2013–14 Sporting de Gijón season

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Real Sporting

2013–14 season
President	Antonio Veiga
Manager	Abelardo
Stadium	El Molinón
Segunda División	5th
Copa del Rey	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Stefan Šćepović (23 goals) All: Stefan Šćepović (23 goals)
Highest home attendance	22,315 Sporting 3–0 Tenerife
Lowest home attendance	13,265 Sporting 0–0 Recreativo
Average home league attendance	17,150
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2013–14 Sporting de Gijón season is the second season that the club will play in Segunda División after the relegation from the highest tier of football in Spain, La Liga.

Season overview

Preseason

José Ramón Sandoval continued as head coach, despite a 2012–13 season where the team did not promote to La Liga.

Players like

. The Colombian defender finally agreed to continue playing for Sporting during the next three seasons.

The first new additions came from

.

On 21 June, president Manuel Vega-Arango resigned after spending 21 years in two stages as chairman of Sporting de Gijón.[1] Antonio Veiga was named acting president while Vega-Arango was proposed as Honorary President of the club.^[2]

.

On 10 July, the team started the preseason in

. Sporting has an option for buying him at the end of the season or for extending the loan one more season.

Few days before the first friendly game,

.

Grégory Arnolin played the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup with Martinique. The team was eliminated in the Group Stage.

Preseason started on 20 July with a loss in Segovia against English squad Brighton & Hove Albion by 1–2. Four days later, Sporting played its first game in Asturias against Marino de Luanco and solved it with an easy win by 3–0. Stefan Šćepović with two goals.

On 2 August, Asturian young prospect Borja López was transferred to AS Monaco by €2.2 million, and days later, Juan Muñiz was loaned to Mirandés.

Preseason ended with a loss by 1–4 against

scored the goal for Sporting.

August

Sporting started the league on 18 August playing at

. It was the first time since 2008 Sporting started the league with a win.

The team continued unbeaten in league with a draw at Recreativo de Huelva. Three days later, another Serbian striker was signed on loan: Dejan Lekić from Gençlerbirliği.

September

After a win by 2–0 against Deportivo de La Coruña, which was its fifth game unbeaten in the league, Sporting achieved the direct promotion positions. Stefan Šćepović became the first newcomer in the history of the club which scored in his first five league games.

Previously to this match, Sporting was eliminated of the Copa del Rey after an overtime against Recreativo de Huelva.

The first loss in league arrived in the sixth week at

swept Sporting by a devastating 3–0 in the worst game at the moment of the team of Gijón. It was the first game of Šćepović without scoring.

In the next week, Sporting maintained unbeaten at El Molinón after beating Eibar by 3–2 thanks to a hat-trick of Šćepović, who celebrated his call-up with the Serbia national team.

October

October was not a good month for Sporting, with two ties at Numancia and versus Jaén in Gijón and a defeat by 2–1 at Girona despite starting leading the game with a goal of Hugo Fraile.

On 22 October,

November

), Sporting finished the month of November in promotion playoffs positions, with only a difference of three points with the direct promotion positions.

December

As in November, Sporting finished for second month in a row with two wins and two ties, which allowed to finish 2013 in the second position of the league table. A tie at El Molinón against Alcorcón by 2–2 was followed by two wins versus Hércules with a brilliant goal of Santi Jara and Mirandés by 3–2, with the three goals scored by the two Serbian strikers in only six minutes. After this game, Mirandés' coach Gonzalo Arconada was sacked.

The year finished with a 2–2 tie at

avoided the loss of the reserve team of Barcelona.

January

On January 4, Sporting was defeated at home by

The club finished the first half of the season with a draw without goals at Santa Cruz de Tenerife. This point allowed Sporting to be in the second position after 21 rounds with an advantage of one point with the third qualified team (Eibar) and two with the seventh (Las Palmas).

On 16 January, Aritz López Garai rejected several offers from Spanish, Greek and Cypriot teams, despite not being called by Sandoval since December, and decided to finish the season with the aim of achieving the promotion to La Liga.^[9]

Sporting became leader of the league after winning at

. On 29 January, vice-captain Alberto Lora renewed its contract until 2018.^[10] On the next day, Nacho Cases renewed too for four years.^[11]

February

Sporting started the month of February beating

On February 16, Sporting earned a draw at Riazor by 1–1. 7,000 fans travelled from Gijón to A Coruña for watching the team against Deportivo. The game started with a goal of Bernardo for the red and whites. Later, in another controversial game, Deportivo missed a penalty kick, a legal goal was not conceded to Stefan Šćepović and Deportivo scored more than one minute after the end of the additional time.^[13]

Sporting finished the month earning a win by 2–0 against

, team which Sporting visited in the first game of March).

March

In a very important game,

scored twice after several weeks since his last goal.

On March 24, Aritz López Garai, who after being in the Starting XI in the first fourteen games did not play any minute more, was loaned to Córdoba. Six days later, Sporting was defeated by Las Palmas 2–1 in a game where the Serbians missed several opportunities to score. Finally, a doubtful penalty kick gave the three points to the Canarian team.

April

The bad streak continued in the first half of April, taking out Sporting from the promotion playoffs position. Two more losses against

On 15 April 2014, Hugo Fraile broke the Anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee. With this important injury, the forward could not finish the season.^[15]

In the last game of the month, Sporting defeated Lugo by 2–0, for closing a streak of four games without winning and recovering the spot in the promotion playoffs, lost two weeks before. Stefan Šćepović scored his 22nd goal, six weeks before its last one at Real Jaén.

Jony

embraces after the first goal in their debut game.

May

On May 4, after the loss at

In the debut game of both, on May 10 versus Hércules, Sporting won by 2–1. Jony scored his first goal and Dejan Lekić finished the comeback.

Sporting started an undefeated streak by earning one point at

, third qualified, with the second goal of Jony.

The team finished the month at La Romareda, drawing by 1–1 to Real Zaragoza thanks to a goal of Bernardo in the 88th minute. This point allowed Sporting to finish the month in fifth position with one game to play.

June

Sporting qualified to the promotion playoffs in the last day, with a win against Tenerife by 3–0. In the promotion playoffs, Sporting was dropped in the semifinals by Las Palmas by an aggregate score of 2–0.

Players

Current squad

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Since	App	Goals	Ends	Transfer fee	Notes
1	GK		Iván Cuéllar (vice-captain)	30	2008	55	0	2015	Free
2	DF		Luis Hernández	25	2013	21	0	2016	Youth system
4	DF		Mandi	25	2012	24	1	2016	Free
5	DF		Bernardo	24	2013 (Winter)	16	1	2016	Free	Second nationality: Spain
6	MF		Sergio Álvarez	22	2013	15	0	2015	Youth system
7	MF		Javier Casquero	38	2013 (Winter)	9	2	2014	Free
8	MF		Álex Barrera	23	2012	12	0	2016	Youth system
9	FW		Miguel Ángel Guerrero	23	2012	17	2	2016	Youth system
10	MF		Nacho Cases	26	2011	72	3	2018	Youth system
11	MF		Alberto Lora (vice-captain)	27	2007	134	7	2018	Youth system
12	FW		Stefan Šćepović	24	2013	0	0	2018	€1M
14	DF		Iván Hernández (captain )	34	2007	140	1	2015	Free
15	DF		Roberto Canella (vice-captain)	26	2006	188	5	2017	Youth system
16	FW		Dejan Lekić	28	2013	0	0	2014	N/A
17	FW		Santi Jara	23	2013	15	3	2016	Youth system
18	MF		Isma López	24	2013	0	0	2016	N/A
19	MF		Carlos Carmona	26	2012	32	4	2016	Free
21	FW		Hugo Fraile	27	2013	0	0	2015	Free
22	MF		Formose Mendy	25	2012 (Winter)	23	0	2016	Youth system	Second nationality: France
23	MF		Cristian Bustos	31	2013 (Winter)	16	0	2014	N/A
24	FW		Álex Serrano	19	2013	0	0	2015	Youth system
25	GK		Alberto	29	2013	0	0	2017	Free

Youth system

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 DF  ESP Álex Menéndez 27 DF  ESP Julio 29 FW  ESP Guillermo 30 GK  ESP Dennis

No. Pos. Nation Player 32 MF  ESP Pablo Pérez 33 MF  ESP Jony 35 FW  FRA Yacine

In

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
20	MF		Aritz López Garai	32	Córdoba	Transfer	Summer	2015	Free	Real Sporting
8	MF		Álex Barrera	22	Youth system	Promoted	Summer	2016	N/A
9	FW		Miguel Ángel Guerrero	22	Youth system	Promoted	Summer	2016	N/A
17	FW		Santi Jara	22	Youth system	Promoted	Summer	2016	N/A
6	MF		Sergio Álvarez	21	Youth system	Promoted	Summer	2015	N/A
25	GK		Alberto	28	Córdoba	Transfer	Summer	2018	Free	Real Sporting
5	DF		Bernardo	23	Sevilla	Transfer	Summer	2016	Free	Real Sporting
21	FW		Hugo Fraile	26	Getafe	Transfer	Summer	2015	Free	Real Sporting
23	MF		Cristian Bustos	30	Celta de Vigo	Loan	Summer	2014	N/A	Real Sporting
12	FW		Stefan Šćepović	23	Partizan	Loan	Summer	2016	N/A	Real Sporting
18	MF		Isma López	23	Athletic Bilbao	Transfer	Summer	2016	N/A	Real Sporting
24	FW		Álex Serrano	18	Youth system	Promoted	Summer	2016	N/A	El Comercio
16	FW		Dejan Lekić	28	Gençlerbirliği	Loan	Summer	2014	N/A	Real Sporting

Total expenditure: €0 million

Out

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
20	MF		Miguel de las Cuevas	26	Osasuna	Transfer	Summer	€1.2m	Todomercadoweb
1	GK		Juan Pablo	34	Maccabi Tel Aviv	End of contract	Summer	Free	Real Sporting
18	FW		David Rodríguez	27	Celta de Vigo	Loan return	Summer	N/A
23	MF		Cristian Bustos	30	Celta de Vigo	Loan return	Summer	N/A
16	DF		Bernardo	23	Sevilla	Loan return	Summer	N/A
9	FW		Mate Bilić	32	RNK Split	End of contract	Summer	N/A	Real Sporting
13	GK		Raúl [18]	26	Sestao River	End of contract	Summer	N/A	Real Sporting
17	MF		Marcos Landeira	26	Caudal	End of contract	Summer	N/A	Fútbol Asturiano
24	FW		Óscar Trejo	25	Toulouse	Transfer	Summer	€2.1m	Real Sporting
10	FW		Gastón Sangoy	28	Apollon Limassol	Mutual consent	Summer	Free	Real Sporting
5	MF		Ricardo León	30	Tenerife	Mutual consent	Summer	Free	Real Sporting
12	DF		Grégory	32	Paços de Ferreira	Contract terminated	Summer	Free	Real Sporting
20	DF		Borja López	19	Monaco	Transfer	Summer	€2.2m	Real Sporting
8	MF		Juan Muñiz	21	Mirandés	Loan	Summer	N/A	CD Mirandés
3	DF		Pedro Orfila	25	Racing Santander	Loan	Summer	N/A	Real Sporting
20	MF		Aritz López Garai	32	Córdoba	Loan		N/A	Real Sporting

Total income: €5.5 million

Net income: €5.5 million

Technical staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Abelardo Fernández
Assistant Manager	Iñaki Tejada
Goalkeeping Coach	Isidro Fernández
Physical Fitness Coach	Gerardo Ruiz
Director of Football	Raúl Lozano
Delegate	Quini
Academy Director	José María M. Acebal

Managerial changes

Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
José Ramón Sandoval	Sacked	4 May 2014	Abelardo	4 May 2014	7th

Competitions

Pre-season and friendlies

Segunda División

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
3	Barcelona B[a]	42	20	6	16	60	46	+14	66
4	Murcia (R)	42	16	17	9	55	44	+11	65	Qualification to the promotion play offs and relegation to Segunda División B[b]
5	Sporting Gijón	42	16	16	10	63	51	+12	64	Qualification to promotion play-offs
6	Las Palmas	42	18	9	15	51	50	+1	63
7	Córdoba (O, P)	42	16	13	13	47	43	+4	61[c]

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
42	16	16	10	63	51	+12	64	12	6	3	39	21	+18	4	10	7	24	30	−6

Positions by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	D	W	D	W	L	W	D	D	L	L	D	W	D	W	D	W	W	D	L	D	W	D	W	D	D	W	L	D	L	W	L	L	L	D	W	L	W	D	W	D	W
Position	5	6	3	3	1	4	4	2	3	6	8	11	5	8	6	5	3	3	2	2	2	1	2	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	8	8	6	7	6	6	4	5	5

Source: BDFútbol
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Real Sporting v Real Madrid Castilla

18 August 2013 1	Real Sporting	1 – 0	El Molinón, Gijón
19:00	Mandi  77'	Summary	Casado  88'	Attendance: 14,509 Referee: Pérez Pallás

Recreativo de Huelva v Real Sporting

25 August 2013 2	Recreativo de Huelva	1 – 1	Real Sporting	Nuevo Colombino, Huelva
19:00	Arana 79' (pen.) Jorge Larena  87'  88' Morcillo  89'	Summary	Mandi  44' Šćepović 57' Lora  64' Jara  70' Hugo Fraile  78' Canella  88'	Attendance: 5,689 Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez

Real Sporting v Mallorca

1 September 2013 3	Real Sporting	3 – 0	El Molinón, Gijón
12:00	López Garai  13' Hugo Fraile 24',  54' Barrera 65' Šćepović 86'	Summary	Ximo  15'  55' Miguel Garcia  20' Bigas  33' Iñigo Pérez  78'	Attendance: 14,088 Referee: Figueroa Vázquez

Ponferradina v Real Sporting

8 September 2013 4	Ponferradina	2 – 2	Real Sporting	El Toralín, Ponferrada
17:00	Yuri 48' Javi Lara  90'	Summary	Carmona 70'	Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Muñoz Mayordomo

Real Sporting v Deportivo de La Coruña

15 September 2013 5	Real Sporting	2 – 0	El Molinón, Gijón
17:00	Mandi  40' Šćepović 62' (pen.) Álex Barrera 69'  87'	Summary	Juan Domínguez  71'	Attendance: 16,030 Referee: Bikandi Garrido

Alavés v Real Sporting

22 September 2013 6	Alavés	3 – 0	Real Sporting	Mendizorroza, Vitoria-Gasteiz
12:00	Luciano  47' Toti 87'	Summary	Mandi  56' Šćepović  60'	Attendance: 10,425 Referee: Melero López

Real Sporting v Eibar

28 September 2013 7	Real Sporting	3 – 2	El Molinón, Gijón
18:00	Carmona  88'	Summary	Raúl Navas  71' Urko Vera 85'	Attendance: 15,081 Referee: Jaime Latre

Numancia v Real Sporting

5 October 2013 8	Numancia	0 – 0	Real Sporting	Los Pajaritos, Soria
18:00	Juanma  46' Regalón Akapo  60' Julio Álvarez  63'	Summary	Cuéllar  31' López Garai  41' Bernardo  64' Bustos  89'	Attendance: 3,648 Referee: Sureda Cuenca

Real Sporting v Jaén

13 October 2013 9	Real Sporting	1 – 1	El Molinón, Gijón
17:00	Carmona  75'	Summary	Jona 67'	Attendance: 16,023 Referee: Medié Jiménez

Girona v Real Sporting

20 October 2013 10	Girona	2 – 1	Real Sporting	Montilivi, Girona
19:00	Migue  31' Felipe 72' (pen.) Eloi Amagat 79' Pere Pons  89'	Summary	Lora Hugo Fraile 12' Nacho Cases  27' Šćepović  80' Bernardo  83' Canella  89'	Attendance: 3,813 Referee: Lesma López

Real Sporting v Las Palmas

27 October 2013 11	Real Sporting	2 – 3	El Molinón, Gijón
17:00	Mandi 29' Šćepović 44' Isma López  62'	Summary	David García  58' Ángel  61' Masoud  67' Barbosa  83'	Attendance: 16,070 Referee: Ocón Arráiz

Córdoba v Real Sporting

3 November 2013 12	Córdoba
12:00	Pedro 80'  87'	Summary	Carmona 75' Lekić 89'	Attendance: 14,641 Referee: Valdés Aller

Real Sporting v Sabadell

10 November 2013 13	Real Sporting	3 – 1	El Molinón, Gijón
17:00	Santi Jara  60' Šćepović 64' (pen.) Lora  66' Lekić 81'  81' Álex Barrera 89'	Summary	Carlos Hernández  84'	Attendance: 15,800 Referee: Sagues Oscoz

Murcia v Real Sporting

16 November 2013 14	El Molinón, Gijón
18:00	Tete  71'	Summary	Mandi  33' Hugo Fraile  51' Lora  89'	Attendance: 7,915 Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea

Lugo v Real Sporting

24 November 2013 15	Lugo	1 – 3	Real Sporting	Anxo Carro, Lugo
12:00	Seoane 6'  18' Víctor Marco  74' Pavón  78'	Summary	Carmona  89'	Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Bikandi Garrido

Real Sporting v Alcorcón

1 December 2013 16	Real Sporting	2 – 2	El Molinón, Gijón
17:00	Alberto  85' (in the bench)	Summary	Javito 15', 24' Juli  60' Dani Giménez  68' Verdés  78' Iribas  82'	Attendance: 15,535 Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez

Hércules v Real Sporting

7 December 2013 17	Hércules	0 – 1	Real Sporting	Rico Pérez, Alicante
18:00	Sissoko  40' Escassi  51'	Summary	Luis Hernández  50'	Attendance: 7,009 Referee: Pérez Pallás

Real Sporting v Mirandés

15 December 2013 18	Real Sporting	3 – 2	El Molinón, Gijón
17:00	Luis Hernández  61' Nacho Cases  72' Cuéllar  73' Hugo Fraile  88'	Summary	Gaspar  89'	Attendance: 16,112 Referee: Melero López

Barcelona B

v Real Sporting

21 December 2013 19	Barcelona B	2 – 2	Real Sporting	Mini Estadi, Barcelona
18:00	Sanabria 33' Edu Bedia 92'	Summary	Iván Hernández  1' Šćepović 15', 88' Casquero  44' Hugo Fraile  73' Bernardo  86'	Attendance: 3,206 Referee: José Luis Munuera Montero

Real Sporting v Zaragoza

5 January 2014 20	Real Sporting	2 – 3	El Molinón, Gijón
12:00	Sergio Álvarez 49' Isma López  86' Šćepović  87'	Summary	Víctor Rodríguez 85' Cidoncha 88'	Attendance: 17,654 Referee: Santos Pargaña
Note: José Ramón Sandoval was also sent off in the 87th minute. He was two games suspended.

Tenerife v Real Sporting

12 January 2014 21	Tenerife	0 – 0	Real Sporting	Heliodoro Rodríguez, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
18:00	Bruno Suso  78' Aitor  78'	Summary	Álex Serrano  28' Bernardo  88'	Attendance: 10,996 Referee: Medié Jiménez

Real Madrid Castilla v Real Sporting

18 January 2014 22	Alfredo di Stéfano, Madrid
18:00	Cabrera  28' Jaime  56'	Summary	Carmona 35'  68' Canella  68' Iván Hernández  69' Šćepović 79' Nacho Cases  86' Lora  88'	Attendance: 4,049 Referee: Jaime Latre

Real Sporting v Recreativo de Huelva

26 January 2014 23	Real Sporting	0 – 0	El Molinón, Gijón
12:00	Casquero  49' Santi Jara  57'	Summary	Arana  60' Calvente  89'	Attendance: 13,265 Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea

Mallorca v Real Sporting

2 February 2014 24	Palma
12:00	Bigas  55' Generelo 88'	Summary	Carmona 91'  91'	Attendance: 11,254 Referee: Figueroa Vázquez

Real Sporting v Ponferradina

9 February 2014 25	Real Sporting	1 – 1	El Molinón, Gijón
17:00	Mandi  61' Lekić  80' Šćepović 83'	Summary	Santamaría  83'	Attendance: 18,353 Referee: Arcediano Monescillo

Deportivo de La Coruña v Real Sporting

16 February 2014 26	Deportivo de La Coruña	1 – 1	Real Sporting	Riazor, A Coruña
12:00	Núñez  57' Toché 95'	Summary	Mandi	Attendance: 26,532 Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez
Note: The yellow card of Mandi was shown after the end of the game.

Real Sporting v Alavés

22 February 2014 27	Real Sporting	2 – 0	El Molinón, Gijón
18:00	Carmona 57' Santi Jara 90+2'	Summary	Lázaro  54'	Attendance: 18,317 Referee: José Luis Munuera Montero

Eibar v Real Sporting

2 March 2014 28	Eibar	3 – 0	Real Sporting	Ipurua, Eibar
12:00	Dani García  74' Errasti  83'	Summary	Mandi  57' Cuéllar  67'	Attendance: 4,292 Referee: Trujillo Suárez

Real Sporting v Numancia

9 March 2014 29	Real Sporting	2 – 2	El Molinón, Gijón
17:00	Sergio Álvarez 7' Šćepović 79' (pen.) Mendy  80' Bernardo  89'	Summary	Juanma 16' Palanca  63' Julio Álvarez  70' Regalón 72' Biel Ribas  89'	Attendance: 22,050 Referee: Arias López

Jaén v Real Sporting

15 March 2014 30	Jaén	3 – 2	Real Sporting	La Victoria, Jaén
18:00	Jona 38', 83' Óscar Rico 68'	Summary	Sergio Álvarez  79'	Referee: Valdés Aller

Real Sporting v Girona

23 March 2014 31	Real Sporting	3 – 1	El Molinón, Gijón
17:00	Sergio Álvarez  66' Mandi  77'	Summary	Richy  88'	Attendance: 17,976 Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea

Las Palmas v Real Sporting

30 March 2014 32	Las Palmas	2 – 1	Real Sporting	Estadio Gran Canaria, Las Palmas
12:00	David García  82' Momo 83' (pen. )	Summary	Mandi  82' Cuéllar  82'	Attendance: 17,632 Referee: Arcediano Monescillo

Real Sporting v Córdoba

6 April 2014 33	Real Sporting	1 – 2	El Molinón, Gijón
17:00	Lora  4' Cuéllar  70' Guerrero 87' Santi Jara  89'	Summary	Xisco  75'	Attendance: 19,184 Referee: Sureda Cuenca

Sabadell v Real Sporting

12 April 2014 34	Sabadell	2 – 0	Real Sporting	Nova Creu Alta, Sabadell
20:00	Aníbal 86' Tamudo 89'	Summary	Santi Jara  76'	Attendance: 3,198 Referee: Santos Pargaña

Real Sporting v

Murcia

20 April 2014 35	Real Sporting	0 – 0	El Molinón, Gijón
17:00	Mandi  29'	Summary	Truyols  36' Álex Martínez  82' Dorca  87'	Attendance: 16,273 Referee: Lesma López

Real Sporting v Lugo

26 April 2014 36	Real Sporting	2 – 0	El Molinón, Gijón
18:00	Isma López 37' Lekić  47' Šćepović 86'	Summary	Rafa García  80'	Attendance: 16,927 Referee: Valdés Aller

Alcorcón v Real Sporting

3 May 2014 37	Santo Domingo, Alcorcón
18:00	Jony	Summary	Mandi  28' Canella  36' Lora  51' Bustos  90'	Referee: López Acera

Real Sporting v Hércules

10 May 2014 38	Real Sporting	2 – 1	El Molinón, Gijón
18:00	Luis Hernández  72' Guerrero Iván Hernández  88'	Summary	De Lucas 33'  65' Eldin  35' Ortiz  72' Carbonell  73'	Attendance: 17,560 Referee: Jaime Latre

Mirandés v Real Sporting

17 May 2014 39	Mirandés	1 – 1	Real Sporting	Anduva, Miranda de Ebro
20:00	Iván Agustín  37' Iván Malón 89'	Summary	Carmona 14' Bernardo  30' Iván Hernández  82'	Attendance: 5,183 Referee: Arias López

Real Sporting v

Barcelona B

24 May 2014 40	Real Sporting	1 – 0	El Molinón, Gijón
16:00	Jony 28' Lekić  82'	Report	Ilie  41' Masip  45' Edu Bedia  87'	Attendance: 18,112 Referee: Valdés Aller

Zaragoza v Real Sporting

31 May 2014 41	Zaragoza	1 – 1	Real Sporting	La Romareda, Zaragoza
19:00	Víctor Rodríguez  58' Arzo  64' Álvaro Tierno  67'	Report	Mandi  25' Bernardo 88'	Referee: Bikandi Garrido

Real Sporting v Tenerife

7 June 2014 42	Real Sporting	3 – 0	El Molinón, Gijón
18:30	Carmona 16' Álex Menéndez  19' Šćepović 35'	Summary	Luismi Loro  78'	Attendance: 22,315 Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea

Play-offs

See also: 2014 Segunda División play-offs

Matches

Las Palmas v Real Sporting

11 June 2014 Semifinal 1st leg	Las Palmas	1 – 0	Real Sporting	Estadio Gran Canaria, Las Palmas
22:00	Castillo  45'	Summary	Sergio Álvarez  86'	Attendance: 12,440 Referee: Ocón Arraiz

Real Sporting v Las Palmas

15 June 2014 Semifinal 2nd leg	Real Sporting	0 – 1 (0–2 El Molinón, Gijón
19:00	Bernardo  36' Nacho Cases  89'	Summary	Asdrúbal 94'	Attendance: 20,073 Referee: Medié Jiménez

Copa del Rey

See also: 2013–14 Copa del Rey

Matches

Recreativo de Huelva v Real Sporting

11 September 2013 2nd round	Recreativo de Huelva	3 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Real Sporting	Nuevo Colombino, Huelva
21:00	Linares 17', 69' Fernando Vega  49' Menosse  89' Ezequiel 118'	Summary	Sergio Álvarez  85'	Attendance: 1,487 Referee: López Acera

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Segunda División		Play-offs		Copa del Rey
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	ESP	Iván Cuéllar	42	0	40+0	0	2+0	0	0+0	0
2	DF	ESP	Luis Hernández	39	1	33+3	1	2+0	0	1+0	0
4	MF	ESP	Mandi	33	1	30+1	1	1+0	0	0+1	0
5	DF	COL	Bernardo	40	2	38+0	2	2+0	0	0+0	0
6	MF	ESP	Sergio Álvarez	30	2	27+0	2	2+0	0	1+0	0
7	MF	ESP	Javier Casquero	12	0	2+9	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
8	MF	ESP	Álex Barrera	38	3	32+6	3	0+0	0	0+0	0
9	FW	ESP	Miguel Ángel Guerrero	15	1	0+12	1	0+2	0	1+0	0
10	MF	ESP	Nacho Cases	27	2	23+3	2	0+1	0	0+0	0
11	MF	ESP	Alberto Lora	37	0	29+6	0	2+0	0	0+0	0
12	FW	SRB	Stefan Šćepović	41	23	39+0	23	2+0	0	0+0	0
14	DF	ESP	Iván Hernández	18	1	15+1	0	0+1	0	1+0	1
15	DF	ESP	Roberto Canella	37	1	35+1	1	1+0	0	0+0	0
16	FW	SRB	Dejan Lekić	36	13	21+12	12	2+0	0	0+1	1
17	MF	ESP	Santi Jara	33	2	16+15	2	0+1	0	1+0	0
18	FW	ESP	Isma López	21	1	13+6	1	1+0	0	0+1	0
19	MF	ESP	Carlos Carmona	36	7	17+16	7	2+0	0	1+0	0
20	MF	ESP	Aritz López Garai	14	0	14+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
21	FW	ESP	Hugo Fraile	20	3	15+5	3	0+0	0	0+0	0
22	MF	GNB	Formose Mendy	13	0	0+12	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
23	MF	ESP	Cristian Bustos	17	0	11+5	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
24	FW	ESP	Álex Serrano	2	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
25	GK	ESP	Alberto	4	0	2+1	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
26	DF	ESP	Álex Menéndez	7	0	3+2	0	1+0	0	1+0	0
27	DF	ESP	Julio	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
29	FW	ESP	Guillermo	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
30	GK	ESP	Dennis	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
32	MF	ESP	Pablo Pérez	3	0	1+2	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
33	MF	ESP	Jony	7	2	5+0	2	1+1	0	0+0	0
35	FW	FRA	Yacine Qasmi	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0

Disciplinary record

N	P	Nat.	Name	2ª División			Playoffs			Copa del Rey			Total			Notes
17	FW		Santi Jara	6		1						1	6		2
1	GK		Iván Cuéllar	5		1							5		1
25	GK		Alberto			1									1	One sent off being in bench
5	DF		Bernardo	17	1		2						19	1
11	MF		Alberto Lora	10	1								10	1		6 times captain
10	MF		Nacho Cases	8	1		1						9	1
14	DF		Iván Hernández	9	1								9	1		16 times captain
19	MF		Carlos Carmona	7	1		1						8	1
2	DF		Luis Hernández	7	1								7	1		One yellow card retired
9	FW		Miguel Ángel Guerrero	1	1								1	1
4	MF		Mandi	17									17			One yellow card retired
21	FW		Hugo Fraile	9									9
6	MF		Sergio Álvarez	6			1			1			8
16	FW		Dejan Lekić	7						1			8
15	DF		Roberto Canella	5									5			23 times captain
12	FW		Stefan Šćepović	4									4
20	MF		Aritz López Garai	4									4
23	MF		Cristian Bustos	4									4
18	FW		Isma López	3									3
7	MF		Javier Casquero	2									2
8	MF		Álex Barrera	2									2
22	MF		Formose Mendy	1									1
24	FW		Álex Serrano	1									1
26	DF		Álex Menéndez	1									1

Source: Competitive matches and RFEF.es
Ordered by , and
= Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.

Man of the match

The Man of the match is selected by Sporting de Gijón fans in the official website every week Iafter the game.^[22] 100 points will be given to the most voted player, 50 to the second one and 25 to the third one.

After the end of the main league, Stefan Šćepović was named winner of the trophy.^[23]

Voting per game Rd Player % Second % Third % 1 Stefan Šćepović 62.9 Álex Barrera 9.4 Mandi 6.9 2 Mandi 43.0 Stefan Šćepović 25.5 Hugo Fraile 8.6 3 Hugo Fraile 32.8 Stefan Šćepović 26.8 Álex Barrera 23.0 4 Stefan Šćepović 37.3 Alberto Lora 32.3 Iván Cuéllar 17.4 5 Stefan Šćepović 42.9 Álex Barrera 22.4 Alberto Lora 9.0 6 Javier Casquero 33.8 Carlos Carmona 27.4 Stefan Šćepović 13.1 7 Stefan Šćepović 45.3 Isma López 15.2 Álex Barrera 13.9 8 Isma López 29.7 Alberto Lora 17.6 Bernardo 14.7 9 Alberto Lora 36.9 Iván Cuéllar 35.3 Mandi 12.9 10 Nacho Cases 29.4 Stefan Šćepović 17.5 Alberto Lora 13.8 11 Nacho Cases 33.3 Stefan Šćepović 29.3 Mandi 17.8 12 Dejan Lekić 31.9 Nacho Cases 29.8 Stefan Šćepović 12.8 13 Dejan Lekić 42.0 Álex Barrera 37.0 Stefan Šćepović 8.4 14 Dejan Lekić 47.0 Álex Barrera 13.6 Nacho Cases 12.9 15 Stefan Šćepović 31.7 Dejan Lekić 31.5 Bernardo 14.9 16 Dejan Lekić 38.5 Álex Barrera 36.0 Stefan Šćepović 16.9 17 Álex Barrera 31.3 Iván Cuéllar 19.8 Sergio Álvarez 15.1 18 Stefan Šćepović 29.0 Roberto Canella 26.5 Sergio Álvarez 19.8 19 Stefan Šćepović 38.2 Álex Barrera 34.6 Sergio Álvarez 23.7 20 Álex Barrera 45.6 Sergio Álvarez 35.4 Nacho Cases 6.6 21 Dejan Lekić 26.7 Iván Cuéllar 25.2 Luis Hernández 19.8 22 Carlos Carmona 29.0 Stefan Šćepović 27.8 Sergio Álvarez 27.4 23 Mandi 25.9 Álex Barrera 24.1 Sergio Álvarez 21.3 24 Nacho Cases 28.2 Álex Barrera 24.0 Roberto Canella 18.8 25 Stefan Šćepović 41.9 Sergio Álvarez 35.2 Roberto Canella 7.7 26 Nacho Cases 37.1 Bernardo 28.2 Sergio Álvarez 23.8 27 Nacho Cases 31.7 Iván Cuéllar 26.2 Sergio Álvarez 24.5 28 Alberto Lora 27.8 Nacho Cases 26.7 Alberto 24.7 29 Sergio Álvarez 36.5 Nacho Cases 32.1 Alberto Lora 10.6 30 Stefan Šćepović 32.8 Nacho Cases 24.5 Alberto Lora 21.7 31 Dejan Lekić 31.2 Stefan Šćepović 26.3 Nacho Cases 21.1 32 Alberto Lora 32.7 Nacho Cases 25.1 Cristian Bustos 21.0 33 Alberto Lora 45.6 Miguel Ángel Guerrero 35.3 Isma López 7.4 34 Alberto Lora 32.3 Isma López 29.8 Santi Jara 18.4 35 Alberto Lora 58.9 Miguel Ángel Guerrero 29.6 Isma López 4.8 36 Isma López 47.1 Miguel Ángel Guerrero 38.8 Sergio Álvarez 8.7 37 Miguel Ángel Guerrero 27.0 Alberto Lora 23.8 Sergio Álvarez 21.3 38 Jony 28.5 Álex Barrera 25.3 Álex Menéndez 22.9 39 Jony 39.0 Álex Barrera 31.6 Sergio Álvarez 23.1 40 Carlos Carmona 29.4 Jony 28.5 Sergio Álvarez 18.7 41 Álex Barrera 44.6 Pablo Pérez 27.2 Alberto Lora 13.6 42 Dejan Lekić 31.0 Álex Barrera 27.9 Pablo Pérez 18.5

Accumulated points Pos Player Pts 1 Stefan Šćepović 1,300 2 Álex Barrera 900 3 Alberto Lora 875 4 Nacho Cases 825 5 Dejan Lekić 750 6 Sergio Álvarez 475 7 Isma López 350 8 Mandi 275 9 Carlos Carmona 250 Miguel Ángel Guerrero 250 Jony 250 10 Iván Cuéllar 225 13 Hugo Fraile 125 14 Bernardo 100 Roberto Canella 100 Javier Casquero 100 17 Pablo Pérez 75 18 Alberto 25 Álex Menéndez 25 Cristian Bustos 25 Luis Hernández 25 Santi Jara 25

See also

• 2013–14 Segunda División
• 2013–14 Copa del Rey

References

1. ^ Manuel Vega-Arango deja la presidencia del Real Sporting; Real Sporting, 21 June 2013
2. ^ Nota oficial del Consejo de Administración del Real Sporting; Real Sporting, 24 June 2013
3. ^ Comenzó la pretemporada rojiblanca Sporting de Gijón, 10 July 2013
4. ^ Casquero vuelve a vestirse de rojiblanco Sporting de Gijón, 10 July 2013
5. ^ Prizes for the month's best performers in Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante
6. ^ El Sporting sigue sin ganar fuera; Marca, 16 November 2013
7. ^ Sandoval, agredido por el segundo entrenador del Zaragoza; El Mundo, 5 January 2014 (in Spanish)
8. ^ «Esta persecución ya es un poco lamentable» Archived 6 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine; El Comercio, 5 January 2014 (in Spanish)
9. ^ López Garai sigue en el Sporting con "el objetivo claro del ascenso"; Real Sporting website, 16 January 2014 (in Spanish)
10. ^ Lora ha renovado su contrato por cuatro temporadas; Sporting de Gijón, 29 January 2014 (in Spanish)
11. ^ Nacho Cases ha renovado por cuatro temporadas; Sporting de Gijón, 30 January 2014 (in Spanish)
12. ^ El Sporting es ya propietario de los derechos de Scepovic; Sporting de Gijón, 12 February 2014 (in Spanish)
13. ^ La polémica acabó siendo la gran protagonista en Riazor; Marca, 17 February 2014 (in Spanish)
14. ^ «Hemos decidido dar continuidad a Sandoval. Está convencido de que meterá al equipo arriba» Archived 16 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine; El Comercio, 15 April 2014
15. ^ Se terminó la temporada para Hugo Fraile: rotura del ligamento cruzado anterior de su rodilla izquierda; Real Sporting, 15 April 2014 (in Spanish)
16. ^ Abelardo Fernández sustituye a Sandoval como entrenador del Sporting Archived 4 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine; Real Sporting, 4 May 2014 (in Spanish)
17. ^ Jony firmó dos temporadas por el primer equipo; Realsporting.com, 7 May 2014 (in Spanish)
18. ^ Raúl Domínguez signed with Sestao River in the Winter transfer window.
19. ^ "Reglamento General de la RFEF. Artículo 108 (page 62 of PDF)" (PDF) (in Spanish). RFEF. 20 July 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
20. ^ "La LFP desciende al Murcia a 2ªB y asciende al Mirandés". Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 August 2014.
21. ^ "Reglamento General RFEF – Artículo 201. Sistema de puntos. (page 104)" (PDF). RFEF. 18 February 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
22. ^ Polls at Sporting website
23. ^ http://www.realsporting.com/wrsg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4241:scepovic-recogio-el-trofeo-pronorte-al-mejor-jugador-de-la-temporada-20132014&catid=36:actualidad&Itemid=186 Scepovic recogió el Trofeo Pronorte al mejor jugador de la Temporada 2013/2014; Real Sporting, 18 June 2014