Unión Deportiva Atlético Gramenet is a Spanish football team based in

Santa Coloma de Gramenet Santa Coloma de Gramenet (), informally simply known as Santa Coloma, and formerly as ''Gramenet de Besòs'' between 1936 and 1939, is a municipality in Barcelonès county, in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the south-east side of the Catal ...

, in the autonomous community of

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. Founded in 1945 it currently plays in , holding home games at '' Municipal de Sant Adrià'' in

Sant Adrià de Besòs Sant Adrià de Besòs () is a city and a municipality within the comarca of Barcelonès in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. It is situated on the Mediterranean coast, at the mouth of river Besòs, extending to both sides of the estuary although th ...

, with a capacity of 1,000.

History

UDA Gramenet was founded in 1945, through the

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of three teams from

: FC Gramenet, UD Colomense and CF Baleares. The club first reached the national categories in 1956, and first promoted to the third division 37 years later. Gramenet finished three times in the top three in its first four seasons, but successively underachieved in the playoffs, against

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and

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( 1993–94),

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, Jaén and

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( 1994–95) and Jaén, Lemona and Ourense ( 1996–97). In 1996 the club merged with C.D. Milán, who later became Gramenet B. In the 2004–05 season, still in the third division, Gramenet could only place 16th in the league, but reached the quarterfinals of the

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after ousting

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, Levante and

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, only being downed by

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(2–2 at home, 3–4 away) who later went on to win the tournament. In the following years the club would only participate once in the promotion playoffs, losing 3–6 on aggregate to

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in 2006.Los tres filiales fueron los peores parados del sorteo (The three B-teams had worst of lucks in draw)
Diario AS, 30 May 2006 In 2014, the club was forced by the city hall to leave the Nou Camp Municipal in

and since the 2014–15 season, Gramenet plays its games at

Background

::''Futbol Club Gramenet'' - ''(¿?–1945)'' → ↓ :::''Unión Deportiva Colomense'' - ''(¿?–1945)'' → ''Unión Deportiva Atlético Gramenet'' - ''(1945–95)'' → ''Unión Deportiva Atlético Gramenet Milán ''(1995–¿?) :''Club de Futbol Baleares'' - ''(¿?–1945)'' → ↑ ---- :::''Unión Deportiva Obreros''- ''(¿?–1995)'' → ↓ ::::''Unión Deportiva Atlético Gramenet'' - ''(1945–95)'' → ''Unión Deportiva Atlético Gramenet Milán ''(1995–¿?) :''Club Deportivo Milán-Gramanet''- ''(¿?–1995)'' → ↑

Season to season

---- *18 seasons in

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*20 seasons in

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Famous players

Note: this list includes players that have played at least 100 league games and/or have reached international status. * Anselmo * Jacinto Elá * Oussama Souaidy *

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* Jorge Rojas *

Curro Torres Cristóbal Emilio "Curro" Torres Ruiz (born 27 December 1976) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right-back, currently manager of Estonian club FCI Levadia Tallinn. In his professional career, whose later years were blighted by se ...

* Unai Vergara *

Tito Vilanova Francesc "Tito" Vilanova Bayó (17 September 1968 – 25 April 2014) was a Spanish professional football central midfielder and manager. After a career which consisted of a total of 26 La Liga matches in three seasons, all with Celta, he went ...

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