Club de Fútbol La Nucía is a Spanish football team based in

La Nucía La Nucia (; es, La Nucía) is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Marina Baixa, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. It borders the municipalities of Altea, Callosa d'En Sarrià, Benidorm, Polop and L'Alfàs del Pi. La Nucia is located in ...

, in the autonomous community of

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is ...

. Founded in 1995, it plays in

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- Group 3, holding home games at '' Estadio Camilo Cano'', which has a capacity of 3,000 spectators. Team colours are red shirt, black shorts and socks.

History

''Club de Fútbol La Nucía'' rose from the ashes of several teams that were successively created in the city, receiving this denomination in 1995. In 1998–99, the club promoted to the first regional division for the first time, returning again to that level five years later. The 2006–07 season was full of unexpected events. After qualifying to the promotion playoffs for

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 ...

, La Nucía was eliminated by

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(1–1 draw in the first leg and 0–1 loss in the second). During the summer, however, ''Club de Fútbol Dolores'' forfeited its berth in the competition, with La Nucía occupying its place, with a first-ever promotion to the national categories. In its first season in the fourth division, La Nucía finished in third position in the

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, thus qualifying for the promotion playoffs, being eliminated by UD Las Palmas Atlético (1–1 at home, 1–2 away loss). The team met the same fate in the following campaign, being ousted by

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in the third round (0–2 on aggregate). On 30 June 2019, La Nucía achieved their first promotion ever to the third division after beating Linares in the last round of the

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, with a latest goal in the 93rd minute. It was scored by San Julián, who gave the historic promotion to the club in the last game of his entire career.

Season to season

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Primera Federación The Primera Federación, formerly known as Primera División RFEF, is the third tier of the Spanish football league system beginning with the 2021–22 season. It is administered by the Royal Spanish Football Federation. It is below the top t ...

*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 ...

*2 seasons in

*10 seasons in

Players

Current squad

Reserve team

Out of loan

Former Managers

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(1986–87) * Pepe Soler (2009–11) * Miguel Ángel Martínez (2018–19) * César Ferrando (2018) (2019-23)

References

External links

Official website

Futbolme team profile

Club & stadium history
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