibar was relegated two years later. In 2017–18, Eibar posted their best result for a decade with a 3rd-place finish in the second tier, in a season which was seen as successful for all teams attached to the club. In 2019–20, Eibar was granted promotion to the Primera División as the team ranked second behind Athletic Club Femenino's

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(not eligible for promotion) when the league was ended prematurely due to the

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Players

Current squad

Season by season

Notable players

Honours

;As Eibartarrak * Liga Nacional (first tier): runners-up 2000–01 *

: runners-up 1999 * Supercopa de España: 1999 ;As Eibar * Basque Regional League (third tier): 2014–15

References

External links

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