Unión Deportiva Las Palmas, S.A.D. is a
Spanish football team based in
Las Palmas
Las Palmas (, ; ), officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spain, Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, on the Atlantic Ocean.
It is the capital (jointly with Santa Cruz de Tenerife), the most populous city in th ...
, on the island of
Gran Canaria
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in the
autonomous community
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of
Canary Islands
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. Founded on 22 August 1949, it plays in
Segunda División
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, holding home games at the
Estadio Gran Canaria
Estadio Gran Canaria is a football stadium in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. It is currently used for football matches and is home to UD Las Palmas. It was opened in 2003 as a multi-purpose stadium to become the successor of the old Estadio In ...
, with a capacity of 32,400 seats. The club traditionally play in yellow shirts with blue shorts and socks.
The club remains the only one in Spanish football to achieve back-to-back promotions to La Liga in its first two seasons. It had a 19-year run in the competition, ending in
1982–83. They have been promoted to La Liga on three additional occasions since that time (a total of eight additional seasons), most recently from
2015
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to
2018
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.
Its main rivals are
Tenerife
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from said
neighbouring island. Las Palmas and Tenerife contest the
Canary Islands derby. The two clubs are among the most isolated professional football clubs in Europe, since they play their away games on the distant Spanish mainland.
History
Foundation and early years
![Marino F](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Marino_F.C._-_Escudo.jpg)
Even though the club registered with the
Royal Spanish Football Federation
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on 6 June 1949, UD Las Palmas was officially founded on 22 August of that year, as the result of a
merger
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between all five clubs on the island: ''Club Deportivo Gran Canaria'', ''Atlético Club de Fútbol'', ''Real Club Victoria'', ''Arenas Club'' and ''Marino Fútbol Club''. The union was to create a club strong enough to keep Canarian players on the island and not to seek a better career on the mainland.
Debate was held on the name of the club, which it was agreed would not include the names of any of its predecessors. An early option, ''Deportivo Canarias'', was scrapped due to referring to the Canary Islands on a whole rather than the island of Gran Canaria. The name ''Las Palmas'' by itself was also put forward, and then rejected due to the name having already been taken by a defunct club in the city; ''Unión Deportiva Las Palmas'' was finally chosen due to its connection to the union which created the team, and its home city of Las Palmas. The first training session at the new club was held on 16 September 1949.
Las Palmas finished second in their first season in the
Tercera División
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(1949–50), ranking third in
the following year's Segunda División to reach
La Liga
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for the first time ever, and became the first Spanish club to achieve consecutive promotions in its first two years of existence.
The first season in the top flight ended, however, in relegation, but the team
returned to the category in 1954, going on to enjoy a six-year spell.
Top-flight success
After Las Palmas returned to La Liga at the end of the
1963–64 season, again as champions, the club went on to have their most successful spell in the competition. Managed by
Vicente Dauder
Vicente Dauder Guardiola (25 November 1924 – 9 February 2001) was a Spanish football goalkeeper and manager.
Honours
Player
;Atlético Madrid
*La Liga: 1950–51
* Eva Duarte Cup: 1951
Manager
;Las Palmas
*Segunda División: 1963–64
;Sa ...
, they finished third in
1967–68 behind
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
and
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça (), is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.
Founded ...
, and four club players made the
Spain
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, i ...
squad which hosted and won the
UEFA Euro 1964
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The tournament was a knockout compet ...
tournament;
the following season the team fared even better and only lost the league to Real Madrid, and thus qualified for
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for the first time in its history, appearing in the
1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and being knocked out in the first round by
Germany
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's
Hertha BSC
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(0–0 home draw, 0–1 away loss).
Las Palmas player
Juan Guedes died suddenly on 9 March 1971 at the age of 28.
The next season,
French coach
Pierre Sinibaldi led the club to the fifth place, with subsequent
qualification
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for the
UEFA Cup
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: after disposing of
Torino F.C.
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Founded as ''Foot-Ball Club Torino'' in 1906, Torino are among the mos ...
and
ŠK Slovan Bratislava
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, the Spaniards bowed out to
Dutch
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People E ...
club
FC Twente
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; at the end of
1974–75 another team player,
Tonono – a
defender who played with Guedes – died of a
liver
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infection.
Las Palmas' third appearance in European competition came with the
1977–78 UEFA Cup, where they defeated
FK Sloboda Tuzla
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of
Yugoslavia
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in the first round before falling to the English side
Ipswich Town
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The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn profession ...
. Under the management of
Miguel Muñoz
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A midfielder, he spent the majority of his career at Real Madrid before going on to coach the club, where he is widely considered one of the mos ...
, and with players such as
Argentines
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Miguel Ángel Brindisi
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Playing career
Born in the Almagro neig ...
,
Daniel Carnevali
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Club career
During his club career he played for a number of clubs, most notably Rosario Centra ...
(the first to arrive in 1973),
Carlos Morete and
Quique Wolff, the club also
reached their first final of the
Copa del Rey
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in that year, losing on 19 April to Barcelona at the
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
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(1–3).
From the 1990s onwards, Las Palmas played mainly in the
Segunda División
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, but also spent six years in
Segunda División B
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– the new third level created in 1977 – and, from 2000 to 2002, competed in the top flight. On 3 October 2001 the side managed a 4–2 home win against Real Madrid, with youth product
Rubén Castro
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He represented mainly Las Palmas and Betis during his career, appearing in 282 matches in L ...
scoring two goals for the hosts, but
the season ended nonetheless in relegation. On 22 December 2001, Las Palmas played its 1,000th game in La Liga. In the 2009–10 season in Segunda División the club finished 17th, just one point away from being relegated to Segunda División B. On 21 June 2015, Las Palmas was promoted back to La Liga after defeating
Real Zaragoza
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on the
away goals rule
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.
Ciudad deportiva
The Ciudad Deportiva UD Las Palmas, also known as Barranco Seco, is the training ground of UD Las Palmas. Occupying a total area of 70,000 m², the complex is located in the area known as ''Barranco Seco'' at the southern outskirts of the city of Las Palmas.
History and construction
The current land in Barranco Seco was acquired by UD Las Palmas during the 1960s by the efforts of then club director Manuel Betancor. During the 1970s, there was only a single training pitch used by the reserve and junior teams of the club. In 1982, when the ground was upgraded to be used as a training field by the first team.
In June 2015, the ''Ciudad Deportiva'' project was initiated. However, works did not start until 2017. After around 2 years of construction works, the complex was finally opened on July 8, 2019. It was designed by architect Juan Palop-Casado, who assured that the construction of this project was "an attempt that has been made to build with the greatest possible sustainability". The construction was executed by "Construcciones Alex y Nadal, S.L.", involving around 380 workers, 10,000 tons of sand, nearly 300 tons of steel, almost 2,000 cubic meters of concrete and beams of approximately 1,600 meters.
Being only the first phase of the entire sports city project, the club invested 22.5 million euros of its own funds to carry out the construction works of the current facilities. The construction of a multifunctional service building is scheduled in the second phase. The eventual area of the complex will become 70,000 m² after the completion of the second phase.
Facilities
The new complex has modern changing rooms, a meeting hall, a gym with physiotherapy facilities, a dining room, a press room, in addition to two parking spaces designated for 130 vehicles. The Ciudad Deportiva is home to 3 regular size training pitches:
*Ernesto Aparicio training field of natural grass.
*
David García Santana training field of natural grass.
*Manuel Betancor training field of artificial turf, designated for the training sessions of UD
Las Palmas Atlético and
UD Las Palmas C
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; the reserve teams of the club.
Seasons
Season to season
![EstadiodeGranCanaria](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/EstadiodeGranCanaria.JPG)
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*34 seasons in
La Liga
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*33 seasons in
Segunda División
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*6 seasons in
Segunda División B
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*1 season in
Tercera División
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Recent seasons
European cup history
Current squad
.
Reserve team
Out on loan
Current technical staff
Honours
*
La Liga
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:''Runners-up (1):''
1968–69
*
Segunda División
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: Winners (4):
1953–54,
1963–64,
1984–85,
1999–00
*
Segunda División B
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: Winners (2):
1992–93,
1995–96
*
Copa del Rey
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:''Runners-up (1):''
1978
Events January
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Former players
List of coaches
*
Satur Grech (1953–57)
*
Luis Molowny (1957–58)
*
Baltasar Albéniz (1958–59)
*
Luis Molowny (1959)
*
Marcel Domingo
Marcel Domingo Algara (15 January 1924 – 10 December 2010) was a French football goalkeeper and manager of Spanish origin.
He spent part of his career in Spain. Domingo coached RCD Espanyol, UD Las Palmas, UE Lleida, Pontevedra CF, Córdob ...
(1959–60)
*
Paco Campos (1961–62)
*
Rosendo Hernández (1962–63)
*
Vicente Dauder
Vicente Dauder Guardiola (25 November 1924 – 9 February 2001) was a Spanish football goalkeeper and manager.
Honours
Player
;Atlético Madrid
*La Liga: 1950–51
* Eva Duarte Cup: 1951
Manager
;Las Palmas
*Segunda División: 1963–64
;Sa ...
(1963–66)
*
Luis Molowny (1968–70)
*
Rosendo Hernández (1970)
*
Héctor Rial
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(1970–71)
*
Pierre Sinibaldi (1971–75)
*
Heriberto Herrera
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Career
Herrera played for Club Nacional of Paraguay and for several Spanish t ...
(1975–76)
*
Roque Olsen
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Playing career
Olsen started his playing career in the local leagues of Parana, Entre Ríos. In 1949 ...
(1976–77)
*
Miguel Muñoz
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A midfielder, he spent the majority of his career at Real Madrid before going on to coach the club, where he is widely considered one of the mos ...
(1977–79)
*
Antonio Ruiz (1979–80)
*
Heriberto Herrera
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Career
Herrera played for Club Nacional of Paraguay and for several Spanish t ...
(1982)
*
Walter Skocik
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(1982–83)
*
Héctor Núñez (1983–84)
*
Roque Olsen
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Playing career
Olsen started his playing career in the local leagues of Parana, Entre Ríos. In 1949 ...
(1984–85)
*
Ferenc Kovács (1986–87)
*
Roque Olsen
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Playing career
Olsen started his playing career in the local leagues of Parana, Entre Ríos. In 1949 ...
(1988)
*
Paquito (1989–90)
*
Manolo Cardo (1990–91)
*
Roque Olsen
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(1991), (1991–92)
*
Miguel Ángel Brindisi
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Born in the Almagro neig ...
(1991–92)
*
Iñaki Sáez
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(1993–94)
*
Paco Castellano (1994–95)
*
Iñaki Sáez
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(1995)
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Ángel Cappa
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Coachi ...
(1996–97)
*
Paco Castellano (1997)
*
Mariano García Remón
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(1997–98)
*
Paco Castellano (1998–99)
*
Sergije Krešić (1999–01)
*
Fernando Vázquez
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(2001–02)
*
Josu Uribe
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(2002–03)
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Juan Manuel Rodríguez
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(2003)
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David Vidal
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(2003–04)
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David Amaral
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(2004)
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Carlos Sánchez Aguiar (2004–05)
*
Josip Višnjić
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(2005–06)
*
Carlos Sánchez Aguiar (2006)
*
Juanito
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* Juan Díaz Sánchez (1948–2013), Spanish forwa ...
(2006–07)
*
Juan Manuel Rodríguez
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(2007–08)
*
Javier Vidales (2008–09)
*
Paco Castellano (2009)
*
Sergije Krešić (2009–10)
*
Paco Jémez
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(2010–11)
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Juan Manuel Rodríguez
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(2011–12)
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Sergio Lobera
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(2012–14)
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Josico
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His 16-year professional career was mainly associated with Las Palmas and Villarreal ...
(2014)
*
Paco Herrera
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(2014–15)
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Quique Setién
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(2015–17)
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Manolo Márquez (2017)
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Pako Ayestarán (2017)
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Paco Jémez
Francisco "Paco" Jémez Martín (born 18 April 1970) is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a central defender. He is the manager of Iranian club Tractor.
Over 11 seasons, he played 269 La Liga matches in representation o ...
(2017–2018)
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Manolo Jiménez (2018)
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Paco Herrera
Francisco "Paco" Herrera Lorenzo (born 2 December 1953) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a midfielder, and is a manager.
His managerial career of over a quarter of a century was spent mostly in Segunda División, where he led 13 ...
(2018–2019)
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Pepe Mel
José "Pepe" Mel Pérez (born 28 February 1963) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a striker, currently a manager.
He amassed Segunda División totals of 215 matches and 78 goals over eight seasons, for Real Madrid Castilla, Castell ...
(2019– 2022)
Affiliated teams
Las Palmas has used
farm team
In sports, a farm team, farm system, feeder team, feeder club, or nursery club is generally a team or club whose role is to provide experience and training for young players, with an agreement that any successful players can move on to a higher ...
s since 1954, but its official B-team,
Las Palmas Atlético, was founded in 1976. A
third side
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was founded in 2006 and reached the highest division of regional football, the ''Preferente'', before folding in 2010 and being re-created the following season.
The club also had a
women's team in the
top division between 2009 and 2011. In 2010 Las Palmas founded an
indoor football team for the
Liga de Fútbol Indoor, staging matches at the ''
Centro Insular de Deportes''.
La UD Las Palmas crea un equipo de Fútbol Indoor (UD Las Palmas creates Indoor Football team)
; Las Palmas' official website, 23 September 2010
Crest
Las Palmas' badge is a blue shield with yellow scrolls on top with the club's name, city and archipelago. The municipal arms, granted by the city's mayor, feature in the centre of the design. Underneath lie the five crests of the clubs which united in 1949 to create the club: from left to right – Victoria, Arenas, Deportivo, Marino and Atlético; a smaller white scroll above them displays the city motto ''Segura tiene la palma''.
In Spanish football
Football is the most popular sport in Spain. Spain has some of the most important teams in Europe (Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Seville, Valencia, and others). It also has a high number of players (most of them being unprofession ...
, many clubs possess royal patronage and thus are permitted to use the prefix ''Real'' in their name and use an image of the Spanish crown. Las Palmas does not have such patronage, but tops its crest with the Spanish crown due to the patronage held by Real Club Victoria.
The crest is the central emblem of the club flag, a horizontal bicolour with yellow on top and blue underneath. The flag of the island of Gran Canaria uses these colours diagonally.
References
External links
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Futbolme team profile
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Association football clubs established in 1949
Football clubs in the Canary Islands
Segunda División clubs
Sport in Las Palmas
1949 establishments in Spain
La Liga clubs