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| Full name | Lorca Deportiva Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. | |||
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| Founded | 2002 | |||
| Dissolved | 2012 | |||
| Ground | Francisco Artés Carrasco Lorca,Murcia, Spain | |||
| Capacity | 8,064 | |||
| 2010–11 | 3ª – Group 13,(R) | |||
Lorca Deportiva Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. was aSpanish football club inLorca, in the autonomous community ofMurcia. Founded in 2002 it was dissolved ten years later, they held their home matches atEstadio Francisco Artés Carrasco, which seats 8,064. The roots of the club can be traced back to the Sociedad Lorca Football Club, founded in 1901 by Newcastle-born Manuel José (Manni) Pelegrín Dunn, whose father was originally from Lorca.[1] TheCF Lorca Deportiva became the successor club and is followed by the same fan-base.
Lorca Deportiva was founded in 2002, right after the defunction ofLorca Club de Fútbol which had been born eight years earlier. The new club started in thefourth division after acquiring the place ofCD Balsicas, and was promoted to thethird level at the first attempt.
Asrookies in the third tier, Lorcaqualified for the play-offs after occupying the second place in the regular season.Next season the team finished fourth, but this time managed to promote to thedivision two: withUnai Emery – who later managedParis Saint-Germain,Arsenal F.C. andAston Villa – in the position ofmanager, itnarrowly missed on a new promotion, finishing just five points behind lastLa Liga promoteeLevante UD.
After Emery's departure, with many first-team players also leaving, Lorca wasrelegated the following campaign. In the middle of 2009, although it had justfinished second in its group, economic issues led to another drop, to the fourth division.
For the2010–11 season, the club was relocated to nearby Totana and renamed LD Olímpico.[2][3] On 18 October 2010, amidst serious economic problems, it retired from competition and folded, without chairman or players –[4][5] all 93 points that the team would lose for not showing up in the remaining 31 fixtures of the season were equally distributed by their opponents,[6] and Lorca was finally dissolved in 2012.
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