SD Zamudio · History

Sociedad Deportiva Zamudio was founded in early 1943 in Zamudio, in the Basque province of Biscay, at the initiative of the town's mayor, Mateo Romero. Vicente Rufino Pérez Elcoro became its first president. Before playing organised football, the team entered a seven-club local tournament and won it, beating Zamudio Youth Club in the final. It joined the Biscay regional leagues that same year and made its debut in the 1943-44 season. The club's nickname is “los Tecnológicos”.

Half a century of regional football

For five decades Zamudio played in the Biscay regional divisions and never rose above them. Its home was the municipal San Martín ground, a pitch of sand and packed earth that was later rebuilt as the Errekalde ground. Errekalde reopened with an artificial surface in March 2003 and became the home of the club's youth and women's sides. The bigger change came on 9 September 1990, when the Gazituaga ground opened with a match against an Athletic Club select side.

Gazituaga, the home ground

Gazituaga is about a kilometre east of Bilbao Airport. It has a natural grass pitch and a main stand built in the shape of a traditional Basque farmhouse, with roughly 500 seats. The dressing rooms are behind it and the bar is to one side. A club crest is painted on the back of the stand. There is a manual scoreboard in one corner, a grass bank reinforced with timber on the opposite side, and a running track around the pitch. Total capacity is close to 1,000 spectators.

Tercera División and the first promotion, 1994-1997

Zamudio reached the Tercera División, then the fourth tier, for the first time in 1994-95. Playing in Group IV, it finished tenth. In 1995-96 it was runner-up in the group, qualified for the play-offs and won a place in Segunda División B, the third tier. Its first season there, 1996-97 in Group III, ended in 18th place and relegation. The next two campaigns back in the fourth tier were hard ones: the team finished 15th and then 19th.

After 2000 the club settled in the division. It finished fifth in 2000-01 and 2004-05, then fourth in 2007-08, which earned another play-off place. Zamudio beat CD Izarra 4-1 on aggregate in the first round. In the second it went out to Sporting de Gijón B, losing the first leg 3-0 on 8 June 2008 and drawing the return 0-0. For several seasons after that the team finished mid-table, except in 2010-11, when it came 15th.

Group champions and back to the third tier, 2016-2019

The club's best fourth-tier season came in 2015-16, when it won Group IV. In the play-off between group champions it faced CD Laredo, winners of Group III. Zamudio won 3-1 at Gazituaga, lost the return 1-0 and went through 3-2 on aggregate. It was the club's second promotion to Segunda División B, twenty years after the first.

In 2016-17 it played in Group II of the third tier, alongside clubs such as CF Fuenlabrada, CD Toledo, Rayo Majadahonda and UD Socuéllamos, and also reached the first round of the Copa del Rey. It finished 20th and was relegated. Back in the Tercera División it came 12th in 2017-18 and 16th in 2018-19, a season that ended with relegation to the División de Honor de Bizkaia.

Regional top flight and Tercera Federación, 2019-2025

Zamudio spent six seasons in Biscay's top regional division. It finished sixth in 2019-20, second in 2020-21, third in 2021-22, tenth in 2022-23 and fourth in 2023-24. In 2024-25 it won the División de Honor de Bizkaia title and was promoted to the Tercera Federación, the fifth tier of Spanish football since the 2021 restructuring. It played its first season in that division's Group IV in 2025-26. By 2025 the club had played two seasons in Segunda División B (1996-97 and 2016-17) and twenty in the Tercera División.