Granada CF
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| Full name | Granada Club de Fútbol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 14 April 1931 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Nuevo Los Cármenes, Granada, Granada (province), Spain (Capacity 16,200) |
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| Chairman |  Francisco Sanz |
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| Head Coach | Oscar Cano |
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| League | 2ªB - Group 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007-08 | 2ªB - Group 4, 5th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Granada Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in Granada in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1931, the club currently plays in Group 4 of the Segunda División B. Their stadium is Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes with a capacity of 16,200.
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[edit] History
- Main article: History of Granada CF
Granada Club de Fútbol was founded on 14 April 1931. Its original name was Recreativo de Granada and the first president was Julio López Fernández.
The first football match was played against Deportivo Jaén, and Granada CF won with a final score of 2-1. The first goal in the match, and in Granada CF history, was scored by Antonio Bombillar.
In the 1931-32 season the club won the Tercera Regional - Región Sur championship.
After several promotions, in the 1941-42 season the club debuts in the Primera División (today known as La Liga). From here until eighties the club alternates its participation between Primera división and Segunda División, with its golden age at the seventies when it played during eight seasons on Primera división, getting its best classification: 6th on seasons 1971-72 and 1973-74.
In 1959 it obtained its greatest sports landmark, being the runner-up of Copa del Generalísimo (Copa del Rey). In the final match, played in Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, the team lost to it FC Barcelona 4-1.
As of the 1980 the team had some brief appearances in the Segunda División, but the great part of time the team was in the Segunda División B, until 2002-03 season when it was relegated to the Tercera División due to the non-payment to its players, with the passivity of the local authorities and local businessmen.
After five seasons in the Tercera División, D. Francisco Sanz and his father D. Lorenzo Sanz (ex-president of Real Madrid) arrive at Granada CF. With their help the club is again promoted again to Segunda División B, and establishes the bases of its future: to be a professional club, with healthy finances, planning a return to La Liga.
In season 2007-08the team is in the fourth group of Segunda División B.
[edit] Colours
When it was founded, the main kit of Granada CF was a shirt with blue and white vertical stripes and white shorts.
At the end of the 1970s, the club changed the vertical stripes for horizontal stripes to animate the supporters. Since then the club changed several times between the use of horizontal stripes and vertical stripes, following the opinion of the president of the moment, until 2004-05 season when in a member assembly it was decided to use horizontal stripes definitively.
The last kit used by Granada CF is:
- Main kit: Shirt with red and white horizontal stripes, blue shorts and white socks finished with a red line
- Second kit: Shirt with blue and white horizontal stripes, blue (or white) shorts and white socks finished with a red line.
[edit] Stadium
- Main article: Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes
After its foundation the team played its local matches at Campo de Las Tablas, inaugurated on 20 December 1931. The existence of this field ground is short because on 23 December 1934 is inaugurated a new stadium: Estadio Los Cármenes. The club plays its local matches in this stadium until 1995 when is inaugurated the stadium Nuevo Los Cármenes.
Since 1995-96 season Granada CF plays its local matches in Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes, inaugurated on 16 May 1995, with a capacity of 16.212 seats.
- Dimensions: 105x68 meters.
- Address: C/ Pintor Manuel Maldonado s/n.
- Inauguration date: 16 may 1995, with the match Real Madrid - Bayer Leverkusen (1-0).
- First Granada CF match: 22 August 1995. Granada CF - Betis (4-1) [XXIII Granada Trophy].
[edit] Players
[edit] 2007-08 Squad
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[edit] 2007-08 Out on loan
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[edit] Famous players
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see also Cat:Granada CF footballers
[edit] Technical staff
- Main category: Cat:Granada CF managers
[edit] 2007-08 Technical staff
- Manager: Óscar Cano.
- Assistant Manager and Fitness Coach: José Alfonso Morcillo.
- Auxiliary Coach: Juan Carlos Morán.
- Delegate: Pedro Pérez Taboada.
- Reserve Teams Coordinator: Pedro Peso.
- Doctor: Fabián Belmonte.
- Physiotherapist: Javier Ávila.
- Reserve Team Manager: Juanjo Rodríguez.
[edit] Famous Coaches
- Francisco Bru: 1941-43
Jenő Kálmár: 1958-60
[edit] Presidents
- Main category: Cat:Granada CF Chairmens
- Main article: Granada CF Chairmens
[edit] 2007-08
- President: Francisco Sanz Durán.
- Manager: Francisco García Montero.
- Investor: Lorenzo Sanz Mancebo.
- Vice-president: Raimundo Pérez Huertas.
- Secretary: José Miguel Martínez Galán.
- Legal consultant: José María Medina Jorges.
- Treasurer: Roberto Prados Zarzo.
- Sport commission: Félix Cobos y Santiago Antonaya.
- Facilities and reserve teams: Francisco Oviedo Martín y Antoni Sánchez.
- External relations: Alberto Ruano.
- Merchandising and sport material: Antonio Navarro Rodríguez.
- Relations with supporters: Carlos Rivera Serrano.
- Relations with businessmen: Enrique Oviedo.
- Legal consultant and Hacienda y Seguridad Social commission: Nicolás Sánchez Carmona.
- Publicity: Luís Fernández Pérez.
- Relations with Granada Club de Fútbo Foundation: Martín Domingo Carrillo.
[edit] Club information
- Address: C/ Recogidas, 35. 1º D. 18005 Granada.
- Telephone: 958 25 33 00.
- Fax: 958 25 33 04.
- Official Web: www.granadacf.es.
- Global budget: about 1.800.000 €.
- First team budget: about 1.200.000 €.
- Associates number: Not determined.
- Seasons in:
- 1ª división (La liga): 17
- 2ª división: 30
- 2ª división B: 19
- 3ª división: 5
[edit] Major Achievements
[edit] Domestic tournaments
- 2ª División (2): 1956-57, 1967-68.
- 2ª División B (2): 1982-83, 1999-00.
- 3ª División (3): 1933-34, 2003-04, 2005-06.
- Copa del Generalísimo runner-up: 1959.
- 2ª División runner-up: 1939-40, 1940-41 and 1965-66.
- Primera División Best Finish - 6th: 1972, 1974
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