Real Sporting de Gijón Femenino is the women's

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team of Asturian football club

Sporting de Gijón Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D. (), commonly known as Real Sporting, Sporting Gijón, or simply Sporting is a Spanish professional association football, football club from Gijón, Principality of Asturias. Founded on 1 July 1905, it plays in the ...

History

Founded in 1995, the club was renamed as Club Deportivo

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Femenino in 1999 as part of an agreement with

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's town hall, the club decided to rename the team again as Real Sporting de Gijón Femenino in 2016, and to declare it as the official women's section of the club. The club played from 1996 to 2001 in Primera División, when it was composed by multiple groups. In 2018, the club signed for the first time players from out from Asturias. Despite not gaining a spot for the smaller Segunda División next season, after spending 18 consecutive seasons in

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, on 31 July 2019, the

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gave to the club the vacant place of Atlántida Matamá in the newly created

Season by season

Current squad

References

External links

Official website
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