SD Compostela
Full nameSociedade Deportiva Compostela
Nickname(s)
  • Compos
  • Esedé
Short nameCompostela; Compos
Founded1928; re-organised in 1962 and in 2004
StadiumSan Lázaro, Compostela,
Galicia
Capacity16,666
OwnerAntonio Quinteiro (100%)
PresidentAntonio Quinteiro
Head coachRodri Veiga
LeagueSegunda Federación – Group 1
2022–23Segunda Federación – Group 1, 4th of 18
WebsiteClub website

Sociedade Deportiva Compostela is a Spanish football team based in Compostela, Galicia. They play home matches at San Lázaro, and compete in Segunda Federación – Group 1.

History

A team called Compostela Foot-ball Club was founded in 1928, ceasing to exist in 1946. On 26 June 1962 a new team was created called Sociedad Recreativa Compostela, and on 28 October 1962 the newly-formed SR Compostela merged with another team, Club Arenal, changing names to Sociedad Deportiva Compostela.[1] The decade of the 1970s was irregular. The team played in the Tercera División, in the Regional category and in the new Segunda División B.[2] Its first promotion to a semi-national stage occurred in 1977, with a promotion to Segunda División B (Group 1), which lasted just one season; Compos promoted again in 1980, this time lasting six years.

Relegation in 1986 was compounded by off-field controversy surrounding the actions of then president Francisco Steppe. He resigned amid allegations of receipt of payments to throw a game against Pontevedra CF, which would assure the opposition's maintenance in the category. The late 1980s saw a significant restructuring of the club both at board and management levels and, in 1990, Compostela regained third-level status.

The following campaign was to prove the club's most successful to date. On 23 June 1991, a capacity crowd of 8,000 at the Estadio Municipal Santa Isabel, saw goals from Juanito and Ochoa (two) clinch a 3–1 victory in the final play-off match against CD Badajoz, for a first-ever Segunda División visit.

The move to Estadio Multiusos de San Lázaro coincided with the continuing rise in the team's fortunes and, at the end of 1993–94, following a 3–1 play-off victory against Rayo Vallecano, Compostela reached La Liga.[3] Compostela did remarkably well, and reached a best finish of 10th in 1995–96, mainly courtesy of strikers Christopher Ohen and Bent Christensen, whom totalled 23 league goals.

After four seasons at the top, Compostela was relegated after losing a relegation play-off match to Villarreal CF on the away goals rule, despite playing overall attractive football. The club was also about to start a downward spiral; after a relegation to the third level in 2001 the team returned the following year but, in the following campaign, played to a backdrop of off-field distractions, with the players and staff going unpaid for months – a final ninth place was not enough to prevent another relegation, as the club failed to meet the 31 July deadline to settle all wage debts.[4]

Off-field problems

In the 2001–02 season economic problems arose. However, the squad with Luis Ángel Duque as coach managed to achieve promotion to the Segunda División.[5] Off-field problems continued in 2003–04, with the pinnacle being the players, who had not been paid in several months, refusing to appear for a fixture at UB Conquense, with the subsequent loss of three points. At the season's close, after the actual relegation, Compostela dropped further to the Galician Regional Preferente (north) after failing again to meet the financial deadline. They played there for two seasons, and folded after the 2005-06 season, when a judge dissolved the institution in the summer of 2006, and auctioned all the club's properties, including the brand name, the trophies and the team's spot in the league. Finally, 26 January 2011, after everything was sold out, the court published the legal liquidation of the entity.[6]

Re-organisation

Compostela playing against Lugo on 22 November 2009.

Previously to SD Compostela's liquidation in 2006, a new club was created on 1 June 2004 with the name SD Campus Stellae,[7] with José Luís Balboa as president. They entered competition in the 2005-06 season at the group 11 of the Galicia Terceira Autonómica league, where he finishes in 11th position (out of 18 teams). The following season, 2006-07, they played in group 12 of the same division, and finished third out of 14 teams.

In 2006, a former president of the dissolved SD Compostela, José María Caneda, bought the commercial name Sociedad Deportiva Compostela, and became president of the SD Campus Stellae, changing the team's name at the beginning of the 2007-08 season to the former club's brand.

In the 2007–08 season, the new club won its Preferente league and returned to Tercera. In the following campaign, after finishing first in its group, the team beat Atlético Monzón with a 4–2 aggregate (3–0, 1–2) and won a second consecutive promotion. However, this would be a short-lived return, with relegation befalling at the season's end, immediately followed by another one due to overwhelming financial problems. Longtime president José María Caneda left the club.[8][9]

Season-by-season records

  • SD Compostela SAD (1962–2007)
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1962–63 4 Serie A 1st
1963–64 3 3ª 1st —
1964–65 3 3ª 2nd —
1965–66 3 3ª 4th —
1966–67 3 3ª 3rd —
1967–68 3 3ª 2nd —
1968–69 3 3ª 3rd —
1969–70 3 3ª 10th Second round
1970–71 4 Serie A 1st
1971–72 3 3ª 11th First round
1972–73 3 3ª 18th Second round
1973–74 4 Serie A 2nd
1974–75 4 Serie A 2nd
1975–76 4 Serie A 1st
1976–77 3 3ª 9th Second round
1977–78 3 2ª B 18th First round
1978–79 4 3ª 12th First round
1979–80 4 3ª 1st Third round
1980–81 3 2ª B 7th Second round
1981–82 3 2ª B 15th Second round
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1982–83 3 2ª B 11th —
1983–84 3 2ª B 14th First round
1984–85 3 2ª B 15th —
1985–86 3 2ª B 18th —
1986–87 4 3ª 6th —
1987–88 4 3ª 4th First round
1988–89 4 3ª 3rd —
1989–90 4 3ª 1st —
1990–91 3 2ª B 3rd Third round
1991–92 2 2ª 8th Fifth round
1992–93 2 2ª 12th Fifth round
1993–94 2 2ª 3rd Fourth round
1994–95 1 1ª 16th Fourth round
1995–96 1 1ª 10th Round of 16
1996–97 1 1ª 11th Round of 16
1997–98 1 1ª 17th Third round
1998–99 2 2ª 8th Second round
1999–2000 2 2ª 18th Quarter-finals
2000–01 2 2ª 19th Third round
2001–02 3 2ª B 3rd First round
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
2002–03 2 2ª 9th First round
2003–04 3 2ª B 19th Second round
2004–05 5 Reg. Pref. 16th
2005–06 5 Reg. Pref. 14th
2006–07 5 Pref. Aut. 3rd
  • SD Compostela (2005–)
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
2005–06 8 3ª Aut. 11th
2006–07 8 3ª Aut. 3rd
2007–08 5 Pref. Aut. 1st
2008–09 4 3ª 1st
2009–10 3 2ª B 20th First round
2010–11 5 Pref. Aut. 8th
2011–12 5 Pref. Aut. 1st
2012–13 4 3ª 3rd
2013–14 3 2ª B 13th
2014–15 3 2ª B 6th
2015–16 3 2ª B 19th First round
2016–17 4 3ª 7th
2017–18 4 3ª 1st
2018–19 4 3ª 3rd Second round
2019–20 4 3ª 1st Second round
2020–21 3 2ª B 6th / 5th First round
2021–22 4 2ª RFEF 8th
2022–23 4 2ª Fed. 4th
2023–24 4 2ª Fed. First round

    Honours

    Current squad

    As of 2 December 2020

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

    No. Pos. Nation Player
    1 GK Uruguay URU Pato Guillén
    2 DF Spain ESP Saro
    3 DF Spain ESP Sergio Pereira
    4 DF Spain ESP Álvaro Casas (captain)
    5 MF Spain ESP Bicho
    6 DF Spain ESP David Soto
    7 MF Spain ESP Miki
    8 MF Spain ESP Roberto Baleato
    9 FW Spain ESP Primo
    10 MF Spain ESP Josiño
    11 DF Spain ESP Jimmy
    12 DF Spain ESP Jorge Queiruga (out on loan at Arzúa)
    No. Pos. Nation Player
    13 GK Spain ESP Borja Rey
    14 MF Spain ESP Samu Rodríguez
    15 MF Spain ESP Joel López
    16 DF Argentina ARG Matías Vesprini (on loan from Lugo)
    17 MF Spain ESP Gabri Palmás
    18 MF Spain ESP Brais Abelenda
    19 DF Spain ESP Guille Torres
    20 FW Spain ESP Hugo Sanmartín
    21 MF Spain ESP Pablo Antas
    24 FW Spain ESP Manu Rivas
    28 DF Spain ESP Yosi
    31 MF Spain ESP Iago

    Famous players

    Note: this list includes players that have appeared in at least 100 league games and/or have reached international status.

    Famous managers

    Stadium

    View of Estadio Multiusos de San Lázaro.

    Compostela play at the Estadio Multiusos de San Lázaro, which has a capacity of 16,666. Pitch dimensions are 105 x 68 metres.[10]

    Compostela played their first season at Estadio da Residencia da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, whilst work was completed on their first permanent ground, Estadio Municipal de Santa Isabel; on 22 September 1963, it played the first match at the new stadium. It was a basic enclosure and lacked a covered stand until 1969, when a tribune was erected and floodlights installed at a cost of 1 million pesetas. Compostela continued to use the ground for first team fixtures until the end of the 1993 season. The reserve team, Compostela B, played on at Santa Isabel until early 2003, when the ground was finally demolished and replaced with a municipal sports centre that bore the same name.

    Work started on the Multiusos de San Lázaro in 1991. Situated in the eastern suburb of San Lázaro, it was a multi-purpose arena, used primarily for the football matches of its two resident clubs, Compostela and SD Ciudad de Santiago. Oval in shape and with a terracotta-coloured roof on the west side to incorporate the directors' seating and press facilities on a second tier, the pitch was surrounded by a 400m athletics track, relatively uncommon in Spanish stadiums.

    The inaugural match took place on 24 June 1993, when a four-way tournament was staged, featuring Deportivo de La Coruña, CD Tenerife, Club Atlético River Plate and São Paulo FC. Deportivo and River played in the first match, and Bebeto had the honour of scoring the first goal.

    See also

    References

    1. ↑ "HISTORIA". SD Compostela (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-14.
    2. ↑ "HISTORIA". SD Compostela (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-01.
    3. ↑ "El Compostela asciende al cielo de la Primera" [Compostela reaches Primera heaven] (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 2 June 1994. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
    4. ↑ SD Compostela, el primer equipo de Galicia (SD Compostela, Galicia's first team); Notas de Fútbol, 20 December 2005 (in Spanish)
    5. ↑ "HISTORIA". SD Compostela (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-14.
    6. ↑ Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish)
    7. ↑ La Futbolteca (in Spanish)
    8. ↑ Caneda se autoproclama presidente del Compostela (Caneda self-appointed Compostela president); El Correo Gallego, 7 September 2006 (in Spanish)
    9. ↑ Caneda habla de amaños de partidos y de ‘burlar’ a Hacienda (Caneda talks about match-fixing and ‘dribbling’ the IRS); El Correo Gallego, 21 November 2012 (in Spanish)
    10. ↑ "INSTALACIONES". SD Compostela (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-13.
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