Deportivo Alavés B

Deportivo Alavés B, S.A.D., usually known as Alavés B, is a Spanish football team based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1959 it is the reserve team of Deportivo Alavés, and currently plays in Segunda Federación – Group 2, holding home matches at Instalaciones de Ibaia-José Luis Compañon, the club's training facilities with 2,500 seat-capacity.^[1]

Alavés B

Full name	Deportivo Alavés B, S.A.D.
Nickname(s)	Alavés Aficionados, Miniglorias
Founded	1959 (62 years)
Ground	José Luis Compañón, Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain
Capacity	2,500
President	Alfonso Fernández de Trocóniz
Head coach	José Manuel Aira
League	Segunda Federación – Group 2
2023–24	Segunda Federación – Group 2, 6th of 18
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The team's home kit is blue and white-striped shirt, blue shorts and white socks.

League history

The league placings have largely mirrored the fortunes of the senior team. From their formation in the 1960s until the late 1990s, Alavés B competed only in the fourth (Tercera Grupo IV) or fifth (Preferente de Álava) tiers. They achieved promotion to Segunda División B in 1999,^[2][3] a year after the seniors climbed to La Liga. Alavés B remained in the third level for seven seasons, usually finishing mid-table, until demotion in 2005-06, the same year that the main side was relegated amid economic turmoil under Dmitry Piterman.

During the 2000s, Alavés B practically not contributed players to the Alavés first team, which has been almost exclusively nourished by foreign signings, and the decline of the club continued when the senior side themselves dropped into Segunda División B in 2009, while the B team were relegated back down to the fifth level. It took Alavés B only two seasons to regain fourth-level status^[4][5] whereas the seniors took four years to rise again to the second level, but they then gained promotion to La Liga after three further seasons while the B team stayed put in Tercera División from that point on; they eventually gained promotion in 2018–19 via the playoffs.^[6]

Season to season

• As a farm team

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1961–62 4 1ª Reg. 5th 1962–63 4 1ª Reg. 4th 1963–64 4 1ª Reg. 3rd 1964–65 4 1ª Reg. 3rd 1965–66 4 1ª Reg. 2nd 1966–67 4 1ª Reg. 12th 1967–68 4 1ª Reg. 8th 1968–69 5 2ª Reg. 8th 1969–70 5 2ª Reg. 8th 1970–71 DNP 1971–72 DNP 1972–73 DNP 1973–74 5 2ª Reg. 1st 1974–75 4 Reg. Pref. 13th 1975–76 4 Reg. Pref. 7th

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1976–77 4 Reg. Pref. 13th 1977–78 5 Reg. Pref. 8th 1978–79 5 Reg. Pref. 3rd 1979–80 4 3ª 2nd First round 1980–81 4 3ª 10th Second round 1981–82 4 3ª 8th 1982–83 4 3ª 20th First round 1983–84 5 Reg. Pref. 5th 1984–85 5 Reg. Pref. 16th 1985–86 5 Reg. Pref. 17th 1986–87 6 1ª Reg. 3rd 1987–88 5 Reg. Pref. 4th 1988–89 5 Reg. Pref. 1st 1989–90 5 Reg. Pref. 3rd 1990–91 5 Reg. Pref. 2nd

• As a reserve team

Season Tier Division Place 1991–92 5 Reg. Pref. 4th 1992–93 5 Reg. Pref. 9th 1993–94 5 Reg. Pref. 1st 1994–95 4 3ª 16th 1995–96 4 3ª 6th 1996–97 4 3ª 3rd 1997–98 4 3ª 7th 1998–99 4 3ª 2nd 1999–2000 3 2ª B 11th 2000–01 3 2ª B 10th 2001–02 3 2ª B 10th 2002–03 3 2ª B 5th 2003–04 3 2ª B 6th 2004–05 3 2ª B 12th 2005–06 3 2ª B 18th 2006–07 4 3ª 10th 2007–08 4 3ª 13th 2008–09 4 3ª 19th 2009–10 5 Reg. Pref. 5th 2010–11 5 Reg. Pref. 2nd

Season Tier Division Place 2011–12 4 3ª 17th 2012–13 4 3ª 14th 2013–14 4 3ª 5th 2014–15 4 3ª 7th 2015–16 4 3ª 12th 2016–17 4 3ª 1st 2017–18 4 3ª 3rd 2018–19 4 3ª 3rd 2019–20 3 2ª B 11th 2020–21 3 2ª B 9th / 6th 2021–22 5 3ª RFEF 1st 2022–23 4 2ª Fed. 2nd 2023–24 4 2ª Fed. 6th 2024–25 4 2ª Fed.

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• 8 seasons in Segunda División B
• 3 seasons in Segunda Federación
• 20 seasons in Tercera División
• 1 season in Tercera División RFEF

Current squad

As of 9 September 2024.^[7]

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  ESP Gaizka García 2 DF  ESP Egoitz Muñoz 3 DF  ESP Eneko Ortiz 4 MF  MLI Daouda Doumbia 5 DF  ESP Álvaro García 6 MF  ESP Tomás Mendes 7 FW  DOM José de León 9 FW  BRA Lucas Moura 10 MF  ESP Ander Sánchez 11 FW  ESP Juanma López 14 DF  ESP Fran Tafalla 15 DF  ESP Adrián Pica 16 MF  ESP Markel Ruiz

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  ESP Julen Lartitegi 18 FW  ESP Diego Morcillo 19 FW  ESP Aimar González 20 MF  FRA Émilien Makagni 21 FW  ESP Andoni Arzak 23 DF  ESP Alejandro Jay 24 DF  ESP Xanet Olaiz 25 GK  CAN Grégoire Świderski 26 MF  BRA Eduardo Fontana 27 MF  ESP Lander Pinillos 28 FW  BUL Daniel Lyubomirov 31 GK  ESP Rubén Montero

Reserve team

Main article: Deportivo Alavés C

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 35 DF  ESP Jorge Gómez

Honours

• Tercera División^[a]
  • Champions (1): 2016–17^[b]
• RFEF Basque tournament
  • Winners (3): 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18

1. Fourth tier
2. Not promoted in play-offs

Notable players

• Ángel
• Javier Carpio
• Juan Pablo Colinas
• Óscar de Marcos
• Iñaki Garmendia
• Sergio Llamas
• Juan Cruz Ochoa
• Andrea Orlandi
• Rubén Pérez
• Sergio Pérez
• Nacho Rodríguez
• Asier Salcedo
• Josu Sarriegi
• Fernando Seoane
• Gaizka Toquero
• Mikel Vesga

References

1. "Alavés B - Segunda División B G 2". www.resultados-futbol.com. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
2. Tercera División Group 4 98-99; Historical Spanish Football Results, retrieved 14 February 2017
3. Promotion Phase to Segunda B 98-99 (Group B3); Historical Spanish Football Results, retrieved 14 February 2017
4. Regional Preferente Alavesa 10-11; Historical Spanish Football Results, retrieved 14 February 2017
5. Promotion Phase to Tercera 10-11 (Basque group); Historical Spanish Football Results, retrieved 14 February 2017
6. ""Si eres capaz de pegar primero, pegas dos veces"" ["If you are able to hit first, you hit twice"] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 4 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
7. "Plantilla Deportivo Alavés B". Deportivo Alavés (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2023.

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)
• Terra club info Archived 2013-01-06 at archive.today (in Spanish)