CE Europa

Club Esportiu Europe is a Spanish football club based in Barcelona. The club was in 1928 of the founding members of the Spanish football league. In addition, they reached the final of the 1923 Copa del Rey. Currently the club plays in the Tercera División, the fourth Spanish league.

  • 2.1 National Achievements
  • 2.2 Regional successes
  • 2.3 Other Achievements

History

CE Europe was established on June 5, 1907 from the merger of two smaller clubs Barcelona and Madrid de Provençal, under the name Club Deportivo Europe. The best era saw the club in the 1920s, when he rose to become the second force in Barcelona.

1923 CE Europe won the Catalan Championship and reached the Spanish Cup, at that time the only pan- Spanish Championship, the finale, which, however, he lost against Athletic Bilbao 0-1.

1928 was the club one of the founding members of the Spanish League, but in 1931, after three seasons, the CE Europe dismounted. Following a merger with the name Gracia FC Catalunya FC was adopted and the club disappeared from the scene.

In 1951, he appeared as the official successor under its present name in the Tercera División again.

Since then succeeded CE Europe 1963, the rise in the Segunda División, where the club was relegated again after five years. In 1994-95 he played then for a season in the Segunda División B, the 3rd Liga in Spain.

Other notable successes, however, celebrated the little club in the years 1997 and 1998, when he was able to beat to be overpowering force FC Barcelona in the final of the Copa Catalunya, respectively.

League membership

  • 3 seasons in La Liga ( League 1): 1928-29, 1929-30 and 1930-31
  • 6 seasons in the Segunda División ( League 2): 1931-32 (*), 1963-64 to 1967-68
  • 1 seasons in the Segunda División B (Division 2B): 1994-95
  • 50 seasons in the Tercera División (Division 3): 1951-52 to 1962-63, 1968-69 to 1973-74, 1977-78 to 1985-86, 1989-90 to 1993-94, 1995-96 to 2003-04 and 2005-06 to 2013-14
  • 18 seasons in regional leagues ( Division 4 ): 1940-41 to 1950-51, 1974-75 to 1976-77, 1986-87 to 1988-89 and 2004-05
  • Best position in Primera División of 8 ( 1928-29 )

(*) Catalunya FC

Placements

- Rise   - Descent

(*) Catalunya FC

Achievements

National success

  • Finalist in the Copa del Rey: 1923 ( 1 times)
  • Master of Tercera División (Division 3): 1962, 1963 ( 2 times)
  • Vice- champion of the Tercera División: 1996 (1 times)
  • Master of Regional ( Division 4 ): 1943, 1951 and 1977 ( 3 times)

Regional successes

  • Master of Campionat de Catalunya ( League 1): 1923 ( 1 times)
  • Vice- champion of Campionat de Catalunya ( League 1): 1921, 1922, 1924, 1927, 1928 and 1929 (6 times)
  • Master of Campionat de Catalunya ( League 2): 1919 ( 1 times)
  • Vice- champion of Campionat de Catalunya ( League 2): 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1937 and 1940 (6 times)
  • Copa Catalunya: 1997, 1998 (2 times)

Other successes

  • Trofeo Moscardó Cup: 1959, 1963 ( 2 times)
  • Vila de Gràcia Cup: 1996, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2013 (8 times)

Well-known former players

  • Spain Manel Cros
  • Spain Marià Gonzalvo
  • Spain Antoni Ramallets
  • Eulogio Martínez Paraguay
  • Hungary Zoltán Czibor

Well-known former coach

  • England Ralph Kirby
1923 Copa del Rey Conyers Kirby
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