Galáctico Pegaso was a Spanish football team based in

Tres Cantos Tres Cantos () is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality of Spain located in Community of Madrid. Originally belonging to Colmenar Viejo, it seceded from the latter municipality in 1991, becoming the youngest municipality in the region. The urban ...

, in the autonomous

Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities and 50 provinces of Spain, provinces of Spain. It is located at the heart of the Iberian Peninsula and Meseta Central, Central Plateau (); its capital and largest munici ...

. Founded in 1962 and dissolved in 2010, it held home games at '' Estadio La Foresta'', with a capacity of 2,000 seats.

History

In 1962,

Pegaso Pegaso (, "Pegasus") was a Spanish manufacturer of trucks, buses, tractors, armored vehicles, and, for a while, to train apprentices, and have a good brand image, some sports cars. The parent company, Enasa, was created in 1946 and based in t ...

company, founded ''Club Deportivo Pegaso, with the club fluctuating between the regional leagues and

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 ...

in the first 16 years of existence. In 1977,

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had been created as the new third level and, after two seasons in that category, it returned to Tercera - now division four - for a further nine years. In the late 1980s/early 1990s, the team played three more seasons in the third division, spending the remaining years in the fourth. In the 2000, the team was moved to

in the

, merging with ''Club Deportivo Tres Cantos'' two years later, and being renamed ''Pegaso Tres Cantos''. In 2004, another name change, with the club being renamed ''Sección de Acción Deportiva Tres Cantos Pegaso''. Three years later, after a merge with ''Tornado Tres Cantos'', the latter acted as its

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 ...

for one year. Subsequently, the team became the property of Stars2007 Group S.L., changing names again, now to ''Galáctico Pegaso''. In May 2010, after losing the company's support, the club was merged with '' Club Deportivo Islas'' to form '' UD Tres Cantos Islas''.Polémica fusión en Tres Cantos (Controversial merge in Tres Cantos)
; FutMadrid, 24 June 2010

Club background

*''Club Deportivo Pegaso'' - (1962–2002) *''Pegaso Tres Cantos'' - (2002–04) *''Sección de Acción Deportiva Tres Cantos Pegaso'' - (2004–08) *''Galáctico Pegaso'' - (2008–10)

Season to season

---- *5 seasons in

*35 seasons in

Famous players

* Alfredo Santaelena *

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* Jaime Mata * Juan Sabas

References

External links

Official websiteTres Cantos Pegaso official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pegaso Association football clubs established in 1962 Association football clubs disestablished in 2010 Defunct football clubs in the Community of Madrid 1962 establishments in Spain 2010 disestablishments in Spain