Sporting Gijón

Real Sporting de Gijón, S. A. D., is a sports public limited company based in Gijón, Asturias. It was founded under the name Sporting Club Gijonés.

Since 2017 it has taken part in the second category of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, Spain's Segunda División, whose all-time table it leads, although it is considered one of the leading clubs of Spanish football and of its top category, the Primera División, in which it ranks sixteenth after its 42 appearances since it was established in 1929. Its greatest success there was a runners-up finish in the 1978-79 season, to which it adds two others (1981 and 1982) in the Campeonato de España de Copa, the oldest tournament in the country. Internationally it has six participations in the UEFA Cup. It has obtained other recognitions and minor titles, among which five Segunda División league championships stand out, and it is one of the nine Spanish teams that have never competed in a category below the second.

It plays its home matches at the El Molinón stadium since 1913, where until 2016 it organized the Trofeo Villa de Gijón, and it has 24,000 season-ticket holders and 126 official supporters' clubs.