Villarreal CF B

Villarreal Club de Fútbol "B" is a Spanish football team based in Villarreal, in the autonomous community of Valencia. Founded in 1999, it is the reserve team of Villarreal CF and plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2, holding home games at Ciudad Deportiva Villarreal CF, with a 5,000-seat capacity.

Villarreal B
Full nameVillarreal Club de Fútbol S.A.D. "B"
Nickname(s)El Submarino Amarillo
(Yellow Submarine)
Founded1999
GroundCiudad Deportiva, Villarreal,
Valencia, Spain
Capacity5,000
PresidentFernando Roig
Head coachMiguel Álvarez
League1ª RFEF – Group 2
2020–212ª B – Group 3 (B), 3rd of 10
2ª B – Group 3 (C), 6th of 6

Background

Unlike in other nations such as England, reserve teams in Spain play in the same football pyramid as their senior team rather than a separate league. However, reserve teams cannot play in the same division as their senior team. Therefore, the team is ineligible for promotion to the division in which the main side plays. Also, if the main team is relegated to the division in which its reserve side played in the prior season (which happened in 2011–12[1]), the reserve team is automatically relegated to the division below the main team. Reserve teams are also no longer permitted to enter the Copa del Rey.

Premier League International Cup

Villarreal successfully applied to compete in the 2014–15, 2015–16 and 2016–17 versions of the England-based Premier League International Cup. They won the tournament in 2016, beating PSV in the final. Most of Villarreal's players in this Under-23 tournament have been drawn from the B side with some additions from C Team and the Juvenil group.

Season to season
Season Tier Division Place
1999–2000 7 2ª Reg. 2nd
2000–01 6 1ª Reg. 1st
2001–02 5 Pref. 5th
2002–03 5 Pref. 1st
2003–04 4 3ª 3rd
2004–05 4 3ª 5th
2005–06 4 3ª 1st
2006–07 4 3ª 2nd
2007–08 3 2ª B 11th
2008–09 3 2ª B 2nd
2009–10 2 2ª 7th
2010–11 2 2ª 17th
2011–12 2 2ª 12th
2012–13 3 2ª B 9th
2013–14 3 2ª B 11th
2014–15 3 2ª B 10th
2015–16 3 2ª B 2nd
2016–17 3 2ª B 6th
2017–18 3 2ª B 2nd
2018–19 3 2ª B 3rd
Season Tier Division Place
2019–20 3 2ª B 6th
2020–21 3 2ª B 3rd / 6th
2021–22 3 1ª RFEF

Players

Current squad
As of 28 August 2021

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  DEN Filip Jörgensen
2 DF  ESP Migue Leal
3 DF  ESP Goyo Medina
4 DF  ESP Adrián de la Fuente
5 DF  ESP Vadik Murria
6 DF  ESP Ramón Bueno (captain)
7 FW  ESP Diego Collado
8 MF  ESP Alberto del Moral
9 FW  ESP Juan Carlos Arana
10 MF  ESP Carlo Adriano
11 FW  KOR Jun-hyuk Ahn
12 DF  ESP Martín Pascual (on loan from Rayo Vallecano)
13 GK  AND Iker Álvarez
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 MF  ESP Aitor Gelardo
15 MF  RUS Nikita Iosifov
16 DF  ESP Dani Tasende
17 FW  ESP Álex Forés
18 FW  SEN Nicolas Jackson
19 DF  ESP Pablo Íñiguez
20 MF  ESP Antonio Pacheco
21 MF  ESP Sergio Lozano
22 DF  ESP Lanchi
23 FW  ESP Iker Goujón
24 GK  ESP Gianni Cassaró
— MF  URU Ramiro Guerra

See also

References
  1. "El filial se ve obligado a descender a Segunda B tras el descenso del Villarreal" [Reserves forced to relegate after Villarreal relegation] (in Spanish). Vavel. 14 May 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
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