Levante Unión Deportiva Femenino is the
women's football Women's football most often refers to:
* Women's association football (hannah jones ).
Women's football may also refer to:
* Women's gridiron football
* Women's Australian rules football
* Ladies' Gaelic football
* Women's rugby league
* Women's ...
team of
Valencian football club
Levante UD
Levante Unión Deportiva, S.A.D. (, ca-valencia, Llevant Unió Esportiva ) is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club in Valencia, in the Valencian Community, namesake autonomous community.
Founded on 9 September 1909, Levante ...
, based at
Ciudad Deportiva in
Buñol
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and playing in the
Liga F.
History
Founded in 1993 as San Vicente CFF, the team was absorbed by Levante in 1998 after it won the
national championship in its debut season in the top category. It subsequently attained three more leagues and six
Cups between 1997 and 2008 including two doubles (2001, 2002) making it the most successful Spanish team, tied with
Athletic Bilbao
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in leagues and
RCD Espanyol in cups as of 2012. It was eliminated in its three appearances at the
UEFA Women's Cup at the group stage, one round short from the quarter-finals.
Levante always ranked among the championship's top three between 2000 and 2009, but it subsequently experienced a slump ending the 2010 and 2011 seasons in mid-table. The team improved in 2012 with a 5th position, but this result marked its first absence since 1999 in the shortened Copa de la Reina. The club remained consistent for the next decade, only finishing lower than 5th once and securing 3rd place in three consecutive seasons (without challenging for the title itself) between
2018–19 and
2020–21
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, though there was no great impact in the cup in this period.
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
officially joined the league in 2020, immediately 'raiding' Levante for
Marta Corredera
Marta Corredera Rueda (born 8 August 1991) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger or right wing-back for Primera División club Real Madrid CF and the Spain women's national team.
Rueda formerly represented FC Barcelona ...
and
Ivana Andrés and enticing away
Rocío Gálvez
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Honours
Club
; Atlético de Madrid
* Primera División: Winner ...
,
Esther González and
Claudia Zornoza a year later.
Players
Current squad
Source
LaLiga
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Former internationals
Season to season
*As ''San Vicente CFF''
*As ''Levante UD''
UEFA competition record
Titles
*
Spanish League (4)
** 1997, 2001, 2002, 2008
*
Spanish Cup (6)
** 2000,
Levante Femenino - 2000) Final Copa de la reina (amplio Resumen)
/ref> 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007
* Spanish Supercup
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
(2)
** 1997, 2000
Invitational trophies
* COTIF (3)
** 2011, 2012, 2013
* Pyrénées Cup (1)
** 2012
* Sport Mundi Tournament
The Sport Mundi Tournament is a Spanish pre-season women's football invitational charitable tournament held every August in Irun and Hondarribia since 2005.
It is contested by four teams each year, usually including regional powerhouses Athletic ...
(2)
** 2009, 2010
References
Notes
Citations
External links
Official webpage
soccerway.com
{{Primera División (women) teamlist
Women's football clubs in Spain
Levante UD
Association football clubs established in 1998
1998 establishments in Spain
Primera División (women) clubs
Football clubs in Valencia