Sociedad Deportiva Indautxu is a Spanish football club based in

Bilbao Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the Provinces of Spain, province of Biscay and in the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country as a whole. It is also the largest city proper in northern Spain. Bilbao is the List o ...

, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1924, it plays in , holding home games at ''Campo Iparralde''. Apart from

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

, the club also promotes other sports such as

boxing Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punch ...

and

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History

Indautxu was founded in 1924, was disbanded in 1929, and then reformed in 1940, also being referred to as ''Sociedad Deportiva Indauchu''. In 1955–56's second division, with former

Athletic Bilbao Athletic Club (; ), commonly known as Athletic Bilbao (), or simply Athletic, is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in the city of Bilbao in the Southern Basque Country, Basque Country, Spain. They are known ...

players

Telmo Zarra Pedro Telmo Zarraonandía Montoya (20 January 1921 – 23 February 2006), known as Telmo Zarra (, ), was a Spanish association football, football Forward (association football), forward. He spent the majority of his career at Athletic Bilbao, fr ...

and José Luis Panizo in the squad, and with another,

Rafael Iriondo Rafael Iriondo Aurtenetxea (24 October 1918 – 24 February 2016) was a Spanish football forward and manager. He amassed La Liga totals of 285 matches and 89 goals over 15 seasons, with Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad. He subsequently became ...

, as coach, the team made its debuts in the Spanish second division, finishing third in 1956–57 and 1958–59, and fourth in 1957–58. Indautxu maintained its division status until the ''Segunda Division'' status until the 1966–67 season, returning for the last time in 1968–69, and meeting the same fate.

Season to season

---- *13 seasons in

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spa ...

*18 seasons in

Tercera División Tercera División () was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Until 1977, it was the third tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segund ...

Famous players

José Eulogio Gárate José Eulogio Gárate Ormaechea (born 20 September 1944) is a former professional association football, footballer who played as a striker (association football), striker for SD Eibar, SD Indautxu and Atlético Madrid. Born in Argentina, he pla ...

* Unai Laka * Raimundo Lezama * José Luis Panizo * Chus Pereda *

Famous coaches

* Serafín González

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Indautxu Sports clubs and teams in Bilbao Football clubs in the Basque Country (autonomous community) Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol clubs Association football clubs established in 1924 1924 establishments in Spain Segunda División clubs