Real Titánico de Laviana is a Spanish football team based in Laviana, in the autonomous community of

Asturias Asturias (; ; ) officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensive with the provinces of Spain, province of Asturias and contains some of the territory t ...

. Founded in 1912 and refounded in 1964, the team plays in . The club's home ground is '' Estadio Les Tolves'', which has a capacity of 2,000 spectators.

History

The club was created in 1912 as Titanic de Laviana. King

Alfonso XIII Alfonso XIII (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; French language, French: ''Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon''; 17 May ...

accepted the Royal patronage of the club for the Spanish crown in 1922, introducing the term "Real" (

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for "Royal") to its name, becoming Real Titanic de Laviana. After the

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, and due to a temporary law forbidding the use of foreign words in football club names, the team's official denomination changed to Real Titánico. The club was dissolved in 1960 but it was refounded in 1964 with the name of Laviana CF. In the 70's the team recovered the name of Real Titánico. The best seasons of Titánico happened during the 1990s and the start of the 2000s, when the club played four times the promotion play-offs to

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and won one time the Asturian group of Tercera División. In 2006 the club started its decline with two consecutive relegations. On 31 April 2017, after ten seasons in Primera Regional, sixth tier, Titánico came back to Regional Preferente. Three years later, Titánico promoted to Tercera División. This promotion was achieved as the club was leader of the Regional Preferente, with an advantage of 16 points over the second qualified team with ten rounds to be played, before the suspension of the league due to the

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Season to season

---- *34 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 ...

'' *4 seasons in '' Tercera Federación/Tercera División RFEF''

Notable managers

* Josu Uribe

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Titanico Football clubs in Asturias Association football clubs established in 1912 1912 establishments in Spain Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol clubs Organisations based in Spain with royal patronage