Unión Deportiva Granadilla Tenerife, commonly shortened as UDG Tenerife, is a Spanish

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football club based in

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, in the

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. The club plays in

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, holding home games at ''Estadio Francisco Suárez'', with a 2,000-seat capacity.

History

The club was founded in 2013 as UD Granadilla Tenerife Sur and started playing its first season in the

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. It won its group but was finally eliminated in the promotion playoffs by

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. In its second attempt, the club finished as runner-up of the Canarian group, but qualified for the

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as the best second-placed team. Granadilla achieved the promotion to the top tier after eliminating Levante Las Planas and

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. In its debut in Primera División, Granadilla performed a great season by finishing in the seventh position of the league table and, subsequently, qualifying for the

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, where it was eliminated in the quarterfinals by

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. In November 2016, the club created a

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section that made its debut in the 2016–17 Canarian regional league with the name of UD Hotel Médano, for sponsorship reasons. The football team repeated qualification to the

and reached the semifinals. In the 2017–18 season, UDG Tenerife made their best performance ever and finished the league in the fourth position and repeated presence in the semifinals of the

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Season by season

Players

Current squad

Reserve team

References

External links

Official website

"La UD Granadilla Tenerife-Sur: de la nada a la élite nacional en tan solo seis años"
Miguel Ángel García Rodríguez. September 2019 (in Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:UD Granadilla Tenerife Sur Association football clubs established in 2011 2011 establishments in Spain Women's football clubs in Spain Football clubs in the Canary Islands Sport in Tenerife Primera División (women) clubs