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SD Compostela
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Full name Sociedade Deportiva Compostela
Nickname(s)
  • Compos
  • Esedé
Short name Compostela; Compos
Founded 1928; re-organised in 1962 and in 2004
Stadium San Lázaro, Santiago de Compostela,
Galicia
Stadium
capacity
16,666
Owner Antonio Quinteiro (100%)
President Antonio Quinteiro
Head coach Rodri Veiga
League Segunda Federación – Group 1
2022–23 Segunda Federación – Group 1, 4th of 18

Sociedade Deportiva Compostela is a Spanish football team based in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. They play home matches at San Lázaro, and compete in Segunda Federación – Group 1.

History

A team called Compostela Foot-ball Club was founded in 1928, ceasing to exist in 1946. On 26 June 1962 a new team was created called Sociedad Recreativa Compostela, and on 28 October 1962 the newly-formed SR Compostela merged with another team, Club Arenal, changing names to Sociedad Deportiva Compostela. The decade of the 1970s was irregular. The team played in the Tercera División, in the Regional category and in the new Segunda División B. Its first promotion to a semi-national stage occurred in 1977, with a promotion to Segunda División B (Group 1), which lasted just one season; Compos promoted again in 1980, this time lasting six years.

Relegation in 1986 was compounded by off-field controversy surrounding the actions of then president Francisco Steppe. He resigned amid allegations of receipt of payments to throw a game against Pontevedra CF, which would assure the opposition's maintenance in the category. The late 1980s saw a significant restructuring of the club both at board and management levels and, in 1990, Compostela regained third-level status.

The following campaign was to prove the club's most successful to date. On 23 June 1991, a capacity crowd of 8,000 at the Estadio Municipal Santa Isabel, saw goals from Juanito and Ochoa (two) clinch a 3–1 victory in the final play-off match against CD Badajoz, for a first-ever Segunda División visit.

The move to Estadio Multiusos de San Lázaro coincided with the continuing rise in the team's fortunes and, at the end of 1993–94, following a 3–1 play-off victory against Rayo Vallecano, Compostela reached La Liga. Compostela did remarkably well, and reached a best finish of 10th in 1995–96, mainly courtesy of strikers Christopher Ohen and Bent Christensen, whom totalled 23 league goals.

After four seasons at the top, Compostela was relegated after losing a relegation play-off match to Villarreal CF on the away goals rule, despite playing overall attractive football. The club was also about to start a downward spiral; after a relegation to the third level in 2001 the team returned the following year but, in the following campaign, played to a backdrop of off-field distractions, with the players and staff going unpaid for months – a final ninth place was not enough to prevent another relegation, as the club failed to meet the 31 July deadline to settle all wage debts.

Off-field problems

In the 2001–02 season economic problems arose. However, the squad with Luis Ángel Duque as coach managed to achieve promotion to the Segunda División. Off-field problems continued in 2003–04, with the pinnacle being the players, who had not been paid in several months, refusing to appear for a fixture at UB Conquense, with the subsequent loss of three points. At the season's close, after the actual relegation, Compostela dropped further to the Galician Regional Preferente (north) after failing again to meet the financial deadline. They played there for two seasons, and folded after the 2005-06 season, when a judge dissolved the institution in the summer of 2006, and auctioned all the club's properties, including the brand name, the trophies and the team's spot in the league. Finally, 26 January 2011, after everything was sold out, the court published the legal liquidation of the entity.

Re-organisation

Compos vs Lugo
Compostela playing against Lugo on 22 November 2009.

Previously to SD Compostela's liquidation in 2006, a new club was created on 1 June 2004 with the name SD Campus Stellae, with José Luís Balboa as president. They entered competition in the 2005-06 season at the group 11 of the Galicia Terceira Autonómica league, where he finishes in 11th position (out of 18 teams). The following season, 2006-07, they played in group 12 of the same division, and finished third out of 14 teams.

In 2006, a former president of the dissolved SD Compostela, José María Caneda, bought the commercial name Sociedad Deportiva Compostela, and became president of the SD Campus Stellae, changing the team's name at the beginning of the 2007-08 season to the former club's brand.

In the 2007–08 season, the new club won its Preferente league and returned to Tercera. In the following campaign, after finishing first in its group, the team beat Atlético Monzón with a 4–2 aggregate (3–0, 1–2) and won a second consecutive promotion. However, this would be a short-lived return, with relegation befalling at the season's end, immediately followed by another one due to overwhelming financial problems. Longtime president José María Caneda left the club.

Season-by-season records

  • SD Compostela SAD (1962–2007)
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1962–63 4 Serie A 1st
1963–64 3 1st
1964–65 3 2nd
1965–66 3 4th
1966–67 3 3rd
1967–68 3 2nd
1968–69 3 3rd
1969–70 3 10th Second round
1970–71 4 Serie A 1st
1971–72 3 11th First round
1972–73 3 18th Second round
1973–74 4 Serie A 2nd
1974–75 4 Serie A 2nd
1975–76 4 Serie A 1st
1976–77 3 9th Second round
1977–78 3 2ª B 18th First round
1978–79 4 12th First round
1979–80 4 1st Third round
1980–81 3 2ª B 7th Second round
1981–82 3 2ª B 15th Second round
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1982–83 3 2ª B 11th
1983–84 3 2ª B 14th First round
1984–85 3 2ª B 15th
1985–86 3 2ª B 18th
1986–87 4 6th
1987–88 4 4th First round
1988–89 4 3rd
1989–90 4 1st
1990–91 3 2ª B 3rd Third round
1991–92 2 8th Fifth round
1992–93 2 12th Fifth round
1993–94 2 3rd Fourth round
1994–95 1 16th Fourth round
1995–96 1 10th Round of 16
1996–97 1 11th Round of 16
1997–98 1 17th Third round
1998–99 2 8th Second round
1999–2000 2 18th Quarter-finals
2000–01 2 19th Third round
2001–02 3 2ª B 3rd First round
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
2002–03 2 9th First round
2003–04 3 2ª B 19th Second round
2004–05 5 Reg. Pref. 16th
2005–06 5 Reg. Pref. 14th
2006–07 5 Pref. Aut. 3rd

  • SD Compostela (2005–)
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
2005–06 8 3ª Aut. 11th
2006–07 8 3ª Aut. 3rd
2007–08 5 Pref. Aut. 1st
2008–09 4 1st
2009–10 3 2ª B 20th First round
2010–11 5 Pref. Aut. 8th
2011–12 5 Pref. Aut. 1st
2012–13 4 3rd
2013–14 3 2ª B 13th
2014–15 3 2ª B 6th
2015–16 3 2ª B 19th First round
2016–17 4 7th
2017–18 4 1st
2018–19 4 3rd Second round
2019–20 4 1st Second round
2020–21 3 2ª B 6th / 5th First round
2021–22 4 2ª RFEF 8th
2022–23 4 2ª Fed. 4th
2023–24 4 2ª Fed. First round
  • 5 seasons in Segunda División B
  • 3 seasons in Segunda Federación/Segunda División RFEF
  • 6 seasons in Tercera División

Honours

  • Tercera División: 2008–09, 2017–18, 2019–20

Current squad

No. Position Player
1 Uruguay GK Pato Guillén
2 Spain DF Saro
3 Spain DF Sergio Pereira
4 Spain DF Álvaro Casas (captain)
5 Spain MF Bicho
6 Spain DF David Soto
7 Spain MF Miki
8 Spain MF Roberto Baleato
9 Spain FW Primo
10 Spain MF Josiño
11 Spain DF Jimmy
12 Spain DF Jorge Queiruga (out on loan at Arzúa)
No. Position Player
13 Spain GK Borja Rey
14 Spain MF Samu Rodríguez
15 Spain MF Joel López
16 Argentina DF Matías Vesprini (on loan from Lugo)
17 Spain MF Gabri Palmás
18 Spain MF Brais Abelenda
19 Spain DF Guille Torres
20 Spain FW Hugo Sanmartín
21 Spain MF Pablo Antas
24 Spain FW Manu Rivas
28 Spain DF Yosi
31 Spain MF Iago

Famous players

Note: this list includes players that have appeared in at least 100 league games and/or have reached international status.

  • Brazil Adriano
  • Brazil Fabiano
  • Brazil William
  • Bulgaria Luboslav Penev
  • Denmark Bent Christensen
  • France Franck Passi
  • France Stéphane Pignol
  • Morocco Saïd Chiba
  • Netherlands Peter Hoekstra
  • Netherlands Juan Viedma
  • Nigeria Christopher Ohen
  • Russia Dmitri Popov

Famous managers

  • Spain Fernando Castro Santos
  • Spain Fernando Vázquez

Stadium

Compostela play at the Estadio Multiusos de San Lázaro, which has a capacity of 16,666. Pitch dimensions are 105 x 68 metres.

Compostela played their first season at Estadio da Residencia da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, whilst work was completed on their first permanent ground, Estadio Municipal de Santa Isabel; on 22 September 1963, it played the first match at the new stadium. It was a basic enclosure and lacked a covered stand until 1969, when a tribune was erected and floodlights installed at a cost of 1 million pesetas. Compostela continued to use the ground for first team fixtures until the end of the 1993 season. The reserve team, Compostela B, played on at Santa Isabel until early 2003, when the ground was finally demolished and replaced with a municipal sports centre that bore the same name.

Work started on the Multiusos de San Lázaro in 1991. Situated in the eastern suburb of San Lázaro, it was a multi-purpose arena, used primarily for the football matches of its two resident clubs, Compostela and SD Ciudad de Santiago. Oval in shape and with a terracotta-coloured roof on the west side to incorporate the directors' seating and press facilities on a second tier, the pitch was surrounded by a 400m athletics track, relatively uncommon in Spanish stadiums.

The inaugural match took place on 24 June 1993, when a four-way tournament was staged, featuring Deportivo de La Coruña, CD Tenerife, Club Atlético River Plate and São Paulo FC. Deportivo and River played in the first match, and Bebeto had the honour of scoring the first goal.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Sociedad Deportiva Compostela (2004) para niños

  • 1995–96 La Liga, best season in the history of the club.
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