Getafe Club de Fútbol S.A.D. () is a Spanish professional
football
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club based in
Getafe
Getafe () is a municipalities in Spain, municipality and a city in Spain belonging to the Community of Madrid. , it has a population of 180,747, the region's sixth most populated municipality.
Getafe is located 13 km south of Madrid's city c ...
, a city in the
Community of Madrid
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. They compete in
La Liga
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, the top tier of the
Spanish football. The team has played its home matches in the 16,500-capacity
Estadio Coliseum since 1998.
Founded in 1946 and refounded in 1983, the club was promoted to La Liga for the first time in 2004, and participated in the top level of Spanish football for twelve years between 2004 and 2016, and again since 2017. The club maintain rivalries with neighbours
Leganés, who are based near the town of Getafe,
Atlético Madrid
Club Atlético de Madrid, S.A.D. (; meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), commonly referred to as Atlético Madrid or simply Atlético, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid that plays in La Liga. The club play their home game ...
and
Real Madrid
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.
History
Beginning
Sociedad Getafe Deportivo was founded in 1923, only playing in lower divisions from 1928 to 1932. After the
Spanish Civil War
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, in 1945 five Getafe locals – Enrique Condes García, Aurelio Miranda Olavaria, Antonio Corredor Lozano, Manuel Serrano Vergara and Miguel Cubero Francés – while meeting at La Marquesina bar, decided to form a local team. Officially founded on 24 February 1946, the club was named
Club Getafe Deportivo.
The club originally played in the Campo del Regimiento de Artillería, which lacked goal posts. Shortly after, the club moved to
San Isidro, housed in the current Municipal Sports Center of San Isidro. Here, Club Getafe was promoted to the
third division following their victory against
Villarrobledo in the 1956–57 season. Getafe was nearly promoted to the
Segunda División
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in 1957–58, but was defeated by
CA Almería.
On 2 September 1970, the club inaugurated its own stadium after being promoted back to the Tercera División. Presided by chairman Francisco Vara,
Las Margaritas won a 3–1 victory over Michelín. The team survived in the third level that season, and six years later gained their first promotion to the second division.
Second division
Club Getafe Deportivo played six seasons in the Segunda División, with little success. From 1976 to 1982, they placed below tenth level all six years.
In 1978, the club advanced to play against
Barcelona
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in the
Copa del Rey
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round of 16. Playing at home in the first leg, Getafe drew with a star-studded Barcelona team 3–3, before traveling away for the second leg and being thrashed 8–0 at the
Camp Nou
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.
At the conclusion of the
1981–82 season, players having not been paid, Getafe was automatically relegated and subsequently liquidated.
Meanwhile, on 1 September 1976, a new club was founded in the National Sports Council and the Regional Federation of Castille. The club was called Peña Madridista Getafe (the "
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional Football club (association football), football club based in Madrid. The club competes in La Liga, th ...
supporters' club of Getafe"). This club played for four seasons in various divisions, until taking the name Club Deportivo Peña Getafe, and played under this name for a further two seasons. On 10 July 1982, they joined forces with the much older Club Getafe Promesas, and were registered again in the Regional Federation of Castille.
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Getafe history
Present existence
Based on the
merger
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the previous year, the present Getafe Club de Fútbol was officially founded on 8 July 1983, after passing through assembly.
Starting in the regional leagues in 1983–84, Getafe was promoted for four consecutive seasons until reaching the
Segunda División B
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. The club started a new period with its promotion into Segunda in
1994–95, staying only two years. Threatening absolute disappearance just a few years later in 1997, Getafe survived relegation into the fourth level
Tercera División
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following a two-legged playoff victory over
Huesca
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.
Meanwhile, Getafe's current stadium, the
Coliseum Alfonso Pérez
Estadio Coliseum () is a municipally-owned football (soccer), football stadium in Getafe, Spain. It is the home ground of Getafe CF.
Stadium
The stadium was built in 1998 and currently, after several extensions, it has a capacity of 17,393 people ...
, was inaugurated on 1 January 1998.
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Getafe stadium
Returning to the second division for
1999–2000, Getafe lasted another two seasons. However, one year later, they would return following an amazing promotion in
2001–02 during which one of their players, Sebastián "Sebas" Gómez, was murdered, and controversy regarding unpaid payments of players following a debt of
€
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3 million.
Consolidating their position after one year, Getafe had a fantastic
season
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in Segunda. At the top of the table for most of the year, the side travelled to the
Canary Islands
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on the final matchday needing a win to assure a historic promotion to
La Liga
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, the top-flight. Amazingly, they defeated
Tenerife
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5–3 with five goals from
Sergio Pachón, thus becoming along with Real Madrid,
Atlético Madrid
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and
Rayo Vallecano the fourth team from the
Community of Madrid
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– and the first of them from outside of the
capital
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Econom ...
– to ever play in La Liga. With this promotion, Getafe had ascended the whole
Spanish football pyramid, achieving this feat in only 20 years.
La Liga

The club started
2004–05 poorly, lying at the bottom of the table. Home wins over
Espanyol,
Athletic Bilbao
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,
Valencia
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and Real Madrid, followed by a sole away win of the season over Athletic Bilbao, saw Getafe climb to finish 13th, being the only promoted side to avoid relegation. At the end of the season, the club lost head coach
Quique Sánchez Flores and several players to rival clubs. In Getafe's
next season, the club briefly topped the table before slipping to finish ninth. During the
2006 FIFA World Cup
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, Argentine-born
Mariano Pernía became Getafe's first
Spanish international, before moving to Atlético Madrid.
In
2006–07, Getafe again finished ninth in the league, conceding only 33 goals in 38 matches and
goalkeeper
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Roberto Abbondanzieri was awarded the
Zamora Trophy, having recorded 12 clean sheets. The highlight of the club's season was reaching the
2006–07 Copa del Rey final
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, a competition in which Getafe had never reached the quarter-finals before. The run included a two-legged semi-final against Barcelona in which Getafe lost the first leg 5–2 at the Camp Nou before producing a 4–0 rout in the second leg at the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez. Getafe lost their first major final 1–0 to
Sevilla
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Seville ...
at the
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
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. Through this, the club qualified for the following season's
UEFA Cup
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qualification, as Sevilla had already qualified for the
UEFA Champions League
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through their league position.
The following season, coach
Bernd Schuster
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left after two seasons to become head coach at Real Madrid, and Getafe appointed
Michael Laudrup
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as his replacement. Under Laudrup, Getafe again finished the league mid-table. In the
UEFA Cup
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, the team managed to progress to the quarter-finals after finishing top of Group G, only losing once, setting up a tie against four-time European Cup winners
Bayern Munich. Getafe drew the away leg 1–1, thanks to an injury time equaliser from
Cosmin Contra. In the second leg,
Rubén de la Red was
sent off after six minutes. Contra put Getafe ahead just before half-time, but in the 89th minute,
Franck Ribéry equalized to send the match into
extra time
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. Two quick goals from
Javier Casquero and substitute
Braulio gave Getafe a 3–1 lead, but Bayern pulled a goal back from
Luca Toni, before Toni again scored seconds before the end of extra time, giving Bayern an
away goals
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win. Getafe also had successful run in the
Copa del Rey
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, reaching
the final for a second year running. In the final, at the
Vicente Calderón Stadium, Getafe were beaten 3–1 by Valencia.
In the
2015–16 season, Getafe were relegated to second division after spending 12 years in first campaign. However, in
2016–17, the club immediately returned to La Liga after defeating
Huesca
Huesca (; ) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon between 1096 and 1118. It is also the capital of the Spanish Huesca (province), ...
and
Tenerife
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to gain promotion via
the play-offs. In the
2017–18 season Getafe finished in the 8th position, easily avoiding the relegation back to Segunda División.
2019–present
In the
2018–19 season Getafe finished 5th, their highest finish in the first division, and qualified for the
2019–20 UEFA Europa League
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Sevilla FC, Sevill ...
group stage. They finished 2nd in their group, with 12 points from 6 games, which allowed them to advance to the next round. They managed to beat
Ajax
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* Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
* Ajax (play), ''Ajax'' (play), by the an ...
3–2 on aggregate in the Round of 32. Due to that win, they faced
Inter Milan
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in the round of 16, where their European dream ended with a 2–0 loss.
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Stadium
Getafe play at the
Estadio Coliseum, located in Getafe. Its pitch dimensions are 105x70 metres. The stadium was inaugurated on 1 January 1998, named after the Spanish international (and of Real Madrid fame)
Alfonso Pérez. Though he never played for or against Getafe, or even in the stadium, he is perhaps the most famous
footballer
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to come out of the area and was at the height of his career during the mid-1990s.
Before playing in the Coliseum, Getafe played their home matches at the nearby Estadio de las Margaritas, part of the greater
Sports City of Las Margaritas. The Coliseum was subsequently built as a natural extension to the much smaller facilities at Las Margaritas. Since its foundation, the stadium has had numerous renovations, and now seats 14,400 people and several thousand more standing. As such, the exact capacity is variable and ambiguous. Getafe generally fill the stadium for local matches against Real and Atlético Madrid, as well as against Barcelona, most famously in the 2006–07 Cup semi-final. For the first time in their history, Getafe pre-sold out the whole of the Coliseum before their second leg match against Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup quarter-final.
Getafe club president
Ángel Torres expressed interest in upgrading the Coliseum to a much greater 20,000-seat arena, in conjunction with
Madrid's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. The failure of this bid and poor crowd averages put this redevelopment in doubt.
Getafe use the nearby Sports City when training. These facilities include several training pitches with both grass and artificial turf, full medical rooms and recuperation facilities.
Supporters
Commonly called ''Marea Azul'', or ''Azulones'', Getafe supporters have steadily increased in number with the success of the team in recent years. There are 18 ''peñas'' ("supporter clubs") and 12,000 ''socios'' ("associates"). Former Real Madrid player
Francisco Pavón is a well-known Getafe ''socio'', while
Fernando Alonso
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and
Rafael Nadal
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have attended matches at the Coliseum in the past.
Getafe supporters have grown far beyond the local area and are now known to have fans in Australia, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Argentina, Scotland, Denmark, the United States and Mexico. In 2007, a ''peña'' was founded in Venezuela to extend the worldwide club reach.
Getafe also created some controversy in 2007 when their season ticket campaign included biblical references of
Abraham
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,
Moses
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and Jesus sacrificing themselves for the team. The club responded by withdrawing the first scene involving Abraham.
Upon important or famous victories, Getafe fans congregate to celebrate at the Cibelina statue in the town centre. Prior to the 2007 Cup final, Torres implored the fans to "tear down the Cibelina" upon victory, promising to pay for a new design. During that final, thousands of supporters rushed to get tickets and packed into the Santiago Bernabéu, yet were vastly outnumbered by ''Sevillistas''. However, those who failed to get tickets – most of which went to season ticket holders for the 2007–08 campaign – were able to watch the match on a big screen in Getafe's central square.
Getafe has also a small group of
Ultras
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supporters, called ''Comandos Azules'' ("blue
commandos
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").
''Zombies Calientes de Getafe''
In 2011, Getafe released a humorous tongue-in-cheek advertising campaign, pretending to decry the club's relatively small fanbase and encouraging male supporters to
donate sperm in order to breed more fans. To inspire those donations, the club produced a short
pornographic film
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called ''Zombies Calientes de Getafe'' ("Horny Zombies of Getafe"), "shot in the style of a 1970s porn film", and delivered it to
sperm donation clinics in Madrid.
Rivalries
Historically, due to their close geographical position, Getafe has always held a strong rivalry with
Leganés. They played out numerous encounters in the lower division before the two teams fortunes began to contrast as Getafe gained ascendency and Leganés began to deteriorate.
In the first division, the side has held some exciting matches in the last few years with Real Madrid, with the ledger being most recently squared at three wins each. Real Madrid's much greater stature, huge budget and expensive squad has never stopped Getafe from rising to the challenge and often playing their best football against their "bigger brother".
In addition to this, Getafe has developed somewhat of a rivalry with Barcelona, which culminated in their famous 4–0 victory over their more fancied opponents during the 2006–07 Copa del Rey semi-final. Also, Valencia has succumbed numerous times to ''el Geta'', often quite heavily, as was the case during the 2006–07 Copa del Rey, which ensured Getafe's first appearance in the Copa's quarter-finals with a 2–4 win at Valencia's
Mestalla Stadium. However, this result was turned around in the 2008 Copa del Rey final, as Valencia would deny Getafe their first trophy with a 3–1 victory. This rivalry is propped up healthily by the regular transfer of Getafe players (and head coach
Quique Sánchez Flores) to Valencia.
European record
The club has not appeared in any European competition except in the
UEFA Europa League
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(formerly the UEFA Cup).
The club appeared only three times in this tournament, In
2007–08 they qualified for the tournament as
Copa del Rey runner-up in the previous season for
Sevilla
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Seville ...
, who qualified for the
UEFA Champions League
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, and progressed from the first round, group stage, round of 32 and round of 16 before being beaten by
Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals. three years later, in
2010–11 they were paired with
APOEL in the playoff round, and qualified by eliminating them, but then they were eliminated from the group stage as third place.
In the
2019–20 season, Getafe appeared in the tournament for the third time, and they were able to qualify from the group stage in second place, and they also managed to pass the round of 32 after eliminating
Ajax
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Greek mythology and tragedy
* Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea
* Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
* Ajax (play), ''Ajax'' (play), by the an ...
, but they were eliminated in the next round against
Inter Milan
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in one match due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Season to season
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*21 ''seasons'' in ''
La Liga
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''
*7 ''seasons'' in ''
Segunda División
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''
*11 ''seasons'' in ''
Segunda División B
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''
*1 ''seasons'' in ''
Tercera División
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''
*3 seasons in ''
Categorías Regionales''
Honours
*
Copa del Rey
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**''Runners-up (2):''
2006–07,
2007–08
*
Segunda División B – Group 1
**''Winners (1):'' 1998–99
Players
Current squad
Reserve team
Out on loan
Club officials
Current technical staff
Board of directors
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!Name
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, President
,
Ángel Torres Sánchez
, -
, First vice president
, Felipe Triguero Escobar
, -
, Second vice president
, Valentín Sánchez Girón
, -
, Secretary
, Juan Leif Pérez Preus
, -
, Vice secretary
, Fernando Santos
, -
, Treasurer
, María Ángeles Carlos Vara
, -
, General director
, José María Durán
, -
, Sporting director
,
Rubén Reyes
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, Academy director
, Damián Jiménez Fraile
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, Academy coordinator
, Juan Manuel Hernández Cáceres
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, Administration and operations director
, José Antonio Ramirez
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, Financial director
, Angeles Carlos
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, Financial treasurer
, Patricia Torres
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, Communication director
, Luz Monzón
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, Social media director
, David Torres
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, Marketing director
, Alberto Heras
Coaches
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Luis Sánchez Duque (1994–95)
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Emilio Cruz (1995)
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Luis Ángel Duque (1996)
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Manuel García Calderón (1997–98)
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Santiago Prado (1998–2000)
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Juanjo (2000)
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Manolo Cano (2000)
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Gonzalo Hurtado (2001)
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Felines (2001–03)
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Pepe Mel
José "Pepe" Mel Pérez (born 28 February 1963) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker, currently a manager.
He amassed Segunda División totals of 215 matches and 78 goals over eight seasons, for Real Madrid Cast ...
(2003)
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Josu Uribe (2003–04)
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Quique Sánchez Flores (2004–05)
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Bernd Schuster
Bernd Schuster (born 22 December 1959) is a German former professional footballer of the late 1970s through early 1990s, who won club titles playing for the Spanish sides Barcelona (1980–1988) and Real Madrid (1988–1990). He played as a midf ...
(2005–07)
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Michael Laudrup
Michael Laudrup (, born 15 June 1964) is a Danish professional Association football, football coach and former player. Renowned for his composure, passing, vision, technical skills, ball control, and dribbling ability, Laudrup is widely regarded ...
(2007–08)
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Víctor Muñoz (2008–09)
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Míchel (2009–11)
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Luis García (2011–14)
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Cosmin Contra (2014–15)
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Quique Sánchez Flores (2015)
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Pablo Franco (2015)
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Fran Escribá (2015–16)
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Juan Esnáider (2016)
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José Bordalás (2016–21)
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Míchel (2021)
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Quique Sánchez Flores (2021–2023)
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José Bordalás (2023–)
Presidents
* Antonio de Miguel (1983–92)
* Francisco Flores (1992–2000)
* Felipe González (2000–01)
* Domingo Rebosio (2001–02)
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Ángel Torres (2002–)
See also
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Getafe CF B
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Getafe Deportivo
References
External links
;Official websites
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Getafe at La LigaFutbolme team profile''Peñas'' federation (archived 16 February 2012)
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Association football clubs established in 1983
Football clubs in the Community of Madrid
1983 establishments in Spain
Sport in Getafe
La Liga clubs
Segunda División clubs