Club Deportivo Linares was a Spanish football team based in

Linares, Jaén Linares () is a Municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain belonging to the Jaén (Spanish province), province of Jaén, Andalusia. It is the second-largest city in that province, with a population of 55,261 in the most recent census (2024). ...

, in the autonomous community of

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. Founded in 1990 and dissolved in July 2009, it played its last season in 2008–09, in Second Division B - Group 4. The team's stadium was '' Estadio de Linarejos'', with a capacity of 10,000 seats.

History

''Club Deportivo Linares'' was founded in 1990 with Miguel Hernández as its first president, first reaching the fourth division four years later, with a brief spell in the third level in 2000–01 – immediate relegation back. On 21 July 2009, after seven consecutive seasons in ''Segunda B'', the

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of Linares, Juan Fernández, announced the club's defunction, due to the impossibility of paying its debt (around

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4.7 million). It managed to play another seven seasons in division three. On 5 August, Linares' new managing board confirmed the registration in the fourth category but, eventually, the

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forced the team to disappear.La Federación no valida la inscripción del CD Linares y le obliga a desaparecer (RFEF renders CD Linares' registration invalid and forces it to fold)

Club background

*''SG Linarense'' – ''(1909–20)'' *''Linares FC'' – ''(1920–29)'' *''Gimnástica Linarense'' – ''(1929–31)'' *''Linares Deportivo (I)'' – ''(1940–46)'' *''Atlético Linares'' – ''(1946–48)'' *''CD Linares (I)'' – ''(1952–64)'' *'' Linares CF'' – ''(1961–90)'' *''CD Linares (II)'' – ''(1990–2009)'' *'' Linares Deportivo (II)'' – ''(2009–present)''

Season to season

---- *8 seasons in

Segunda División B Segunda División B (English: second division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish ...

*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 ...

*4 seasons in Categorías Regionales

Last squad

Famous players

References

External links

Official website
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