CD Badajoz

Badajoz

Full name	Club Deportivo Badajoz
Nickname(s)	Blanquinegros (White and Black) Lobos (Wolves)
Founded	1905
Ground	Nuevo Vivero, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
Capacity	14,898
Owner	Lanuspe S.L.
President	Luis Díaz-Ambrona
Head coach	Iñaki Alonso
League	Tercera Federación – Group 14
2023–24	Segunda Federación – Group 5, 16th of 18 (relegated)
Website	https://www.clubdeportivobadajoz.es/
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Deportivo Badajoz is a Spanish football team based in Badajoz, in the autonomous community of Extremadura. Founded in 1905, it currently plays in Tercera Federación – Group 14, and holds home games at Estadio Nuevo Vivero, with a 15,198-seat capacity.

Founded after the merger of two clubs, named Racing and Sport, Badajoz became a serious member of the Spanish League in 1931, when Francisco Fernandes Marquesta donated the team their first ground, named El Vivero. Subsequently, playing most of their history between the third and second divisions, the club achieved a consistent stay in the latter level during the 1990s.

Never quite good enough to reach La Liga, 11 seasons in the second division came to an end in 2003, with relegation to Segunda División B, the new third level created in 1977. In 2006, Badajoz was saved from folding by the president of a junior club from the city, AD Cerro de Reyes, who replaced them in the third level, with Badajoz falling to the fourth.

On 1 July 2012 Badajoz was relegated to division four, due to a €70,000 debt contracted with its players during the 2011–12 season.^[1] being later disbanded through a liquidation process.^[2]

After the dissolution, the club was refounded by the supporters with the name of Club Deportivo Badajoz 1905. This re-foundation achieved two consecutive promotions, immediately to Tercera División and, at its third attempt, the club finally came back to Segunda División B on 25 June 2017 by beating CD Calahorra in the last round of the promotion play-offs.^[3] In 2019–20, the team dispatched SD Amorebieta, UD Las Palmas and La Liga club SD Eibar to make the last 16 of the Copa del Rey for only the second time, before losing 3–2 to Granada CF after extra time.^[4]

In 2020–21, the final season of Segunda B, Badajoz topped both of their groups to qualify for the new Primera División RFEF, but lost by one goal to Amorebieta for a place in the second tier in the play-off final.^[5]

CD Badajoz plays at Estadio Nuevo Vivero, which had a capacity of 15,200, expandable to 30,000. The club previously played at Estadio El Vivero in the east of the city, before moving a few kilometres south of the Guadiana in 1998 to the new facilities; the first match at the new grounds took place on 2 December 1998, in a friendly goalless match with neighbours CF Extremadura.

The stadium hosted two full internationals for the national team. On 8 September 1999 Spain beat Cyprus 8–0 in an UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier; nearly seven years later, on 2 September 2006, the national side defeated Liechtenstein 4–0 in the qualifying stages of Euro 2008.

• 20 seasons in Segunda División
• 18 seasons in Segunda División B
• 32 seasons in Tercera División (26 as third tier, 6 as fourth tier)

• 2 seasons in Primera Federación/Primera División RFEF
• 4 seasons in Segunda División B
• 1 season in Segunda Federación
• 3 seasons in Tercera División
• 1 season in Tercera Federación

As of 7 February 2023.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ESP Kike Royo 2 DF  ARG Mariano Gómez (on loan from Atlético Madrid) 3 DF  ESP Carlos Cordero 5 DF  ESP Borja García 6 MF  ESP Raúl Palma 7 FW  ESP Carlos Calderón 9 FW  ESP Francis Ferrón 10 FW  ESP Zelu (captain) 11 FW  ESP Jesús Alfaro

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 GK  ESP Miguel Narváez 14 FW  ESP Gorka Santamaría 15 DF  ARG Matías Pérez Acuña 16 DF  ESP José Mas 17 FW  POR Adilson 19 DF  ESP Josete 20 DF  ESP Juanmi García 22 MF  ESP David Soto — MF  MEX Miguel Leyva

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 27 FW  ARG Santiago Müller 28 MF  ESP Fernando Moreno

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 DF  ESP Álex López 30 DF  ESP Álvaro Ladera

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ESP Álvaro Sánchez (at Estepona until 30 June 2023)

• Promotion to Second Division: 1952–53, 1992–93
• Promotion to Second Division B: 1986–87, 1991–92, 2009–10, 2016–17
• Copa Federación de España (Extremadura tournament): 2015–16, 2016–17

• Badajoz-Cartagena FC (5–1; 28 June 1992)
• Badajoz-UE Figueres (7–1; 14 February 1993)
• CD Leganés-Badajoz (2–6, 31 October 1993)
• Badajoz-Burgos CF (5–1; 21 November 1993)
• FC Barcelona B-Badajoz (1–5; 20 April 1996)
• Badajoz-Elche CF (5–0; 14 September 1997)
• Badajoz-Sevilla FC (2–0; 22 February 1998)
• Córdoba CF-Badajoz (0–4; 22 April 2000)
• Mérida UD-Badajoz (0–5; 13 December 2009)

The following players have either appeared in at least 100 professional games with the club and/or gained international status:

• Carlos Alhinho
• Colin Addison
• Marco Antonio Boronat
• Paco Herrera
• Josu Ortuondo
• Miguel Ángel Lotina
• Antonio Maceda
• Adolfo Muñoz
• Joaquín Peiró
• Manuel Sarabia
• Víctor Torres Mestre
• Patxi Salinas
• Pedro Munitis

• Official website (in Spanish)
• Old CD Badajoz BDFutbol profile
• New CD Badajoz BDFutbol profile