During several years, football club
RCD Espanyol had sections of different sports, being specially notable the sections of
rink hockey, 11 times winner of the
Copa del Rey,
basketball, one-time winner of the
Copa del Rey and played ten times in the top-tier, and
women's volleyball, three times
league champions and five times
cup champions. Sections were being disbanded during years and finally Espanyol dedicated only to football. In March 2017, the Association of Supporters and Shareholders of RCD Espanyol boosted a project for recovering the sporting sections of the club, but this time without any economic link with the football team. The new multisports club was created with the name of
Seccions Deportives Espanyol (
Sporting sections Espanyol). Two months later, the Association confirmed that Espanyol would start competing with a
rink hockey team in the 2017–18 fifth tier. The club also would launch a
women's volleyball team. For its second season, after the promotion of the rink hockey club to the fourth tier, the club would expand its sections to
handball and
basketball. ==Basketball==