Unión Deportiva Tenerife, currently known as Costa Adeje Tenerife Egatesa and previously Unión Deportiva Granadilla Tenerife, is a Spanish
women's
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football club based in
Adeje, in the
Canary Islands
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. The club plays in
Liga F, holding home games at the Campo de Fútbol de Adeje, with a 1,100-seat capacity.
History
The club was founded in 2013 as UD Granadilla Tenerife Sur and started playing its first season in the
second division. It won its group but was finally eliminated in the promotion playoffs by
Granada
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. In its second attempt, the club finished as runner-up of the Canarian group, but qualified for the
promotion playoffs as the best second-placed team. Granadilla achieved the promotion to the
top tier after eliminating
Levante Las Planas and
Real Betis.
In its debut in
Primera División
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, Granadilla performed a great season by finishing in the seventh position of the league table and, subsequently, qualifying for the
Copa de la Reina, where it was eliminated in the quarterfinals by
Valencia.
In November 2016, the club created a
basketball 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
Copa de la Reina 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
Cup competition.
In 2023 they relocated from
Granadilla de Abona to
Adeje. Both municipalities are in the south of the island, but the club plays landmark matches at the
Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López in
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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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)
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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
Liga F clubs