| Full name | Deportivo Alavés C, S.A.D. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | Zaldiaran | |||
| Founded | 1980 as AD Zaldiaran 2022(refounded) | |||
| Ground | José Luis Compañón,Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain | |||
| Capacity | 2,500 | |||
| Chairman | Alfonso Fernández de Trocóniz | |||
| Manager | Germán Beltrán | |||
| League | Tercera Federación – Group 4 | |||
| 2024–25 | Tercera Federación – Group 4, 6th of 18 | |||
Deportivo Alavés C, S.A.D., usually known asAlavés C, is aSpanish football team based inVitoria-Gasteiz, in the autonomous community ofBasque Country. Founded in 1980 asAD Zaldiaran, they are the secondreserve team ofDeportivo Alavés, and play in theTercera Federación – Group 4.
The team's home kit was blue and white-striped shirt, blue shorts and white socks.
AD Zaldiaran was founded in 1980 and throughout most of their history was an independent club, but linked to the Alavés grassroots fields. The club only made their debut in theregional categories in the 1996–97 season, achieving promotion to the Regional Preferente de Álava on their first participation in the Primera Regional de Álava.[1] Three years later, in 2000, the team win the Preferente and achieve promotion toTercera División.[2]
After their promotion, Zaldiaran were fully incorporated toDeportivo Alavés' structure, being renamed toDeportivo Alavés C.[3] The side competed in the fourth tier for three back-to-back seasons until2002–03, when they suffered relegation.
Thereafter a four-year partnership was agreed with another local team,Club San Ignacio[4] (a modest team from Vitoria who had played the previous season (2002-03) also in the fourth division). The affiliate became known asAlavés C-San Ignacio[5] maintaining the Alavés name but playing in San Ignacio colours and usually hosting fixtures at their home groundAdurtzabal.[4] When this entity was relegated in2004–05, the Alavés link was discontinued.
San Ignacio continued operating independently and have since returned to the Tercera level twice (on each occasion their opponents includedthe other reserve side of Alavés,[4] with both teams being relegated in2008–09). Later on, San Ignacio rejoined Alavés' structure as their second reserve team.
On 1 June 2022, Alavés reactivated their C-team after absorbingAdurtzabal Club de Fútbol, a team founded in 2012 which had just been promoted to theDivisión de Honor de Álava;[6] the link with San Ignacio, the second reserve team until then, was discontinued.
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