Sporting de Huelva

Full name	Sporting Club de Huelva
Founded	1979 / 2004
Ground	Ciudad Deportiva del Recreativo de Huelva Huelva, Spain
Capacity	1,300
Chairman	Manuela Romero Landa
Manager	Antonio Toledo
League	Liga F
2022–23	Liga F, 13th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Sporting Club de Huelva is a Spanish women's football club from Huelva, Andalusia. It was founded in Huelva in 2004 as a restructuring of an homonymous junior (men's) football club, which had been founded in 1979 and dissolved nine years later, by its original founder, Antonio Toledo, who has also served as the team's manager and sporting director.^[1][2]

History

2006–07 Superliga match against Levante UD

Gaining promotion to the Liga F in just two seasons, Sporting Huelva debuted at the 2006–07 season. It has successfully avoided relegation for the past three seasons, actually ending the 2008–09 season just one point short for qualifying to the Copa de la Reina, losing the spot at the last matchday.^[3]

Next year Sporting was third in their group in the first stage of the newly reformed competition, narrowly missing qualification for the title contenders group. The team ranked again 3rd in its group in the second stage, qualifying for the Copa de la Reina for the first time. They qualified for the quarter-finals, eliminating Atlético Madrid before being ousted by Torrejón.

Financial difficulties conditioned the club's 2010–11 season. Following a weak performance in the first stage the team managed to recover in the second half of the season and was 2nd in their group, but Sporting had to renounce taking part in the Copa de la Reina.^[4]

Sporting chained four wins in the first weeks of the 2011–12 season, holding the lead of the table for the first time in its history.^[5] As of the end of 2011 the team stood 4th with 9 wins in 15 games, but after a less successful second half the team ended in the 8th position, was anyway is its best result to date. During the Christmas break president José Antonio Muñoz announced Sporting was in negotiations to become Recreativo Huelva's women's team for the 2012–13 season,^[6] but an agreement was not reached and Sporting was instead relocated to nearby Trigueros for the 2012–13 season.^[7]

On 17 May 2015, Sporting de Huelva won its first national title after achieving the 2015 Copa de la Reina by defeating Valencia CF in the final match by 2–1.^[8]

Players

Current squad

As of 18 April 2023^[9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ENG Chelsea Ashurst 2 DF  CRC Stephannie Blanco 3 DF  BRA Ana Carol 4 FW  VEN Raiderlin Carrasco 5 MF  ARG Vanesa Santana 6 MF  SUI Stefanie da Eira 7 FW  SWE Therese Simonsson 8 FW  ESP Ana de Teresa 9 FW  ESP María Ruiz 10 MF  SWE Sofia Hagman 11 FW  SVK Patrícia Hmírová 12 FW  ESP Bárbara López 13 GK  SVN Zala Meršnik 14 DF  ESP Laia Ballesté

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  ESP Patri Ojeda 16 DF  ESP Sandra Castelló (captain) 17 DF  ESP Laura Blasco 18 DF  USA Athena Kühn 19 DF  ESP Paula Romero 20 MF  SWE Amanda Edgren 21 FW  ESP Cristina Gey 22 DF  ISL Berglind Rós Ágústsdóttir 23 MF  POL Patrycja Balcerzak 24 FW  ESP Natalia Nogareda 25 GK  ESP Bella Ramírez 26 FW  ESP Eva Cintado — FW  AUS Anna Margraf

Competition record

Titles

• Copa de la Reina: (1)
  • 2015

References