Club Atlético Albacete is a Spanish football team based in

Albacete Albacete ( , , ) is a city and municipality in the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha, and capital of the province of Albacete. Lying in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, the area around the city is known as Los Llan ...

, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Founded in 1962, they are the

reserve team In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players who are under contract to a club but who do not regularly play in matches for the club's primary team. Reserve teams usually include players who are part of the larger first-team squad but ...

Albacete Balompié Albacete Balompié is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Albacete, in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Founded on 5 July 1939, it currently plays in Segunda División, the second tier of Spanish foo ...

and currently play in , holding home games at Ciudad Deportiva Andrés Iniesta, with a capacity of 3,000 seats.

History

Founded in 1962 as ''Botas Iñiguez CF'', the club started an affiliation with

in 1974, being their

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and then playing with the name of ''Atlético Albacete''. From 1998 to 2018, it played with the name of ''Albacete "B"'' before returning to their previous name. On 10 October 2019, Atlético Albacete appointed Mario Simón, a manager who had already coached the first team, as their new head coach.

Season to season

*''As an independent club, Botas Iñiguez CF'' *''As an independent club, Club Atlético de Albacete'' *''As the

'' ---- * 31 seasons in

Tercera División Tercera División () was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Until 1977, it was the third tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segund ...

* 3 seasons in

Tercera Federación Tercera Federación, previously known as Tercera RFEF, is the fifth tier of the Spanish football league system. It is below the ''La Liga'', ''Segunda División'', and its fellow semi-professional divisions '' Primera Federación'' and ''Segunda F ...

/Tercera División RFEF

Current squad

From
Youth Academy In sporting terminology, a youth system (or youth academy) is a youth investment program within a particular team or league, which develops and nurtures young talent in farm teams, with the vision of using them in the first team if they show en ...

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