UE Sant Julià

Sant Julià

Full name	Unió Esportiva Sant Julià
Nickname(s)	Lauredians Santju/Sanju
Founded	1982; 42 years ago (1982)
Ground	Andorra Football Federation stadiums
Chairman	Albert Carnicé
Head coach	Pablo Huerga
League	Segona Divisió
2023–24	Primera Divisió, 8th
Home colours Away colours

Unió Esportiva Sant Julià, also known as UE Sant Julià, is an Andorran professional football club based in the parish of Sant Julià de Lòria. The club currently competes in the Primera Divisió.

Founded in 1982 UE Sant Julià is the main football club of the Andorran Southern parish of Sant Julià de Lòria. The team have been playing in the top flight since the foundation of the Andorran Premier League in 1995. Since then UE Sant Julià have won the Andorran championship twice (2004–05 and 2008–09) and are five time Copa Constitució winners (2008, 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2015).

The club has also appeared in European competitions several times. In the 2000–01 season they were eliminated in the first round of Intertoto Cup by the Swiss team, Lausanne-Sport (aggregate 1–9). They also participated in the Intertoto Cup in 2002–03 and drew 2–2 at home against Coleraine from Northern Ireland, but away from home lost 5–0 to be eliminated from the competition. They suffered an 8–0 defeat at home in the 2004–05 season of the Intertoto Cup against the Serbian team, FK Smederevo and also fell 3–0 in Serbia. In the first qualifying round for the UEFA Cup 2005–06 they lost to Romanian team, Rapid București (aggregate 0–10).

In the first round of the 2006–07 Intertoto Cup they lost to Maribor from Slovenia (aggregate 0–8). In the first round of the 2007–08 Intertoto Cup they lost to the Bosnian squad Slavija Sarajevo 3–2^[1] in Andorra and 3–2^[2] again in Bosnia-Herzegovina (aggregate 4–6). Sant Julià faced Cherno More of Bulgaria in the first qualifying round of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup. They lost 0–9 on aggregate.

For the 2009–10 season, Sant Julia once again drew a Bulgarian opponent, this time for UEFA Champions League qualification in the second round – Levski Sofia. Before meeting the champions of Bulgaria, Sant Julia eliminated Tre Fiori of San Marino after two 1–1 results, and a penalty shootout. This was the first European tie won by an Andorran football club in history.

Their dreams came to an end after a 4–0 defeat away at Sofia. The team still played well and managed to keep their goal clean for 49 minutes against the Bulgarian champion. Only 9 players from Aixovall exited the pitch after two Sant Julia players received red cards. They lost 0–5 in the return leg at home.

UE Sant Julià participated in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round against MYPA and in 2011–12 against Bnei Yehuda, losing on aggregate 0–8 against the Finnish squad and 0–4 against the Israeli squad.

For the 2014–15 season UE Sant Julià returned to the European competitions playing the first round of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League against the Serbian Čukarički team losing on aggregate 0–4. UE Sant Julià qualified for the 2015–16 European competitions the following season playing the first round of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League against the Danish Randers FC team losing on aggregate 0–4.

UE Sant Julià qualified for European competitions in the 2017–18 and 2018–19 season, playing the first round of UEFA Europa League against KF Skënderbeu Korçë from Albania losing on aggregate 0–6, and the following season against Gżira United from Malta losing on aggregate 1–4.

Traditionally orange have been the home colours of UE Sant Julià and the main colour of the team, always referred to as l'equip taronja (the orange team) or el club taronja (the orange club),^[3] and supporters. Although some seasons the club have worn black and red/orange or all green kits in home matches.

The club crest is a variation of the coat of arms of Sant Julià de Lòria.

Traditional first kit.

First kit variation (until late 2000s).

Change kit black variation (until late 2000s).

Change kit black variation (2009–14).

Traditional all green kit.

* Since the Andorra Football Federation affiliation.

The main rival of UE Sant Julià in Primera Divisió has been always FC Santa Coloma playing in a derby called El Clàssic. Both teams are strong in the Andorran Premier League and since the creation of the championship the clubs have been competing for being the champion of the top flight.^[4][5][6]

Primera Divisió

• Winners (2): 2004–05, 2008–09
• Runners-up (7): 2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2016–17, 2018–19

Copa Constitució

• Winners (6): 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2021
• Runners-up (8): 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2018

Supercopa Andorrana

• Winners (6): 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2018
• Runners-up (4): 2003, 2005, 2008, 2015

As of 31 July 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ESP Tito 4 DF  GUI Sékouba Kaba 6 MF  FRA Jonathan Tassin 8 MF  ESP Alvaro Correia 9 FW  HUN Zsolt Szilvási 10 MF  FRA Noah Morillon 11 MF  FRA Celyan Djattit 14 FW  ESP Ginés Hernández

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF  FRA Morgan Lafont 17 MF  KOR Seung-cheol Jang 20 DF  ESP César Rodríguez 25 GK  FRA Billal Djattit 27 MF  HUN Mari Zoltán 28 MF  MEX Alejandro Huerta 29 FW  FRA Adoum Oueddo 30 DF  FRA Mike Nosso — MF  ESP Pedro Santos

As of match played 15 July 2021.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Lausanne-Sport	1–3	0–6	1–9
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Coleraine	2–2	0–5	2–7
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	FK Smederevo	0–8	0–3	0–11
2005–06	UEFA Cup	1Q	Rapid București	0–5	0–5	0–10
2006	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Maribor	0–3	0–5	0–8
2007	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Slavija Sarajevo	2–3	2–3	4–6
2008–09	UEFA Cup	1Q	Cherno More	0–5	0–4	0–9
2009–10	UEFA Champions League	1Q	Tre Fiori	1–1	1–1	2–2 (5–4 p)
		2Q	Levski Sofia	0–5	0–4	0–9
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	2Q	MYPA	0–3	0–5	0–8
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Bnei Yehuda	0–2	0–2	0–4
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Čukarički	0–0	0–4	0–4
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Randers FC	0–1	0–3	0–4
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Skënderbeu	0–5	0–1	0–6
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	PR	Gżira United	0−2	1−2	1–4
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	PR	Europa	3−2	0−4	3–6
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	1Q	Gżira United	0–0	1–1 (a.e.t.)	1–1 (3–5 p)

Notes

• PR: Preliminary round
• 1R: First round
• 1Q: First qualifying round
• 2Q: Second qualifying round

• Official website (Momentarily dead link)
• Sant Julià at UEFA.COM
• Sant Julià at Weltfussball.de
• Sant Julià at Football-Lineups.com