CF Reus Deportiu

Club de Futbol Reus Deportiu, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Reus, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Founded in 1909, it last played in Tercera División, holding home games at Estadi Municipal, with a capacity of 4,700 seats.[2]

Reus

Full name	Club de Futbol Reus Deportiu, S.A.D.
Nickname(s)	Ganxets La avellana mecánica[1] (The clockwork hazelnut)
Founded	23 November 1909 as Club Deportivo de Reus
Ground	Estadi Municipal, Reus, Catalonia, Spain
Capacity	4,700
Owner	Clifton Onolfo via Global Cities SHH Capital, Ltd
President	Clifton V Onolfo
League	None
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

CD Reus was founded on 23 November 1909 after the dissolution of Reus Sport Club. On 29 September 1917, the club merged with Club Velocipedista and SC Olímpia becoming the multi-sports club Reus Deportiu.

2015–16 squad, that achieved the promotion to Segunda División

In 1951, Reus Deportiu was restructured into two independent entities: CF Reus Deportiu, entirely dedicated to football, and Reus Deportiu, supporting the other sports,[3] roller hockey being the most well known.

After several years playing in Segunda División B, Reus qualified in 2015 to the promotion play-offs for the first time in its history. It was defeated in the second round by Racing Ferrol.

In 2015, the club reached the round of 32 of the 2015–16 Copa del Rey, where it was defeated by Atlético Madrid.[4] In that season, the club also qualified to the promotion play-offs, this time as champion of the Segunda División B Group 3. In the first leg, Reus beat Racing de Santander by 3–0 away, and achieved the first promotion ever to Segunda División after a 1–0 home win in the second leg, played on 29 May 2016.[5]

On 18 January 2019, the Liga de Fútbol Profesional suspended the rights of Reus to continue competing in the competition and ten days later the club was expelled from the competition for three years plus a fine of €250,000 due to the nonpayment of players' salaries.[6]

In July 2019, after the draw of the groups for the 2019–20 Segunda División B, Reus was excluded again due to the non-payment and relegated to Tercera División,[7] from which the club was expelled in September for the non-payment of its debt with the RFEF and non-appearance in the first two matches.[8] It was also ruled that the club could not play in the three Catalan regional leagues until its debts were settled.[9] In October 2019, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ordered that Reus be reinstated to Segunda B[10] but could not be implemented, and in July 2020, the club was kept out of league football yet again for non-payment of its reserve team players.[11]

Season to season

Logo of the club until the 2016–17 season

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1940–41 4 1ª Reg. 2nd 1941–42 4 1ª Reg. 5th 1942–43 4 1ª Reg. 3rd 1943–44 3 3ª 3rd Second round 1944–45 3 3ª 6th 1945–46 3 3ª 3rd 1946–47 3 3ª 9th 1947–48 3 3ª 12th Fourth round 1948–49 4 1ª Reg. 15th 1949–50 3 3ª 12th 1950–51 3 3ª 17th 1951–52 4 1ª Reg. 16th 1952–53 4 1ª Reg. 1st 1953–54 3 3ª 13th 1954–55 3 3ª 6th 1955–56 3 3ª 8th 1956–57 3 3ª 5th 1957–58 3 3ª 20th 1958–59 4 1ª Reg. 2nd 1959–60 4 1ª Reg. 1st 1960–61 3 3ª 3rd

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1961–62 3 3ª 4th 1962–63 3 3ª 8th 1963–64 3 3ª 11th 1964–65 3 3ª 8th 1965–66 3 3ª 18th 1966–67 3 3ª 5th 1967–68 3 3ª 11th 1968–69 3 3ª 14th 1969–70 3 3ª 18th Second round 1970–71 4 Reg. Pref. 12th 1971–72 4 Reg. Pref. 8th 1972–73 4 Reg. Pref. 15th 1973–74 4 Reg. Pref. 13th 1974–75 4 Reg. Pref. 6th 1975–76 4 Reg. Pref. 1st 1976–77 3 3ª 19th Second round 1977–78 4 3ª 6th Second round 1978–79 4 3ª 3rd First round 1979–80 4 3ª 2nd First round 1980–81 4 3ª 1st First round 1981–82 3 2ªB 14th First round

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1982–83 3 2ªB 20th 1983–84 4 3ª 15th 1984–85 4 3ª 19th 1985–86 5 Reg. Pref. 1st 1986–87 4 3ª 19th 1987–88 4 3ª 16th 1988–89 4 3ª 6th 1989–90 4 3ª 6th 1990–91 4 3ª 19th First round 1991–92 5 1ª Cat. 2nd 1992–93 4 3ª 9th 1993–94 4 3ª 13th 1994–95 4 3ª 20th 1995–96 5 1ª Cat. 11th 1996–97 5 1ª Cat. 10th 1997–98 5 1ª Cat. 2nd 1998–99 4 3ª 12th 1999–00 4 3ª 14th 2000–01 4 3ª 14th 2001–02 4 3ª 3rd

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 2002–03 3 2ªB 18th 2003–04 4 3ª 2nd 2004–05 4 3ª 4th 2005–06 3 2ªB 17th 2006–07 4 3ª 1st 2007–08 4 3ª 3rd First round 2008–09 4 3ª 2nd 2009–10 4 3ª 2nd Second round 2010–11 4 3ª 4th 2011–12 3 2ªB 8th 2012–13 3 2ªB 14th 2013–14 3 2ªB 12th 2014–15 3 2ªB 3rd 2015–16 3 2ªB 1st Round of 32 2016–17 2 2ª 11th Second round 2017–18 2 2ª 14th Second round 2018–19 2 2ª DQ Third round 2019–20 4 3ª DQ 2020–21 No league

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• 3 seasons in Segunda División
• 10 seasons in Segunda División B
• 48 seasons in Tercera División

Retired numbers

7 – Jordi Pitarque MF (2009–10) – posthumous honour[12]

Notable players

Players who appeared in more than 100 league matches for the club and/or reached international status.

David Eto'o Aitor Embela Eliseu Cassamá Juan Luis Guirado Dejan Lekić Ángel Blasco Édgar Badía

Fran Carbià Álex Colorado Ramón Folch Édgar Hernández José Juncosa José Fernando Martínez Rodilla Sergi Masqué

Jesús Olmo David Querol David Sangrà Enric Socías Aleix Vidal Shaq Moore Mikel Villanueva

Coaches

• José Juncosa (1981–82)
• Josep Seguer (1983)
• José Juncosa (1985–87)
• Miguel Ángel Rubio (2001–02)
• Natxo González (2003–07)
• Ramón Calderé (2007–09)
• Santi Castillejo (2009–13)
• Emili Vicente (2013–14)
• Natxo González (2014–17)
• Aritz López Garai (2017–2018)
• Xavi Bartolo (2018–2019)

See also

• CF Reus Deportiu B, reserve team.

References

1. "Reus, la avellana mecánica, reta al Atlético" (in Spanish). Sportyou. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
2. "Estadi Municipal de Reus" (in Catalan). CF Reus Deportiu. Archived from the original on 13 January 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
3. "Història del CF Reus Deportiu" (in Catalan). CF Reus Deportiu. Archived from the original on 12 January 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
4. "Atletico edge past Reus Deportiu, advance to round of 16 of Copa del Rey". Fox Sports. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
5. "El Reus asciende a Segunda A" (in Spanish). El Periódico. 29 May 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
6. "Nota Informativa" [Information note]. La Liga. 18 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
7. "El Andorra de Piqué ocupará la plaza vacante del Reus en Segunda B" [Piqué's Andorra will occupy Reus' vacant place in Segunda B] (in Spanish). RTVE. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
8. "El Reus, excluido de Tercera División" [Reus excluded from Third Division]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). EFE. 10 September 2019.
9. "El Reus queda definitivament exclòs de Primera Catalana" [Reus are definitively excluded from the Primera Catalana] (in Catalan). Canal Reus TV. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
10. Munday, Billy (15 October 2019). "Reus can re-enter the Segunda B... but their place is occupied by Pique's FC Andorra". Marca. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
11. "El CF Reus queda exclòs de Segona Catalana" [CF Reus is excluded from Segona Catalana]. Diari Mès Digital (in Catalan). 29 July 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
12. "El Reus retira el número 7 de Jordi Pitarque" [Reus retires Jordi Pitarque's number 7]. La Vanguadia (in Spanish). 7 September 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2019.

External links

• Official website (in Catalan)
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)
• Reus24, unofficial website (in Catalan)