Málaga

Full name	Club Deportivo Málaga
Nicknames	Malaguistas Boquerones Albiazules Albicelestes Blanquiazules
Founded	1904 (as Málaga Football Club)[1]
Dissolved	1992
Ground	La Rosaleda (before rebuilding), Málaga,Andalusia, Spain
Capacity	28,963
Home colours

Club Deportivo Málaga was aSpanish football club based inMálaga, in the autonomous community ofAndalusia. It played twenty seasons inLa Liga, before being dissolved in 1992.

The first football club in Málaga was established in 1904, with the formation of theMálaga Foot-Ball Club.^[2] It was nothing more than a society intended to promote football, a new sport in the city, carried from theUnited Kingdom. Its first rivals were small teams formed by crews of foreign ships arriving in the local harbor. In 1907, further attempts of popularizing football were performed by Málaga FC.^[2]

1912 saw the arrival of a rival club,FC Malagueño, and the establishment of a great rivalry with Málaga FC, which had merged with other minor clubs like Málaga Racing. In 1927, Málaga FC became theReal Málaga FC after they were granted royal patronage byAlfonso XIII.^[3]

During the 1929–30 season both Real Málaga FC and FC Malagueño clubs became founding members of theTercera División. In late 1930, Real Málaga FC, were reformed as theMálaga Sport Club.^[3]

In 1933Málaga SC andFC Malagueño merged to becomeClub Deportivo Malacitano,^[4] although it was not a real merging at all, only a name change of FC Malagueño, which had economic wealth and a better squad than Málaga SC. Thanks to this operation, theCD Malacitano was able to use Malagueño's squad, having their contracts canceled in the other way.^[4]

In 1934 this new club made its debut in theSegunda División when the division was expanded from ten teams to 24, and remained there until the outbreak of theSpanish Civil War in 1936. In 1940, Malacitano participated in theinaugural edition of theFEF President Cup, which they won after beatingAD Ferroviaria 5–2 in the last matchday, courtesy of a first-half brace fromJuan Mesa and a second-halfhat-trick fromTavilo, thus claiming the club's first-ever piece of silverware.^[5][6]

In 1941 the club changed their name to theClub Deportivo Málaga when the newLa Rosaleda stadium was inaugurated.^[7]

In 1946, Málaga undertook a change of fortune with the election ofManuel Navarro Nogueroles as the club's new president. His first big success as Málaga's president was the signing offorwardPedro Bazán,^[8] who had previously scored nine goals in a single Second Division match against theHércules CF on 4 January 1949; he went on to become the club's all-time top scorer with 146 official goals.^[9][10] After two unsuccessful seasons, Navarro hired a new coach,Luis Urquiri, who had just achieved promotion to La Liga withDeportivo de La Coruña.^[8]

During the first half of the season, Málaga averaged three goals per game, but despite this, the president decided to look for two other forwards, includingManolo Jimeno, who was introduced in afriendly match againstUD Melilla.^[8] Málaga finished the 1948–49 season as the team with the fewest goals conceded and only six losses on its way to promotion, which was achieved on the last matchday with a 5–1 away victory overRacing de Ferrol to finish level on points with bothReal Sociedad and Granada, but ahead of the latter on head-to-head goal difference.^[8] Therefore, on 17 April 1949, Navarro Nogueroles became the first Málaga president to be promoted to the First Division of Spanish football, doing so within eight years into Málaga's existence.^[8] This promotion brought joy to the Malaga fans at the end of the 1940s, a period in which the city was still very impoverished, with many people suffering from poverty and lack of means, so the celebrations were therefore apotheotic.^[11]

At the start of the following season, Navarro Nogueroles fired Urquiri with the false allegation of his financial demands, only so he could replace him with the legendaryRicardo Zamora, who stayed at the helm of the team until its first relegation at the end of the 1950–51 season, lacking just one point to maintain status.^[8]

In the subsequent seasons, Málaga achieved two new promotions to La Liga in 1951–52 and 1953–54, being relegated after just one year in both.^[12] The 1952–53 season was notable because of a resounding 6–0 thrashing of theReal Madrid at La Rosaleda, the major result up to date for Málaga against that club.^[13]

After several new fleeting first-level promotions in the 1960s, which turned out in immediate relegations,^[12] Málaga were promoted once again in 1969–70 under the command of chairman Antonio Rodríguez López and coachJenő Kálmár, to start a five-year top flight stay.^[12] However, president in charge Antonio Rodríguez López was brutally murdered by theMafia in the year 1971,^[14] and was replaced by Rafael Serrano Carvajal for the next season.^[15]

With notable players likeMigueli,Sebastian Viberti,Juan Antonio Deusto andJosé Díaz Macías, the club achieved two seventh-place finishes in the league in 1971–72^[16] and 1973–74^[17] (best results of the club up to date), aRicardo Zamora Trophy^[18] in 1971–72 season performed bygoalkeeper Deusto, and a 1972–73 run of the club inthe Spanish Cup, where they were dumped out in the semifinals byAthletic Bilbao.^{[citation needed]} They also notably scored a victory atCamp Nou for the first time after winning againstFC Barcelona at the end of the 1971–72 season.^{[citation needed]} The club also established in 1973 an official anthem^{[citation needed]},Málaga La Bombonera, and from that moment the song is still the official anthem of the club.^{[citation needed]}

After a polemic exit by Viberti at the end of 1973–74 season, the so-calledgolden years^{[citation needed]} ended with a new relegation to the second level in 1974–75.^{[citation needed]}

In 1992, CD Málaga dissolved after financial difficulties.^[9]

• AsFútbol Club Malagueño

• AsClub Deportivo Malacitano

• 1940 FEF President Cup

• AsClub Deportivo Málaga

• 20 seasons inLa Liga
• 31 seasons inSegunda División
• 9 seasons inTercera División

• Segunda División
  • Champions (3): 1951–52, 1966–67, 1987–88
• Tercera División
  • Champions (3): 1943–44, 1945–46, 1959–60

• Trofeo Costa del Sol
  • Winners (3): 1963, 1971, 1974

Between 1961 and 1983, Málaga organised its own summer tournament, theTrofeo Costa del Sol. The hosts won it on three occasions, successively defeatingReal Madrid,Red Star Belgrade andDerby County. In 2003, the competition was revived by Club Deportivo's successor,Málaga CF.^[19]

In 1976, CD Málaga won a similar summer trophy, theTrofeo Ciudad de La Línea, played inLa Línea de la Concepción, nearGibraltar. The triumph arrived afterpenalty shootout defeats ofFC Dinamo Tbilisi andValencia CF, after 0–0 draws.^[20]

• CD Málaga at La futbolteca

• CD Málaga
• Defunct football clubs in Andalusia
• Sport in Málaga
• Association football clubs established in 1904
• Association football clubs disestablished in 1992
• 1904 establishments in Spain
• 1992 disestablishments in Spain
• Segunda División clubs
• La Liga clubs

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