Sporting de Huelva

Sporting de Huelva
Full nameSporting Club de Huelva
Founded1979 / 2004
GroundCiudad Deportiva del Recreativo de Huelva
Huelva, Spain
Capacity1,300
ChairmanManuela Romero Landa
ManagerAntonio Toledo
LeagueSecond Division (II)
2023–24Liga F, 16th (relegated)
Websitehttps://www.sportingclubhuelva.com

Sporting Club de Huelva is a Spanish women's football club from Huelva, Andalusia. 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][2]

History

Gaining promotion to the Liga F 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.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5] 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 Muñoz Lozano announced Sporting was in negotiations to become Recreativo Huelva's women's team for the 2012–13 season,[6] but an agreement was not reached and Sporting was instead relocated to nearby Trigueros for the 2012–13 season.[7]

On 17 May 2015, Sporting de Huelva won its first national title after achieving the 2015 Copa de la Reina by defeating Valencia CF in the final match by 2–1.[8]

Players

Current squad

As of 18 April 2023[9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  ENG Chelsea Ashurst
3 DF  BRA Ana Carol
4 FW  VEN Raiderlin Carrasco
9 FW  ESP María Ruiz
10 MF  SWE Sofia Hagman
11 FW  SVK Patrícia Hmírová
12 FW  ESP Bárbara López
13 GK  SVN Zala Meršnik
14 DF  ESP Laia Ballesté
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 DF  ESP Patri Ojeda
16 DF  ESP Sandra Castelló (captain)
17 DF  ESP Laura Blasco
18 DF  USA Athena Kühn
19 DF  ESP Paula Romero
20 MF  SWE Amanda Edgren
21 FW  ESP Cristina Gey
22 DF  ISL Berglind Rós Ágústsdóttir
23 MF  POL Patrycja Balcerzak
24 FW  ESP Natalia Nogareda
25 GK  ESP Bella Ramírez
26 FW  ESP Eva Cintado
— FW  AUS Anna Margraf

Former internationals

Competition record

Main article: List of Sporting de Huelva seasons
Season Div. Pos. Copa de la Reina
2004–05 Reg.
2005–06 2ª 1st
2006–07 1ª 10th
2007–08 1ª 11th
2008–09 1ª 9th
2009–10 1ª 13th Quarter-finals
2010–11 1ª 12th
2011–12 1ª 8th
2012–13 1ª 9th
2013–14 1ª 8th Quarter-finals
2014–15 1ª 8th Champion
2015–16 1ª 8th Quarter-finals
2016–17 1ª 10th
2017–18 1ª 9th
2018–19 1ª 14th Round of 16
2019–20 1ª 14th Round of 16
2020–21 1ª 10th
2021–22 1ª 10th Runner-ups
2022–23 1ª 13th Third round
2023–24 1ª 16th Round of 16
2024–25 2ª 14th Round of 16

Titles

References

  1. ^ [1] Sporting de Huelva, 2 July 2009. 30th anniversary of the club.
  2. ^ Parada, Carlos Casado (16 September 2020). "El Sporting de Huelva apuesta por una temporada tranquila". Grada3.
  3. ^ [2] Soccerway.com
  4. ^ [3] ADN
  5. ^ [4] Futfem.com
  6. ^ A women's team for Recreativo Huelva? Blanquiazules
  7. ^ Trigueros takes in Sporting de Huelva, which will be able to keep playing in the Superliga. Andalucía Información, 3 July 2012
  8. ^ "El CD Sporting Club de Huelva, un histórico e inesperado gran campeón de la Copa de la SM La Reina" (in Spanish). RFEF. 18 May 2015.
  9. ^ "Squad of Sporting de Huelva 2022-23 Primera División Femenina | BDFutbol". www.bdfutbol.com. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
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