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Full name	Linares Deportivo, S.A.D.
Nickname(s)	Azulillos (Little Blues) Mineros (Miners)
Founded	4 August 2009; 15 years ago (4 August 2009) as Asociación Deportiva Linares
Ground	Linarejos
Capacity	10,000
President	Jesús Medina
Head coach	Juan Antonio Milla
League	Segunda Federación – Group 4
2023–24	Primera Federación – Group 2, 17th of 20 (relegated)
Website	http://www.linaresdeportivo.es/
Home colours Away colours

Linares Deportivo (Spanish pronunciation: [liˈnaɾes depoɾˈtiβo]) is a Spanish football team based in Linares, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 2009 as a replacement for dissolved CD Linares, it plays in Primera Federación – Group 1. The team's stadium is Estadio Municipal de Linarejos, with a capacity of 10,000 seats.

History

Linares Deportivo was founded in 2009 under the name of Asociación Deportiva Linares, as a replacement for dissolved CD Linares.

The club first reached the fourth division three years later, despite finishing second in the fifth level. In 2014–15, after winning its group, Linares defeated CD Castellón 3–0 on aggregate to win promotion to Segunda División B.

In doing so, Linares qualified for the first time to the Copa del Rey for the following season. They defeated FC Jumilla 2–1 at home in the first round on 2 September 2015, then lost by the same score at UD Logroñés. On 28 May 2017, the team dropped back to the fourth tier after a 2–1 aggregate loss to Burgos CF in the play-offs.

Club background

• SG Linarense – (1909–20)
• Linares FC – (1920–29)
• Gimnástica Linarense – (1929–31)
• Linares Deportivo (I) – (1940–46)
• Atlético Linares – (1946–48)
• CD Linares (I) – (1952–64)
• Linares CF – (1961–90)
• CD Linares (II) – (1990–2009)
• Linares Deportivo – (2009–present)

Identity

Colors

Linares Deportivo, like its predecessors, has always played with a blue shirt, white shorts and blue socks at home. The use of the blue color in the kit comes from linarite, a deep blue tabular crystalline mineral that was first identified in 1822 in the Linares mining district.

Badge

Linares Deportivo's badge is in the shape of a rhombus cut in half and slightly convex outwards on the sides. It is divided diagonally by a red stripe with the name of the club. In the upper left part, in blue, is the interior of the city's coat of arms, in which the old fortress of Linares is represented. In the lower right part of white, there is a ball, representing the sporting character of the team.

Supporters

Linares Deportivo's supporters are nicknamed azulillos (blues) or mineros (miners), due to the historical importance of lead mining for the development of the city of Linares.

Rivalry

Linares Deportivo's historic rival is Real Jaén, which currently plays in Tercera Federación. The traditional rivalry between the cities of Jaén and Linares, which manifested itself between Real Jaén and the predecessors of Linares Deportivo, has been inherited by the new club. The historic rivalry between lagartos (lizards) and mineros (miners), nicknames of the teams from Jaén and Linares, respectively, has its origin in 1922. The matches between Real Jaén and Linares Deportivo are usually called "the Jaén classic", because they are played between the two most important and historic teams in the province of the same name. These matches are usually very popular, although also the cause of some brawl at times between fans of both teams.

Season to season

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

Honours

• Segunda División B (1): 2020–21
• Tercera División (2): 2014–15, 2019–20

Current squad

As of 1 March 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  LTU Ernestas Juškevičius 2 DF  ESP Fran González (on loan from Torreense) 3 DF  ESP Francisco Varela 4 DF  ESP Manuel Molina 5 MF  ESP Javier Rentero 6 MF  ESP Alberto Moreno (on loan from Atlético Madrid B ) 7 FW  ESP Hugo Díaz 8 MF  ESP Rodri (captain) 9 FW  ESP Álvaro Vázquez 10 FW  ESP Fran Carnicer 11 MF  ESP Miguel Berlanga 12 MF  ESP Antonio Marín

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 GK  ESP Samu Casado 14 FW  ESP Samuel Corral 15 MF  ESP Javi Duarte 17 DF  ESP Ángel Martínez 18 DF  ESP Dani Perejón 21 FW  ESP Rafa Llorente (on loan from Cádiz) 23 FW  ESP Gaspar Panadero 27 FW  ESP Inach Fernández 28 MF  ESP Gonzalo Guzmán 29 FW  ESP Zaki 30 MF  ESP Miguel Carrillo

Reserve team

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 — FW  ESP Eugenio Carruana

Notable players

References

1. "Linarejos, home to Linares - Football Ground Map". www.footballgroundmap.com. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
2. "Linares Deportivo - Segunda División B G 4". www.resultados-futbol.com. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
3. "El debut histórico del AD Linares da espectáculo (The historical debut from AD Linares is a show);". Ideal (in Spanish). 24 August 2009.
4. Torres y Vilaseca ascienden a Tercera División con el Linares Deportivo (Torres and Vilaseca are promoted to Tercera División with Linares Deportivo); 28 May 2012 (in Spanish)
5. "El Castellón no remonta ante el Linares y deberá pasar dos eliminatorias más" [Castellón fail to bounce back against Linares and must go through two more play-off rounds] (in Spanish). Castellón Confidencial. 1 June 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
6. "El Linares Deportivo vence al Jumilla y pasa a la siguiente ronda de la Copa del Rey" [Linares Deportivo defeat Jumilla and advance to the next round of the Copa del Rey] (in Spanish). El Deporte de Jaén. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
7. "El Linares Deportivo cae de la Copa del Rey en Las Gaunas" [Linares Deportivo drop out the Copa del Rey in Las Gaunas] (in Spanish). El Deporte de Jaén. 10 September 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
8. "El Linares Deportivo cae ante el Burgos y desciende a Tercera" [Linares Deportivo fall to Burgos and descend to Tercera] (in Spanish). El Deporte de Jaén. 28 May 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
9. "¿Sabías que… la histórica rivalidad entre «lagartos» y «mineros» tiene su origen en 1922? (Did you know that... the historic rivalry between "lizards" and "miners" dates back to 1922?);". InfoLinares (in Spanish). 1 December 2020.
10. "Plantilla 23/24 - Linares Deportivo". linaresdeportivo.es. Retrieved 1 October 2023.

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)
• Linares Deportivo on La futbolteca (in Spanish)

• Football clubs in Andalusia
• Association football clubs established in 2009
• 2009 establishments in Spain
• Linares, Jaén
• Primera Federación clubs