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| Full name | Club Deportivo Covadonga | ||
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| Founded | 31 July 1979; 46 years ago (1979-07-31) | ||
| Ground | Estadio Juan Antonio Álvarez Rabanal,Oviedo, Asturias, Spain | ||
| Capacity | 2,000[1] | ||
| President | Francisco Cabal Díaz[2] | ||
| Head coach | Fermín Álvarez | ||
| League | Tercera Federación – Group 2 | ||
| 2024–25 | Tercera Federación – Group 2, 3rd of 18 | ||
Club Deportivo Covadonga is aSpanish football team based inOviedo, in the autonomous community ofAsturias. Founded in 1979 it plays inTercera Federación – Group 2, holding home games atEstadio Juan Antonio Álvarez Rabanal, with a 2,000-seat capacity.[3]
CD Covadonga was founded in 1979 by José Antonio Álvarez Rabanal, priest of the parish of Our Lady of Covadonga, Oviedo, with the aim to give a way to development as people to the local youth.[4]
It started to play its games in theAsturian Regional divisions in the field of theFundación Masaveu while the club was negotiating with the Oviedo City Hall for the transfer of a piece of ground in Los Castañales, neighbourhood of Teatinos, for building a new football field.
In 1998 the team promoted for the first time toTercera División. Fifteen years later, in 2013, the club finished the league in third position and qualifies for the2013 Tercera División play-offs,[5] but it was eliminated in the first round byDon Benito.
Covadonga repeated participation in the playoffs in 2019, but was clearly defeated again in the first round, this time byBergantiños.[6] However, the club achieved promotion in their third attempt, after defeatingLlanera andCaudal in the playoffs.
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Iván AniaSanti Cazorla (youth)On 26 November 2017, CD Covadonga announced the creation of a new women's team that would start competing in the 2018–19 season.[8] It previously existed until it was disbanded in 1997.
| Season | Division | Place | Copa de la Reina |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996/97 | Regional | 11th | |
| 1997/98 | Regional | 12th | |
| 1998–18 | DNP | ||
| 2018/19 | Regional | 17th | |
| 2019/20 | Regional | 5th | |
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