Real Sociedad de Fútbol, S.A.D. (more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad) is a Spanish football club from the Basque city of San Sebastián in Guipúzcoa. Founded on September 7, 1909, it was relegated to Segunda División at the end of the 2006-2007 season. The home stadium is the Estadio Anoeta, which seats 32,076 spectators.
The club is known in Basque as Erreala or the txuri-urdin (meaning "white-blue" in Basque), from their colours: blue wit...
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Real Sociedad de Fútbol, S.A.D. (more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad) is a Spanish football club from the Basque city of San Sebastián in Guipúzcoa. Founded on September 7, 1909, it was relegated to Segunda División at the end of the 2006-2007 season. The home stadium is the Estadio Anoeta, which seats 32,076 spectators.
The club is known in Basque as Erreala or the txuri-urdin (meaning "white-blue" in Basque), from their colours: blue with white vertical stripes and white shorts. The club name means Royal Society of Football. A blue quarter on white also appears in the flag of their home town.
Football was introduced to San Sebastián in the early 1900s by students and workers returning from Britain. In 1904 they formed the San Sebastian Recreation Club and in 1905 they competed in the Copa del Rey. In May 1905 the San Sebastian Football Club was formed as a separate branch of the club. In 1909 they applied to enter the Copa del Rey but complications over registration permits...
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