Real Oviedo, S.A.D. is a historically important Spanish football team from Oviedo. Founded on March 26, 1926, they were the first team from Asturias ever to play in the Primera División.
It is playing the 2009-2010 season in Segunda División B - Group 2, having been promoted from Tercera División.
They play in blue shirts and white shorts in the Nuevo Carlos Tartiere stadium, which seats 30,500 spectators. The club has about 10,500 ticket holders...
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Real Oviedo, S.A.D. is a historically important Spanish football team from Oviedo. Founded on March 26, 1926, they were the first team from Asturias ever to play in the Primera División.
It is playing the 2009-2010 season in Segunda División B - Group 2, having been promoted from Tercera División.
They play in blue shirts and white shorts in the Nuevo Carlos Tartiere stadium, which seats 30,500 spectators. The club has about 10,500 ticket holders; the average attendance during the regular season reaches 6,000 supporters.
Though they originally played in the Primera División shortly after its inception, the gap caused by the Civil War meant that the club could not push on from earlier successes. until the arrival of one of its greatest players, Tristán Esperanza. When La Liga play resumed in 1939, Real Oviedo were relegated to the second division, as their pitch was deemed unplayable — Franco's troops had used the stadium as an ammunition dump. For many years afterwards, Oviedo bounced...
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