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Alavés B
Full name	Deportivo Alavés B, S.A.D.
Nickname(s)	Alavés Aficionados, Miniglorias
Founded	1959 (62 years)
Ground	José Luis Compañón, Vitoria,; Basque Country, Spain
Capacity	2,500
President	Alfonso Fernández de Trocóniz
Head coach	José Manuel Aira
League	Segunda Federación – Group 2
2023–24	Segunda Federación – Group 2, 6th of 18

Deportivo Alavés B, S.A.D., usually known as Alavés B, is a Spanish football team based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1959 it is the reserve team of Deportivo Alavés, and currently plays in Segunda Federación – Group 2, holding home matches at Instalaciones de Ibaia-José Luis Compañon, the club's training facilities with 2,500 seat-capacity.^[1]

The team's home kit is blue and white-striped shirt, blue shorts and white socks.

League history

The league placings have largely mirrored the fortunes of the senior team. From their formation in the 1960s until the late 1990s, Alavés B competed only in the fourth (Tercera Grupo IV) or fifth (Preferente de Álava) tiers. They achieved promotion to Segunda División B in 1999,^[2]^[3] a year after the seniors climbed to La Liga. Alavés B remained in the third level for seven seasons, usually finishing mid-table, until demotion in 2005-06, the same year that the main side was relegated amid economic turmoil under Dmitry Piterman.

During the 2000s, Alavés B practically not contributed players to the Alavés first team, which has been almost exclusively nourished by foreign signings, and the decline of the club continued when the senior side themselves dropped into Segunda División B in 2009, while the B team were relegated back down to the fifth level. It took Alavés B only two seasons to regain fourth-level status^[4]^[5] whereas the seniors took four years to rise again to the second level, but they then gained promotion to La Liga after three further seasons while the B team stayed put in Tercera División from that point on; they eventually gained promotion in 2018–19 via the playoffs.^[6]

Season to season

As a farm team

Season	Tier	Division	Place
1961–62	4	1ª Reg.	5th
1962–63	4	1ª Reg.	4th
1963–64	4	1ª Reg.	3rd
1964–65	4	1ª Reg.	3rd
1965–66	4	1ª Reg.	2nd
1966–67	4	1ª Reg.	12th
1967–68	4	1ª Reg.	8th
1968–69	5	2ª Reg.	8th
1969–70	5	2ª Reg.	8th
1970–71	DNP
1971–72	DNP
1972–73	DNP
1973–74	5	2ª Reg.	1st
1974–75	4	Reg. Pref.	13th
1975–76	4	Reg. Pref.	7th

Season	Tier	Division	Place	Copa del Rey
1976–77	4	Reg. Pref.	13th
1977–78	5	Reg. Pref.	8th
1978–79	5	Reg. Pref.	3rd
1979–80	4	3ª	2nd	First round
1980–81	4	3ª	10th	Second round
1981–82	4	3ª	8th
1982–83	4	3ª	20th	First round
1983–84	5	Reg. Pref.	5th
1984–85	5	Reg. Pref.	16th
1985–86	5	Reg. Pref.	17th
1986–87	6	1ª Reg.	3rd
1987–88	5	Reg. Pref.	4th
1988–89	5	Reg. Pref.	1st
1989–90	5	Reg. Pref.	3rd
1990–91	5	Reg. Pref.	2nd

As a reserve team

Season	Tier	Division	Place
1991–92	5	Reg. Pref.	4th
1992–93	5	Reg. Pref.	9th
1993–94	5	Reg. Pref.	1st
1994–95	4	3ª	16th
1995–96	4	3ª	6th
1996–97	4	3ª	3rd
1997–98	4	3ª	7th
1998–99	4	3ª	2nd
1999–2000	3	2ª B	11th
2000–01	3	2ª B	10th
2001–02	3	2ª B	10th
2002–03	3	2ª B	5th
2003–04	3	2ª B	6th
2004–05	3	2ª B	12th
2005–06	3	2ª B	18th
2006–07	4	3ª	10th
2007–08	4	3ª	13th
2008–09	4	3ª	19th
2009–10	5	Reg. Pref.	5th
2010–11	5	Reg. Pref.	2nd

Season	Tier	Division	Place
2011–12	4	3ª	17th
2012–13	4	3ª	14th
2013–14	4	3ª	5th
2014–15	4	3ª	7th
2015–16	4	3ª	12th
2016–17	4	3ª	1st
2017–18	4	3ª	3rd
2018–19	4	3ª	3rd
2019–20	3	2ª B	11th
2020–21	3	2ª B	9th / 6th
2021–22	5	3ª RFEF	1st
2022–23	4	2ª Fed.	2nd
2023–24	4	2ª Fed.	6th
2024–25	4	2ª Fed.

8 seasons in Segunda División B
3 seasons in Segunda Federación
20 seasons in Tercera División
1 season in Tercera División RFEF

Current squad

As of 9 September 2024.^[7]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ESP	Gaizka García
2	DF	ESP	Egoitz Muñoz
3	DF	ESP	Eneko Ortiz
4	MF	MLI	Daouda Doumbia
5	DF	ESP	Álvaro García
6	MF	ESP	Tomás Mendes
7	FW	DOM	José de León
9	FW	BRA	Lucas Moura
10	MF	ESP	Ander Sánchez
11	FW	ESP	Juanma López
14	DF	ESP	Fran Tafalla
15	DF	ESP	Adrián Pica
16	MF	ESP	Markel Ruiz


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
17	MF	ESP	Julen Lartitegi
18	FW	ESP	Diego Morcillo
19	FW	ESP	Aimar González
20	MF	FRA	Émilien Makagni
21	FW	ESP	Andoni Arzak
23	DF	ESP	Alejandro Jay
24	DF	ESP	Xanet Olaiz
25	GK	CAN	Grégoire Świderski
26	MF	BRA	Eduardo Fontana
27	MF	ESP	Lander Pinillos
28	FW	BUL	Daniel Lyubomirov
31	GK	ESP	Rubén Montero

Reserve team

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
35	DF	ESP	Jorge Gómez

Honours

Tercera División^[a]
- Champions (1): 2016–17^[b]
RFEF Basque tournament
- Winners (3): 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18

^ Fourth tier
^ Not promoted in play-offs

Notable players

References

^ "Alavés B - Segunda División B G 2". www.resultados-futbol.com. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
^ Tercera División Group 4 98-99; Historical Spanish Football Results, retrieved 14 February 2017
^ Promotion Phase to Segunda B 98-99 (Group B3); Historical Spanish Football Results, retrieved 14 February 2017
^ Regional Preferente Alavesa 10-11; Historical Spanish Football Results, retrieved 14 February 2017
^ Promotion Phase to Tercera 10-11 (Basque group); Historical Spanish Football Results, retrieved 14 February 2017
^ ""Si eres capaz de pegar primero, pegas dos veces"" ["If you are able to hit first, you hit twice"] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 4 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
^ "Plantilla Deportivo Alavés B". Deportivo Alavés (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2023.