Miguel Ángel Sola Elizalde (born 29 September 1957) is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.

He amassed La Liga totals of 316 matches and 42 goals over 12 seasons, in representation of Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna.

In 1997, Sola started working as a coach.

Born in Pamplona, Navarre, Sola joined Athletic Bilbao's youth system in 1975, spending his first seasons as a senior with Bilbao Athletic and on loan, the latter including a five-month spell with Basque neighbours Deportivo Alavés.^[1] In 1980, he returned as a full member of the main squad, going on to be an important unit during five years and totalling 57 La Liga games (nine goals) as the team won back-to-back national championships.^[2]

After leaving Athletic with official totals of 177 matches and 24 goals, Sola moved to his hometown with CA Osasuna, appearing and scoring regularly for them in six of his seven seasons. In 1990–91, already aged 33, he made 25 appearances as the club finished in a best-ever fourth position, with the subsequent qualification for the UEFA Cup. He retired from the game at the end of the following campaign.^[3][4]

In 1997, with Osasuna in the Segunda División, Sola managed the team for eight matches, collecting five losses and only one win as they barely avoided relegation.^[5] In the following years, always in the lower leagues, he coached Peña Sport FC, Real Unión, SD Huesca and CD Mirandés.^[6]

On 24 March 2010, Sola returned to his native region and signed with CD Izarra, aiming to help the club avoid relegation from Segunda División B,^[7] which eventually did not happen. The next season, in the same tier, he was again in charge of Real Unión after replacing the fired Álvaro Cervera.^[8]

Sola was appointed at CD Calahorra of the Tercera División in June 2017.^[9] He won promotion at the end of his first season as champions,^[10] but was dismissed on 17 February 2020 due to poor results.^[11]

As of 16 February 2020

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Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	Nat	From	To	Record								Ref
				G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Osasuna		3 March 1997	5 May 1997	8	1	2	5	5	13	−8	012.50	[12]
Peña Sport		26 January 2001	30 June 2001	16	4	7	5	20	21	−1	025.00	[13]
Real Unión		1 July 2002	30 June 2004	91	42	20	29	127	93	+34	046.15	[14]
Huesca		1 July 2005	30 June 2006	40	10	14	16	31	44	−13	025.00	[15]
Mirandés		1 July 2006	30 June 2008	85	57	24	4	157	55	+102	067.06
Izarra		24 March 2010	2 January 2011	27	12	6	9	39	29	+10	044.44	[16]
Real Unión		2 January 2011	15 June 2011	21	11	4	6	30	22	+8	052.38	[17]
Corellano		19 September 2013	1 December 2014	49	13	9	27	50	75	−25	026.53	[18]
Calahorra		28 June 2017	17 February 2020	111	57	30	24	213	102	+111	051.35	[19]
Total				448	207	116	125	672	454	+218	046.21	—

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