Gimnàstic de Tarragona

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Gimnàstic de Tarragona

Full name

Club Gimnàstic
de Tarragona

Nickname(s)

Nàstic

Founded

1886

Ground

Nou Estadi,
Tarragona, Catalonia,
Spain

Capacity

14,500

Chairman

Josep Maria Andreu

Manager

Paco Flores

League

La Liga

2005-06

Segunda División, 2nd





Home colours





Away colours

Gimnàstic de Tarragona is a Spanish Catalan sports club based in the city of Tarragona, Catalonia. Their football team plays the 2006/07 season in La Liga after gaining promotion from the Segunda División the previous season. Since 1972 they have played their home games at the Nou Estadi, which currently seats 12,000 spectators. The club was founded in 1886 and as result has been listed as one of the oldest football clubs in Spain [1]. However the club did not actually form a football team until 1914. Between 1947 and 1950 the club enjoyed a brief golden age and played three seasons in La Liga. Today the club also has teams competing in basketball, tennis, table tennis and futsal.

1 History
- 1.1 History of the club
- 1.2 Club Debut
2 Current squad 2006/07
- 2.1 Unregistered due to injury
3 Recent history
4 Selected Players
5 Selected Coaches
6 Honours
- 6.1 League Seasons
7 External links

[edit] History

[edit] History of the club

The club was founded on March 1 1886 by a group of fifteen people who met at the Café del Centro on Rambla Nova. The majority of the clubs early members belonged to the upper middle classes and as the club name suggests, it was initially founded to promote gymnastics. Later the club members also began to organise fencing, hiking, boxing and cycling. In 1914 the club absorbed a local football club called Olympic and consequently formed its own football team. In January 1918 they made their debut as a football team in the Championat de Catalunya and by 1927 the club were champions of the B division.

[edit] Club Debut

In 1943/44 Gimnàstic made their debut in the Tercera División and in 1944/45 they were promoted to the Segunda División. In 1946/47 they finished second in the Segunda División and the following season they made their debut in La Liga. In 1947 they also reached the Copa del Generalísimo semi-final but lost to RCD Español. In the quarter finals they had beaten CF Barcelona. They finished their debut La Liga season in seventh place with the highlight of the season coming on January 11 1948 when they beat Real Madrid 3-1 at the Bernabéu. As a result they became the first team to beat Real at the Bernabéu and are still the only team to win there on their first visit. They played two further seasons in La Liga but were relegated in 1949/50 after losing a play-off to CD Alcoyano.

[edit] Current squad 2006/07

The numbers are established according to the official website:www.gimnasticdetarragona.com and www.lfp.es

As of February 1, 2006

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Álvaro
2	DF	César Navas
3	DF	Mingo
4	DF	José María Calvo
5	MF	Jesús Serrano
6	FW	Tobias Grahn
7	MF	David Cuéllar
8	FW	Sébastien Chabaud
9	FW	Javier Portillo
10	MF	Carlos Merino
11	FW	Ariza Makukula (on loan from Sevilla FC)
12	DF	Ruz
13	GK	Rubén Pérez

No.	Position	Player
14	DF	David García
15	FW	Irurzun
16	DF	Aníbal Matellán
17	MF	Angel Morales
18	MF	Juan Díaz
19	MF	Alejandro Campano
20	MF	David Generelo
21	FW	Antonio Pinilla
22	MF	Gil
23	DF	Marco
24	FW	Rubén Castro
25	GK	Albano Bizarri
—	DF	Llera

[edit] Unregistered due to injury

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Oscar López (on loan from Real Betis)

[edit] Recent history

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Notes
2006/2007	1D	20	20	3	3	14	20	39	12				ongoing

[edit] Selected Players

Domènec Balmanya
Marc Bernaus
Carlos Alberto Moreno
Cristian Lupidio
Sergio Barila
Stéphane Rondelaere
Ekpoki
Goran Celar
Alfonso Vera

[edit] Selected Coaches

Joan Josep Nogués, 1940s
Domènec Balmanya, 1949-5x
Jordi Gonzalvo, 1995-97
Josep Maria Nogués, 2000-02
Jose Carlos Granero, 2002-03
Jordi Vinyals/ Alfons Muñoz, 2003-04

[edit] Honours

Segunda División B Champions: 1
- 1996-97
Tercera División Champions: 7
- 1944-45, 1954-55, 1960-61, 1965-66, 1966-67, 1971-72, 1977-78
Championat de Catalunya B Champions: 1
- 1926-27
Segunda División B League Cup: 1
- ?