SD Eibar
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| Full name | Sociedad Deportiva Eibar, S.A.D. |
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| Nickname(s) | Armagiñak / Los Armeros (The Gunners) |
| Founded | 1 January 1940 |
| Ground | Ipurua Municipal Stadium |
| Capacity | 7,083 |
| President | Amaia Gorostiza |
| Manager | José Luis Mendilibar |
| League | La Liga |
| 2015–16 | La Liga, 14th |
| Website | www |
Sociedad Deportiva Eibar (in Basque: Eibar Kirol Elkartea) is a Spanish football club based in Eibar, Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous Basque Country. Founded on 1 January 1940, the team currently plays in La Liga.
The team plays in claret and blue shirt with blue shorts, holding home games at the Estadio Municipal de Ipurua. SD Eibar is a fan-owned club, with more than 10,000 shareholders from 69 countries all over the world.
It is the only football club which has the quality certificate UNE-EN-ISO 9001.
Formed by the merger of Deportivo Gallo and Unión Deportiva Eibarresa, the club was originally known as Eibar Fútbol Club, before changing to Sociedad Deportiva Eibar. Originally an irregular team, it was not until the 1943–44 season that it was reorganised into a more full-time unit.
Promoted to Tercera División in 1950, Eibar achieved promotion to Segunda División three seasons later, being relegated again after a five-year stint and competing in division three for 25 of the following 28 years (in 1977 Tercera became the fourth level, after the creation of Segunda División B). In 1988, the side returned to the "silver category".
After spending 18 years in a row in Segunda División, Eibar was relegated to the third division at the end of the 2005–06 campaign. However, it won its group the next season, thereby qualifying for the promotion play-offs where it won its semi-final tie against Hospitalet 2–0 and defeated Rayo Vallecano 2–1 on aggregate in the decisive round, sealing its return after just one year. Eibar finished 21st in the 2008–09 season meaning they were relegated to the Segunda Division B.
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