Sporting de Gijon (also known as Real Sporting de Gijon, Sporting de Gijon FC, Real Gijon or Rojiblancos) is a professional Spanish football club which plays in Spanish first division – La Liga. Sporting de Gijon was founded as "Sporting Gijones" in 1905; in 1912 the club name was changed to "Real Sporting Gijones", it was only 4 years later in 1916 when the club changed its name to Sporting de Gijon. Sporting de Gijon holds its home matches at the 26,000 seats El Molinon stadium.

Sporting de Gijon was promoted to the First Division for the first time in 1944 and played in both the first and second divisions while achieving greatest success in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During this period, Sporting de Gijon competed in the UEFA Cup six times.

At the end of the 1998 season which was very bad for Sporting de Gijon, the team was relegated to the Second Division and remained there for 10 seasons. It was only in 2008 when Sporting de Gijon achieved promotion back for the 2008/09 season. The 2008/09 season saw Sporting de Gijon break La Liga record of 29 consecutive games without a draw and setting the new record as high as 33 matches without a draw. In the 2009/10 season, Sporting de Gijon ranked at the 15th place in the official All-Time La Liga table and as for the 2009/10 season, Sporting de Gijon is one out of nine clubs in Spanish football to have never played below the second tier._©22/02/2012Spanishlaligatickets.com

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