Club Deportivo La Unión was a
Spanish football team based in
La Unión, Murcia
La Unión is situated in the Region of Murcia in the southeast of Spain. It has an area of 24.6 km², and had a population of 19,907 on 1 January 2018. It has an elevation of 86 m. Its average annual temperature is 17 °C. It has balmy w ...
. Founded in 1941, refounded in 2000 and dissolved in 2011, it played its last season in
Tercera División – Group 13, holding home games at ''
Polideportivo Municipal de La Unión'', with a capacity for 2,000 spectators.
History
In 2004, four years after being refounded, La Unión first reached
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 ...
, finishing twice in the top four over the course of seven seasons, but consecutively falling short in the promotion playoffs. In July 2009, it became
FC Cartagena
Fútbol Club Cartagena, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Cartagena, in the Region of Murcia, Spain. Founded in 1995 it currently plays in Segunda División, holding home games at '' Estadio Cartagonova'', with a capacity of 15,105 sp ...
's
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 ...
.
Before the 2011–12 season started, the relationship between Cartagena and La Unión came to an end.
Paco Gómez desvincula a todos los equipos de bases del Cartagena en La Unión (Paco Gómez rescinds link to all Cartagena youth teams in La Unión)
; Sport Cartagena, 20 June 2011
Club background
*''Club Deportivo La Unión — (1941–56; 1965–75; 2000–09; 2011)''
*''Deportivo Unionense Educación y Descanso — (1956–65)''
*''Fútbol Club Cartagena-La Unión — (2009–11)''
Season to season
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*3 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 ...
''
Team refounded
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*7 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 ...
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References
External links
Former official website
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Association football clubs established in 1941
Association football clubs disestablished in 1975
Association football clubs established in 2000
Association football clubs disestablished in 2011
Defunct football clubs in the Region of Murcia
1941 establishments in Spain
1975 disestablishments in Spain
2000 establishments in Spain
2011 disestablishments in Spain
FC Cartagena