Sporting de Huelva

Sporting de Huelva

Full name	Sporting Club de Huelva
Founded	1979 / 2004
Ground	El Morillo, Trigueros
Chairman	J. Antonio Muñoz Lozano
Manager	Antonio Toledo
League	Primera División
2013-14	Primera División, 8th
Home colours Away colours

Sporting Club de Huelva, also known as Cajasol Trigueros Sporting for sponsorship reasons, is a Spanish women's football club from Trigueros, Huelva. It was founded in Huelva in 2004 as a restructuring of an homonymous junior (men's) football club, which had been founded in 1979 and dissolved nine years later, by its original founder, Antonio Toledo, who has also served as the team's manager and sporting director.^[1]

2006-07 Superliga match against Levante UD

Gaining promotion to the Superliga Femenina in just two seasons, Sporting Huelva debuted at the 2006-07 season. It has successfully avoided relegation for the past three seasons, actually ending the 2008-09 season just one point short for qualifying to the Copa de la Reina, losing the spot at the last matchday.^[2]

Next year Sporting was third in their group in the first stage of the newly reformed competition, narrowly missing qualification for the title contenders group. The team ranked again 3rd in its group in the second stage, qualifying for the Copa de la Reina for the first time. They qualified for the quarter-finals, eliminating Atlético Madrid before being ousted by Torrejón.

Financial difficulties conditioned the club's 2010-11 season. Following a weak performance in the first stage the team managed to recover in the second half of the season and was 2nd in their group, but Sporting had to renounce taking part in the Copa de la Reina.^[3]

Sporting chained four wins in the first weeks of the 2011-12 season, holding the lead of the table for the first time in its history.^[4] As of the end of 2011 the team stood 4th with 9 wins in 15 games, but after a less successful second half the team ended in the 8th position, was anyway is its best result to date. During the Christmas break president José Antonio Muñoz announced Sporting was in negotiations to become Recreativo Huelva's women's team for the 2012-13 season,^[5] but an agreement wasn't reached and Sporting was instead relocated to nearby Trigueros for the 2012–13 season.^[6]

Current squad

As of 8 December 2013 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 3 DF Elena Pavel 4 DF Sandra García 7 FW Cinta Rodríguez 6 DF Maite Albarrán 7 FW Anita Hernández 8 FW Cristina Martín-Prieto 9 MF Ángela Sosa 10 MF Martita Pérez 11 MF Espe Carrasco

No. Position Player 12 FW Rocío Pizarro 13 GK Sara Serrat 14 DF Patri Gavira 15 DF Laura Jurado 16 MF Sandra Castelló 17 MF Ana Serrano 19 DF Jenny Benítez 21 MF Virgy García

Former internationals

• Brazil: Renata Capobianco, Thaís Ribeiro, Dayane da Rocha, Fabiana Simões
• Bulgaria: Silvia Radoyska
• Colombia: Lady Andrade
• Kazakhstan: Irina Saratovtseva
• Portugal: Rita Carneiro, Mónica Gonçalves
• Romania: Olivia Oprea, Laura Rus
• Slovakia: Lucia El-Dahaibiová
• Spain: Alharilla Casado

Competition record

References