Club San Ignacio

Club San Ignacio is a football team based in Vitoria-Gasteiz in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. Founded in 1964, the team plays in Tercera Federación – Group 4. Representing the district of Adurtza, the club's home ground is Adurtzabal,^[2][3] which has a capacity of 400 spectators.^[4]

San Ignacio

Full name	Club San Ignacio
Founded	1964
Ground	Adurtzabal, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain
Capacity	400^[1]
President	Patxi Tobías
Head coach	Raúl Llona
League	Tercera Federación – Group 4
2022–23	Tercera Federación – Group 4, 15th of 16
Home colours Away colours

San Ignacio has been closely linked to Deportivo Alavés at various times; it was the formative club of Spain international forward Ernesto Valverde.

History

The San Ignacio Football Club is a modest but respected football club in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, and many place this club among the three or four most outstanding clubs in Álava – behind Deportivo Alavés, CD Laudio and Amurrio Club (although CD Vitoria and CD Aurrera de Vitoria are of similar stature).

The origin of the club traces back to a school in Adurtza, the San Ignacio Public School, from where the club was born in 1964, hence the nickname they receive from the Colegiales (Schoolboys). CF San Ignacio was promoted to the Tercera División RFEF (the then 4th tier of Spanish football) for the first time in 1997, after becoming champions of the Álava Preferential Regional (6th tier of Spanish football), but they only lasted a single season. In 2002, San Ignacio achieved promotion to the Tercera División RFEF again, but once again they weren't able to hold on for more than a season, being relegated at the end of the 2002-03 campaign.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, San Ignacio (who had previously been associated with Real Sociedad) agreed a four-year partnership with Deportivo Alavés to host their second reserve team in Tercera División.^[5] The affiliate became known as Alavés C-San Ignacio,^[6] maintaining the Alavés name but playing in San Ignacio colours and usually hosting fixtures at their home ground.^[5] When this entity was relegated in 2004–05, the Alavés link was discontinued.

San Ignacio continued operating independently and returned to the Tercera level twice (on each occasion their opponents included Deportivo Alavés B, the other reserve side of Alavés,^[5] with both teams being relegated in 2008–09). The club remains a partner club of Alavés.^[7][8] They were promoted again in 2017–18,^[9] with Alavés offering use of their Ibaia facilities for matches at that level due to the Federation being concerned with the condition of the playing surface at Adurtzabal.^[10] Further progression to the Segunda División B (never achieved by the club) was a possibility in 2018–19 until defeat in the playoffs.^[11]

Between 2019 and 2022, San Ignacio's squad was fully composed of Alavés players, acting mainly as a second reserve team behind Alavés B. In 2022, with Alavés C being reactivated,^[12] the link between Alavés and San Ignacio returned to a collaboration agreement.

Stadium

Until the 2017–18 season, San Ignacio played on the Estadio Adurtzabal, with artificial grass. In the summer of 2018, due to the impossibility of playing the matches in Adurtzabal, Club San Ignacio went on to play their matches at the Ibaia facilities, owned by Deportivo Alavés.^[3]

Season to season

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1971–72 5 2ª Reg. 6th 1972–73 5 2ª Reg. 4th 1973–74 5 2ª Reg. 5th 1974–75 5 1ª Reg. 8th 1975–76 5 1ª Reg. 6th 1976–77 5 1ª Reg. 17th 1977–78 6 1ª Reg. 16th 1978–79 6 1ª Reg. 15th 1979–80 6 1ª Reg. 10th 1980–81 6 1ª Reg. 2nd 1981–82 6 1ª Reg. 2nd 1982–83 6 1ª Reg. 2nd 1983–84 6 1ª Reg. 2nd 1984–85 6 1ª Reg. 1st 1985–86 5 Reg. Pref. 20th 1986–87 6 1ª Reg. 1st 1987–88 5 Reg. Pref. 3rd 1988–89 5 Reg. Pref. 3rd 1989–90 5 Reg. Pref. 2nd 1990–91 5 Reg. Pref. 8th

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1991–92 5 Reg. Pref. 10th 1992–93 5 Reg. Pref. 11th 1993–94 5 Reg. Pref. 4th 1994–95 5 Reg. Pref. 3rd 1995–96 5 Reg. Pref. 3rd 1996–97 5 Reg. Pref. 1st 1997–98 4 3ª 19th 1998–99 5 Reg. Pref. 10th 1999–2000 5 Reg. Pref. 4th 2000–01 5 Reg. Pref. 2nd 2001–02 5 Reg. Pref. 1st 2002–03 4 3ª 19th 2003–04^[a] 5 Reg. Pref. 13th 2004–05^[a] 5 Reg. Pref. 4th 2005–06 5 Reg. Pref. 1st 2006–07 4 3ª 20th 2007–08 5 Reg. Pref. 1st 2008–09 4 3ª 20th 2009–10 5 Reg. Pref. 3rd 2010–11 5 Reg. Pref. 5th

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 2011–12 5 Reg. Pref. 5th 2012–13 5 Reg. Pref. 3rd 2013–14 5 Reg. Pref. 12th 2014–15 5 Reg. Pref. 6th 2015–16 5 Reg. Pref. 7th 2016–17 5 Reg. Pref. 6th 2017–18 5 Reg. Pref. 1st 2018–19 4 3ª 4th 2019–20 4 3ª 7th 2020–21 4 3ª 6th / 5th 2021–22 5 3ª RFEF 7th 2022–23 5 3ª Fed. 15th 2023–24 5 3ª Fed.

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• 7 seasons in Tercera División
• 3 season in Tercera Federación/Tercera División RFEF

Notable players

•   Jesús Owono
•   Ernesto Valverde
•   Asier Salcedo

CF San Ignacio B

For the 2011–12 season, the collegiate club launched a subsidiary in the First Regional of Álava (7th tier of Spanish football) to release the youth players who finished that stage.^{[citation needed]}

Notes

1. See also:Deportivo Alavés C

References

1. "Campo de Futbol de Adurtzabal, home to San Ignacio - Football Ground Map". www.footballgroundmap.com. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
2. [Amurrio can already sight promotion to the Third Division]. Noticias de Álava (in Spanish). 25 April 2016. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
3. "Campo de fútbol Adurtzabal" [Adurtzabal football field] (in Spanish). Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
4. "Adurtzabal: Campo de Fútbol". www.txapeldunak.com. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
5. "Historia del Club" [Club History] (in Spanish). C.D. San Ignacio. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
6. "El San Ignacio asume la plaza del Alavés C" [San Ignacio takes the place of Alavés C] (in Spanish). Glorioso.net. 22 July 2003. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
7. [Partner Clubs] (in Spanish). Deportivo Alavés. 1 August 2017. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
8. "CD San Ignacio y CF Adurtzabal renuevan hasta 2020 su convenio con el Deportivo Alavés" [CD San Ignacio and CF Adurtzabal renew their agreement with Deportivo Alavés until 2020] (in Spanish). C.D. San Ignacio. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
9. Javier Lekuona (25 May 2018). "El Alavés completa una gran estructura deportiva con el ascenso del San Ignacio a Tercera" [The Alavés completes an extensive sports structure with the rise of San Ignacio to Tercera]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 January 2019.
10. Asier Pérez; Jorge Muñoz (18 July 2018). [Alavés gives Ibaia to San Ignacio for their season in Tercera]. Noticias de Álava (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
11. ""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.
12. "El Alavés crea un filial C en División de Honor tras la absorción del Adurtzabal" [Alavés create a C-team in the División de Honor after the absorption of Adurtzabal] (in Spanish). El Correo. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2023.

External links

• Official website
• Regional Preferente

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