Castillo Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in

San Bartolomé de Tirajana San Bartolomé de Tirajana is a village and a Spanish municipality in the south-eastern part of the island of Gran Canaria in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands. With an area of , San Bartolomé de Tirajana is the largest municipa ...

Gran Canaria Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that ...

, in the autonomous community of

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

. Founded in 1950, it plays in Primera de Aficionados, holding home games at ''Estadio Municipal de Castillo del Romeral'', with a capacity of 1,000.

History

In 1999, after playing nearly 50 years in the regional leagues, Castillo reached the fourth division. There, it achieved four consecutive top-five finishes, qualifying three times for the playoffs, albeit without promotion, before finally making it to the

third level Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including univers ...

in 2004, remaining in the category for two seasons. In July 2010, Castillo was forced to drop down to ''Preferente'', due to serious financial problems.La junta directiva del Castillo CF presenta su dimisión (Castillo CF's board of directors resigns)
Canarias Deportiva

Season to season

---- *2 seasons 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 ...

*9 seasons in

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 ...

Notable players

Pablo Paz Pablo Ariel Paz Gallo (born 27 January 1973) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a central defender. In a career that spanned 15 years he played more in Spain than in his homeland, notably with Tenerife for which he appeared in 12 ...

* Víctor Afonso * Axier Intxaurraga *

Andoni Lakabeg Andoni Lakabeg Fraile (born 14 February 1969) is a Spanish retired association football, footballer who played as a right back. Football career Born in Bilbao, Biscay, Lakabeg was only 19 when he was promoted to Athletic Bilbao's first team, as ...

* Santi Lampón * Javi Ortega *

Antonio Robaina Antonio Segura "Toni" Robaina (born 30 November 1974) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Robaina was born in Las Palmas. After starting out with local UD Las Palmas, playing mainly in Segunda División B, the ...

* Francis Suárez *

Sergio Suárez Sergio Gustavo Suárez Arteaga (born 6 January 1987) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Club career Born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Suárez came through local UD Las Palmas' youth system, making his senior deb ...

* Daniel Visconti *

Luis Miguel Reyes Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...

References

External links

Official website
Football clubs in the Canary Islands Association football clubs established in 1950 Sport in Gran Canaria Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol clubs 1950 establishments in Spain {{Spain-footyclub-stub