Motril Club de Fútbol was a

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based in

Motril Motril () is a town and municipality on the Mediterranean coast in the Granada, Spain. It is the second largest town in the province, with a population of 60,368 as of 2016. The town is located near the Guadalfeo River and is from Granada. H ...

Granada Granada (,, DIN: ; grc, Ἐλιβύργη, Elibýrgē; la, Illiberis or . ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the c ...

, in the autonomous community of

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. Founded in 1984 and dissolved in 2012, it held home matches at '' Estadio Escribano Castilla'', with a capacity of 4,400 seats.

History

Motril first reached the third division in 1997, remaining six consecutive seasons in the category. In 2001–02 it inclusively finished the

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in first position (in group IV), but lost in the promotion playoffs against

Getafe CF Getafe Club de Fútbol (), or simply Getafe, is a professional football club based in Getafe, a city in the Community of Madrid. The team competes in La Liga, the highest tier of the Spanish football system. The club's home stadium (owned and op ...

, 0–1 on aggregate. From 2003–12, Motril competed again in the fourth level, appearing in the promotion playoffs on five occasions, always without success. In July 2012 the team folded, due to heavy debts and financial difficulties.El Motril CF desaparece. Se pierde algo más que un equipo. "Se perderán muchas generaciones de futbolistas motrileños" (Motril CF folds. More than a club is gone. "Many generations of Motril-born footballers will be lost")
; Motril Digital, 31 July 2012

Season to season

---- *6 seasons in

Segunda División B Segunda División B ( en, 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 Fo ...

*16 seasons in

Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segunda División'', and the semi-professional ''Segunda Di ...

Former players

Pablo Paz Pablo Ariel Paz Gallo (born 27 January 1973) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a central defender. In a career that spanned 15 years he played more in Spain than in his homeland, notably with Tenerife for which he appeared in 127 ...

* Noé Acosta *

Enrique Enrique () is the Spanish variant of the given name Heinrich of Germanic origin. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Enric (Catalan), Enrico (Italian), Henrik (Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian), Heinrich (German), Hendrik, Henk (Dut ...

* Miguel Ángel Espínola * Javi Guerra * Juanlu * Armando Lozano * Luis Rubiales *Chupi *Dani Cara *Francisco Javier Linares Sánchez * Manuel Lucena * Rafael Wellington *Julio Caraffo

References

External links

Futbolme team profile
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