Club Deportivo La Unión was a Spanish football team based in

La Unión, Murcia La Unión is situated in the Region of Murcia in the southeast of Spain. It has an area of 24.6 km², and had a population of 19,907 on 1 January 2018. It has an elevation of 86 m. Its average annual temperature is 17 °C. It has balmy w ...

. Founded in 2001 and dissolved in 2011, it played its last season in Tercera División – Group 13, holding home games at '' Polideportivo Municipal de La Unión'', with a capacity for 2,000 spectators.

History

In 2004, three years after being founded, La Unión first reached

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 ...

, finishing twice in the top four over the course of seven seasons, but consecutively falling short in the promotion playoffs. In July 2009, it became FC Cartagena's

reserve team In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players under contract to a club but who do not normally play in matches for the first team. Reserve teams often include back-up players from the first team, young players who need playing time to i ...

. Before the 2011–12 season started, the relationship between Cartagena and La Unión came to an end.Paco Gómez desvincula a todos los equipos de bases del Cartagena en La Unión (Paco Gómez rescinds link to all Cartagena youth teams in La Unión)
; Sport Cartagena, 20 June 2011

Club background

*''Club Deportivo La Unión — (2001–09)'' *''Fútbol Club Cartagena-La Unión — (2009–11)'' *''Club Deportivo La Unión — (2011)''

Season to season

---- *7 seasons in

References

External links

Former official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:La Union Association football clubs established in 2001 Association football clubs disestablished in 2011 Defunct football clubs in the Region of Murcia 2001 establishments in Spain 2011 disestablishments in Spain