Club Deportivo Covadonga is a Spanish football team based in

Oviedo Oviedo (; ast, Uviéu ) is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain and the administrative and commercial centre of the region. It is also the name of the municipality that contains the city. Oviedo is located ap ...

, in the autonomous community of

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. Founded in 1979 it plays in Tercera División RFEF – Group 2, holding home games at ''Estadio Juan Antonio Álvarez Rabanal'', with a 2,000-seat capacity.

History

CD Covadonga was founded in 1979 by José Antonio Álvarez Rabanal, priest of the parish of Our Lady of Covadonga, Oviedo, with the aim to give a way to development as people to the local youth. It started to play its games in the Asturian Regional divisions in the field of the ''Fundación Masaveu'' while the club was negotiating with the Oviedo City Hall for the transfer of a piece of ground in Los Castañales, neighbourhood of Teatinos, for building a new football field. In 1998 the team promoted for the first time to

Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segunda División'', and the semi-professional ''Segunda Di ...

. Fifteen years later, in 2013, the club finished the league in third position and qualifies for the

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, but it was eliminated in the first round by

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. Covadonga repeated participation in the playoffs in 2019, but was clearly defeated again in the first round, this time by

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. However, the club achieved promotion in their third attempt, after defeating Llanera and

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in the playoffs.

Season to season

---- *1 season in

Segunda División B Segunda División B ( en, Second Division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish Foot ...

*16 seasons in

*1 season in Tercera División RFEF

Current squad

Famous players

* Iván Ania *

Santi Cazorla Santiago "Santi" Cazorla González (; born 13 December 1984) is a Spanish professional footballer. A former Spanish international, Cazorla operated primarily as an attacking midfielder, but also played as a winger, central midfielder or as a ...

(youth)

Women's team

On 26 November 2017, CD Covadonga announced the creation of a new women's team that would start competing in the 2018–19 season. It previously existed until it was disbanded in 1997.

Season by season

References

External links

Official website

Futbolme team profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Covadonga Sport in Oviedo Football clubs in Asturias Association football clubs established in 1979 1979 establishments in Spain