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Valencia C.F

Image:Valencia CF logo.svg

Full name

Valencia Club de Fútbol

Nickname(s)

Los Ches, The Bats

Founded

1919

Ground

Estadio Mestalla

Capacity

53,000

Chairman

Image:Flag of Spain.svg Juan Bautista Soler Luján

Manager

Image:Flag of Spain.svg Quique Sánchez Flores

League

La Liga

2005-06

3rd





Home colours





Away colours

Valencia Club de Fútbol (also known as Valencia CF or Valencia) is a Spanish professional football team based in Valencia, Spain. They play in the La Liga championship and are one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football. Valencia CF has won six La Liga titles, six Copa del Rey trophies, and three international UEFA Cup tournaments also winning a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and two UEFA Super Cup's they have also been European Cup final runners-up on two different occasions in 2000 and 2001. Valencia is also a member of the G-14 group of leading European football clubs.

Founded in 1919, Valencia CF has played its home games at Estadio Mestalla since 1923. With 53,000 seats, the Mestalla is the fifth largest stadium in Spain. Based on income figures for the 2004-05 season, Valencia CF is the 19th richest club in the world.<ref>[1]</ref>

1 History
2 Stadium
3 Presidents
4 Honours
5 Current squad
- 5.1 Captains
- 5.2 Foreigners 2006-07
6 Statistics 2005/06
7 Former notable players
8 Former notable coaches
9 References
10 External links

[edit] History

The club was established in 1919, with Octavio Augusto Milego Díaz as its first president; incidentally the presidency was decided by a coin toss. The club played its first competitive match away from home on 21 May 1919 against Valencia Gimnástico, and lost the match 1-0.

Image:Mestalla2.jpg Valencia CF moved into the Mestalla stadium in 1923, having played its home matches at the Algirós ground since 7 December 1919. The first match at Mestalla pitted the home side against Castellón Castalia and ended a 0-0 draw. In another match the day after, Valencia won against the same opposition 1-0. Valencia CF won the Regional Championship in 1923, and was eligible to play in the domestic Copa del Rey cup competition for the first time in its history.

[edit] First success

The Spanish Civil War halted the progress of the Valencia team until 1941, when it won the Copa del Rey, beating RCD Espanyol in the final. In the 1941-42 season, the club won its first Spanish La Liga championship title, although winning the Copa del Rey was more reputable than the championship at that time. The club maintained its consistency to capture the league title again in the 1943-44 season, as well as the 1946-47 league edition.

In the 1950s, the club failed to emulate the success of the 1940s, even though it grew as a club. A restructuring of Mestalla resulted in an increase in spectator capacity to 45,000, while the club had a number of Spanish and foreign stars. Players such as Spanish internationals Antonio Puchades and Jacinto Quincoces graced the pitch at Mestalla, along with Dutch forward Faas Wilkes and Brazilian midfielder Sócrates. In the 1952-53 season, the club finished as runners-up in the La Liga, and in the following season, the club won the Copa del Rey, then known as the Copa del Generalísimo.

[edit] European successes

While managing indifferent league form in the early 1960s, the club had its first European success in the form of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (now known as the UEFA Cup). In the 1961-62 season, Valencia beat Spanish club FC Barcelona in the final. The 1962-62 edition of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final, pitted Valencia CF against Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb, which the Valencians also won. Valencia CF was again present in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final in the 1963-64 season, but was defeated 2-1 by Real Zaragoza from Spain.

Former two-time European Footballer of the Year award winner Alfredo Di Stéfano was hired as coach in 1970, and immediately inspired his new club to their fourth La Liga championship. This secured Valencia CF its first qualification for the European Cup, contested by the various European domestic champions. Valencia reached the third round of the 1971-72 competition, before loosing to Hungarian champions Újpest TE. The most notable players of the 1970s era include Austrian midfielder Kurt Jara, forward Johnny Rep of the Netherlands and Argentinian forward Mario Kempes, who became the La Liga topscorer for two consecutive seasons in the 1976-77 and 1977-78 season. Valencia would go on to win the Copa del Rey again in the 1978-79 season, and also capture the European Cup Winners' Cup the next season, after beating English club Arsenal FC in the final, with Kempes spearheading Valencia's success in Europe.

[edit] Relegation and promotion

In 1982, the club appointed Miljan Miljanic as coach. After a disappointing season, Valencia was in the 17th place and faced relegation with seven games left to play. Koldo Aguirre replaced Miljanic as coach, and Valencia barely avoided relegation that year, relying on favorable results from other teams to ensure their own survival. In the 1983-84 and 1984-85 season, the club was heavily in debt under the presidency of Vicente Tormo. The club finally hit rock bottom when it was relegated at near the end of the 1985-86 season, and riven with internal problems such as unpaid player and staff wages, as well as poor team spirit. The club was relegated for the first time after 55 years in Spanish top-flight football.

Arturo Tuzón was named as new president of the club, and he helped steer Valencia CF back to La Liga. Alfredo Di Stéfano returned as coach in 1986, and Valencia won promotion again following the 1986-87 season. Di Stéfano stayed on as coach until the 1987-88 season, which the team finished in 14th position in La Liga. Bulgarian forward Luboslav Penev joined the club in 1989, as Valencia aimed to consolidate their place in La Liga. Guus Hiddink was appointed as head coach in the 1991-92 season, and the club finished fourth in the League and reached the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey. In 1992, Valencia CF officially became a Sporting Limited Company, and retained Hiddink as their coach until 1993.

Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, fresh from winning the 1994 FIFA World Cup with the Brazilian national team, became manager at Mestalla in 1994. Parreira immediately signed the Spanish goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta and the Russian forward Oleg Salenko, as well as Predrag Mijatovic, but failed to produce results expected of him. He was replaced by new coach José Manuel Rielo. The club's earlier successes continued to elude it, although it was not short of top coaching staff like Luis Aragonés and Jorge Valdano, as well as foreign star forwards like Brazilian Romário, and Claudio López and Ariel Ortega from Argentina.

[edit] European revival

It was Italian coach Claudio Ranieri who broke the 19-year trophy draught, when he led Valencia to victory in the 1999 Copa del Rey. Héctor Cúper replaced Ranieri after the trophy win, and immediately introduced a new brand of attacking football to the team. His time as head coach culminated in Valencia's first UEFA Champions League final participation in the 1999-00 season, although they lost 3-0 in Paris to Spanish rivals Real Madrid CF. Cúper subsequently led the team to another Champions League final in the next season, this time losing to Bayern Munich on penalty shootout.

Héctor Cúper left the club in 2001, and Rafa Benítez was appointed new head coach. Benítez lead the club to its first La Liga title in 31 years, when Valencia were crowned Spanish champions in the 2001-02 season. Valencia won its second La Liga championship in three years, when Benítez guided the club to a double success in the 2003-04 season, winning both the La Liga title and the UEFA Cup.

[edit] Stadium

Image:Mestalla1.jpg Valencia played its first years at the Algirós stadium, but moved to the Estadio Mestalla in 1923. In the 1950s, Mestalla was restructured, which resulted in a capacity increase to 45,000 spectator. Today it holds 53,000 seats. However Valencia is scheduled to move to a new stadium in the north-west of the city Valencia in 2009.<ref>[2]</ref><ref>The new Valencia CF Stadium</ref>

[edit] Presidents

1919-1922: Jorge Mainar
1922: Francisco Vidal Muñoz
1922-1924: Ramón Leonarte Ribera
1924-1925: Pablo Verdeguer Comes
1925-1929: Facundo Pascual Quilis
1929-1932: Juan Giménez Cánovas
1932-1933: Manuel García del Moral
1933-1935: Adolfo Royo Soriano
1935-1936: Francisco Almenar Quinzá
1939-1940: Alfredo Giménez Buesa
1940-1959: Luis Casanova Giner
1959-1961: Vicente Iborra Gil
1961-1973: Julio de Miguel y Martínez de Bujanda
1973-1975: Francisco Ros Casares
1976-1983: José Ramos Costa
1983-1986: Vicente Tormo Alfonso
1986-1993: Arturo Tuzón Gil
1993-1994: Melchor Hoyos Pérez
1994-1997: Francisco Roig Alfonso
1997-2001: Pedro Cortés García
2001-2004: Jaime Ortí Ruiz
2004-current: Juan Bautista Soler

[edit] Honours

La Liga Champions: 6 1941-42, 1943-44, 1946-47, 1970-71, 2001-02, 2003-04
Copa del Rey: 6 1940-41, 1948-49, 1953-54, 1966-67, 1978-79, 1998-99
Spanish Super Cup: 2 1949, 1999
UEFA Champions League: 2 Runners-up: 1999-00, 2000-01.
UEFA Cup: 3 1961-62, 1962-63, 2003-04
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1 1979-80
UEFA Super Cup: 2 1980, 2004
UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1 1998

Preceded by: FC Barcelona	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Winner 1980 Runner up: Arsenal	Succeeded by: Dinamo Tbilisi

[edit] Current squad

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

As of 12 September 2006

No.		Position	Player
1	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	GK	Santiago Cañizares
2	Image:Flag of Portugal.svg	DF	Miguel
3	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	DF	Asier del Horno
4	Image:Flag of Argentina.svg	DF	Roberto Ayala
5	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	DF	Carlos Marchena
6	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	David Albelda (Captain)
7	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	FW	David Villa
8	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Rubén Baraja
9	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	FW	Fernando Morientes
10	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	FW	Miguel Ángel Angulo
11	Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg	MF	Mario Regueiro
12	Image:Flag of Italy.svg	FW	Francesco Tavano
13	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	GK	Juan Luis Mora

No.		Position	Player
14	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Vicente
15	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Joaquín
16	Image:Flag of Portugal.svg	MF	Hugo Viana
17	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	DF	David Navarro
18	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Jorge López
19	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Gavilán
20	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	Raúl Albiol
21	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	MF	David Silva
22	Image:Flag of Brazil.svg	MF	Edu
23	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	DF	Curro Torres
24	Image:Flag of Italy.svg	DF	Emiliano Moretti
25	Image:Flag of France.svg	GK	Ludovic Butelle
26	Image:Flag of Spain.svg	DF	Cerra

[edit] Captains

[edit] Foreigners 2006-07

Only three non-European Union nationals can be on the pitch at any time. Those with European ancestry can claim a passport from the nation their ancestors came from. If a player does not have European ancestry, he can claim a Spanish passport after playing in Spain for five years.

Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Ayala
Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Edu
Image:Flag of France.svg Image:European flag.svg Butelle
Image:Flag of Italy.svg Image:European flag.svg Moretti
Image:Flag of Italy.svg Image:European flag.svg Tavano
Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Image:European flag.svg Miguel
Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Image:European flag.svg Hugo Viana
Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg Image:Flag of Spain.svg Regueiro

[edit] Statistics 2005/06

La Liga	Position	Pts	P	W	D	L	F	A
Valencia CF	3	69	38	19	12	7	58	33

Top scorers

- David Villa - 1225 goals
- Miguel Angulo - 6 goals
- Pablo Aimar - 5 goals
Top goalkeepers
- Santiago Cañizares - 29 goals In 36 matches
- Juan Luis Mora - 2 goals In 1 match
- Ludovic Butelle - 2 goals In 1 match

[edit] Former notable players

See also Cat:Valencia CF footballers.

[edit] Former notable coaches

See also Cat:Valencia CF managers.

1933-1934: Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg Jack Greenwell
1948-1954: Image:Flag of Spain.svg Jacinto Quincoces
1970-1974: Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Image:Flag of Spain.svg Alfredo Di Stéfano
1976-1977: Image:Flag of Paraguay.svg Heriberto Herrera
1979-1980: Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Image:Flag of Spain.svg Alfredo Di Stéfano
1986-1988: Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Image:Flag of Spain.svg Alfredo Di Stéfano
1988-1991: Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg Víctor Espárrago
1991-1994: Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Guus Hiddink
1995-1996: Image:Flag of Spain.svg Luis Aragonés
1996-1997: Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Jorge Valdano
1997-1999: Image:Flag of Italy.svg Claudio Ranieri
1999-2001: Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Hector Cuper
2001-2004: Image:Flag of Spain.svg Rafael Benítez
2004-2005: Image:Flag of Italy.svg Claudio Ranieri
2005-current: Image:Flag of Spain.svg Quique Sanchez Flores

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Valencia CF Official Website (Spanish) (English) (Catalan) (Japanese)
(Spanish) La Liga year-by-year statistics

Fan sites

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