add site
services
publishers
database
health videos
toolbar
stats
live show
health store
more stuff
JOIN/LOGIN
| advertise add site services publishers database health videos
| | about toolbar stats live show health store more stuff JOIN/LOGIN |
al Centro de Tratamiento con Rayo Laser... laserlight.org | Dr Rayo Links samuelfrayodds.com |
Rayo Vallecano de Madrid, S.A.D., often abbreviated to Rayo, is a Spanish Segunda División Spanish football team club based in Madrid, in the neighbourhood of Vallecas. Founded in play at the 15,000-seater Estadio Teresa Rivero.
[edit] HistoryOne of the perennial yo-yo clubs of Spanish football, Rayo Vallecano spent many years during the 1980s and 1990s moving back and forth between the first and second divisions. They appeared to have consolidated their top flight status after promotion in 1998–99, and the team's most successful season came in 2000–01, when they reached the UEFA quarterfinals, going out only to eventual runners-up Deportivo Alavés (Rayo finished ninth in the previous season, but entered the competition via the fair play draw). However, the club shortly thereafter fell on hard times, enduring successive relegations from the first (in 2002–03) and second divisions (2003–2004). In 2005–06, the club hired Míchel, a legend for Real Madrid in the 1980s and 90s, as team manager. The club finished the 2006–07 season in second place in third-tier, winning the promotion play-off semifinal, but losing in the final to SD Eibar (1-2 aggregate). The next season, Rayo returned to the second division after a four-year absence, winning the play-off, disposing of Benidorm CD in the semifinal, and Zamora CF in the last game (2-1 aggregate). In the first season back in the second tier of Spanish football, Rayo finished comfortably, often either in or just outside the promotion places. That same year, its women's team was crowned league champions for the first time, thereby qualifying for the UEFA Women's Champions League, but were eliminated 2-5 on aggregate in the round-of-32, by Russia's WFC Rossiyanka. [edit] Club background
N.B. Affiliate of Club Atlético de Madrid in 1949-50 [edit] Current squadAs of 14 August 2009, according to combined sources on the official website.
[edit] Seasons
[edit] Club presidents
[edit] StadiumEstadio Teresa Rivero is a football stadium located on Calle Payaso Fofo 1, Vallecas. Opened on 10 May 1976, at first it was called "New Stadium Vallecas", but in January 2004, 13 years after the arrival of the Ruiz-Mateos family in 1991, it changed denominations, as the wife was also named by her husband, business man José María, the first woman president of an elite soccer team. It has a capacity of 15,500 spectators in an all-seated format, and dimensions of 102x64m. Additionally, one of the goalends does not have a grandstand, just a big wall with information panels. In June 2009, the club announced plans for the construction of a new stadium. [edit] Miscellaneous info
[edit] External links
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ↑ top of page ↑ | about thumbshots |
