Agrupación Balonmano Gijón Jovellanos is a handball team based in

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. Gijón Jovellanos plays in

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History

Gijón Jovellanos was founded in 2009 with the aim to be the main handball club in the city grouping the players of the top farm teams in the city. In its two first seasons competed in Primera Estatal, the third tier, promoting to División de Plata in 2011. In the 2011–12 season, Gijón Jovellanos qualified for the promotion playoffs to

, played in Cangas do Morrazo, but failed in the semifinals against CB Cangas. This promotion was achieved in the next season on 13 April 2013, after beating CB Puente Genil in Gijón by 25–22. Finally, Gijón Jovellanos qualified in second position behind

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. For playing in

, the club moved from Pabellón de La Arena to the Palacio de Deportes. In the first season in the Spanish top league, the Gijón Jovellanos finished in the 12th position and reached the quarterfinals of the

2013–14 Copa del Rey The 2013–14 Copa del Rey was the 112th staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played). The competition began on 4 September 2013 and ended on 16 April 2014 with the final. The final took place at Mestall ...

. On April 1, 2015, despite being in the bottom of the 2014–15 Liga ASOBAL table, Gijón Jovellanos qualified for the

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Final Four.La XL Copa del Rey ya conoce a sus cuatro finalistas
Liga ASOBAL, 1 April 2015 Two years later, in a disastrous season, Gijón Jovellanos was relegated to the third tier.

Arenas

*Pabellón del Natahoyo 2009–2010 *Pabellón de La Arena 2010–2013 * Palacio de Deportes 2013–present

Sponsorship naming

*Medicentro Gijón 2009–2011 *Juanfersa Gijón 2012–2013 *Juanfersa Grupo Fegar 2013–2014 *Juanfersa Gijón 2014–2015 *Juanfersa Comunicalia 2015–2016 *Procoaf Gijón 2017–2019 *DKV Gijón 2019–present

Head coaches

*Alberto Suárez 2009–2015 *Sergio Cotelo 2015–

Retired numbers

*11 David Pellitero

Season by season

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External links

References

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