SD Compostela

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Sociedade Deportiva Compostela, S.A.D. is a List of football clubs in Spain based in Santiago de Compostela, in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain). Founded in 1962, it currently plays in Segunda División B.

History

A relatively new club, Compostela spent much of the 1960s and 1970s playing regional football. Its first promotion to a semi-national stage occurred in 1977, with a promotion to Segunda División B (Group 1), which lasted just one season; Compos promoted again in 1980, this time lasting six years.

Relegation in 1986, was compounded by off-field controversy surrounding the actions of then president Francisco Steppe. He resigned amid allegations of receipt of payments to throw a game against Pontevedra CF, which would maintain Pontevedra's presence in the category. The late 1980s saw a significant restructuring of SD Compostela both at board and management levels and, in 1990, Compostela regained third-level status.

The following season was to prove SD Compostela's most successful to date. On 23 June 1991, a capacity crowd of 8,000 at the Estadio Municipal Santa Isabel, saw goals from Juanito and Ochoa (two) clinch a 3-1 victory in the final play-off match against CD Badajoz, for a first-ever Segunda División visit.

The move to Estadio Multiusos de San Lázaro coincided with the continuing rise in the team’s fortunes and, in Segunda División 1993-94, following a 3-1 play-off victory against Rayo Vallecano, Compostela reached the La Liga. For a small regional club, Compostela did remarkably well, and reached a best finish of 10th in La Liga 1995-96, mainly courtesy of Striker (football)s Christopher Ohen and Bent Christensen Arensøe, whom totalled 23 league goals.

After four seasons at the top, Compostela was relegated after losing a relegation play-off match to Villarreal CF, on away goals, despite playing overall attractive football. SD Compostela was also about to start a downward spiral; after a relegation to the third level in Segunda División 2000-01, SD Compostela returned the following year but, in Segunda División 2002-03, played to a backdrop of off-field distractions, with the players and staff going unpaid for months, a final 9th place was not enough to prevent another relegation, as SD Compostela failed to meet the 31 July deadline to settle all wage debts.

Off-field problems continued in 2003-04, with the pinnacle being the players, who had not been paid in several months, refusing to appear for a fixture at UB Conquense, with the subsequent loss of three points. At the season's close, after the actual relegation, Compostela dropped further to the Galician Regional Preferente (north) after failing again to meet the financial deadline.

Compostela's rise and decline has been mirrored by other regional clubs such as CF Extremadura, Granada CF and Mérida UD. In the 2007-08 season, however, SD Compostela won its regional league and returned to Tercera once again. In the following campaign, after finishing first in its group, SD Compostela beat Atlético Monzón with a 4-2 aggregate (3-0, 1-2) aggregate and won a second consecutive promotion.

Stadiums

SD Compostela play at the Estadio Multiusos de San Lázaro, which has a capacity of 12,000. The pitch dimensions are 107 x 68 metres.

Compostela played their first season at Estadio da Residencia da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, whilst work was completed on their first permanent ground, Estadio Municipal de Santa Isabel; on 22 September 1963, it played the first match at the new stadium. It was a basic enclosure and lacked a covered stand until 1969, when a tribune was erected and floodlights installed at a cost of 1 million pesetas. Compostela continued to use the ground for first team fixtures until the end of the 1993 season. The reserve team, Compostela B, played on at Santa Isabel until early 2003, when the ground was finally demolished and replaced with a municipal sports centre that bore the same name.

Work started on the Multiusos de San Lázaro in 1991. Situated in the eastern suburb of San Lázaro, it was a multi-purpose arena, used primarily for the football matches of its two resident clubs, Compostela and SD Ciudad de Santiago. Oval in shape and with a terracotta-coloured roof on the west side to incorporate the directors' seating and press facilities on a second tier, the pitch was surrounded by a 400m athletics track, relatively uncommon in Spanish stadiums.

The inaugural match took place on 24 June 1993, when a four-way tournament was staged, featuring Deportivo de La Coruña, CD Tenerife, Club Atlético River Plate and São Paulo FC. Deportivo and River played in the first match, and Bebeto had the honour of scoring the first goal.

Seasons

- 7 seasons in Segunda División
- 10 seasons in Segunda División B
- 17 seasons in Tercera División
- 9 seasons in Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol

Famous players

- Miguel D'Agostino
- Matías Biscay
- Juan Vojvoda
- Kosta Salapasidis
- Vladimir Gudelj
- Fabiano Soares Pessoa
- Maurício Leandro da Silva Filho
- William Amaral de Andrade
- Adriano Felix Teixeira
- Ricardo Ferreira Lima
- Luboslav Penev
- Dragan Skočić
- Bent Christensen Arensøe
- Franck Passi
- Virgilio Hernandez Paesa
- Jean-François Hernandez
- Stéphane Pignol
- Said Chiba
- Juan Viedma Schenkhuizen

- Martin Wolfswinkel
- Peter Hoekstra (footballer)
- Christopher Ohen
- Festus Agu
- Daniel Baston
- Dmitri Popov
- Dmitri Radchenko
- Al Hagie Sagna
- Goran Saula
- Zoran Maric
- Javier Bellido Plaza
- Pablo Coira
- Pablo Pinillos Caro
- Tomás Reñones
- Maikel Hermann Naujoks
- Changui (footballer)
- Romano Sion
- Oscar Ferro
- José Ramón (footballer)
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