Sporting de Gijón

Also known as Sporting Gijon, Sporting Gijón, Sporting de Gijon, Real Sporting de Gijón, Real Sporting de Gijon, Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D., Real Sporting de Gijon, S.A.D.

Spanish association football club

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Sporting de Gijón is a Spanish soccer club with a long history in professional football. The club is notable as one of Spain's traditional football institutions and has competed at various levels of the Spanish football league system.

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Instance of: association football club
Official name: Real Sporting de Gijón S.A.D.
Country: Spain
Located in: Gijón
Headquarters: Gijón
Legal form: sociedad anónima deportiva
Sport: association football
League: La Liga
Official website: www.realsporting.com
Image: Estadio de Futbol El Molinon (Gijon).jpg

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home venue: El Molinón-Enrique Castro Quini
head coach: Borja Jiménez Sáez
topic has template: Q11077569
Commons category: Real Sporting de Gijón
topic's main category: Category:Sporting de Gijón
inception: 1905-07-01
category for members of a team: Category:Sporting de Gijón players
official color: white
social media followers: 252000
kit supplier: Puma
competition won: 1976–77 Segunda División

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Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D. ( Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal esˈpoɾtin de xiˈxon]), commonly known as Real Sporting, Sporting Gijón, or simply Sporting is a Spanish professional football club from Gijón, Principality of Asturias. Founded on 1 July 1905, it plays in the Segunda Division. Known as Los Rojiblancos because of their red and white striped jerseys, their home ground is El Molinón stadium, the oldest professional football ground in Spain, in use since at least 1908. Traditionally their red and white shirts are accompanied by blue shorts with the socks also being blue. Its Asturian name is Real Sporting de Xixón.

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