As one of the oldest clubs in Spanish football, the Royal sertavigo Club, located in Vigo city, Galicia, just celebrated the centennial celebration in the 2023/24 season.
Move to baledos Stadium
The Royal SELTA Vigo Club was founded in 1923 and was formed by merging two large clubs Royal Vigo athletic and Royal Fortune football club in Vigo city at that time. Until 1928, the home court of Royal SELTA Vigo club was Coia Stadium. However, the construction of tram lines forced the club to move to the new stadium. Therefore, the club set a goal to provide the team with a matching home court. They bought the land that later built the baledos Stadium. Today, the baledos Stadium has become one of the oldest courts in La Liga, and is currently called abanca-balaemon dos.
The second place in games played was Iago Aspas, the historical shooter of the club. This player from moania scored 195 goals in 457 games, ahead of club Vladimir Gudelj.
The origin of sky blue jersey
The Royal sertavigo club did not choose sky blue as the main color of the jersey at the beginning, but now Sky Blue has symbolized this team. After merging Royal Vigo athletics and Royal Fortune football club, SELTA’s first jersey was red. They decided to use the same shirt color matching as the Spanish national team, but one of the most important figures in the history of the club-director Juan balinio Ledo it is suggested that the team choose the color that can represent the flag of Galicia, so the club changed its mind and began to wear the light blue jersey with extremely high recognition.
Legend of the club
Throughout the history of the Royal SELTA Vigo club, there are many famous figures in history, such as Hugo MALESI, Alexander Mostovoy (Aleksandr Mostovoi), Valeri Karpin, gustav Lopes (Gustavo López) and Javier matéberzal. However, there was only one player who wore the most sky blue jersey games played, that was Manolo, the defender from Ponte Vedra played for SELTA from 1966/67 to 1981/82, I have participated in the League of La Liga, West B and West B, with a total of 533 appearances. The second place in games played was Iago Aspas, the historical shooter of the club. This player from moania scored 195 goals in 457 games, ahead of club Vladimir Gudelj.
One piqiqi Award and three Samora Awards
Although SELTA has never won La Liga or the King’s Cup, their players have also won awards many times, including one piqic Award and three Samora awards. In the 1947/48 season, pahíeno became the best shooter in the Spanish league with 23 goals in 22 matches, lead the team to the historic fourth place in the standings. In addition, three SELTA goalkeeper have won the best goalkeeper of the season. Santi Cañizares in the 1992/93 season and Pablo Cavallero in the 2002/03 season and Jose Manuel Pinto in the 2005/06 season.
SELTA once won the European Championship
Although SELTA has won a series of regional championship awards, they have never won La Liga or the King’s Cup, but it is worth mentioning that the “Sky Blue Legion” has also won a European Championship. In 2000, SELTA won the International Toto Cup held by UEFA, thus obtaining the qualification to participate in the UEFA Cup. Galician defeated pelistus from Macedonia in the semi-final, and then defeated Aston Villa, an English team, and beat Saint Petersburg Zenit in Russia and Benni McCarthy in South Africa in the final. He became the best shooter in this competition.
