Unión Deportiva Almería, S.A.D. (Spanish pronunciation: [uˈnjon depoɾˈtiβ(a) almeˈɾi.

a]) is a
Spanish football club based in Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in
26 July 1989 and known as Almería Club de Fútbol until 2001,[2] the club plays in Segunda
División, and plays their homes games at Estadio de los Juegos Mediterráneos,[3] with a 15,000-
seat capacity.[4]

Contents
 1 History
 2 Season to season
 3 Current squad
o 3.1 Reserve team
o 3.2 Out on loan
 4 Technical staff
 5 Notable players
 6 Uniform
 7 See also
 8 References
 9 External links

History
AD Almería is a team that played in La Liga between 1979–81, but disappeared in 1982, and was
arguably UD Almería's predecessor. In 1989, a club named Almería Club de Fútbol was born, but
in 2001 was renamed Unión Deportiva Almería. On January 19, 2001 the mayor of Almeria
Santiago Martínez Cabrejas announced in the City Council that the new club UD Almería was
born after the merge of two city's teams - Polideportivo Almería and Almería CF.[5] But UD
Almería was not official until June 28, 2001, when Almeria CF approved at the General Meeting
of Shareholders the renaming.[5] After playing one season in the second division, it was relegated
to the third and the fourth divisions.

After spending several seasons in the second level, Almería side was first promoted to the top
flight after finishing runner-up in the 2006–07 season. After some outstanding performances, as
the away win against Deportivo de La Coruña 3-0 in the first La Liga match, the team achieved a
final 8th league place in 2007–08.[5] At the club's helm was coach Unai Emery, as striker Álvaro
Negredo finished team topscorer with 13 goals.

After Emery left for Valencia CF, Gonzalo Arconada stepped in, but was sacked on 21 December
2008, after a string of poor results, albeit without ever reaching the last three. Mexican Hugo
Sánchez took the job, and fared slightly better, for a final mid-table position.

In 2010–11, Almería reached the semifinals of the Copa del Rey for the first time ever.[5] In the
league, however, the club was finally relegated after a four-year spell in the top flight; in
November 2010, coach Juan Manuel Lillo was fired after a 0–8 home loss against FC Barcelona
(precisely the team that ousted the Andalusians in the domestic cup's last-four, with the same
score, but on aggregate), and his successor José Luis Oltra met the same fate, in April 2011.

After two seasons in the second level, Almería returned to the main category of Spanish football
on 22 June 2013, after defeating Girona FC in the play-offs. After the departure of manager Javi
Gracia, the club appointed their former player and manager of the reserves at the time Francisco
Javier Rodríguez Vílchez;[6] the team eventually managed to survive in 2013–14, finishing 16th.
[7][8]

Francisco was sacked in December 2014, after only managing two points out of 24,[9] and was
later replaced by Juan Ignacio Martínez.[10] "JIM" also only lasted until April of the following
year,[11] and even with new manager Sergi Barjuán,[12] the club was relegated after finishing 19th.
[13][14]

In the 2018-2019 season, Almería finally escaped the tough fight for the permanence in Segunda
División until the last matches as during 3 previous seasons. This time they were closer to the
promotion play-offs to La Liga, and finished 10th from 22 teams participated.[15]

On 2 August 2019 Turki Al-Sheikh became the owner of the club, replacing Alfonso García
Gabarrón.[16] He named Mohamed El Assy as general director,[17] Dario Drudi as sporting
director, who replaced Miguel Ángel Corona,[18] and manager Óscar Fernández was replaced by
Pedro Emanuel.[19] On 5 November 2019 at 0:47 (UTC) it was announced Guti replaced
Emanuel.[20]

Season to season
See also: List of UD Almería seasons
Copa del Season Level Division Place Copa del Rey
Season Level Division Place
Rey 2009/10 1 1ª 13th Round of 32
Reg. 2010/11 1 1ª 20th Semifinals
1989/90 5 1st
Pref. 2011/12 2 2ª 7th Round of 32
Reg. 2012/13 2 2ª 3rd Round of 32
1990/91 5 3rd
Pref. 2013/14 1 1ª 17th Round of 16
Reg. 2014/15 1 1ª 19th Round of 16
1991/92 5 2nd
Pref. 2015/16 2 2ª 18th Round of 32
1992/93 4 3ª 2nd 2016/17 2 2ª 15th Second round
Fourth 2017/18 2 2ª 18th Second round
1993/94 3 2ªB 11th
round 2018/19 2 2ª 10th Round of 32
Second 2019/20 2 2ª 3rd First round
1994/95 3 2ªB 2nd
round
Second
1995/96 2 2ª 16th
round
Second
1996/97 2 2ª 17th
round
1997/98 3 2ªB 7th First round
1998/99 3 2ªB 18th
1999/00 4 3ª 4th
2000/01 3 2ªB 11th
2001/02 3 2ªB 3rd
2002/03 2 2ª 18th Round of 32
2003/04 2 2ª 13th Round of 32
Second
2004/05 2 2ª 16th
round
2005/06 2 2ª 6th First round
Third
2006/07 2 2ª 2nd
round
2007/08 1 1ª 8th Round of 32
2008/09 1 1ª 11th Round of 16

 6 seasons in La Liga
 14 seasons in Segunda División
 6 seasons in Segunda División B
 2 seasons in Tercera División
 3 seasons in Categorías Regionales

Current squad
As of 1 February 2020[21]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA
nationality.

No No
Position Player Position Player
. .
Antonio Sivera (on loan 15 DF Juan Ibiza
1 GK
from Alavés) José Lazo (on loan from
16 MF
Francis Guerrero (on loan Getafe)
2 DF
from Real Betis) 17 MF José Corpas
3 DF Iván Martos Nikola Maraš (on loan from
18 DF
4 DF José Romera Chaves)
5 MF Sergio Aguza Ante Ćorić (on loan from
19 MF
6 MF César de la Hoz Roma)
Enzo Fernández (on loan 20 DF Iván Balliu
7 MF
from Aves) 21 FW Darwin Núñez
8 MF Radosav Petrović Valentine Ozornwafor (on
22 DF
Fran Villalba (on loan from loan from Galatasaray)
10 MF
Birmingham) 23 MF Valentín Vada
 Juan Muñoz (on loan from David Costas (on loan from
11 FW 24 DF
Leganés) Celta)
12 DF Jonathan 31 FW Arvin Appiah
13 GK Fernando (captain) Iván Barbero (on loan from
36 FW
Wilfrid Kaptoum (on loan Osasuna)
14 MF
from Real Betis)
Reserve team
Main article: UD Almería B
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA
nationality.

No No
Position Player Position Player
. .
26 MF Francisco Callejón 34 FW Rubén Enri
27 FW Dani Albiar 43 FW Nano
30 GK Jero Lario 49 DF Fermín Ruiz
32 FW Nacho Díaz 50 DF Fran Vertiz
Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA
nationality.

No No
Position Player Position Player
. .
Dragan Rosić (at Celta B Chema Núñez (at Albacete
— GK — MF
until 30 June 2020) until 30 June 2020)
René (at Ponferradina until Mario Abenza (at
— GK
30 June 2020) — MF Sanluqueño until 30 June
Mathieu Peybernes (at Lugo 2020)
— DF
until 30 June 2020) Yanis Rahmani (at Lugo
— MF
until 30 June 2020)

Technical staff
Position Staff
Head coach Guti
Assistant manager David Badía
Assistant coach Antonio Ruiz Vilches
Fitness coach Javier Agenjo
Fitness coach Víctor Fortes
Goalkeeping coach Borja Álvarez
Goalkeeping coach Ricardo Molina
Last updated: February 2020
Source: UD Almería

Notable players
Note: this list includes players that have appeared in at least 100 league games and/or have
reached international status.

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án Martín mon  Juan  Lun  Alei
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o Piatti Reyes  Die Crusat  Álv Goitom
 Ósca  Fab go  Esteba aro  Teer
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 Dieg Vargas  Peq  Esteba o Dangda
o Valeri  Thi ue n Navarro  Jos  Juli
 Dieg evy Benítez  Francis é Ortiz o
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 Paul a iago  Carlos nma  Ivic
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See also: Category:UD Almería players