Deportivo Alavés B, S.A.D., usually known as Alavés B, is a
Spanish football team based in
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Vitoria-Gasteiz (; ; also historically spelled Vittoria in English) is the seat of government and the capital city of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country and of the provinces of Spain, province of Álava in northern Spain. I ...
, in the autonomous community of
Basque Country. Founded in 1959 it is the
reserve team
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of
Deportivo Alavés
Deportivo Alavés, S.A.D. (; ''Sporting Alavés''), usually known as Alavés, is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of the Basque ...
, and currently plays in , holding home matches at
Instalaciones de Ibaia-José Luis Compañon, the club's training facilities with 2,500 seat-capacity.
The team's home kit is blue and white-striped shirt, blue shorts and white socks.
League history
The league placings have largely mirrored the fortunes of the senior team. From their formation in the 1960s until the late 1990s, Alavés B competed only in the fourth (
Tercera Grupo IV) or fifth (
Preferente de Álava) tiers. They achieved promotion to
Segunda División B
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in 1999, a year after the seniors climbed to
La Liga
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. Alavés B remained in the third level for seven seasons, usually finishing mid-table, until demotion in
2005-06, the same year that the main side was relegated amid economic turmoil under
Dmitry Piterman.
During the 2000s, Alavés B practically not contributed players to the Alavés first team, which has been almost exclusively nourished by foreign signings, and the decline of the club continued when the senior side themselves dropped into Segunda División B in 2009, while the B team
were relegated back down to the fifth level. It took Alavés B only two seasons to regain fourth-level status whereas the seniors took four years to rise again to the second level, but they then gained promotion to La Liga after three further seasons while the B team stayed put in Tercera División from that point on; they eventually gained promotion in
2018–19 via the
playoffs
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.
Season to season
*''As a
farm team
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''
* ''As a
reserve team
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*8 seasons in
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 ...
*4 seasons in
Segunda Federación
Segunda Federación, previously called Segunda RFEF, also officially known as Segunda B, is the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system containing 90 teams divided into five groups. It is administered by the Royal Spanish Football Fede ...
*20 seasons in
Tercera División
Tercera División () was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Until 1977, it was the third tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segund ...
*1 season in
Tercera División RFEF
Current squad
.
Reserve team
Honours
*
Tercera División
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**Champions (1):
2016–17
*
RFEF Basque tournament
**Winners (3): 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18
Notable players
*
Ángel
*
Javier Carpio
*
Juan Pablo Colinas
*
Óscar de Marcos
*
Iñaki Garmendia
*
Sergio Llamas
*
Juan Cruz Ochoa
*
Andrea Orlandi
*
Rubén Pérez
*
Sergio Pérez
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*
Nacho Rodríguez
*
Asier Salcedo
*
Josu Sarriegi
*
Fernando Seoane
*
Gaizka Toquero
*
Mikel Vesga
References
External links
*
Futbolme team profile .
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Association football clubs established in 1960
Reserve team football in Spain
1960 establishments in Spain
Football clubs in the Basque Country (autonomous community)