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Álex Domínguez
Alejandro "Álex" Domínguez Romero (born 30 July 1998) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for French side Toulouse FC. Career Born in Granollers, Barcelona, Catalonia, Domínguez represented CE Sabadell FC as a youth before making his senior debut with the reserves on 6 December 2014, starting in a 2–1 Tercera División home loss against UE Castelldefels. After one further match for the B-side, he moved to RCD Espanyol and was assigned back to the youth setup. In 2016, Domínguez was loaned to CF Damm for one year, to finish his formation; upon returning, he was assigned to Espanyol's B-team also in the fourth division. He featured sparingly for the side, and renewed his contract until 2020 on 22 March 2018. On 10 July 2018, after achieving promotion, Domínguez agreed to a three-year deal with another reserve team, Deportivo Alavés B still in division four. On 28 August of the following year, after another promotion, he moved to UD Las Pal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toulouse FC
Toulouse Football Club () is a French professional association football, football club based in Toulouse. The club was founded in 1970 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the first division of Football in France, French football. Toulouse plays its home matches at the Stadium de Toulouse located within the city. ''Les Violets'' won the Coupe de France in 2023 Coupe de France final, 2023, and have won the second tier Ligue 2 on three occasions. Toulouse have participated in UEFA, European competition six times, including in 2007 when they qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time. The president of Toulouse FC is Damien Comolli, who succeeded the French businessman Olivier Sadran who took over the club following its bankruptcy in 2001 which resulted in it being relegated to the Championnat National. The club has served as a springboard for several players, most notably the World Cup-winning goalkeeper Fabien Barthez, international strikers André-Pierre Gignac, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CE Sabadell B
Centre d'Esports Sabadell Futbol Club "B", S.A.D. () is a Spanish football team based in Sabadell, a city in the Province of Barcelona in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Founded in 1969, it plays in and is the reserve team of CE Sabadell FC, holding home games at ''Ciutat Esportiva Olímpia'', only 100 meters away from Nova Creu Alta. History Founded in 1968, Sabadell B moved down to the last category in 1980. Nine years later, it returned to ''Primera Regional'', only lasting nine seasons in the category. It eventually folded in 2003, and the first team subsequently established an agreement with ''CF Can Llong''. In 2006, Can Llong merged into Sabadell's structure, and the B-team was refounded under the name of ''Centre d'Esports Sabadell Amateur-Can Llong''. The club switched back to the name of Sabadell B in 2007, and after achieving promotion to Segunda Catalana in 2010–11, the club promoted to Primera Catalana at the end of the 2012–13 campaign. On 14 June 2014, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022–23 Segunda División
The 2022–23 Segunda División (known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons) football season, was the 92nd since its establishment in Spain. Teams Team changes Promotion and relegation (pre-season) A total of 22 teams contested the league, including 15 sides from the 2021–22 Segunda División, 2021–22 season, three relegated from the 2021–22 La Liga, and four promoted from the 2021–22 Primera División RFEF. ;Teams promoted to La Liga The first two teams to earn promotion from the Segunda División were UD Almería, Almería and Real Valladolid, Valladolid, who mathematically secured first and second position, respectively, on the very last match day of the season. Almería returned to La Liga after a seven-year absence, while Valladolid returned after a one-year absence. The third and final team to be promoted were Girona FC, Girona after winning the play-off final 3–1 against CD Tenerife, Tenerife, returning after a three-year absence. ;Teams relegated from L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepe Mel
José "Pepe" Mel Pérez (born 28 February 1963) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker, currently a manager. He amassed Segunda División totals of 215 matches and 78 goals over eight seasons, for Real Madrid Castilla, Castellón and Betis. He also played in La Liga with the last of those clubs. Mel took up coaching in 1999, going on to be in charge of several teams, mainly Rayo Vallecano and Betis, leading the latter to the second-tier championship in 2011 and 2015. He also worked in England with West Bromwich Albion and Greece with OFI, being dismissed five times throughout his career. Playing career Castellón and Betis Born in Madrid, Mel started his career with Real Madrid, joining the club's youth system in 1974 at the age of 11 and playing alongside the likes of Emilio Butragueño and Míchel, although he never represented the first team, only competing at senior level with the reserves. In late 1987, after a very brief spell with Os ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Valles
Álvaro Valles Rosa (born 25 July 1997) is a Spanish professional association football, footballer who plays as a goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for La Liga club Real Betis. Career Early career Born in La Rinconada, Andalusia, La Rinconada, Province of Seville, Seville, Andalusia, Valles finished his formation with Real Betis. He made his senior debut with Betis Deportivo Balompié, the reserves on 16 October 2016, starting in a 3–0 Tercera División away win against CD Guadalcacín. On 6 September 2017, after being rarely used, Valles was loaned to CD Gerena of the fourth division, for one year. On 10 July of the following year, he moved to another reserve team, UD Las Palmas Atlético of the Segunda División B. Las Palmas Valles made his UD Las Palmas, first-team debut for the Canary Islands, Canarians on 13 October 2019, playing the full 90 minutes in a 3–0 home defeat of Deportivo de La Coruña in the Segunda División. He subsequently established himse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020–21 Segunda División
The 2020–21 Segunda División season, also known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, was the 90th since its establishment. The season began on 12 September 2020 and concluded on 31 May 2021. Teams Promotion and relegation (pre-season) A total of 22 teams contested the league, including 15 sides retained from the 2019–20 season, three relegated from the 2019–20 La Liga, and four promoted from the 2019–20 Segunda División B. This included the winners of the play-offs. ;Teams promoted to La Liga On 12 July 2020, Cádiz became the first team to be promoted to La Liga, ending a 14-year run in the lower divisions, seven of which were spent in Segunda División B, following Oviedo's 1−0 win against Zaragoza. The second team to earn promotion was Huesca after their 3−0 win against Numancia on 17 July 2020. This marked an immediate return to the La Liga. The final team to achieve promotion were play-off winners Elche after defeating Girona 1−0 on aggregate, they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marca (newspaper)
(), stylised as , is Spain's national daily tabloid sport newspaper owned by Unidad Editorial. The newspaper focuses primarily on football, in particular the day-to-day activities of Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and Atlético Madrid. It has a daily readership of over 2.5 million, the highest in Spain for a daily newspaper, and more than half of Spain's total sports readership, as of 2007. Since February 2001, there has also been an association 24-hour/day sports radio station, Radio Marca. In 2010, the TV channel MARCA TV was launched, before being closed in 2013. History and profile was founded on 21 December 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, in nationalist-held San Sebastián. Its founding editor was Manuel Fernández Cuesta, uncle of businessman Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta. On 3 September 1987 Luis Infante became the editor of the paper. Punto Editorial SA was the owner of . In 1984 Espacio Editorial, which would be later called Recoletos, acquired the paper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Segunda División
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administered by , it is contested by 22 teams, with the top two teams plus the winner of a La Liga play-offs, play-off Promotion and relegation, promoted to La Liga and replaced by the three lowest-placed teams in that division. History The Second Division National Championship was inaugurated concurrently with the La Liga, First Division, during the 1928-29 season. This setup comprised twenty teams divided into two groups: A and B. Group A functioned as the secondary national level, where the leading team would contest promotion to the First Division and the bottom two faced relegation to the Third Division. Conversely, Group B represented the third tier, wherein two teams were promoted to the Second Divisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extremadura UD
Extremadura Unión Deportiva was a Spanish football team based in Almendralejo, in the autonomous community of Extremadura. Founded in 2007, it last played in Primera División RFEF – Group 1, holding home games at '' Estadio Francisco de la Hera''. History ''Extremadura Unión Deportiva'' was founded in 2007, as the existing CF Extremadura club was experiencing serious financial problems, which would lead to its folding three years later. In only three seasons, the club reached the third division of Spanish football, having won in the 2010 playoffs against Atlético Mancha Real in June 2010. However, it finished 19th and last (due to AD Cerro de Reyes Badajoz Atlético retiring from competition) in its first campaign, being immediately relegated back. Extremadura won their fourth-tier group in 2013, qualifying for the Copa del Rey for the first time. There, they lost 2–1 at home to Albacete Balompié in the first round. In 2016, Extremadura were promoted again to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Segunda División B
Segunda División B (English: second division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish Football Federation. It was below the top two professional leagues, the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga) and the ''Segunda División'', and above the ''Tercera División''. The Segunda División B included the reserve teams of a number of La Liga and Segunda División teams. As of the 2023–24 in Spanish football, 2023-24 season, its successors are the Primera Federación and the Segunda Federación. The league's last ever season was in 2020-21 Segunda División B, 2020-21. For the 2021–22 season, Segunda División B was replaced by Segunda División RFEF, which became the fourth tier due to the creation of a new, semi-professional third division by the Spanish federation (RFEF) called the Primera División RFEF. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018–19 Tercera División
The 2018–19 Tercera División was the fourth tier in Spanish football. It began in August 2018 and ended in late June 2019 with the promotion play-off finals. Competition format *The top four eligible teams in each group would play the promotion playoffs. *The champion of each group would qualify to 2019–20 Copa del Rey. If the champion is a reserve team, the first non-reserve team qualified would join the Copa. *In each group, at least three teams would be relegated to Regional Divisions. Controversy in Group 8 After being relegated, Real Burgos sued the Castile and León Football Federation arguing that the postponement of their match in the previous season against Arandina forced them to play three games in seven days with few rounds left, harming their performance and finishing the league in relegation positions. Initially, they were admitted in Tercera División, in application of the precautionary measures by the Judgement, but later the Royal Spanish Football Fed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reserve Team
In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players who are under contract to a club but who do not regularly play in matches for the club's primary team. Reserve teams usually include players who are part of the larger first-team squad but unable to command a place in the team itself as well as young players who need playing time to improve their skills before progressing to the first team. In some countries, reserve or development teams compete in entirely separate competitions from first teams, while some countries allow reserve teams or farm teams to compete in the same league system as their club's first team, although usually in separate divisions. In association football Reserve teams usually consist of a combination of emerging youth players and first-team squad players. These teams are distinct from a club's youth team, which usually consists of players under a certain age and plays in an age-specific league. In England, Argentina and the Major League Soccer, United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
