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CLUB: Sociedad Deportiva Eibar
LOCATION: Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain
FOUNDED: 1940
STADIUM: Ipurua Municipal Stadium
DESCRIPTION (via sdeibar.com): "Sociedad Deportiva Eibar (Eibar Sports Society), founded in 1940, is a football Club which throughout its long history has played in all categories, from regional divisions to First Division. The most important sporting milestones of its history have been the eighteen consecutive years it spent in Second Division (from 1988 to 2006, record in its category) and its rise during the 2013-2014 season to First Division, where it currently remains. In 2014, it was forced to carry out a capital increase to continue in professional football and reached the figure of 10,000 shareholders in 69 countries thanks to a pioneering marketing campaign that made the Club’s image known worldwide. The first team of Eibar plays its matches at the Municipal Ipurua Stadium, with capacity for 6,300 spectators, and trains at the Atxabalpe installations, in Mondragón. It has a women’s team that plays in National Second Division and its youth team structure includes seven men's teams and two women's teams, in addition to a Football School."
MANAGER: José Luis Mendilibar
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OVERVIEW: Eibar is famous for being one of the smallest clubs to achieve promotion to Spain’s top flight. In fact, it nearly didn’t fit the financial requirement to join the league after a title-winning 2013-14 season in the Segunda División.
Eibar successfully sought investors from outside the city with a digital marketing campaign, “Defend Eibar,” which netted sufficient funds for the club to battle the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid. Now the modest Ipurua Municipal Stadium, with the smallest capacity in the league (6,300), plays host to world soccer stars like Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez.
Eibar is a fiercely homegrown club, with many first teamers coming through its youth academy, but has expanded its name recognition since ascending to the top division of Spanish soccer. The club is touring North America for the first time.
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