Almeria

First football team in Almeria was established around 1909, el Almeria Foot-Ball Club. Since then, a variety of Almeria football clubs have appeared and vanished. One of the clubs is AD Almeria, a team that was a part of La Liga between 1979-81, then vanished in 1982 and was perhaps UD Almeria's precursor.

A team named Almeria Club de Futebol was founded, however in 2001 it was renamed Union Deportiva Almeria. On January 19, 2001, Mayor of Almeria Santiago Martinez Cabrejas made it clear in the city council the club UD Almeria was created following the merger of two teams from the city - Polideportivo Almeria and Almeria CF. However, UD Almeria was not official until June 28, 2001 the day that Almeria CF approved at the General Meeting of Shareholders the change of name. After one season of play as a second division team it was moved into the third division and fourth divisions.

After a few seasons at the second division, Almeria side was first moved to the top league after finishing second during the season 2006/07. After impressive performances such like the away victory against Deportivo de La Coruna 3-0 in the opening La Liga match, the team finished 8th position in the 2007-08 season. In charge of the team was the coach Unai Emery, while striker Alvaro Negredo was the top scorer in the team by scoring thirteen goals.

After Emery was transferred to Valencia CF, Gonzalo Arconada took over, but was fired on the 21st day of December 2008 after an uncharacteristic string of results but never reaching the top three. Mexican Hugo Sanchez took the role, and performed little better, with the final position in mid-table.

In the 2010-11 season, Almeria reached the semifinals of the Copa del Rey for the first time in history. However, in the league Almeria was eliminated after a four-year stint in the top division and in November 2010 the coach Juan Manuel Lillo was fired following a loss of 0-8 at home to FC Barcelona (precisely the team that defeated Andalusians Andalusians in the last four of the domestic cup by the same margin however, on the aggregate) His replacement Jose Luis Oltra met the same fate in April 2011. Oltra was later replaced with Roberto Olabe.

After two seasons at the second division, Almeria returned to the principal class in Spanish football on the 22nd of June 2013, following a 2-0 win over Girona FC in the play-offs. After the departure of the manager Javi Gracia from the club, the team hired their former manager and player from the reserve team at the time, Francisco Javier Rodriguez Vilchez.  The team did manage to make it through in 2013-14 and finish 16th.

Francisco was dismissed in December 2014 after just two points of 24 and was replaced later with Juan Ignacio Martinez. "JIM" was also ineffective until April of 2015 and, even under the new coach Sergi Barjuan the team was dropped when they finished 19th.

For the season 2018-19, Almeria was able to escape the hard-fought battle for permanence in the Segunda Division until the last matches , just like the previous 3 seasons. This time , they were closer to the play-offs for promotion towards La Liga, and finished 10th of the 22 teams who were involved.

2 August 2019 Turki Al-Sheikh was appointed the club's owner taking over from Alfonso Garcia Gabarron. He named Mohamed El Assy as general director. He also appointed Dario Drudi as sports director, who succeeded Miguel Angel Corona, and manager Oscar Fernandez was replaced by Pedro Emanuel. On the 5th of November, 2019, it was announced that Guti was replacing Emanuel. On June 26, 2020 Guti was dismissed and was replaced with Mario Silva, who was himself replaced by Jose Gomes on 27 July.

The club was officially established in August of 2021. UD Almeria (Mohamed El Assy) and the Ayuntamiento de Almeria (Ramon Fernandez-Pacheco Monterreal) reached an agreement on the leisure of operating of the municipally-owned Estadio of the Juegos Mediterraneos for a period of 25 years. The club was promoted to first division in June of 2022. got promotion to the first division getting a first place finish in the table, and a 2nd position on the final game in the league after a period of seven years in the second division.

As of 19 July 2022

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  ESP Iván Martos 4 MF  ESP Íñigo Eguaras 5 MF  ARG Lucas Robertone 6 MF  ESP César de la Hoz (captain) 7 FW  ESP Juan Villar 8 MF  ESP Francisco Portillo 9 FW  NGA Umar Sadiq 10 MF  ESP Curro Sánchez 11 FW  POR Dyego Sousa 12 DF  ESP Juanjo Nieto 13 GK  ESP Fernando (vice-captain) 15 DF  ESP Sergio Akieme 16 MF  ESP José Carlos Lazo 17 MF  ESP Alejandro Pozo 19 DF  BRA Rodrigo Ely

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 DF  ESP Álex Centelles 21 DF  ESP Chumi 22 DF  SRB SrÄ‘an Babić 26 MF  ESP Arnau Puigmal 30 MF  POR Samú Costa 31 FW  ENG Arvin Appiah 32 MF  BEL Largie Ramazani 33 GK  ESP Diego Fuoli — DF  ESP Arnau Solà — DF  FRA Houboulang Mendes — DF  BRA Kaiky — MF  POR Gui Guedes — MF  SVK Martin Šviderský — FW  SRB Marko Milovanović

Note: This list includes players who have played for at-least 100 league matches and/or who have earned international status.

• Segunda División: 2021–22

• UD Almería B – Almería's B team
• AD Almería
• List of managers
• List of statistics