Real Avilés
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| Full name | Real Avilés Club de Fútbol |
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| Founded | 1903 |
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Román Suárez Puerta, Avilés, Asturias, Spain |
| Capacity | 5,400 |
| Chairman | José María Tejero |
| Manager | Pablo Lago |
| League | 3ª – Group 2 |
| 2015–16 | 3ª – Group 2, 3rd |
Real Avilés Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in Avilés, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1903 it plays in Tercera División, holding home matches at Nuevo Román Suárez Puerta, with a 5,400-seat capacity.
Its reserve team is Real Avilés B, which plays in Primera Regional.
Avilés was founded in 1903 under the name Avilés Sport Club, hence being considered the oldest football club in Asturias. In 1906 it merged with Sociedad Obrera Industrial to form Círculo Industrial y de Sport, but this new club didn't play much football in the next years; subsequently, a group of the original team's fans decided to give birth to a new club, and thus Stadium Club Avilesino was born.
In 1925 Avilesino obtained the royal crown from Alfonso XIII, being renamed Real Stadium Club Avilesino. A new name change took place in 1940, according to a government's prohibition of foreign names, and the club became Real Avilés Club de Fútbol.
In 1983 Avilés absorbed Club Deportivo Ensidesa and changed its name again, to Real Avilés Industrial Club de Fútbol. It played in Segunda División B for two seasons and returned to that level at the end of the 1987–88 campaign, being crowned champions three years later and thus promoting to Segunda División: after comfortably finishing in midtable in its first season, the team ranked second from bottom in the following, spending a further eight years in the third category then two more from 2002–04, after which it returned to Tercera División.
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