45 YEARS OF SD HUESCA IN 3ª AND 2ª B

After four years without a team representing the city, a group of people (including some players), headed by Patricio Funes, the club's first president, met on 29 March 1960 in the Bar Flor in Huesca and decided to set up Sociedad Deportiva Huesca.

The team made its début in the 1960-61 season in the Regional category and gained promotion to the Third Division, where it was to remain for 12 consecutive seasons. In 1972, during the presidency of Jose María Mur, one of the project's main promoters, the El Alcoraz stadium was built, partly subsidised by the sale of the team's leading goal scorer, Enrique Porta, to Granada, some years earlier. In the 1972-73 season, the team went down to the Regional First Division, but the following year it was promoted again and earned the title of Spanish Amateur Champion, beating Extremadura, Manresa, and the B teams of FC Barcelona and Real Zaragoza in the semi-final and final respectively. After four seasons in the Third Division, the categories were reorganised and in the 1977-78 season the team played in one of the two groups that formed the new Second Division B, where SD Huesca remained for 7 consecutive seasons until it was relegated to the Third Division in summer 1984.

At that time the club was experiencing a serious crisis. Its debts amounted to 300,000 euros and a management board was set up to save the club, headed by former president Jose María Mur. El Alcoraz, which was put up for auction, was not sold and the club retained ownership of the land thanks to a special quota paid by members. The team was in the Third Division for six seasons. It was in the promotion play-offs in 1985 and 1986, but lost to Burgos and Maspalomas, respectively. Then, in 1989-90, the team came top of the Third Division and was promoted to Second Division B.

It stayed in Second B for two seasons before dropping again in 91-92. In 1992, Javier Tebas, the current president of LaLiga, took over a club that was in debt to the tune of €250,000. The team was in the play-off for promotion in the next two years but was unsuccessful on both occasions. At its third attempt, in the 94-95 season, it was promoted but again remained in Second Division B for only two years. During the second year Tebas resigned, various players left and the club experienced serious financial and institutional problems. At the end of that year, and during 97-98, the club did not even have a president; there was only a management board. On the sporting front, the team came close to relegation to the Regional category but was saved in the last match against SD Ejea from a situation that would have been very difficult to overcome.

In the 1999-2000 season, the club started to recover economically and the team was in the playoffs for promotion. The following year, in the 2000-01 season, it went up to Second Division B after winning the last match of the play-offs against Misiana, watched by 6,000 spectators in El Alcoraz. However, it was relegated again in 2002.

After two more seasons in the Third Division, in 2003-04 SD Huesca was able to go up again, leaving the Third Division behind for ever, beating Noja and Eibar B in the promotion play-offs.