Club Atlรฉtico Osasuna is a club that represents Pamplona in LaLiga. He is usually in the middle ranks of the league; His most notable achievement is reaching the Copa del Rey final in 2005. Their highest finish in the league was the fourth place in the 1990โ91 and 2005โ06 seasons. By finishing the season in fourth place in 2006, it qualified for the UEFA Champions League qualifying round for the first time in its history, but was eliminated there and continued to the UEFA Cup.
Although the exact year of Osasuna's founding is not known, it is accepted that it was founded in November 1920 by the merger of two local clubs named Sportiva and New Club. The unification process began when the people of Pamplona, โโwho wanted to prevent football from fading away in Navarra, founded Sociedad Sportiva, and this club was later split into New Club as a result of internal conflicts; The two groups came together in 1920 and became Club Atlรฉtico Osasuna. The word โOsasunaโ means health, joy and vitality in Basque.
The team's first step on the football scene was taken with a match against an army team on 24 October 1920. A year later, he reached the final of his second regional league championship but lost 2โ1. On May 21, 1922, SanJuan Stadium was put into service and the first match against Arenas de Getxo took place here. His first foreign transfer was German coach Walter Gerbart; They lost the friendly match against Boca Juniors 1-0 on 24 April 1924.
In the 1926โ27 season, SeveGoiboru became the first Osasuna player to be called up to the national team and scored 6 goals in 12 matches.
In 1928, the Spanish league system was divided into three levels and Osasuna took part in the Tercera, finishing third in its first season. In 1931โ32, it won all its home matches and was promoted to Segunda; In 1934, they eliminated AtleticoMadrid in the Copa del Rey and lost 3-0 against RealMadrid. In the 1934-35 season, it earned the right to take part in the Primera by beating Murcia 3-0, but was eliminated by Sevilla in the Copa and could not collect any points in its first LaLiga season and was relegated to the lower league.
The civil war between 1936 and 1939 stopped football; The Copa del Generalรญsimo was organized in 1938 and the leagues resumed in the 1939-40 season.
