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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

Image:Flag of Spain.svg Josep Maria Andreu i Prats

Manager

Image:Flag of Spain.svg Paco Flores

League

La Liga

2005-06

Segunda División, 2nd





Home colours





Away colours

Gimnàstic de Tarragona is a Spanish sports club based in the city of Tarragona in Catalonia. Their football team will play 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 Early Years
- 1.2 Golden Age
2 Current squad 2006/07
3 Selected Players
4 Selected Coaches
5 Honours
- 5.1 League Stats
6 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Early Years

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] Golden Age

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	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	GK	Álvaro
2	Image:Flag of Paraguay.svg	DF	Cáceres
3	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	DF	Mingo
4	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Serrano
5	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	DF	Llera
6	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Abel Buades
7	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Cuéllar
8	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Martínez
9	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	FW	Portillo
10	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Merino
11	Image:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg	FW	Ariza Makukula
12	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	DF	Ruz
13	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	GK	Rubén

No.		Position	Player
14	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	DF	David García
15	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	FW	Irurzun
16	Image:Flag of Argentina.svg	DF	Matellán
17	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Morales
18	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Juan Díaz
19	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Campano
20	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Generelo
21	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	FW	Pinilla
22	Image:Flag of Brazil.svg	MF	Gil
23	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	DF	Marco
24	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	FW	Rubén Castro
25	Image:Flag of Argentina.svg	GK	Bizarri
TBD	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	DF	Óscar López

[edit] Selected Players

[edit] Selected Coaches

Image:Flag of Spain.svg Joan Josep Nogués, 1940s
Image:Flag of Spain.svg Domènec Balmanya, 1950s
Image:Flag of Spain.svg Jordi Gonzalvo, 1995-97
Image:Flag of Spain.svg Josep Maria Nogués, 2000-02
Image:Flag of Spain.svg Jose Carlos Granero, 2002-03
Image:Flag of Spain.svg 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
- ?