Unión Deportivo Gijón Industrial is a

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team based in

Gijón Gijón () or () is a city and municipality in north-western Spain. It is the largest city and Municipalities of Spain, municipality by population in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Asturias. It is located on the coa ...

in the autonomous community of

Asturias Asturias (; ; ) officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensive with the provinces of Spain, province of Asturias and contains some of the territory t ...

. Founded in 1969, it plays in . The club's home ground is '' Santa Cruz'', which has a capacity of 2,500 spectators.

History

Gijón Industrial was founded on 10 July 1969 as a merger between

Pelayo CF Pelayo is the Spanish form of the Latin name Pelagius. It may refer to: * Pelagius of Asturias, founder of the Kingdom of Asturias and beginner of the ''Reconquista'' * Pelagius of Córdoba, tenth-century Christian martyr * Pelagius of Oviedo, bish ...

and

Club Calzada Club Calzada was a Spanish football club based in Gijón, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1924 and dissolved in 1969, the club held their home matches at the ''Campo de Fútbol El Frontón''. History Founded in 1924, the club ...

, both immersed in serious economic trouble. The club started playing 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 ...

, when it was composed of inter-provincial groups, with its best season the 1977–78 one, when it finished third and qualified for the first time for the

Copa del Rey The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...

. After a first relegation the next season, Gijón Industrial returned to Tercera División three seasons later and four more times the Copa del Rey, before being again relegated to Regional Preferente in 1982. It spent eight seasons in this league before being promoted to Tercera in 1990. After this promotion, the club spent ten consecutive seasons in the fourth tier, the longest streak of the club, before being relegated again. Since its foundation, the club has always alternated between Tercera División and Regional Preferente.

Stadium

Since its foundation, Gijón Industrial plays its games at ''Estadio Santa Cruz'' with a capacity for 3,000 people. The stadium was inaugurated in 1948 and it was owned by Pelayo CF until its merge with Club Calzada in 1969. In 2016, the Town Hall of Gijón renovated the stadium and changed the pitch to one made of

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Season to season

---- *34 seasons in ''

*2 seasons in ''

Tercera Federación Tercera Federación, previously known as Tercera RFEF, is the fifth tier of the Spanish football league system. It is below the ''La Liga'', ''Segunda División'', and its fellow semi-professional divisions '' Primera Federación'' and ''Segunda F ...

/Tercera División RFEF''

Famous coaches

* Enzo Ferrero * Nené Ballina

References

External links

Official website

Futbolme.com profile
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