AD AlmerÃa
Agrupación Deportiva Almería was a Spanish football club based in Almería. The club was founded in 1971, disbanded in 1982 and was its home games at the Estadio Municipal Juan Rojas, now accommodates 13,500 spectators. AD Almería played a total of two seasons in the Spanish top flight, the Primera División.
History
The Club AD Almería was founded in 1971 in the Andalusian city of the same name. After the newly established club played his first year in a regional amateur league, he was classified by the Spanish Football Federation for the 1972/73 season in the Tercera División third-rate at that time. In that very game Class AD Almería acted in the next five years, the table spaces between ascent and descent region region fluctuated. The Tercera División 1976/77 they finished in third place, yielding, was allowed to start for the newly created Segunda División B, as a consequence the third Spanish league. There it was for the team of AD Almería immediately very good, one was at the end of the season 1977/78 First Group 2 with three points ahead of FC Algeciras and rose in the Segunda División. There, too, AD Almería could establish immediately and took in its first second-division season a surprising first place, level on points with the CD Málaga and a counter against Betis Sevilla, yielding División promotion to the Primera, was able to celebrate Spain's top division in football. The team coached by José María Maguregui was 1979/80 achieve an excellent eleventh in the standings in the Primera División positive surprise and at the end of the season, with one seven points before the first relegation zone, occupied by Rayo Vallecano, ranked.
After the successful relegation Maguregui resigned as head coach of AD Almería, and was succeeded by Arsenio Iglesias. From this the team captained by Juan Rojas was the performance shown previously unable to recall and rose as Table La Liga 1980/81 back to the second division from. With this decline, the decline of AD Almería began. Also in the second division season 1981/82 was only one Eighteenth what had direct walkover from the first to the third tier result. There were also financial problems that ultimately led to the dissolution of the summer of 1982 AD Almería.
Seven years after the end of AD Almería a new football club was founded in the Andalusian city. This was called the UD Almería and managed in the 2000s as its predecessor, the club promotion for the Primera División. Currently, you can find UD Almería in the Segunda División second-rate.
League membership
- La Liga: 2 seasons
- Segunda División: 2 times
- Segunda División B: 1 seasons
- Tercera División: 5 seasons
Known player
- Paraguay Eufemio Cabral
- Spain Andoni Murua
- Argentina Alfonso Troisi
Known coach
- Spain Arsenio Iglesias
- Spain José María Maguregui
League membership
- La Liga: 2 seasons
- Segunda División: 2 times
- Segunda División B: 1 seasons
- Tercera División: 5 seasons