Real Titánico de Laviana is a Spanish football team based in

Laviana Laviana ( Asturian: ''Llaviana'') is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, located in Spain. It is bordered on the north by Bimenes and Nava, on the south by Aller, on the east by Piloña and Sobrescobio, ...

, in the autonomous community of

Asturias Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in nor ...

. Founded in 1912 and refounded in 1964, the team plays in Tercera División RFEF – Group 2. The club's home ground is '' Estadio Les Tolves'', which has a capacity of 2,000 spectators.

History

The club was created in 1912 as Titanic de Laviana. King

Alfonso XIII Alfonso XIII (17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also known as El Africano or the African, was King of Spain from 17 May 1886 to 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. He was a monarch from birth as his father, Alfo ...

accepted the Royal patronage of the club for the Spanish crown in 1922, introducing the term "Real" (

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for "Royal") to its name, becoming Real Titanic de Laviana. After the

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, and due to a temporary law forbidding the use of foreign words in football club names, the team's official denomination changed to Real Titánico. The club was dissolved in 1960 but it was refounded in 1964 with the name of Laviana CF. In the 70's the team recovered the name of Real Titánico. The best seasons of Titánico happened during the 1990s and the start of the 2000s, when the club played four times the promotion play-offs to

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 ...

and won one time the Asturian group of Tercera División. In 2006 the club started its decline with two consecutive relegations. On 31 April 2017, after ten seasons in Primera Regional, sixth tier, Titánico came back to Regional Preferente. Three years later, Titánico promoted to Tercera División. This promotion was achieved as the club was leader of the Regional Preferente, with an advantage of 16 points over the second qualified team with ten rounds to be played, before the suspension of the league due to the

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Season to season

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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 ...

'' *1 season in '' Tercera División RFEF''

Notable managers

Josu Uribe Jesús Uribesalgo Gutiérrez (born 25 May 1969), commonly known as Josu Uribe, is a Spanish Association football, football Manager (association football), manager. Club career Born in Gijón, Asturias, Uribe began coaching at the age of 21, manag ...

References

External links

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