Covadonga

Full name	Club Deportivo Covadonga
Founded	31 July 1979 (1979-07-31)
Ground	Estadio Juan Antonio Álvarez Rabanal, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Capacity	2,000[1]
President	Francisco Cabal Díaz[2]
Head coach	Fermín Álvarez
League	Segunda Federación – Group 1
2022–23	Tercera Federación – Group 2, 1st of 16 (champions)
Home colours Away colours

Club Deportivo Covadonga is a Spanish football team based in Oviedo, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1979 it plays in Segunda Federación – Group 1, holding home games at Estadio Juan Antonio Álvarez Rabanal, with a 2,000-seat capacity.^[3]

History

CD Covadonga was founded in 1979 by José Antonio Álvarez Rabanal, priest of the parish of Our Lady of Covadonga, Oviedo, with the aim to give a way to development as people to the local youth.^[4]

It started to play its games in the Asturian Regional divisions in the field of the Fundación Masaveu while the club was negotiating with the Oviedo City Hall for the transfer of a piece of ground in Los Castañales, neighbourhood of Teatinos, for building a new football field.

In 1998 the team promoted for the first time to Tercera División. Fifteen years later, in 2013, the club finished the league in third position and qualifies for the 2013 Tercera División play-offs,^[5] but it was eliminated in the first round by Don Benito.

Covadonga repeated participation in the playoffs in 2019, but was clearly defeated again in the first round, this time by Bergantiños.^[6] However, the club achieved promotion in their third attempt, after defeating Llanera and Caudal in the playoffs.

Season to season

• 1 season in Segunda División B
• 1 season in Segunda Federación
• 16 seasons in Tercera División
• 2 seasons in Tercera Federación/Tercera División RFEF

Current squad

As of 22 February 2021^[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ESP Aitor Rodríguez 2 DF  ESP Pablo Castiello 3 DF  ESP Manu Blanco 4 DF  ESP Aitor Ferrero 5 DF  ESP Aitor Elena 6 DF  ESP Míchel Secades 7 FW  ESP Sergio Rios 8 MF  ESP José Luis González 9 FW  ESP Diego García 10 MF  ESP Jaime Álvarez 11 FW  ESP Edu Font

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 GK  ESP Iván Torres 14 MF  ESP Álvaro Del Rio 15 MF  ESP Pablo Tineo 16 MF  ESP David González 17 MF  ESP Asier Gomes 18 DF  ESP Alfonso Artabe 19 FW  ESP Javier Martón (on loan from Real Sociedad B) 20 DF  ESP Naredo 21 FW  ESP Manuel Pozo (on loan from Real Betis B) 22 DF  ESP Álvaro García 24 DF  ESP Manu Rodríguez

Famous players

• Iván Ania
• Santi Cazorla (youth)

Women's team

On 26 November 2017, CD Covadonga announced the creation of a new women's team that would start competing in the 2018–19 season.^[8] It previously existed until it was disbanded in 1997.

References

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)
• BDFutbol team profile
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)

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