Palencia Club de Fútbol was a Spanish football club based in

Palencia Palencia () is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Palencia. Located in the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, in the northern half o ...

, in the autonomous community of

Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...

. Founded in 1960, it held home games at ''

Estadio La Balastera A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...

'', with a 13,468-seat capacity.

History

Safe for five seasons in the regional leagues, Palencia spent the first 17 years of its existence 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 ...

. From 1977 to 1979, the club achieved two consecutive promotions, thus reaching

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 Lig ...

(second division), where it competed for four of the following five seasons, finishing a best-ever fifth in 1982–83, just three points off the promotion zone. ''Palencia Club de Fútbol'' disappeared in 1986 due to serious economic debts, with the club now 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 ...

. Another team was founded in the city following its demise,

CF Palencia Club de Fútbol Palencia was a Spanish football team based in Palencia, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded in 1975 and dissolved in 2012, it held home games at ''Estadio La Nueva Balastera'', with an 8,100-seat capacity. H ...

, which came to compete several seasons in that same category.

Season to season

---- *4 seasons in

*5 seasons in

*12 seasons in

Selected former players

* Carlos Echarri * Óscar Ferrero * Joaquín López *

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* Paco Bonet * Antonio Teixidó *

Benigno Chaparro Benigno Chaparro Vera (born 3 April 1958) is a Paraguayan retired professional association football, footballer who played for a number of clubs in Spain, including UD Salamanca, Palencia CF (I), Palencia CF, Racing de Santander, Deportivo Alav ...

Selected former managers

* Luis Costa *

Francisco Gento Francisco "Paco" Gento López (21 October 1933 – 18 January 2022) was a Spanish footballer who played as an outside left. He was voted by IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics) as the greatest Spanish footballer ...

* Miguel Ángel Montes

References

Defunct football clubs in Castile and León Sport in Palencia Association football clubs established in 1960 Association football clubs disestablished in 1986 1960 establishments in Spain 1986 disestablishments in Spain Palencia CF Segunda División clubs {{Spain-footyclub-stub