UD Collerense is the
women's football section of
UD Collerense. The club is located in
Palma de Mallorca
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History
The team was created in 1999. Starting in the third tier, in 2002 it reached the
second category
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where it played for the seven next seasons, usually ranking in its group's top positions.
In the 2008-09 season Collerense won all 26 matches, qualifying for the first time for the promotion play-offs six weeks before the end of the regular season. In the play-offs the team defeated
Oiartzun KE
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History
Oiartzun was one of the leading teams in the first years of organized women's f ...
(4–1) and
UD Tacuense (1–0) to become the first
Balearic team to play in the
league's top level.
In its first two seasons in the Superliga, which coincided with a reform in the competition's system, Collerense was respectively 5th and 6th in the first stage's group B and 2nd in the second's stage group C, qualifying both times for the
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, where it was knocked out in the first round by
FC Barcelona
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Founded ...
(2–1, 0–2) and
Atlético Madrid
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(0–1, 1–3) respectively. Following the league's reunification the team was 14th in the 2011–12 season, with a 4 points advantage over relegation positions.
The reserve team currently plays in the third tier after being relegated in 2011.
Titles
* Promotion to the
Superliga Femenina
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: 2008-09
* Primera Nacional (T2)
** ''Winners'' 2008-09: 1
** ''Runners-up'' 2003-04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007-08: 4
* Regional (T3)
** ''Winners'' 2001–02: 1
Season to season
Current squad
References
External links
Collerense squad (FFIB)Ten things you did not know about UD Collerense La Liga (in Spanish)
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Women's football clubs in Spain
Association football clubs established in 1999
1999 establishments in Spain
Sport in Palma de Mallorca
Football clubs in the Balearic Islands
Segunda Federación (women) clubs
Primera División (women) clubs