Club Deportivo Castellón, S.A.D. is a professional Spanish football team based in

Castellón de la Plana Castellón de la Plana (officially in ca-valencia, Castelló de la Plana), or simply Castellón ( ca-valencia, Castelló, link=no) is the capital city of the province of Castellón, in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is located in the east ...

, in the

Valencian Community The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid wi ...

. Founded on 20 July 1922, it currently plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2, holding home games at '' Nou Estadi Castàlia'', which has a capacity of 15,500 seats.

History

Football first appeared in the town in 1911, and after a period of time under the consecutive denominations "Deportivo", "Castalia", "Gimnástico", "Cultural" and "Cervantes", Club Deportivo Castellón was founded on 22 July 1922. The club featured periodically in the

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, finishing fifth in 1972–73 and adding a

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final appearance with a team featuring Vicente del Bosque, who later moved to

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, serving the club as both a player and coach. On 29 August 1991, in an extraordinary assembly, the conversion of the club to S.A.D. was approved. The first team had just relegated into division two, and would drop another level to the third three years later, in a spell which would last more than one decade. In the 2004–05 season, Castellón finished fourth in ''Segunda B'', eventually winning its promotion playoffs (both matches) and achieving a return to the silver category. The club's stint in the division would last five years, as relegation would befall in 2009–10, with the

outfit ranking last, 13 points behind the following team. On 18 July 2011, due to the team not paying its players, Castellón was excluded from the third division, being relegated to the fourth. In June 2017, former player Pablo Hernández became joint owner of the club, leading a consortium alongside Angel Dealbert, businessman Vicente Montesinos and others. On 21 March 2018, Castellón beat the record of seasonal tickets in the fourth division previously held by

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with 12,700, establishing the new record at 12,867. On 24 June 2018, it returned to the third tier after a seven-year absence. On 26 July 2020, Castellón promoted back to second division after 10 years by beating Cornellà in final play off promotion, but they were immediately relegated in the 2020–21 season.

Season to season

---- *11 seasons in

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*41 seasons in

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commercially known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administrated by the L ...

*2 seasons in Primera División RFEF *14 seasons in

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*21 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 ...

Current squad

Reserve team

Out on loan

Honours

: 1940–41, 1980–81, 1988–89 *

: 2002–03 *

: 1929–30, 1952–53, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1968–69 (third level until 1976–77) *Campeonato de Valencia: 1928–29, 1929–30 *

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(second division): 1983–84 *

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: Runner-up 1972–73

Notable players

* Leonardo Ulloa *

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* Dani Pendín * Gustavo Reggi * Ihar Hurynovich * Bernard Barnjak * Mauricio Romero *

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Sergio Barila Sergio Javier Barila Martínez (born 15 March 1973) is a former professional footballer who played as a left back. He amassed Segunda División B totals of 157 matches and 17 goals, during seven seasons. Born in Spain, Barila represented Equa ...

* Juan Epitié *

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* José Luis Rondo * Henri Dumat * Kenji Fukuda *

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Igor Dobrovolski Igor Ivanovich Dobrovolski (russian: Игорь Иванович Добровольский, ua, Ігор Іванович Добровольський, ''Ihor Ivanovych Dobrovolskyi''; born 27 August 1967) is a football manager and a former ...

* Dragan Punišić * Rade Tošić * Pichi Alonso * José Araquistáin * Pascual Babiloni * Luis Cela * Ángel Dealbert * Božur Matejić * Vicente del Bosque * José Ferrer *

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* Miguel Ángel * Juan Planelles *

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* Antonio Ruiz * Enrique Saura * Rubén Torrecilla * Pablo Hernández * Walter Peletti *

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References

External links

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Futbolme team profile

''Pam Pam Orellut'', unofficial website
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