Villarreal B

Full name	Villarreal Club de Fútbol S.A.D. "B"
Nickname(s)	El Mini Submarino (Mini Submarine)
Founded	1999
Ground	Estadio de la Cerámica
Capacity	23,008
President	Fernando Roig
Head coach	Miguel Álvarez
League	Segunda División
2022–23	Segunda División, 18th of 22
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Villarreal Club de Fútbol "B" is a Spanish football team based in Villarreal, in the autonomous community of Valencia. Founded in 1999, it is the reserve team of Villarreal CF and plays in Segunda División, holding home games at Estadio de la Cerámica, with a 23,008-seat capacity.

Background

Unlike in other nations such as England, reserve teams in Spain play in the same football pyramid as their senior team rather than a separate league. However, reserve teams cannot play in the same division as their senior team. Therefore, the team is ineligible for promotion to the division in which the main side plays. Also, if the main team is relegated to the division in which its reserve side played in the prior season (which happened in 2011–12 ^[1]), the reserve team is automatically relegated to the division below the main team. Reserve teams are also no longer permitted to enter the Copa del Rey.

Premier League International Cup

Villarreal successfully applied to compete in the 2014–15, 2015–16 and 2016–17 versions of the England-based Premier League International Cup. They won the tournament in 2016, beating PSV in the final. Most of Villarreal's players in this Under-23 tournament have been drawn from the B side with some additions from C Team and the Juvenil group.

Season to season

Season Tier Division Place 1999–2000 7 2ª Reg. 2nd 2000–01 6 1ª Reg. 1st 2001–02 5 Pref. 5th 2002–03 5 Pref. 1st 2003–04 4 3ª 3rd 2004–05 4 3ª 5th 2005–06 4 3ª 1st 2006–07 4 3ª 2nd 2007–08 3 2ª B 11th 2008–09 3 2ª B 2nd 2009–10 2 2ª 7th 2010–11 2 2ª 17th 2011–12 2 2ª 12th 2012–13 3 2ª B 9th 2013–14 3 2ª B 11th 2014–15 3 2ª B 10th 2015–16 3 2ª B 2nd 2016–17 3 2ª B 6th 2017–18 3 2ª B 2nd 2018–19 3 2ª B 3rd

Season Tier Division Place 2019–20 3 2ª B 6th 2020–21 3 2ª B 3rd / 6th 2021–22 3 1ª RFEF 2nd 2022–23 2 2ª 18th 2023–24 2 2ª

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• 5 seasons in Segunda División
• 1 season in Primera División RFEF
• 11 seasons in Segunda División B
• 4 seasons in Tercera División
• 4 seasons in Categorías Regionales

Players

Current squad

As of 30 January 2024. ^[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   AND Iker Álvarez 2 DF   ESP Adrià Altimira 3 DF   ESP Dani Tasende 4 DF   ESP Hugo Pérez 5 DF   ESP Abraham del Moral 6 MF   ESP Alberto del Moral 7 FW   ESP Diego Collado 8 MF   ESP Carlo Adriano ( captain) 9 FW   ESP Álex Forés 10 FW   ESP Javi Ontiveros 11 FW   ESP Jorge Pascual 12 DF   SRB Stefan Leković (on loan from Red Star Belgrade) 13 GK   ESP Miguel Ángel Morro (on loan from Rayo Vallecano) 14 MF   ESP Aitor Gelardo

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF   ESP Marcos Sánchez 16 DF   ESP Lanchi 17 DF   ESP Hugo Novoa (on loan from RB Leipzig) 18 DF   ESP Carlos Romero 19 DF   ESP Pablo Íñiguez 20 FW   MAR Ilias Akhomach 21 MF   ESP Rodri Alonso 22 MF   ARG Tiago Geralnik 23 FW   ESP Víctor Moreno 24 FW   URU Andrés Ferrari 25 MF   ESP Jordi Ortega 27 MF   ESP Dani Requena 29 DF   ESP Antonio Espigares 35 GK   ESP Rubén Gómez

Reserve team

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 32 MF   ARG Facundo Viveros 33 DF   ESP Pau Navarro

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   COL Luis Quintero (at Deportivo La Coruña until 30 June 2024) — MF   ECU Liberman Torres (at Atlético Ottawa until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW   ESP Fabio Blanco (at Cultural Leonesa until 30 June 2024)

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Miguel Álvarez
Assistant Head Coach	Igor Taševski David Cifuentes
Goalkeeping Coach	Mariano Barbosa
Delegate	Pablo Godoy
Fitness Coach	Fernando Martínez David Pérez
Technical assistant	Adrián Sabater
Analyst	Jordi Benavent
Doctor	Enrique Soriano
Physiotherapist	Diego Manero Ferran Donoso Jorge Ten
Psychologist	Cristian Segovia
Equipment Manager	Brian Porcar
Field delegate	Miguel Escorihuela

See also

• Villarreal CF – First team
• Villarreal CF C – Third team

References

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)