From 2B to first division in four seasons

It took a while for the club to recover from the disappointment of relegation, and in its first season in 2B, it was unable to achieve its goal of fighting for promotion. With three different coaches during the year, it fell three points short of making it to the playoffs.

A more seasoned team did succeed on its second try, after Luis García Tevenet overhauled the 2014-15 squad, keeping only five players. For the first time in its history, the team finished the regular season as the winner of its group. In the playoffs, it lost to Nástic de Tarragona, but then came back to beat Rácing de Ferrol and, in the final game, defeated Huracán, from Valencia. After drawing 1-1 in the away leg in Valencia, on 28 June 2015 SD Huesca sealed its return to the 2nd Division thanks to goals from Tyronne and David Mainz in the return match in El Alcoraz. The team also experienced a historic milestone, when FC Barcelona visited Alcoraz in the round of sixteen of the Copa del Rey, with the team advancing farther than ever before in this competition.

In the year of their return to the 2nd Division, the team had a topsy-turvy first half of the season, which ended with the sacking of Tevenet, who was replaced on the bench by Anquela in December. After a bad streak in the first few months of the year, which saw it drop to the relegation zone by game day 34, the team recovered and put together the best record in the final part of the season, avoiding relegation with one match to go after beating Osasuna in El Sadar by 3 goals to 2. In the Copa del Rey, the team again made it to the round of 16 before losing to Villarreal.

The 2016-17 season marked a milestone for the club since, for the first time in its history, the team competed in the playoffs for promotion to the First Division. The sensational campaign was crowned with an unforgettable match against Levante at the Ciudad de Valencia ground, where 1,300 fans from Huesca cheered the team on as they secured a 1-2 victory that guaranteed them a sixth place in La Liga 1/2/3 and with it a spot in the playoffs.

In the play-offs, SD Huesca faced Getafe. In the first leg at El Alcoraz, the locals turned the match around in the final 15 minutes, with goals from Vinicius and Camacho sealing an unlikely comeback from 0-2 down. But in the return match in Madrid, with a significantly higher budget, Getafe, which would eventually achieve promotion in the second round of the playoffs, proved too strong, with a convincing 3-0 win that did nothing to tarnish the phenomenal season of the azulgrana.

It set the stage for what the 2017-18 season would hold in store. This was the best season in the club's history and turned the dream of playing in the First Division into a reality. It happened on 21 May 2018, in the Anxo Carro Stadium in Lugo. Some 400 Huesca fans had traveled to Galicia despite the distance and the fact that it was a Monday game. Two goals from Gallar and Pulido in the first part guaranteed promotion with two match days to go and brought all of Huesca out onto the streets in a celebration that would have been unimaginable just over a decade earlier when the team (2004) was playing in the Third Division.

With Joan Francesc Ferrer 'Rubi' in charge of the squad, SD Huesca proved to be the most regular team of the season, staying in direct promotion spots for 25 of the 42 match days. Only a run of eight games with no wins between match days 27 and 33 jeopardised SD Huesca's historic achievement during the 2018-19 season: its first stint in La Primera, its first year in LaLiga Santander.

The team's historic campaign in the First Division kicked off in the best possible way. A brace from Álex Gallar in Ipurua secured the first three points against SD Eibar (1-2) in front of 500 Huesca fans who had made the trip to take in the dream of playing in LaLiga Santander. After the first two match days with four points in the bag, Leo Franco's men suffered a negative streak of both results and morale that led to Francisco Rodríguez being put in charge of the Huesca bench in October. In the Copa del Rey, they lost to Athletic Club in the first round. The team's improvement was obvious, but after finishing the first half of the season in last place with just 11 points, the team was successfully reinforced in the winter market. Thanks to a great second-half season, SD Huesca strung together some good results to keep its options of staying in the 1st Division alive. More than 2,000 fans traveled to the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium on match day 29 as part of the largest contingent of Huesca fans outside Aragón, but the team endured a painful defeat to Real Madrid CF, losing one minute from time despite fighting on equal terms against the European champions (3-2). Together with the hard-fought point won in El Alcoraz a short time later against FC Barcelona (0-0), the world watched as Huesca refused to fall apart.

Francisco's men were still alive until match day 36, when Valencia CF prevailed in El Alcoraz with a tough scoreline of 2-6, confirming SD Huesca's relegation to the Second Division. Far from being defeated, the fans sang "We will return" in unison as a show of their support throughout a season full of setbacks. Farewell to the top flight: a victory at home against CD Leganés (2-1) dedicated to the fans.