page_title: A Coruña
section_title: Sport
hierarchical_section_title: A Coruña / Sport
caption_attribution_description: CSKA Moscow 3-0 Deportivo de La Coruna (UEFA Cup 2nd Round)
context_page_description: A Coruña is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second most populated city and the second most populated municipality in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the same name, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela.
  A Coruña is a busy port located on a promontory in the Golfo Ártabro, a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean. Being exposed to Atlantic winds and low-pressure systems bringing plenty of rainfall for most of the year, it has the coolest summers of Spain's major urban areas, but likewise has very mild winters for its latitude. It is the main industrial and financial centre of northern Galicia, and holds the headquarters of the Universidade da Coruña.
context_section_description: A Coruña has an extensive network of sports infrastructures. The most important one is the Riazor Sport Complex, which includes Estadio Riazor (home of Deportivo de La Coruña), the Palace of Sports (home of HC Liceo A Coruña), two indoor tracks, a pelota court and an indoor swimming-pool. La Torre Sport Complex hosts many football fields, a golf court and another pelota court. There are also five municipal football fields, 11 sports centres and several marinas (Real Club Náutico, Marina Coruña, etc.). In 2007 the Termaria Casa del Agua complex was opened, which has a gymnasium, a thalassotherapy centre and an indoor Olympic-sized swimming pool.
  Deportivo was founded in 1906 and is currently playing in Segunda División B, the third tier of the Spanish league system. Since the Spanish football league system was established in 1928, it has spent all but three seasons in the top two tiers. Women's section of the team plays in Spain's top division.
  Deportivo won the league title once, in the 1999–2000 season, and finished as runners-up on five occasions. The club has also won the Spanish Cup twice (1995 and 2002), and three Spanish Super Cups. Between 2000–01 and 2004–05, Deportivo played in the UEFA Champions League for five seasons in a row, and reached the semi-finals in 2004.
  The city has a roller hockey team, HC Liceo A Coruña, one of the most successful in Spain, and the team plays in the main League OK Liga. They became Europe's Champions in 2011.
  A Coruña basketball team CB Coruña, plays in LEB Oro league, the Spanish second division.
  The city's handball team OAR Ciudad 1952 currently plays in the Spanish First Division.
  The American football team Towers Football currently plays in LGFA, the Galician regional gridiron football league.
  Two Gaelic football teams were founded in 2010 and 2011, A Coruña Fillos de Breogán (with men and ladies teams) and Ártabros de Oleiros (really originating in A Coruña too). They participate in the Iberian Championship and in the Galician League.
  Casas Novas riding club, in the outskirts of the city, hosts many national and international championships.
  In tenpin bowling, A Coruña is home to the annual Teresa Herrera de Bowling tournament, this year (2016) played from 24 to 28 August in the Pleno Bowling Centre, Marineda City. It attracts players from all over Spain.
caption: Deportivo played in UEFA Cup in the 2008–09 season
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