Deportivo de La Coruña

The Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña ( "Royal Sports Club La Coruna" ) is a Spanish football club based in A Coruña, Galicia.

Depor plays in the 35,000 -seat Estadio Municipal de Riazor end. The club colors are blue and white. The Galician local rivals Celta Vigo is.

History

The club was founded on March 2, 1906. In 1993, Depor qualified for the first time for an international competition. In 1995, the team won the Spanish Cup, in 2002, succeeded in doing so again. The first and only Spanish league title could celebrate 2000. 1995, 2000 and 2002, the Spanish Supercup was won.

2003 Roy Makaay, who played for the club since 1999, sold for the Association's internal record sum of € 18.7 million transfer fee to the FC Bayern Munich. In the Champions League season 2002/ 03 he scored all three goals for Deportivo's surprising 3-2 victory in Munich.

In the 2003 / 04 season, Deportivo de La Coruña reached the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League. On the way you turned out, among other things Juventus. This season there was a legendary defeat. With 8:3 Deportivo lost in the highest-scoring game of the previous Champions League against Monaco. In the quarterfinals, they faced the defending champions AC Milan. After a 1:4 away defeat of the European dream for Depor seemed already faded away, but a 4-0 home win in La Coruña, the tide turned and brought the team to the semifinals. There one difference, however, against the eventual champion FC Porto with 0-0 and 0-1.

After the 2004/ 05 season of success coach Javier Irureta left because of disappointing results (only 8th place in the Primera División ) After eight years the club. On improvement they waited in vain. At the end of the following season the team was also ranked number 8, the 2006/07 season was finished even ranked only 13, you had fought in the 2007 /2008 season long against relegation, the club finished at the end of the 9th place in the table. The ninth place entitled to participate in the UI Cup, yielding since 2005 could play in the European Cup for the first time. After you could turn off the Israeli side FC Bnei Sakhnin FC (2:1 and 0:1), it came, in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. Once you get there and Hajduk Split in the first round, defeated SK Brann, qualified you for the group stage of the competition.

In the group stage they met CSKA Moscow, AS Nancy, Lech Poznań and Feyenoord Rotterdam. The group stage is consisted as a table runner, thereby came into the Round of. There you failed unexpectedly on Danish outsiders Aalborg BK.

The 2008/09 season was the last time season in which the club was represented internationally. In the 2009/10 season they played in stages with the participation in the UEFA Europa League 2010/11. However, it broke a middle of the season.

In the season 2010/11 they fought long for the league. On the final day, the club lost 0-2 at home against FC Valencia and rose after twenty years of premiership football affiliation back to the Segunda División. In the following season with a game succeeded before the season ends, the direct re-emergence. A year later, it came as División in 2011 to relegation from the Primera, which was sealed on the final day by a 0-1 defeat against Real Sociedad. Celta Vigo made ​​at the same time the league perfect.

Current squad 2013/14

(Updated: January 13, 2014)

Achievements and titles

In Spanish Football

  • Spanish Champion (1 ): 2000
  • Spanish Cup Winners ( 2): 1995, 2002
  • Spanish Supercup winner ( 3): 1995, 2000, 2002

European Cup

  • European Cup Winners' Cup Semi-finals: 1996
  • Semi-finals in 2004

Well-known former players

  • Spaniard Juan Acuña
  • Spaniard Amancio
  • Spaniards Donato
  • Spaniard Francisco
  • Spaniard José Francisco Molina
  • Spaniards Pahíño
  • Spaniard Luis Suárez
  • Spaniard Diego Tristán
  • Spaniards Víctor
  • Brazilians Bebeto
  • Brazilian Djalminha
  • Brazilians Rivaldo
  • Brazilian Mauro Silva
  • Moroccan Mustapha Hadji
  • Moroccans Noureddine Naybet
  • Dutchman Roy Makaay
  • Portuguese Pauleta
  • Portuguese Jorge Andrade
  • Spaniard Sergio González Soriano
  • Fabricio Coloccini Argentines
  • Spaniard Enrique Romero
  • Uruguayan Walter Pandiani
  • Spaniard Albert Luque
  • Paraguayan Roberto Acuña
  • Israeli Dudu Aouate
  • Spaniard Adrián López Álvarez
  • Spaniard Juan Carlos Valeron
Estadio Riazor Fernando Vázquez Copa del Rey A.C. Milan 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008–09 UEFA Cup HNK Hajduk Split Aalborg Boldspilklub Valencia CF Argentina Defender (association football) Carlos Marchena Portugal Cezary Wilk Kaká (footballer born 1981) 1994–95 Copa del Rey 2001–02 Copa del Rey 1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 2003–04 UEFA Champions League FC Barcelona B SD Eibar Girona FC UD Las Palmas CD Lugo RCD Mallorca Real Murcia CD Numancia SD Ponferradina Real Zaragoza
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