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Real Zaragoza, S.A.D. is a Spain football (soccer) team from Zaragoza in Aragon. Founded on 18 March 1932, Zaragoza have this season gained promotion in the Segunda División 2008–09 Segunda División to the the Spanish top-flight. They play in white shirts with royal blue shorts. The home stadium is called La Romareda and seats 34,596 spectators.

History

Real Zaragoza was originally formed out of two rival teams, Iberia SC and Real Zaragoza CD. By the 1930s, Zaragoza was making headway in La Liga, but the Spanish Civil War put a brake on a lot of the progress made.

On 8 September 1957, Zaragoza left their original stadium (the Torrero) for the La Romareda. It was not until the 1960s that Zaragoza would see their first successes, in the Copa del Rey and in the Fairs Cup. Juan Seminario he was top scorer in La Liga (with 25 goals in 30 matches) for the 1961/62 season. The Real Zaragoza side of this era contained los Magnificos (the Greats), an attacking line of Canario, Santos, Marcelino, Villa and Lapetra. Other notable players included Reija and Violeta in defence. Fans of the side had to wait until the 1980s to experience another victory in the cup competition.

Real Zaragoza have played the majority of their history, a total of 45 seasons, in the Primera División. Being more of a specialist cup side, they have not managed to win the league, although they have come second on one occasion. In the 2001-02 season they were relegated from the Primera for the first time in 25 years; however, they earned promotion back to the Primera the following season.

On 10 May 1995, Real Zaragoza won the UEFA Cup Winner's Cup against Arsenal FC in Parc des Princes, in Paris. The result was 1:2, and Mohammed Ali Ammar "Nayim" scored from the half in 120', just before penalty kicks.

In late May 2006, Agapito Iglesias bought Alfonso Solans' shares and took the control of Real Zaragoza. Agapito promised to build one of the strongest team in Spain and Europe. In his first year owning Real Zaragoza, Agapito bought Pablo Aimar for €11 million to reinforce the midfield. In a poll in 2007, Zaragoza fans voted Aimar the teams greatest ever player.

Thanks to Diego Milito's 23 goals in 2006/07 (he finished third to AS Roma's Francesco Totti and Real Madrid CF's Ruud van Nistelrooy- 26 and 25 goals, respectively- for the European Golden Shoe), Real Zaragoza managed a very respectable 6th place finish, qualifying for Europe. Despite having a nearly unchanged squad from the previous campaign, the 2007/08 season would finish with this Zaragoza team becoming one of the most disappointing and underachieving teams in La Liga history. They crashed out in the first round of the UEFA Cup. By the turn of the year, they found themselves slipping further and further down the table. Gaffer Víctor Fernández was sacked, and 3 different managers, culminating with former Zaragoza standout Manolo Villanova, were brought in from January to May in a desperate attempt to change Zaragoza's fortunes. Largely due to earning a dismal 8 points from 18 away fixtures (despite having managed 34 from all their games at La Romareda), they went into their final fixture of the season needing a win to guarantee their Primera División survival. Kickoff was delayed for over an hour due to a torrential downpour, but not even the rain could keep Zaragoza from relegation as they fell to RCD Mallorca 3-2, despite 2 goals from Ricardo Oliveira and at 1-1 looking like they might stay up.

Real Zaragoza got promoted for the 2009-2010 season after their final game. They drew 2-2 away to Rayo Vallecano with goals from Generelo and ex-Real Madrid defender Pavon.

Honours

Winners

- Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1
- - Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1963-64

- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1
- - UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1994-95

- Copa del Rey: 6
- - 1964-1965, 1965-1966, 1985-1986, 1993-1994, 2000-2001, 2003-2004

- Spanish Supercup: 1
- - 2004

- Segunda División: 1
- - 1977-78

Players

As of July 29 2009

Statistics 2008/09

- Top Scorers:
- - Ewerthon - 28 goals
- Top Goalkeepers
- - López Vallejo - 24 clean sheets in 26 Matches

Seasons

Recent seasons

- 15 seasons in Segunda División
- 4 seasons in Tercera División

Famous players

Spain:
- Alberto Belsué
- Xavier Aguado
- Santiago Aragón
- Jorge González Díaz
- Pier (footballer)
- Andoni Cedrún Ibarra
- Daniel García Lara
- Carlos Lapetra
- Marcelino Martínez
- Nayim
- Francisco Jémez Martín
- Ander Garitano
- Miguel Pardeza
- Severino Reija
- Juan Antonio Señor
- Fernando Morientes
- David Villa
- Víctor Muñoz
- Pichi Alonso
- César Láinez
- Jesús García Sanjuán
- Salvador García
- Martín Vellisca
- Francisco Villaroya
- Roberto Martínez
- Alberto Zapater

Argentina:
- Andrés D'Alessandro
- Pablo Aimar
- Juan Barbas
- Juan Eduardo Esnáider
- Luciano Galletti
- Kily González
- Gustavo Adrián López
- Diego Milito
- Gabriel Milito
- Marcelo Trobbiani
- Jorge Valdano

Austria:
- Otto Konrad

Brazil:
- Cafu
- Paulo Jamelli
- Ewerthon

Bulgaria:
- Nasko Sirakov

Chile:
- Patricio Yáñez

Colombia:
- Faryd Aly Mondragón

Cuba:
- Mario Inchausti

Germany:
- Andreas Brehme

Netherlands:
- Frank Rijkaard
- Nordin Wooter

Paraguay:
- Roberto Acuña
- Raúl Vicente Amarilla
- Saturnino Arrúa
- José Luis Chilavert
- Carlos Diarte
- Delio Toledo

Peru:
- Juan Seminario
- Luis Redher
- Miguel Rebosio

Portugal:
- Carlos Chaínho
- Rui Jordão

Romania:
- Dorin Mateuţ

Russia:
- Vladislav Radimov

Serbia:
- Savo Milošević

Uruguay:
- Julio César Benítez
- Juan Carlos Blanco
- Gustavo Poyet
- Rubén Sosa

Sweden:
- Gary Sundgren
- Juan Seminario: 1961-1962

Coaches

Chronology of coaches

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- 1935: José Planas
- 1935–1936: Manuel Olivares
- 1939–1941: Tomás Arnanz
- 1941: Francisco Gamborena
- 1941: Julio Uritarte - Julio Ostalé
- 1941–1943: Jacinto Quincoces
- 1943–1945: Patricio Caicedo
- 1945: Tomás Arnanz
- 1945–1946: Juanito Ruiz
- 1946–1947: Manuel Olivares
- 1947–1948: Antonio Sorribas
- 1948: Enrique Soladrero
- 1948: Antonio Macheda
- 1948–1949: Francisco Bru
- 1949: Isaac Oceja
- 1949–1950: Juanito Ruiz
- 1950: José Planas
- 1950-1951: Luis Urquiri
- 1951: Juanito Ruiz
- 1951–1952: Emilio Berkessy
- 1952–1953: Domingo Balmanya
- 1953–1954: Pedro Eguiluz
- 1954–1956: Edmundo Suárez
- 1956–1958: Jacinto Quincoces
- 1958: Juan Álvarez Casariego
- 1958–1959: Juan Ochoantesana
- 1959–1960: Edmundo Suárez
- 1960–1963: César Rodríguez Álvarez
- 1963–1964: Antoni Ramallets
- 1964: Luis Bello
- 1964–1965: Roque Olsen
- 1965–1966: Luis Hon
- 1966–1967: Ferdinand Daučík
- 1967: Andrés Lerín
- 1967–1968: Roque Olsen
- 1968–1969: César Rodríguez
- 1969–1970: Héctor Rial
- 1970: José María Martín
- 1970–1971: Domingo Balmanya
- 1971: José Luis García Traid
- 1971: Rosendo Hernández
- 1971–1972: Rafael Iriondo
- 1972–1976: Luis Cid
- 1976–1977: Lucien Muller
- 1977–1978: Arsenio Iglesias
- 1978–1979: Vujadin Boškov
- 1979–1981: Manuel Villanova
- 1981–1984: Leo Beenhakker
- 1984–1985: Enzo Ferrari
- 1985–1987: Luis Costa
- 1987–1988: Manuel Villanova
- 1988–1990: Radomir Antić
- 1990–1991: Ildo Maneiro
- 1991–1996: Víctor Fernández
- 1996–1997: Víctor Espárrago
- 1997–1998: Luis Costa
- 1998-2000: Chechu Rojo
- 2000: Juan Manuel Lillo
- 2000–2001: Luis Costa
- 2001–2002: Chechu Rojo
- 2002: Luis Costa
- 2002: Marcos Alonso
- 2002–2004: Paco Flores
- 2004–2006: Víctor Muñoz
- 2006–2008: Víctor Fernández
- 2008: Ander Garitano
- 2008: Javier Irureta
- 2008: Manolo Villanova
- 2008– : Marcelino García Toral
|}
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