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Badalona Futur

Full name	CF Badalona Futur SAD
Nickname(s)	Futuristas
Founded	1947; 77 years ago (1947) (as Unión Deportiva Llagostera)
Ground	Camp de Futbol Municipal, Premià de Dalt, Catalonia, Spain
Capacity	1,200
President	Toni Freixa
Head coach	Sergi Escobar
League	Segunda Federación – Group 3
2023–24	Segunda Federación – Group 3, 3rd of 18
Website	https://www.cfbadalona.net/
Home colours Away colours

C.F. Badalona Futur S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Badalona, Barcelona, in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. Founded in 1947, it currently plays in Segunda Federación – Group 3. Its home stadium is Estadi Municipal, with a capacity for 4,000 spectators.

History

Leandro Calm, the mayor of the city, founded the club as Unión Deportiva Llagostera on 13 November 1947. He also became its first president. Llagostera spent most of its history in the Catalan regional leagues, promoting to Tercera División for the first time ahead of the 2009–10 season. In only its second season at that level, the club won its group before defeating CCD Cerceda 3–0 on aggregate in the promotion play-offs.

In 2011–12, its first season in Segunda División B, Llagostera finished only one point out of the play-offs, instead qualifying for the next season's Copa del Rey, where it reached the last 32 before a 5–1 aggregate loss to giants Valencia CF. The team was promoted to the professional leagues for the first time in 2014 with a 3–2 aggregate comeback win over Real Avilés and beating Gimnàstic de Tarragona after the overtime in the last round of the playoffs.

As their stadium did not meet LFP criteria for home games, Llagostera had as its home stadium from 2014 to 2017 the Estadi Palamós Costa Brava, 30 km from Llagostera, which holds 3,724 spectators. The club held its own in its first season in Segunda División, coming within four points of a play-off berth. It was relegated back to the third tier towards after two seasons.

On 30 June 2017, the club announced it would come back to the Estadi Municipal de Llagostera. One year later, Llagostera would be relegated to Tercera División, after losing the relegation playoffs against Izarra, but bounced back immediately with victory against Club Portugalete in June 2019.

In the 2020 Copa Federación de España, Llagostera emerged as champions following a 2–1 extra time win in the final. On 31 July 2021, the club announced the change of name to Unió Esportiva Costa Brava, moving to the city of Palamós and changing the club's logo.

On 19 July 2022, Costa Brava was absorbed by CF Badalona. As Badalona was relegated to Tercera Federación, Costa Brava changed name to Club de Fútbol Badalona Futur, with the original Badalona acting as a reserve team.

In the summer of 2023, the agreement between Badalona Futur and CF Badalona was broken, so Futur was forced to play its home games in Vic. In November the team won the Copa Federación.

In the summer of 2024 the team was relocated again, being based in Premià de Dalt, after the team failed to obtain the necessary permits in other previously proposed towns.

Club background

• 1947–1972: Unión Deportiva Llagostera
• 1972–1981: Club de Fútbol Llagostera
• 1981–2004: Unión Deportiva Llagostera
• 2004–2015: Unió Esportiva Llagostera
• 2015–2021: Unió Esportiva Llagostera-Costa Brava
• 2021–2022: Unió Esportiva Costa Brava
• 2022–: Club de Fútbol Badalona Futur

Season to season

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

Players

Current squad

As of 30 August 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  UKR Yaroslav Meykher 2 DF  ESP Fran Grima 4 DF  ESP Alejandro Marcos 5 DF  ARG Manuel Guanini 6 MF  ESP Ángel Climent 7 DF  ESP Loren Fernández 8 MF  ESP Pablo Hernández 9 FW  ESP Moha Traoré 10 MF  ESP Nando Quesada 11 FW  FRA Jean-Paul N'Djoli 12 DF  ESP Ricard Pulido 13 GK  ESP Iker Candón

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 FW  ESP Guille Andrés 15 MF  ESP Alberto Villapalos 16 MF  MAR Sami el Mahboubi 17 FW  COL Richard Franco 18 MF  ESP Markel Rodríguez 19 FW  ESP Edgar Martínez 20 MF  ESP Gorka Iturraspe 21 MF  ITA Lucca Giuntini 22 DF  GHA Philip Osei 23 FW  ESP Gabi García 24 DF  ESP Toni Peris 25 GK  ESP Josan Gordo (on loan from Real Betis)

Notable players

Note: this list includes players that have played at least 100 league games and/or have reached international status.

Crest

Crest evolution
2004–2014	2014–2021	2021–2022	2022–2023	2023–present

Honours

League

• Segunda División B
  • Winners: 2013–14
• Tercera División
  • Winners: 2010–11, 2018–19
• Tercera Catalana
  • Winners: 2005–06

Cups

• Spanish Royal Federation Cup
  • Winners: 2020, 2023

References

1. ^ "El Badalona Futur jugará en Premià de Dalt". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 16 September 2024. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
2. ^ "El Badalona absorbe a un Costa Brava que ya es historia". As.com (in Spanish). 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
3. "Unió Esportiva Llagostera-Costa Brava, S.A.D. :: La Futbolteca. Enciclopedia del Fútbol Español" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-01-25.
4. "El Cerceda volvió a ser inferior al Llagostera, que logró el ascenso" [Cerceda were again inferior to Llagostera, who achieved promotion]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 30 June 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
5. "Rami marca el gol de esta ronda desde el centro del campo" [Rami scores the goal of the round from the halfway line]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 28 November 2012.
6. "Se acabó el sueño del Real Avilés" [Real Avilés' dream is over]. La Nueva España (in Spanish). 8 June 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
7. "Histórico ascenso del Llagostera a Segunda división" [Historic promotion of Llagostera to Segunda División] (in Spanish). ABC. 21 June 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
8. "El Leganés baja a la Llagostera y aplaza su ascenso a Miranda" [Leganés send Llagostera down and postpone their promotion until Miranda]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 29 May 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
9. "El Llagostera arriba a un acord amb l'Ajuntament per jugar els seus partits al Municipal" (in Catalan). Diari de Girona. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
10. "El Llagostera, primer ascendido a Segunda B" [Llagostera, first promoted to Segunda B] (in Spanish). Be Soccer. 1 June 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
11. "La UE Llagostera renace como UE Costa Brava "por pura supervivencia"" [UE Llagostera is reborn as UE Costa Brava due to "pure survival"] (in Spanish). Golsmedia. 31 July 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
12. "El Costa Brava passa a dir-se Badalona Futur" [Costa Brava is now named Badalona Futur] (in Catalan). Diari de Girona. 19 July 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
13. "El Badalona Futur, claro ejemplo del fútbol moderno". Canal Amarillo (in Spanish). 17 October 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
14. "El Badalona Futur, campeón de la Copa Federación". As.com (in Spanish). 22 November 2024. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
15. "Plantilla Primer Equip". UE Llagostera (in Catalan). Retrieved 29 October 2021.

External links

• Official website (in Catalan)
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)
• Club & stadium history (in English)

• CF Badalona
• CF Badalona Futur
• Football clubs in Catalonia
• Association football clubs established in 1947
• 1947 establishments in Spain
• Segunda División clubs
• Primera Federación clubs
• Sport in Badalona
• Gironès
• Sport in the Province of Girona
• Sports team and club relocations