Real Valladolid Femenino, founded in 2009, was a team that represented

Real Valladolid Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., or simply Real Valladolid () or Valladolid, is a professional football club based in Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain that competes in La Liga, the top tier of the Spanish league system. The club colo ...

in the

Superliga Femenina The Primera División de la Liga de Fútbol Femenino, currently known as Liga F (finetwork Liga F for sponsorship reasons), is the highest level of sports league, league competition for women's football in Spain. It is the women's equivalent of t ...

for two years.

History

In June 2009, Real Valladolid received an invitation from the

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to create a team to compete in the Superliga Femenina. Real Valladolid accepted the invitation and started searching for players for women's football team around

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. Valladolid ended the first stage of the competition last with just 2 points. The team improved slightly in the second stage, and attained its first win in an official match in January 2010 with a 2–0 win over Gimnàstic. They ended the competition with 12 points from 3 wins and 3 ties in 26 games. The lack of relegations that season meant they would continue in the top division one more year. Soon before the 2010–11 season

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announced the return to the traditional competition system for the 2011–12 season and the relegation of the 7 lower-ranking teams. Valladolid didn't improve in its second season, ending the year with even lower numbers - 7 points from 1 win and 4 ties in 26 games, and was thus relegated. The club then decided to disband the team. The section's dissolution was announced on July 11.
Real Valladolid Many of the team's players moved to nearby team Rayo Simancas, which had just earned promotion to the second category.

Notable former players

Chen Hsiao-chuan Chen Hsiao-chuan (; born May 18, 1985, in Hualien, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese Taiwanese may refer to: * Taiwanese language, another name for Taiwanese Hokkien * Something from or related to Taiwan ( Formosa) * Taiwanese aborigines, the indigenous p ...

Lin Man-ting Lin Man-ting (; born 10 July 1990 in Hualien City, Taiwan), or Claire, is a Taiwanese female footballer and futsal player with Amis descent. She last played for ASPTT Albi. She was the first ever Taiwanese women player to play for a European cl ...

Tan Wen-lin Tan Wen-lin (; born 26 August 1989), or Tan, is a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese female football player. In April 2010, she passed Real Valladolid Femenino's tryout and signed with the Spanish club with compatriot Chen Hsiao-chuan. She also had a ...

References

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