CD Numancia

The club was founded on 9 April 1945.[2] Numancia was named after the ancient Celtiberian town of Numantia, near where Soria would be later founded. Having spent a long time in the Tercera División, the club made consistent progress, reaching the first division on three occasions: 1999, 2004 and 2008.[3]

The club became first widely known in Spain in 1995–96, while still playing at the third level, for its extraordinary run in the Spanish Cup, eliminating three top flight clubs (Real Sociedad, Racing de Santander and Sporting de Gijón) and only being knocked out in the quarter-finals by Barcelona, after Numancia drew in the first leg and took the lead in the second.[4][5]

Numancia's most important milestone came in 1999, when the team managed to promote to La Liga for the first time. In the 1998–99 season, Numancia finished third in Segunda, only behind Málaga CF and Atlético Madrid B, meaning the promotion to the top tier. Their first ever season in the Spanish elite proved to be challenging. Numancia eventually finished 17th, thus avoiding an immediate relegation to Segunda. Their survival was made possible because of unexpectedly good home results. Numancia won 9 home games, drew 6, and lost only 4 games at home. Their second season in the elite was less successful, as the team finished in last place. Numancia again displayed strong results at home, winning eight of their ten wins at home. However, that was eventually not enough to avoid a drop to Segunda, after a two-year spell in La Liga.

Numancia spent three seasons in Segunda Division, before promotion again after the 2003–04 season, as the club finished third. Numancia'second spell in the Spanish top tier was not successful as it only won 6 games. This meant that relegation followed just one season after.

Following another three years in Segunda, Numancia came back to La Liga for season 2008–09. Following a 1–3 loss at Sporting de Gijón on 2 November 2008, Numancia had conceded a total of 200 goals in the top division in slightly more than three seasons, reaching 44th in the all-time list. It battled bravely against relegation, but eventually returned to level two after just one year, as second from bottom, even though the season had started on a high note with a 1–0 home win against eventual champions Barcelona.[6]

Numancia was relegated to third division followed at the end of the 2019-20 season after 23 years playing between first and second division. On next season, due to restructuring of the Spanish football league system, Numancia failed to survive in the third-tier and finding themselves dropped in the fourth-tier, in the newly formed Segunda División RFEF, for the 2021–22 season. On next season, Numancia achieved promoted back to newly third division, Primera División RFEF.

• Segunda División: 2007–08[7]
• Tercera División: 1961–62, 1962–63, 1965–66, 1988–89
• Promotion to La Liga: 1998–99, 2003–04, 2007–08

• 4 seasons in La Liga
• 20 seasons in Segunda División
• 1 seasons in Primera División RFEF
• 9 seasons in Segunda División B
• 1 seasons in Segunda División RFEF
• 33 seasons in Tercera División
• 9 seasons in Categorías Regionales

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

As of 6 September 2022.[8]

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 Ayesa (on loan from Real Sociedad B) 2 DF  ESP Borja San Emeterio (captain) 3 DF  ESP Jaume Pol 4 DF  CRO Matej Šimić 5 DF  ESP Fernando Román 6 MF  BRA Arthur Bonaldo 7 FW  ESP Iker Amorrortu 8 MF  ESP Antonio Cotán 9 FW  ESP Rubén Mesa 10 MF  ESP Jesús Carrillo 11 FW  ESP Jesús Tamayo 12 FW  ESP Julián Mahicas

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 GK  ESP Isma Gil 14 FW  MAR Moha Sanhaji 15 DF  ESP Gorka Pérez 16 DF  ESP Javier Vicario 17 FW  ESP Adrián Mancebo 18 DF  ESP Jorge Valín 19 MF  ESP David González (on loan from Real Madrid B) 20 MF  ESP Jordi Tur 21 DF  ESP Dani Sánchez 22 MF  ESP Toni Arranz 23 FW  ESP Mario Barco - MF  ESP Mateo Arellano

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ESP Óscar de Frutos (at Gimnástica Segoviana until 30 June 2023)

Current technical staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Diego Martínez
Assistant manager	Arturo Guerra
Assistant manager	Pablo Ayuso
Fitness coach	Roberto Llorente
Goalkeeper coach	David Salazar
Doctor	Lucía Hernández
Physio	Patxi Bedia
Physio	Álvaro Velasco
Kit man	José Ignacio Munera
Delegate	Daniel Lagunas

Last updated: September 2022
Source: CD Numancia

• CD Numancia B, reserve team.

• Official website (in Spanish)
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)
• BDFutbol team profile