Club Deportivo Vitoria is a

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team based in

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, in the autonomous community of

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. Founded in 1945, its senior side is currently the farm team of

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and plays in Tercera Federación – Group 4, with its ground for home fixtures being the

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in Eibar,

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. The club also has a B-team – competing at the provincial sixth tier level – and a full youth system within its football section, as well as a

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section.

History

CD Vitoria was founded in 1945 and played in regional categories, promoting several times to third level. Historically, CD Vitoria had their own grounds (''Campo Municipal Vitoriana'') but for some years had played their home matches at the

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. In 2011, they gained promotion from the fifth tier with an unbeaten record. In 2015, the club signed a collaboration agreement with

and started to act as its farm team, initially playing home matches at Arrate stadium, in

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. Eibar had previously disbanded their own

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in 2012 to cut costs while their senior team languished in

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, but they were promoted up to

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in successive seasons and decided to seek a new formal arrangement for a subsidiary club. A few months after the agreement, Eibar acquired a local team to act as a further link between the youth level and Vitoria, to be known as Eibar Urko. One year later, the club was promoted to

for the first time, and moved back to

to play at

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. This decision was controversial as both

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and Aurrerá Vitoria (owner of the stadium until 1999) protested against it, claiming that the statutes of the ground only allowed its use by teams from the province of

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– Vitoria met this requirement, but parent club Eibar (from

) did not. After securing their status in the division for a second season, in August 2018 Vitoria announced they would play their Segunda División B games at

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in the municipality of Laudio/Llodio, while maintaining their base football structure in Vitoria-Gasteiz. They were relegated in 2018–19, which also blocked Eibar Urko's promotion from the provincial level due to rules preventing teams owned by the same club competing in the same division. After Vitoria dropped down to the Tercera, home matches were moved to Eibar, playing at the town's

. The COVID-19 pandemic in Spain led to the following season being halted early, but eventually the

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took place: Vitoria were involved but failed to be promoted, again also blocking Urko's promotion. A similar situation occurred at the end of

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Season to season

* ''As a separate club'' *''As a farm team'' ---- *2 seasons in ''

'' *12 seasons in ''

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'' *2 seasons in ''

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Current squad

From youth squad

References

External links

Official website

Estadios de España

Futbolme team profile
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