Eibar Squad, Coach, Transfers and Club Profile

Eibar

Eibar brings a compact-town identity to Spanish professional football, combining a long climb through the national pyramid with a distinctive home at Ipurua. Founded in 1940 in Gipuzkoa, the club is associated with claret-and-blue colors, close community ties and a reputation for resilience. This team page presents a dated snapshot of Eibar’s football structure, from its squad and coaching timeline to recent movement and recorded competitions, within the wider story of a proudly Basque institution.

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Xtra rating
1724
Conservative: 1186
Rank club
229
Updated: 6 September 2026

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Segunda División

  • - Regular Season - 6
    Eldense
    Eibar
  • - Regular Season - 7
    Eibar
    Las Palmas
    Estadio Municipal de Ipurúa
  • - Regular Season - 8
    Albacete
    No H2H
    Eibar
    Estadio Carlos Belmonte
  • - Regular Season - 9
    Oviedo
    No H2H
    Eibar
    Estadio Nuevo Carlos Tartiere

Eibar Last matches by league

Segunda División

  • - Regular Season - 5
    Celta de Vigo II
    Eibar
  • - Regular Season - 4
    Eibar
    Granada CF
    Estadio Municipal de Ipurúa
  • - Regular Season - 3
    FC Andorra
    Eibar
  • - Regular Season - 2
    Eibar
    Valladolid
    Estadio Municipal de Ipurúa

Friendlies Clubs

  • - Club Friendlies
    Real Unión
    Eibar
  • - Club Friendlies
    Eibar
    Arenas Getxo
  • - Club Friendlies
    Real Sociedad II
    Eibar
  • - Club Friendlies
    Athletic Club
    Eibar

Copa del Rey

  • - Round of 32
    Eibar
    Elche
    Estadio Municipal de Ipurúa
  • - Round of 128
    Náxara
    Eibar
  • - 1st Round
    UD Logroñés
    Eibar
    Estadio Nuevo Municipal Las Gaunas

Eibar Team Roster

Eibar’s recorded squad contains 30 players: 12 midfielders, 10 defenders, five attackers and three goalkeepers. The group includes defensive options such as Anaitz Arbilla, Jair Amador, Juan Bernat and Unai Elgezabal, while Sergio Álvarez, Peru Nolaskoain, Iván Gil and Jon Magunazelaia add midfield variety. Jon Bautista and Javi Martón provide selected attacking names, with Luis López and U. Ayala among the listed goalkeepers. The roster also includes a broad spread across its four positional units. Shirt numbers accompany many entries, but the squad overview does not establish a preferred starting lineup.

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Last Eibar Coachs

Beñat San José is Eibar’s current head coach, following his recorded start on 1 February 2025. His tenure is the latest entry in the coaching timeline. Joseba Etxeberria preceded him from July 2023 to February 2025, while Gaizka Garitano held the role from June 2021 to June 2023. Earlier, José Luis Mendilibar led the club from July 2015 to May 2021, and Garitano also began an earlier spell in June 2012. The sequence reflects a coaching history rooted in Spanish football.

Beñat San José Gil

Beñat San José Gil

Spain
Coach since 1 February 2025
Coach until
History
Coach Coach country Coach since Coach until
Beñat San José Gil Spain 1 February 2025
Joseba Andoni Etxeberria Lizardi Spain 1 July 2023 1 February 2025
Gaizka Garitano Aguirre Spain 1 June 2021 1 June 2023
José Luis Mendilibar Etxebarria Spain 1 July 2015 1 May 2021
Gaizka Garitano Aguirre Spain 1 June 2012 1 June 2015
Javier Mandiola Alberdi Spain 1 August 2011 1 May 2012
José Luis Mendilibar Etxebarria Spain 1 July 2004 1 June 2005

Eibar Transfers

The recorded arrivals show several forms of squad movement rather than a single pattern. Unai Elgezabal joined from Levante as a free agent, Lucas Nuñez arrived on loan from Valencia, and Imanol García de Albéniz and Iván Gil arrived through transfers. Pejiño joined from Las Palmas as a free agent, while Eric Pérez, Oscar Carrasco, Ángel Troncho and E. Perez were listed as returning from loans. Earlier arrivals included Malcom Adu, Álvaro Rodríguez, Jair Amador and Javi Martón. This is a selected movement snapshot, not a complete window total.

Latest player transfers from
Player Team from Transfer type Transfer date
E. Gift
Athletic Club
Loan 30 August 2026
Unai Elgezabal
Levante
Free agent 4 August 2026
Unai Elgezabal
Levante
Free agent 3 August 2026
Lucas Nuñez
Valencia
Loan 25 July 2026
Imanol García de Albéniz
Sparta Praha
Transfer 8 July 2026
Iván Gil
Las Palmas
Transfer 7 July 2026
Pejiño
Las Palmas
Free agent 2 July 2026
Carlos Lumbreras
Osasuna
Free agent 30 June 2026
C. Lumbreras
Osasuna
Free agent 30 June 2026
C. Lumbreras
Osasuna
Free agent 29 June 2026
E. Perez
Barakaldo
Return from loan 29 June 2026
Ángel Troncho
Arenas Getxo
Return from loan 29 June 2026
Oscar Carrasco
Tarazona
Return from loan 29 June 2026
Eric Pérez
Athletic Club
Return from loan 29 June 2026
Juan Bernat
Getafe
- 11 February 2026

Eibar’s listed departures include a mixture of loans, free-agent exits and transfers. I. Asenjo and Hodei Arrillaga moved on loan, while Javi Martínez, Aritz Arambarri, Toni Villa, Eric Pérez and José Corpas were listed as free agents. Marco Moreno left for Bahia through a transfer, and Leonardo Buta returned to Udinese after his loan. Other recorded moves include Cristian Gutiérrez to Las Palmas, J. Yriarte to Slask Wroclaw and Matheus Pereira to Fortaleza EC. The list is a partial movement snapshot rather than a complete departures total.

Latest player transfers to
Player Team to Transfer type Transfer date
Ángel Troncho
Barakaldo
Free agent 21 August 2026
H. Garcia
Cultural Leonesa
Loan 14 August 2026
Oscar Carrasco
Sant Andreu
Free agent 7 August 2026
Oscar Carrasco
Sant Andreu
Free agent 6 August 2026
Ángel Troncho
Barakaldo
Free agent 3 August 2026
Aritz Arambarri
Mirandes
Free agent 29 July 2026
UD Logroñés
Loan 29 July 2026
Javi Martínez
Eldense
Free agent 28 July 2026
Aritz Arambarri
Mirandes
Free agent 28 July 2026
Javi Martínez
Eldense
Free agent 27 July 2026
Julen Agirre
Badajoz
Free agent 25 July 2026
Toni Villa
FC Cartagena
Free agent 21 July 2026
Hodei Arrillaga
Mirandes
Loan 15 July 2026
Salamanca UDS
Free agent 3 July 2026
Marco Moreno
Bahia
Transfer 1 July 2026

Transfers Synthesis

Across the recorded movement snapshot from July 2025 to August 2026, Eibar’s squad changed through a blend of direct transfers, free-agent arrivals, loans and players returning from temporary spells. The incoming side includes permanent moves for Imanol García de Albéniz, Iván Gil, Malcom Adu and Javi Martón, alongside loan arrivals such as Lucas Nuñez and earlier Leonardo Buta. Free-agent additions include Unai Elgezabal and Pejiño, while several loan returns were logged in June and July 2026. Departures show the same range of mechanisms: loans for I. Asenjo and Hodei Arrillaga, free-agent exits for Javi Martínez and Toni Villa, a transfer involving Marco Moreno, and Leonardo Buta’s return to Udinese. Because both lists are limited movement snapshots and include overlapping player histories, they describe activity without establishing a complete balance of arrivals and departures. No fees are stated for these moves.

Leagues Eibar has participated in

Eibar’s latest recorded competition participation runs through 2025. Segunda División appears for 2021 to 2025, while Copa del Rey is recorded from 2018 through 2025 and club friendlies from 2020 through 2025, marking the recent competition set in this snapshot. La Liga belongs to an earlier phase, recorded from 2014 to 2020, and is treated here as historical. The competition history therefore spans Spain’s top two professional league levels, the national cup and regular friendly fixtures, with the league and cup records forming the clearest competitive framework.

More about Eibar

Sociedad Deportiva Eibar, commonly known as Eibar or SD Eibar, is a football club from Eibar in Gipuzkoa, within Spain’s Basque Country. The club was founded in 1940 after the merger of local predecessors Deportivo Gallo and Unión Deportiva Eibarresa. That origin sits at the start of a long climb through regional and national football, a trajectory that eventually carried Eibar into Spain’s top division and made its rise one of the country’s most distinctive modern football stories.

The club plays at Estadio Municipal de Ipurua, a compact ground embedded in Eibar’s dense urban setting. Its stated capacity is 8,164, and the venue became especially well known during the club’s top-flight years for its close, intimate atmosphere. Ipurua reflects Eibar’s wider identity: modest in scale, highly local in character and strongly connected to the surrounding community. The traditional colors are claret and blue, while the club’s Gunsmiths nickname links football to the town’s historic metalworking and arms-manufacturing heritage.

Eibar’s institutional model is also unusual in Spanish professional football. It operates as a public limited sports corporation with fan ownership distributed among thousands of small shareholders, including supporters based internationally. That ownership culture grew from a share-support campaign designed to protect the club’s place within professional football and remains central to its public image.

On the field, Eibar has generally been associated with disciplined, industrious football and technical leadership that values resilience. Its wider football ecosystem combines a strong domestic and Basque regional presence with experienced professionals and academy development, rather than depending solely on expensive recruitment. The club’s recorded competitive footprint includes La Liga, Segunda División, the Copa del Rey and club friendlies, giving its history a clear national frame while preserving the community scale that defines Eibar.

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Celta de Vigo II vs Eibar
Segunda División 2026 - 1569918
Eibar vs Granada CF
Segunda División 2026 - 1569907
FC Andorra vs Eibar
Segunda División 2026 - 1569894
Eibar vs Valladolid
Segunda División 2026 - 1569887
Castellón vs Eibar
Segunda División 2025 - 1392221
Eibar vs Cordoba
Segunda División 2025 - 1392214
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