Manchego Ciudad Real Club de Fútbol was a

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based in

Ciudad Real Ciudad Real (, ) is a municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha, capital of the province of Ciudad Real. It is the 5th most populated municipality in the region. It was founded as Villa Real in 1255 as a ro ...

in the namesake province, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Founded in 2000, it held home games at ''Estadio Rey Juan Carlos I'', with a capacity of 2,900 seats.

History

After the disappearance of

CD Manchego Club Deportivo Manchego was a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Ciudad Real Province of Ciudad Real, in the namesake province, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Founded in 1929 and dissolved in 2000, ...

in 2000, ''Manchego CF'' was created. In July 2009, after six seasons in the fourth division, the club was in risk of being dissolved due to its outstanding debts, which reached

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1.5 million. After Manchego CF supporters decided the club should continue, the president was forced to resign and, a day later, a new club, CD Ciudad Real was created. The Professional Spanish Footballers Association extended the deadline for some clubs to pay debts to their players past July 31. However, on August 25, the

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relegated the club in spite of it having finished in third position, due to the club's economic situation, but Manchego decided not to take part in the championship.El Manchego no se inscribe en Preferente (Manchego does not sign up in ''Preferente'')
CRSport, 26 August 2009 The team was succeeded by CD Ciudad Real.

Season to season

---- *6 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 ...

Honours

*3 Campeonatos Diputación *1 Campeonato Regional de la Copa Federación

Famous players

Iván Helguera Iván Helguera Bujía (; born 28 March 1975) is a Spanish former professional footballer. Playing as either a central defender or defensive midfielder, with both good defensive and offensive skills, he represented five clubs during his professi ...

* Luis Helguera *

Paulino Paulino is a surname and a masculine given name. It is a Spanish and Portuguese form of the Roman family name ''Paulinus'', which was itself derived from the Roman family name Paulus meaning "small" or "humble" in Latin. People with the given ...

Raoul Loé Raoul Cédric Loé (born 31 January 1989) is a professional footballer who currently plays for China League One side Dongguan United as a defensive midfielder. Born in France, he represents Cameroon at international level. Club career Born in C ...

References

External links

Official website

Futbolme team profile
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