Sevilla Atlético is a Spanish football team based in Seville in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1950, it is the reserve team of Sevilla. It plays in Primera Federación – Group 2 and holds home games at the Estadio Jesús Navas, which has a 7,500-seat capacity.
Reserve teams in Spain play in the same football pyramid as their senior team rather than a separate league. Reserve teams cannot play in the same division as their senior team, so Sevilla Atlético is not eligible for promotion to La Liga, the division in which Sevilla's first team plays. Reserve teams are also no longer permitted to enter the Copa del Rey.
History
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Founded in 1950, Sevilla Atlético quickly reached Tercera División, winning the competition in 1961 and 1962 and also spending the 1962–63 season in Segunda División. After three years in the regional leagues in the early 1970s, the club returned to the third level in 1976.
In 1977, the Segunda División B was created as the new third division, and Sevilla B spent time in that and the fourth categories. In 1999, it fell short in the second level promotion play-offs, after finishing the regular season as runner-up – earlier, in 1991, the club changed its name to Sevilla Fútbol Club B. In the following decade, in spite of three consecutive top-three finishes, the team underachieved in the playoffs. In the 2006–07 season, however, after a 1–0 aggregate win against Burgos, courtesy of a Lolo goal in the second leg at home, it returned to division two after more than 40 years of absence. In 2006, it was again renamed Sevilla Atlético.
After two seasons in division two, with a ninth place in the first year, in a campaign which also saw manager Manuel Jiménez leave to take the reins of the first team, Sevilla Atlético returned again to the third. Sevilla Atlético finished their 2015–16 campaign in third place in Group 4 and qualified for the promotion play-offs, they beat Lleida in the penalties 5–4 and therefore promoted back to Segunda División after seven years. In the 2016-17 season, the club finished 13th among 22 teams, never occupying a relegation spot.[1] In the 2017-18 season, after losing manager Diego Martínez as well as key players Borja Lasso, Antonio Cotán, and Diego González and with ex-Sevilla player Luis Tevenet as manager, Sevilla Atlético were relegated from the second division, finishing last placed 22nd with 32 points.[2]
Club names
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Club Deportivo Puerto (1950–1960)
Sevilla Atlético Club (1960–1991)
Sevilla Fútbol Club "B" (1991–1992)
Sevilla Fútbol Club, S.A.D. "B" (1992–2006)
Sevilla Atlético (2006–present)
Season to season
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As CD Puerto
Season
Tier
Division
Place
Copa del Rey
1950–51
5
2ª Reg.
1951–52
5
2ª Reg.
1952–53
4
1ª Reg.
11th
1953–54
4
1ª Reg.
13th
1954–55
4
1ª Reg.
3rd
1955–56
3
3ª
4th
1956–57
3
3ª
11th
1957–58
3
3ª
13th
1958–59
3
3ª
4th
1959–60
3
3ª
2nd
As Sevilla Atlético Club (Farm team)
Season
Tier
Division
Place
Copa del Rey
1960–61
3
3ª
1st
1961–62
3
3ª
1st
1962–63
2
2ª
15th
Round of 32
1963–64
3
3ª
7th
1964–65
3
3ª
5th
1965–66
3
3ª
2nd
1966–67
3
3ª
3rd
1967–68
3
3ª
2nd
1968–69
3
3ª
5th
1969–70
3
3ª
5th
1970–71
3
3ª
5th
First round
1971–72
3
3ª
12th
1972–73
3
3ª
20th
1973–74
4
1ª Reg.
3rd
1974–75
4
1ª Reg.
2nd
1975–76
4
Reg. Pref.
2nd
Season
Tier
Division
Place
Copa del Rey
1976–77
3
3ª
10th
First round
1977–78
3
2ª B
13th
Second round
1978–79
3
2ª B
6th
First round
1979–80
3
2ª B
18th
Second round
1980–81
4
3ª
1st
1981–82
4
3ª
3rd
Third round
1982–83
4
3ª
1st
First round
1983–84
4
3ª
1st
First round
1984–85
4
3ª
3rd
First round
1985–86
4
3ª
1st
First round
1986–87
4
3ª
1st
First round
1987–88
3
2ª B
12th
First round
1988–89
3
2ª B
2nd
First round
1989–90
3
2ª B
3rd
1990–91
3
2ª B
18th
N/A
As Sevilla FC's reserve team
Season
Tier
Division
Place
1991–92
4
3ª
1st
1992–93
3
2ª B
7th
1993–94
3
2ª B
14th
1994–95
3
2ª B
7th
1995–96
3
2ª B
7th
1996–97
3
2ª B
9th
1997–98
3
2ª B
11th
1998–99
3
2ª B
2nd
1999–2000
3
2ª B
19th
2000–01
4
3ª
1st
2001–02
3
2ª B
11th
2002–03
3
2ª B
10th
2003–04
3
2ª B
3rd
2004–05
3
2ª B
1st
2005–06
3
2ª B
3rd
2006–07
3
2ª B
1st
2007–08
2
2ª
9th
2008–09
2
2ª
22nd
2009–10
3
2ª B
15th
2010–11
3
2ª B
2nd
Season
Tier
Division
Place
2011–12
3
2ª B
10th
2012–13
3
2ª B
14th
2013–14
3
2ª B
14th
2014–15
3
2ª B
14th
2015–16
3
2ª B
3rd
2016–17
2
2ª
13th
2017–18
2
2ª
22nd
2018–19
3
2ª B
10th
2019–20
3
2ª B
9th
2020–21
3
2ª B
4th / 1st
2021–22
3
1ª RFEF
17th
2022–23
4
2ª Fed.
10th
2023–24
4
2ª Fed.
1st
2024–25
3
1ª Fed.
5 seasons in Segunda División
2 seasons in Primera Federación/Primera División RFEF
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