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| Full name | Real Avilés Industrial Club de Fútbol | ||
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| Nicknames | Realavilesinos Blanquiazules | ||
| Founded | 1903; 123 years ago (1903) | ||
| Ground | Estadio Román Suárez Puerta | ||
| Capacity | 5,400[1] | ||
| President | Diego Baeza | ||
| Head coach | Dani Vidal | ||
| League | Primera Federación – Group 1 | ||
| 2024–25 | Segunda Federación – Group 1, 3rd of 18 (promoted via play-offs) | ||
| Website | www | ||
Real Avilés Industrial Club de Fútbol is aSpanish football team based inAvilés, in the autonomous community ofAsturias. Founded in 1903 it plays inPrimera Federación – Group 1, holding home matches atEstadio Román Suárez Puerta, with an approximate capacity of 5,400 seats.[2]
Avilés was founded in 1903 under the nameSport Club Avilesino, hence being considered the oldest football club inAsturias. In 1906 he joins the Sociedad Obrera Industrial as their football section with the name ofCírculo Industrial y de Sport de Avilés,[3][non-primary source needed] but a few years later, the players and managers of the football team decide to become independent again, this time with the name ofStadium Club Avilesino.
In 1925 Stadium obtained the royal crown fromAlfonso XIII, being renamedReal Stadium Club Avilesino.[3][non-primary source needed] A new name change took place in 1940, according to a government's prohibition of foreign names, and the club becameReal Avilés Club de Fútbol.
In 1983 Avilés absorbedClub Deportivo Ensidesa and changed its name again, toReal Avilés Industrial Club de Fútbol. It played inSegunda División B (the third highest level of the league pyramid) for two seasons and returned to that level at the end of the1987–88 campaign, being crowned championsthree years later and thus promoting toSegunda División: after comfortablyfinishing in midtable in its first season, the teamranked second from bottom in the following, spending a further eight years in the third category then two more from 2002 to 2004, after which it returned toTercera División (the fourth highest level).
The relegation to Tercera was followed by a serious financial and social crisis in the club, with almost all the supporters leaving the club. In 2010, the board of the club retook its old nameReal Avilés Club de Fútbol.[4]
Following an agreement with the investment group "Golplus", Real Avilés failed to promote to Segunda División B in 2012, but the club could buy a vacant berth in the third tier.[5] Two years later, Real Avilés would play thepromotion play-offs to Segunda División. They would eliminateFC Cartagena in the first round, but failed in the attempt to beatUE Llagostera in the second one. In October 2014, Golplus would leave the club due to the lack of support[6] and Real Avilés would start a new crisis that ended with the relegation to Tercera División after being beaten in therelegation playoffs byCD Eldense.
On 3 July 2017, theRoyal Spanish Football Federation would not allow Real Avilés to register its players in any of the categories due to an unpaid debt of €32,000 to their players.[7] After paying it, the club continued involved in serious internal problems as José María Tejero, owner of the club, and the management group did not reach an agreement. Tejero decided to take the helm of the club despite the opposition of the management group, and without terminating the contract; this action started when during the preseason of the2017–18 Tercera División, Tejero called private security for not allowing the coaches and the players, contracted by the management group, to train in the municipal facilities.[8]
After this incident, the owner and the management group made a different team each one for playing in the2017–18 Tercera División. Both hired one coach and signed several players, but finally only the ones contracted by the owner were finally registered.[9]
On 7 July 2023, Avilés announced a change of name toReal Avilés Industrial CF for the upcoming season.[10]
The club changed the crest to the most recent one in 2017.[11][12] The historical logo that was introduced in 1983, adding garnet colour, the colour ofEnsidesa to the crest.[13][14] However, in circa 2015 the club dropped the colour and restored to the old design.[14] The club also deleted other elements that refer to Ensidesa from the club song.[14]
Before 1983 the club also user a few other design.[15][13]
![the logo of the club from circa 2015 to 2017 and in 1983[13]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aReal_Avil%25C3%25A9s_old_logo.png){kind=logo}
![the logo of the club from circa 2011[13] to 2015](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aReal_Avil%25C3%25A9s_Industrial_logo.jpg){kind=logo}
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