Club Deportivo Palencia Balompié was a Spanish football team based in Palencia, in the autonomous community of

Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...

. Founded in 2011, it played 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 ...

, holding home games at '' La Balastera'', with a capacity of 8,070 seats.

History

CD Palencia Balompié was founded in 2011 by a group of supporters who disagreed about the conversion of

CF Palencia Club de Fútbol Palencia was a Spanish football team based in Palencia, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded in 1975 and dissolved in 2012, it held home games at ''Estadio La Nueva Balastera'', with an 8,100-seat capacity. H ...

into a

Sociedad Anónima Deportiva Sociedad anónima deportiva ("Public limited sports company") is a special type of public limited company in Spain. The new legal status was introduced in 1990http://www.csd.gob.es/csd/asociaciones/6SAD/ (Spanish) to improve financial management ...

. It took the name of ''Club Deportivo Palencia'' from the first club of the city, which was founded in 1929. On 21 June 2014, Palencia promoted to Tercera División thanks to the promotion of Atlético Astorga and Valladolid B to

. In its first season in Tercera División, Palencia finished in the third position, qualifying for the promotion play-offs to Segunda División B. Just in the next season, the club achieved the promotion to the third tier by beating Loja,

SD Logroñés Sociedad Deportiva Logroñés is a Spanish football team based in Logroño, in the autonomous community of La Rioja. Founded in 2009, it plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2. Team colours are white-and-red shirts and black shorts. Hist ...

and Deportivo Aragón in the promotion play-offs. The season in Segunda División B Group 1 was very controversial as the board of directors tried to transform the club into a

, despite the opposition of the supporters of the club and despite being forbidden in the club's bylaws. However, a judicial statement stopped any try of conversion. The team also garnered some attention at the unveiling of their season kits, which had an unorthodox design displaying the human muscular system. Finally, Palencia could not remain in Segunda División after finishing in the 18th position, and was demoted to Regional Aficionados due to unpaid debts to their players. On 9 September 2017, the club did not play its first league game due to not having enough members in the team. After ending normally the season, Palencia would not register in any competition for the 2018–19 season.

Season to season

---- *1 season in

*3 seasons in Tercera División

Detailed list of seasons

Current squad

References

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