Real Valladolid Club de Futbol, S.A.D., or simply Real Valladolid (pronounced [re'al bayado'lid]) or Valladolid is a professional soccer club located within Valladolid, Castile and Leon, Spain that competes in La Liga, the top league in the Spanish league system.
The colours of the club are white and violet, that are used on the kit in stripes since its founding on June 20, 1928. The team plays home matches in the Estadio Jose Zorrilla, which has seating for 27,846 fans. Valladolid's honors include one trophy that is of significant importance that was lost, the Copa de la Liga 1983-84. It was runner-up at the Copa del Rey on two occasions (1949-50 and 1988-89) as well as participating in two seasons of the UEFA Cup (1984-85 and 1997-98) and one version of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1989-90). The team's subsidiary club is The Real Valladolid Promesas, currently are with the Primera Division RFEF.
From the club's La Liga debut in the 1948-49 season (in which it was the first club from the region to participate with La Liga - five others have also done it since then), Valladolid is the most successful soccer team in Castile and Leon in terms of honours and historical records and has played 45 years within the First Division, 36 in the Second Division and Ten in the Third. In terms of historical records, Valladolid is the 13th-best team in Spain in terms of overall league points. Two players from the team have been awarded the Pichichi Trophy: Manuel Badenes and Jorge da Silva; and 10 were internationals for the Spain national team. The 21st century has seen a change in the way that they perform the performance of the club in domestic play is based on a yo-yo pattern of club that has seen numerous promotions to (and being relegated out of) to the premier division.
On the 3rd of September, 2018 the club announced the Brazilian ex-international footballer Ronaldo Nazario had become the majority shareholder following the purchase of 51% of the controlling share in the team. At the time of April, 2020 Ronaldo held 82% of shares owned by the club.
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Real Valladolid was founded from the union with Real Union Deportiva de Valladolid and Club Deportivo Espanol, the club's inaugural game was on September 22, 1928. It was a victory over Alaves 2:1. Valladolid first made it to the top of the ladder in the 1947-48 season, and was Champions in the Segunda Division. The team became one of the very first Castile and Leon team to be a part of the Spanish top level. The next time, their team continued forward from their achievement and made it to an end of Copa Del Rey in Chamartin Stadium against Athletic Bilbao, losing 4-1.
The remainder of the decade was filled with the First Division and relegation came and went because Valladolid was promoted again in 1958-59 after an 5-0 victory against Terrassa in the hands of director Jose Luis Saso, a legend in the club's history. He was a goalkeeper at the club, and later was later able to take on a variety of duties, including being the vice-president of the club.
Valladolid moved between the second and first divisions in the following years, dropping into the third division in the 1970-71 season. In the following year, the club was elevated to the second division, and in 1980, it was promoted to the first division. Valladolid was a part of until 1992 after which the club was moved in the 2nd division once more. The club was promoted in 1992-93. However The club was dropped following its 2003-04 campaign. The year 1984 was the time that Valladolid additionally won also the Copa de la Liga (a event that was only played in the 1980s) over Atletico Madrid.
On the 14th of April, the year 1996 Valladolid was the 1,000th team to play during La Liga.
The club's top position in this period of 11 years was seventh in 1996-97. being coached during the prior seasons by the former Real Madrid Castilla coach Rafael Benitez and a number of players from the team would later play in Valladolid.
In the 2006-07 season after the club signed Basque Jose Luis Mendilibar as the head Coach, Valladolid had one of its most successful seasons in its history, while playing at the second level. The club took the lead in league play on matchday 15 and finished with a record-breaking with 88 points. They also won the title by a total amount of eight points and having an advantage of 26 points to the zone that is not promoted (fourth or below) which are both all-time records for the league. Valladolid also had the distinction of not losing in 29 consecutive games, from October 10 2006 to May 6, 2007 when it was mathematically promoted following a 2-0 win away against Tenerife on the 22nd of April (the third matchday on the calendar for the season's 34th) this was the first time that a club to the top of the league in Spanish history.
The team's performance in the season's Copa del Rey, reaching the quarterfinals following the defeat of two teams in the top division, Gimnastic de Tarragona (4-1 aggregate) as well as the team from 2005 and 2006. UEFA Champions League contender Villarreal (3-1) and playing all the way through the game using reserve team players.
Two fairly prosperous season in top Division were followed by finishing 15th and staying out of relegation following one draw on the last day of each season (against Recreativo de Huelva in 2007-08 and Real Betis in the following campaign).
After an unremarkable start to 2009-10 (three wins in the first 20 games), Mendilibar was sacked on February 1st, 2010, following a draw in the home match against Almeria. In the week after his dismissal, Valladolid dropped into the zone of relegation (something was not the case during the 138-match run of Mendilibar's tenure) The the club's former player Onesimo Sanchez in charge.
After just one win in 10 games, Sanchez was fired. Former Spain manager of the national team Javier Clemente was named Sanchez's replacement in an attempt to prevent relegation with just eight matches left. After a short break (16th place), Valladolid again returned to the bottom three. He and then had to win a crucial fixture at Camp Nou against a Barcelona squad that was in need of a victory to win victory to win the Liga championship. The team was on the same level as Racing de Santander, Malaga and Tenerife for the final two secure positions, Valladolid lost 0-4 and as a result was delegated after a period of three years in the top league.
This season witnessed Valladolid returning to La Liga under the management of Miroslav Dukic. They were promoted via play-offs after finishing third in the division.
Valladolid were relegated into Valladolid were relegated back to Segunda Division on the last gameday of the 2013-14 season.
In the 2017-18 season, Valladolid was promoted to the first division following four years in play-off after beating Sporting de Gijon and Numancia.
On the 3rd of September, 2018, it was announced that Brazilian ex-international football player Ronaldo was now the majority shareholder following the purchase of 51% control part of the team. 10. The club's first season as its new owners, Valladolid was ranked 16th on the table in La Liga. In April 2020 Ronaldo held 82% of shares in the club.
In August of 2020 in the midst of The Promesas (reserve group) set up within Segunda Division B, the club reached an arrangement with the local team Atletico Tordesillas, operating at the lower levels and acting as a second affiliated team for the club's young players. In the season 2020-21, Real Valladolid was relegated following the loss at home of 1-2 to Atletico and also won an at-large spot in the Colchoneros their La Liga title on the final day of the match which ended Valladolid's three-year stint in the first division.
In the 2021-22 campaign, Valladolid came back into La Liga by sealing a second place on the league chart (81 points, which was tied with points to the team that was first) and thus ensuring that the team's promotion straight to the top division.
Real Valladolid play at the 27,846-capacity Estadio Nuevo Jose Zorrilla, built in 1982 to replace the stadium with the same name that had been in place since. The two stadiums are named after Jose Zorrilla y Moral, poet of the 19th century from the city. The stadium was officially opened for the club on the 20th of February 1982, it was the venue for an event called the Copa del Rey Final on 13 April that year followed by three Group D games at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. The stadium is part of the Ayuntamiento de Valladolid.
In 2010, it was revealed that there was a plan to increase the capacity of the stadium to accommodate 40,000 people. The project was referred to by the name of Valladolid Arena [baya'dolid a'rena] and was contingent upon Spain getting permission to host in 2018 the FIFA World cup.
The following list shows Valladolid's record as well as all the presidents and coaches for every season since its foundation in 1929. All presidents and coaches are Spanish unless otherwise noted.
Season | Tier | Division | Place | President | Coach | Accomplishments |
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1929 | 3 | 3ª | 5th | Pedro Zuloaga Santos Rodríguez |
István Plattkó | |
1929–30 | 2nd | Santos Rodríguez | ||||
1930–31 | 2nd | José Cantalapiedra | Antón Achalandabaso | |||
1931–32 | 3rd | |||||
1932–33 | 1st | |||||
1933–34 | 1st | István Plattkó tekio | Promoted to 2ª | |||
1934–35 | 2 | 2ª | 2nd | |||
1935–36 | 4th | |||||
1936–37 | No competition | No competition was held due to Spanish Civil War |
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1938–39 | ||||||
1939–40 | 2 | 2ª | 6th | István Plattkó Manuel M. Ordax |
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1940–41 | 10th | Juan Bilbao "Juanín" | ||||
1941–42 | 5th | Károly Plattkó | ||||
1942–43 | 2nd | |||||
1943–44 | 14th | José Cantalapiedra José González |
Alfonso Martínez José Planas |
Relegated to 3ª | ||
1944–45 | 3 | 3ª | 3rd | Germán Adánez Ángel Soria |
Quirico Arteaga | Runner-up Copa Federación |
1945–46 | 1st | Ángel Soria | Antonio Barrios | |||
1946–47 | 1st | Juan Represa | Promoted to 2ª | |||
1947–48 | 2 | 2ª | 1st | Promoted to La Liga | ||
1948–49 | 1 | 1ª | 12th | Helenio Herrera | ||
1949–50 | 9th | Antonio Barrios Julián Vaquero Antonio Barrios |
Spanish Cup: Runners-up (4–1 v. Athletic Bilbao) |
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1950–51 | 6th | Manuel González Aquiso | Juan Antonio Ipiña | |||
1951–52 | 8th | Ramón Pradera | ||||
1952–53 | 12th | José Iraragorri | Winner Copa Federación | |||
1953–54 | 12th | Luis Miró | ||||
1954–55 | 9th | |||||
1955–56 | 9th | |||||
1956–57 | 8th | Rafael Yunta | ||||
1957–58 | 15th | Rafael Yunta José Luis Saso |
Relegated to 2ª | |||
1958–59 | 2 | 2ª | 1st | Carlos del Río Hortega | José Luis Saso | Promoted to La Liga |
1959–60 | 1 | 1ª | 13th | |||
1960–61 | 15th | José Luis Saso Pedro Eguiluz Paco Lesmes |
Relegated to 2ª | |||
1961–62 | 2 | 2ª | 2nd | José Miguel Arrarte | Paco Lesmes Manuel Soler Heriberto Herrera |
Promoted to La Liga |
1962–63 | 1 | 1ª | 4th | Antonio Ramallets | ||
1963–64 | 16th | Ángel Zubieta Paco Lesmes |
Relegated to 2ª | |||
1964–65 | 2 | 2ª | 3rd | Janos Kalmar Julián Vaquero |
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1965–66 | 4th | José Luis Saso | Antonio Barrios Antonio Ramallets |
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1966–67 | 9th | Pedro Torres Héctor Martín Emilio Aldecoa Héctor Martín Emilio Aldecoa Héctor Martín |
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1967–68 | 2nd | Antonio Alfonso | José Molinuevo Enrique Orizaola |
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1968–69 | 10th | Antonio Barrios Enrique Orizaola |
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1969–70 | 17th | José Antonio Olmedo José Luis Saso Gerardo Coque |
Relegated to 3ª | |||
1970–71 | 3 | 3ª | 2nd | Santiago Gallego | Gerardo Coque Héctor Martín |
Promoted to 2ª |
1971–72 | 2 | 2ª | 7th | Héctor Martín | ||
1972–73 | 5th | |||||
1973–74 | 7th | Gustau Biosca Fernando Redondo |
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1974–75 | 11th | Fernando Alonso | Fernando Redondo Santiago Vázquez Rudi Gutendorf |
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1975–76 | 4th | Héctor Núñez | ||||
1976–77 | 12th | Luis Aloy José Luis Saso |
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1977–78 | 7th | Francisco García "Paquito" | ||||
1978–79 | 4th | Gonzalo Alonso | Enrique Pérez "Pachín" | |||
1979–80 | 2nd | Eusebio Ríos | Promoted to La Liga | |||
1980–81 | 1 | 1ª | 12th | Gonzalo Alonso | Francisco García "Paquito" | |
1981–82 | 9th | |||||
1982–83 | 12th | Manuel Esteban | Felipe Mesones Santi Llorente José Luis García Traid |
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1983–84 | 14th | Pedro San Martín Mariano Hernández Gonzalo Alonso |
José Luis García Traid Fernando Redondo |
League Cup: Winners (Agg. 3–0 vs. Atlético) |
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1984–85 | 13th | Gonzalo Alonso | Fernando Redondo | |||
1985–86 | 10th | Vicente Cantatore | ||||
1986–87 | 10th | Gonzalo Alonso José Agad Miguel Ángel Pérez Herrán |
Vicente Cantatore Xabier Azkargorta Antonio Sánchez Santos José Pérez Garcia |
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1987–88 | 8th | Miguel Ángel Pérez Herrán | Vicente Cantatore | |||
1988–89 | 6th | Spanish Cup: Runners-up (1–0 vs. Real Madrid) |
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1989–90 | 16th | Miguel Ángel Pérez Herrán Carlos García Zúñiga |
Josip Skoblar José Moré Fernando Redondo |
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1990–91 | 9th | Gonzalo Gonzalo | "Pacho" Maturana | |||
1991–92 | 19th | Gonzalo Gonzalo Andrés Martín Marcos Fernández Fernández |
"Pacho" Maturana Javier Yepes Peñas |
Relegated to 2ª | ||
1992–93 | 2 | 2ª | 2nd | Marcos Fernández Fernández | Marco Antonio Boronat José Luis Saso Felipe Mesones |
Promoted to La Liga |
1993–94 | 1 | 1ª | 18th | Felipe Mesones José Moré |
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1994–95 | 19th | Víctor Espárrago José Moré Fernando Redondo Antonio Sánchez Santos |
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1995–96 | 16th | Rafael Benítez Antonio Sánchez Santos Vicente Cantatore |
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1996–97 | 7th | Vicente Cantatore | ||||
1997–98 | 11th | Marcos Fernández Fernández Marcos Fernández Fermoselle |
Vicente Cantatore Antonio Sánchez Santos Sergije KrešiÄ |
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1998–99 | 12th | Marcos Fernández Fermoselle | Sergije KrešiÄ | |||
1999–2000 | 8th | Marcos Fernández Fermoselle Ángel Fernández Fermoselle Ignacio Lewin |
Gregorio Manzano | |||
2000–01 | 16th | Ignacio Lewin Carlos Suárez |
Francisco "Pancho" Ferraro José Moré |
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2001–02 | 12th | Carlos Suárez | José Moré | |||
2002–03 | 14th | |||||
2003–04 | 18th | Fernando Vázquez Antonio Sánchez Santos |
Relegated to 2ª | |||
2004–05 | 2 | 2ª | 6th | Sergije KrešiÄ Marcos Alonso |
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2005–06 | 10th | Marcos Alonso Alfredo Merino |
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2006–07 | 1st | José Luis Mendilibar | Promoted to La Liga | |||
2007–08 | 1 | 1ª | 15th | |||
2008–09 | 15th | |||||
2009–10 | 18th | José Luis Mendilibar Onésimo Sánchez Javier Clemente |
Relegated to 2ª | |||
2010–11 | 2 | 2ª | 7th | Antonio Gómez Abel Resino |
Qualified for Promotion play-off | |
2011–12 | 3rd | Miroslav ÄukiÄ | Qualified for Promotion play-off Promoted to La Liga |
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2012–13 | 1 | 1ª | 14th | |||
2013–14 | 19th | Juan Ignacio Martínez | Relegated to 2ª | |||
2014–15 | 2 | 2ª | 5th | Rubi | Qualified for Promotion play-off | |
2015–16 | 16th | Gaizka Garitano Miguel Ángel Portugal Alberto López |
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2016–17 | 7th | Paco Herrera | ||||
2017–18 | 5th | Luis César Sampedro Sergio González |
Qualified for Promotion play-off Promoted to La Liga |
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2018–19 | 1 | 1ª | 16th | Ronaldo | Sergio González | |
2019–20 | 13th | |||||
2020–21 | 19th | Relegated to 2ª | ||||
2021–22 | 2 | 2º | 2nd | Pacheta | Promoted to 1ª | |
2022–23 | 1 | 1ª |
Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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1984–85 | Round of 64 | v. Rijeka | 1–0 | 1–4 | 2–4 |
1997–98 | Round of 64 | v. Skonto | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 |
Round of 32 | v. Spartak Moscow | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–4 |
Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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1989–90 | Round of 32 | v. Ħamrun Spartans | 5–0 | 1–0 | 6–0 |
Round of 16 | v. Djurgårdens IF | 2–0 | 2–2 | 4–2 | |
Quarter-finals | v. Monaco | 0–0 | 0–0 (a.e.t.) | 1–3 (pen.) |
As of 15 July 2022.
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Position | Staff |
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Head coach | Pacheta |
Assistant coach | Chema Monzón |
Second assistant coach | Álvaro Rubio |
Fitness coach | Jorge Trigueros |
Goalkeeper coach | José Manuel Santisteban |
Analyst | Guillem Galmés |
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