Girona Futbol Club, S.A.D. - more commonly known as Girona FC or simply Girona - is a Spanish professional football club based in Girona in Catalonia and currently playing in the country's top tier La Liga. Girona plays home games at Estadi Montilivi and fans tend to have strong Catalan nationalist beliefs.
Founded in July 1930 in the café Norat in La Rambla of Girona, the club was created to replace one of the 2 teams in the city, UD Girona. The team initially played in the Catalan Championships before entering the Segunda División in the mid-1930s. The club fluctuated between the second and third tiers of the Spanish league from the 50s to the 70s and was even demoted as far as the fourth tier. After several changes of ownership in the following decades, Girona reached new heights and got promoted to the top tier.
