Huesca Football Club and its different names

THE BEGINNINGS AND HUESCA F.C.

The city of Huesca was one of the pioneers in introducing football to Aragon. It is believed that at the beginning of the 20th century (1903) there was already a company called Foot-ball Oscense. On 10 April 1910, the first formal match was played in Huesca between the teams of Club Sertorius, made up of students from the institution, and Ideal de Magisterio Oscense. The company Huesca Sport Club (which was established and disappeared in 1902, and returned in 1910) organised a match at the San Lorenzo fiestas and Huesca Sport Club was formed, the first of several names that the team most representative of the city would have, which started playing at the Station field; later in the La Cabañera fields and then on the land next to the cemetery on the Zaragoza road.

In 1913, Huesca Sport Club became Huesca Fútbol Club and other teams also emerged; these included Atlético Osca and Stadium, which ended up being incorporated into Huesca FC. The Stadium was in blue and scarlet, and the resulting team took those colours for their football shirt.

1922 was a key year. The Aragonese Football Federation was created and the only team from Huesca officially registered was Huesca Fútbol Club. Their members' passion for FC Barcelona led them to choose the blue and scarlet colours for the football shirt, combining it with black shorts. The first president was Santos Solana. They first played in La Cabañera, and then for three years at the Velódromo de la Alameda until in 1926 the Villa Isabel pitch was opened, located at a property with the same name on the Zaragoza road.

Following the serious incidents that occurred on 23 October 1927 at a Regional Championship match against Real Zaragoza C.D., with a pitch invasion due to the terrible arbitration and the consequent suspension by the Regional Federation for three months, the team withdrew from the championship, with its players swelling the ranks of other teams.

C.D. HUESCA JOINS THE NATIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS.

Club Deportivo Huesca come back strong, and from the Villa Isabel pitch conquered the 1930-31 Regional Amateur Championship, reaching the finals of the National Championship, which it lost to the team from Vigo, Ciosvín, at Chamartín stadium in Madrid.

In 1931, they competed for promotion to the 2nd Division, losing in the second round to Logroñés from San Sebastian. Like their predecessors Huesca F.C., they wore blue and scarlet football shirts and black shorts. The club stopped participating in the competition in 1933, so the federation disqualified it and it ended up disappearing.

During the Civil War, they carried on playing football in Huesca, and Huesca Fútbol Club temporarily resurfaced in 1939.

U.D. HUESCA REACHES THE 2ND DIVISION.

In the 1941-42 season, the team then named Huesca Club Deportivo, was proclaimed a regional amateur runner-up.

In January 1943, its name was changed to Unión Deportiva Huesca; this name would be kept for more than a decade. The team competed in a blue and scarlet football shirt and blue shorts. That year, they stopped playing at Villa Isabel and the San Jorge pitch was opened. The team was declared regional amateur champion and played in the 3rd Division from the 1943-44 season for seven consecutive seasons.

At the end of the 1949-50 season, UD Huesca was promoted for the first time to Second Division, where it stayed for three seasons. In the first season, it finished 5th, just three positions short of the right to compete in the knock-out round for promotion to First Division. Until 2017, it was the best classification in the club's history.

After their relegation, and three campaigns in Third Division (in the first competing for promotion back to Second Division), the company ended up disappearing in 1956 because of the supporters' discouragement and the huge debt that had built up.