Deportivo Alavés B

Alavés B

Full name	Deportivo Alavés B, S.A.D.
Nickname(s)	Alavés Aficionados, Miniglorias
Founded	1959 (62 years)
Ground	José Luis Compañón, Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain
Capacity	2,500
President	Alfonso Fernández de Trocóniz
Head coach	José Manuel Aira
League	Segunda Federación – Group 2
2022–23	Segunda Federación – Group 2, 2nd of 18
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Deportivo Alavés B, S.A.D., usually known as Alavés B, is a Spanish football team based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1959 it is the reserve team of Deportivo Alavés, and currently plays in Segunda Federación – Group 2, holding home matches at Instalaciones de Ibaia-José Luis Compañon, the club's training facilities with 2,500 seat-capacity.^[1]

The team's home kit is blue and white-striped shirt, blue shorts and white socks.

League history

The league placings have largely mirrored the fortunes of the senior team. From their formation in the 1960s until the late 1990s, Alavés B competed only in the fourth (Tercera Grupo IV) or fifth (Preferente de Álava) tiers. They achieved promotion to Segunda División B in 1999,^[2][3] a year after the seniors climbed to La Liga. Alavés B remained in the third level for seven seasons, usually finishing mid-table, until demotion in 2005-06, the same year that the main side was relegated amid economic turmoil under Dmitry Piterman.

During the 2000s, Alavés B practically not contributed players to the Alavés first team, which has been almost exclusively nourished by foreign signings, and the decline of the club continued when the senior side themselves dropped into Segunda División B in 2009, while the B team were relegated back down to the fifth level. It took Alavés B only two seasons to regain fourth-level status^[4][5] whereas the seniors took four years to rise again to the second level, but they then gained promotion to La Liga after three further seasons while the B team stayed put in Tercera División from that point on; they eventually gained promotion in 2018–19 via the playoffs.^[6]

Season to season

• As a farm team

• As a reserve team

• 8 seasons in Segunda División B
• 2 seasons in Segunda Federación
• 20 seasons in Tercera División
• 1 season in Tercera División RFEF

Current squad

As of 22 December 2023.^[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  ARG Adrián Rodríguez 2 DF  ESP Joseda Álvarez 3 DF  ESP Eneko Ortiz 4 MF  MLI Daouda Doumbia 5 DF  ESP Adrián Pérez 6 MF  ESP Tomás Mendes 7 FW  DOM José de León 8 MF  GUI Selu Diallo 9 FW  ESP Maroan Sannadi 10 MF  ESP Unai Ropero (captain) 11 DF  ESP Egoitz Muñoz 14 DF  ESP Victor Parada 15 MF  ESP Julen Jon Guerrero 16 FW  GEO Giorgi Gagua 17 DF  CMR Stephane Keller

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW  ESP Aimar González 20 FW  BFA Mariano Aké 21 FW  ESP Juanma López 22 FW  ARG Joaquín Panichelli 24 DF  COL Santiago Perea 25 GK  UKR Oleksandr Kosarev 26 DF  CHI Sebastián Pino 28 MF  ESP Ander Sánchez 29 MF  CRO Mateo Tomić 30 MF  ESP Markel Ruiz 31 GK  ESP Gaizka García 32 FW  BUL Daniel Lyubomirov 33 GK  ESP Rubén Montero 37 DF  ESP Xanet Oláiz

Reserve team

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 FW  ESP Lander Pinillos 34 FW  ESP Imanol Fernández 35 DF  ESP Miguel Aranda 38 MF  ESP Marcos Ceña

No. Pos. Nation Player 40 DF  ESP Álvaro García 41 GK  ESP Victor Díez 42 FW  MAR Ibra Ouboumalne

Honours

• Tercera División^[a]
  • Champions (1): 2016–17^[b]
• RFEF Basque tournament
  • Winners (3): 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18

Notable players

References

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)
• Terra club info Archived 2013-01-06 at archive.today (in Spanish)

This page was last edited on 31 March 2024, at 12:48