Valencia Club de Fútbol "C", shortened to Valencia C, was the second

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 ...

Valencia CF Valencia Club de Fútbol, S. A. D. (; ), commonly referred to as Valencia CF or simply Valencia, is a Spanish professional Association football, football club based in Valencia, Spain, that currently plays in La Liga, the top tier of the Spani ...

, behind

Valencia CF Mestalla Valencia Club de Fútbol Mestalla, shortened to Valencia Mestalla, is the reserve team of Valencia CF, a Spanish football club based in Valencia, in the namesake community. Founded in 1944, and currently plays in , holding home games at '' Ciud ...

. It was a Spanish football club based in

Valencia Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (r ...

, in the namesake community.

History

Founded in 1980 as ''Gimnástico Club de Fútbol'', an honour to dissolved

Gimnástico FC Gimnástico Fútbol Club is a team that united with Levante FC to become Union Deportiva Levante-Gimnástico with current name of Levante UD, Levante Union Deportiva association football, football club based in Valencia, Spain, Valencia, Spain. H ...

, the club played their first two seasons in the ''Tercera Regional'', the lowest category of the regional leagues. After achieving promotion to the ''Segunda Regional'', president Rafa Salom bought a place of another club in the ''Primera Regional'', and the club subsequently played in that division before achieving promotion to the ''Regional Preferente'' in 1992. Gimnástico achieved promotion to

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 1994. In 2002, the club was sold to

, being renamed into ''Valencia CF C'' and becoming their second

, behind

. In 2004, after Mestalla was relegated to the fourth division, Valencia C ceased activities.

Season-by-season

*As ''Gimnástico CF'' *As ''Valencia CF C'' ---- *10 seasons in

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Valencia C Valencia CF Defunct football clubs in the Valencian Community Association football clubs established in 1980 1980 establishments in Spain Association football clubs disestablished in 2004 2004 disestablishments in Spain Reserve team football in Spain Football clubs in Valencia