SD Amorebieta

SD Amorebieta

Full name	Sociedad Deportiva Amorebieta
Nickname(s)	Azules (Blues)
Founded	1925
Ground	Urritxe, Amorebieta, Basque Country, Spain
Ground Capacity	3,000
Chairman	Maria Eugenia Etxebarria
Manager	Aitor Larrazábal
League	2ªB – Group 2
2015–16	2ªB – Group 2, 9th
Website	Club home page
Home colours

Sociedad Deportiva Amorebieta is a Spanish football team based it Amorebieta-Etxano, in the Basque Country. Founded on 4 January 1925 it currently plays in Segunda División B – Group 2, holding home games at Campo Municipal de Urritxe, which seats 3,000 spectators (all seated).

History

Amorebieta was founded in 1925 after the disappearance of Sociedad Deportiva Beti-Arin (founded on 2 December 1923). The Zornotzarra club, alongside 21 other clubs in Biscay, joined the Biscayan Football Federation.

In the 1926–27 season, the club made an outstanding campaign in his second competitive year. It had as its main rival FBC Durango, who finished in the top position after a tiebreaker match, after both teams totalled 14 points in the season. Despite finishing second, Amorebieta clinched the first promotion of its history, rising one step inside the Biscayan Regional category to play, the next year, in the Preferente C division.

In 1962–63, Amorebieta played in the Spanish Amateur Championship semifinals against Real Madrid's farm team, losing 0–2 in Vallecas and managing a 2–2 draw in the second leg, thus being eliminated.

Eighteen years later, the team finished second in Preferente, and played in a promotion play-off against Mondragón CF, which won 4–3 in the first leg; however, a 2–0 home triumph in the second match promoted, for the second time in its history, the club to the fourth division, where it remained for the following three decades.

Season to season

• 6 seasons in Segunda División B
• 36 seasons in Tercera División

Current squad

As of 15 October 2016

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

No. Position Player GK Borja Angoitia GK Jon Villanueva DF Iñigo Baqué DF Iñaki Garmendia DF Eriz Goiria DF Rubén González DF Mikel Méndez DF Alberto Morgado DF Iñaki Olaortua MF Aitor Castro

No. Position Player MF Alec Fiddes MF Adrien Goñi MF Javi Moreno MF Iker Seguín MF Mikel Muniozguren FW Ibrahima Dieng FW Dani Hernández FW Koldo Obieta FW Jon Orbegozo FW Javi Rodríguez

Honours / Achievements

• Tercera División: 2010–11
• Promotion to Preferente C: 1926–27
• Promotion to Tercera División: 1961–62, 1980–81
• Promotion to Segunda División B: 2010–11

External links

• Official website (Basque)
• Futbolme team profile (Spanish)