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Club Deportivo Covadonga is a Spanish football team based in
Oviedo Oviedo () or Uviéu (Asturian language, Asturian: ) is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain and the administrative and commercial centre of the region. It is also the name of the municipality that contains th ...
, 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 1979 it plays in , holding home games at ''Estadio Juan Antonio Álvarez Rabanal'', with a 2,000-seat capacity.


History

CD Covadonga was founded in 1979 by José Antonio Álvarez Rabanal, priest of the parish of Our Lady of Covadonga, Oviedo, with the aim to give a way to development as people to the local youth. It started to play its games in the Asturian Regional divisions in the field of the ''Fundación Masaveu'' while the club was negotiating with the Oviedo City Hall for the transfer of a piece of ground in Los Castañales, neighbourhood of Teatinos, for building a new football field. In 1998 the team promoted for the first time to
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. Fifteen years later, in 2013, the club finished the league in third position and qualifies for the 2013 Tercera División play-offs, but it was eliminated in the first round by
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. Covadonga repeated participation in the playoffs in 2019, but was clearly defeated again in the first round, this time by Bergantiños. However, the club achieved promotion in their third attempt, after defeating Llanera and Caudal in the playoffs.


Season to season

---- *1 season in
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*1 season in
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*16 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
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/Tercera División RFEF


Current squad


Famous players

* Iván Ania * Santi Cazorla (youth)


Women's team

On 26 November 2017, CD Covadonga announced the creation of a new women's team that would start competing in the 2018–19 season. It previously existed until it was disbanded in 1997.


Season by season


References


External links

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