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Numancia
Full name	Club Deportivo Numancia
Founded	1945
Ground	Los Pajaritos, Soria, Castilla y León, Spain
Capacity	9,800
Chairman	José Isla Orte
Manager	Andoni Goikoetxea
League	Segunda División
2005-06	Segunda División, 8th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Club Deportivo Numancia de Soria is a Spanish sports club from Soria. The club is named after the ancient Celtiberian town of Numantia near present-day Soria. Founded on April 9, 1945, they will play the 2006-07 season in the Spanish football Segunda División, having been demoted from the Primera División. Besides football the club has other departments in sports like volleyball, women's handball, and rhythmic gymnastics.

They play in red shirts and blue shorts. Home stadium is the Nuevo Estadio Los Pajaritos that seats 9,800 spectators.

Having spent a long time in the Tercera division, the club has made consistent progress recently, even reaching as high as the Primera division for two seasons prior to 2004.

Contents 1 History 2 Trophies 3 Current squad 2006/07 3.1 Squad changes during 2006/07 season 4 Statistics 2005/06 5 Recent seasons 6 Famous players 7 Famous coaches 8 External link

A recent success for the club (while playing in the Segunda B) was a good run in the Copa del Rey, eliminating three Primera División clubs in 1995-96. Beating Real Sociedad, Racing de Santander, and Sporting de Gijón, they were finally knocked out in the quarter finals by FC Barcelona.

League History

• Tercera thirty-three seasons.
• Segunda B eight seasons: from 1989-90 to 1996-97.
• Segunda A five seasons: 1949-50, 1950-51, 1997-98, 1999-99 and 2001-02.
• Primera three seasons: 1999-00, 2000-01, 2004-05.

Honours

• Tercera División champions in 1995-96 and 1999-00.
• Promotion to Primera División in 1998-99.
• Promotion to Primera División in 2003-04.

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

As of November 1, 2006

No. Position Player 1 GK Juan Pablo 2 DF Juanra 3 DF Javier Tarantino 4 DF Sietes 5 MF Julio Álvarez 6 MF Oscar Pulido 8 MF Palacios 9 MF Rafa Jordá 10 MF J.C. Moreno 11 FW Javier del Pino 12 DF Grégory Béranger 13 GK Alvaro Núñez

No. Position Player 14 DF Suleimane Baio 15 DF Felipe 16 MF Nagore 18 DF Jaio 19 MF Fran Moreno 20 DF Boris 21 FW Pablo Lago 22 FW Bolo 23 DF Sergio Ortega 24 FW Kenji Fukuda 25 FW Gorka Brit

In:

• Gorka Brit - Signed From CA Osasuna
• Sietes - Signed From Watford F.C.
• Fran Moreno - On Loan From CA Osasuna
• Baio - Signed From Tirsense
• Sergio Ortega - Signed From Racing B
• Juanra - Signed From Levante B
• Tarantino - On Loan From Athletic de Bilbao
• Fukuda - Signed From CD Castellón
• Béranger - Signed From Racing de Ferrol
• Pablo Lago - Signed From Sporting de Gijón
• Felipe Gurendez - Signed From Athletic de Bilbao
• Boris - Signed From Real Sociedad
• Bolo - Signed From Gimnàstic de Tarragona
• Julio Alvarez - Signed From Real Murcia
• Pulido - Signed From Real Murcia

Out

• Dwight Pezzarossi - Transferred To Deportivo Marquense
• Mario Martínez - On Loan To Zamora CF
• Pablo Niño - Return To Real Betis
• Ibon Gutiérrez - Return To Athletic de Bilbao
• Gorka Azkorra - Return To Athletic de Bilbao
• Patricio Graff - Transferred To Hércules CF
• Ariel Montenegro - Transferred To Hércules CF
• Juan Ochoa - Transferred To Real Murcia
• Antonio José Gonzalez - Transferred To Córdoba CF
• Jordi Navas - Transferred To UE Sant Andreu
• Julio Pineda - Transferred To Córdoba CF
• Antonio Tomillo - Transferred To CD Villanueva
• Miguel Cedron - Transferred To Elche CF
• Angel Perez - Transferred To CF Palencia
• Juanpa - Transferred To Lorca Deportiva
• Luis Tevenet - Transferred To UE Lleida
• Hamilton Ricard - Transferred To Danubio F.C.
• José Yanguas - Transferred To CD Alfaro

• Top Scorers:
  • Montenegro - 9 goals
  • Moreno - 8 goals
  • Tevenet - 7 goals
• Top Goalkeepers
  • Juan Pablo - 33 goals In 30 matches
  • Nuñez - 15 goals In 10 matches

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Notes
1999-2000	1D	17	38	11	12	15	47	59	45
2000-2001	1D	20	38	10	9	19	40	64	39		relegated
1 season at lower levels
2002-2003	2D	14	42	12	16	14	48	52	52
2003-2004	2D	3	42	22	10	10	60	30	76		promoted
2004-2005	1D	19	38	6	11	21	30	61	29	quarter-final	relegated
2005-2006	2D	8	42	18	9	15	50	55	63
2006-2007	2D	10	19	7	6	6	22	20	27		ongoing

Damián Manusovich Pedro Rafael Ojeda Claudio Marini Daniel Mayo Daniel Fagiani Aldo Osorio Patricio Graff Silvio González Ariel Montenegro Javier Malagueño Ivan Rocha Fabrice Moreau Daniel Ngom Kome Patrick Suffo Hamilton Ricard Raul Muñoz

Stephane Pignol Kostas Kiassos Nando Co Imro Wielkens André Schei Lindbæk Constantin Barbu Gabriel Popescu Laurenţiu Roşu Lee Chun-Soo Alberto Rivera Alberto Saavedra Mikel Alonso Álvaro Nuñez Jorge "Chispa" Delgado Diego Jaume

see also Cat:CD Numancia players

• Mariano García Remón (2000-01)

• CD Numancia Official Website

Segunda División 2006/07 clubs
Alavés | Albacete | Almería | Cádiz | Castellón | Ciudad de Murcia | Poli Ejido | Elche | Sporting Gijón | Hércules | Málaga | Numancia | Las Palmas | Lorca Deportiva | Ponferradina | RM Castilla | Real Murcia | Salamanca | Tenerife | Real Valladolid | Vecindario | Xerez edit

Tercera División - Grupo 8 2006/07 clubs
Bembibre | Ponferradina B | Ávila | Gimnástica Segoviana | Mirandés | Leonesa B | Salamanca B | Numancia B | Benavente | Hullera | Huracán Z | La Bañeza | Laguna | Íscar | La Granja | Becerril | U. de Valladolid | Arandina | Norma | Burgos B | edit