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Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa
Spanish professional football club
Spanish professional football club
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| clubname | Cultural Leonesa |
| image | Logo of Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa.svg |
| upright | 0.7 |
| fullname | Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa |
| nickname | La Cultu |
| La Leonesa | |
| founded | |
| ground | Estadio Reino de León |
| capacity | 13,346 |
| owner | Aspire Academy (more than 99.74%) |
| 4 minority stockholders (less than 0.26%) | |
| chairman | Mohd Khalifa Al Suwadi |
| chrtitle | President |
| manager | Cuco Ziganda |
| mgrtitle | Head coach |
| league | |
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| website | |
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La Leonesa 4 minority stockholders (less than 0.26%)
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa (), better known as Cultural Leonesa or La Cultural, is a Spanish football team based in León, in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon. Founded on 5 August 1923, it currently plays in , holding home games at Estadio Reino de León, with a capacity of 13,346 seats.
Ahead of the 2014–15 season, the club released a kit designed to look like a tuxedo. The kit, which attracted huge attention in the media and social networking sites, was worn in a pre-season charity match in support of local charities for mining families.
History
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa was founded on 5 August 1923.
In 1926, Cultural Leonesa won the Regional championship and in 1929 Cultural played the Segunda División Grupo B and promoted to the second division.
In 1931, the club ceased activity and several teams were created in the city with the aim to replace them, but after the Spanish Civil War, Cultural Leonesa came back to the competition.
In 1955, Cultural was promoted for the first time to La Liga, but they could only play one season in the Spanish top tier.
In 2011, the club was relegated to Tercera División due to unpaid debts to the players and took two years to recover the place in the third tier. In 2015, the Qatari Aspire Academy bought a controlling 99% of the shares of the club, thus avoiding its dissolution.
On 28 May 2017, Cultural was promoted to Segunda División after 42 years by defeating Barcelona B in the promotion play-offs. On 3 January 2018, Leeds United announced an official partnership with Cultural Leonesa's owners Aspire Academy in Qatar. The link up saw Leeds players Yosuke Ideguchi and Ouasim Bouy both join Cultural Leonesa on loan as part of the unique partnership.
On 2 June 2018, Cultural was relegated to the third level, after being defeated by Numancia on the last matchday. In the 2018–19 season the club played in Segunda División B, Group 1 and fought to be promoted back to the second tier. But it finished only in the 5th position. The club had a good start on the 2019–20 season, being in the 2nd position after first 16 games. In the 2019–2020 season, they upset Atletico de Madrid in the Copa del Rey Round of 32.
On 2 December 2020, Cultural hired Iñigo Idiakez as Head Coach who came from Luton Town in EFL Championship and previously Leicester City and Derby County.
On 24 May 2025, Cultural achieved promoted to Segunda División following draw 1-1 against Andorra and thanks to a superior head-to-head record against runners-up Ponferradina, returned after 7 years absence.
Club structure
| Social area | Juan Luis Diez Mata |
|---|
Season to season
| Season | Tier | Division | Place | Copa del Rey | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | DNP | Round of 32 | First round | Fifth round | Second round |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 3 | 3ª | 1st | |||||||||
| 1929–30 | 2 | 2ª | 10th | |||||||||
| 1930–31 | 3 | 3ª | 6th | |||||||||
| 1931–32 | 3 | 3ª | (W) | |||||||||
| 1932–1939 | ||||||||||||
| 1939–40 | 3 | 1ª Reg. | 2nd | |||||||||
| 1940–41 | 4 | 1ª Reg. | 2nd | |||||||||
| 1941–42 | 3 | 1ª Reg. | 1st | |||||||||
| 1942–43 | 2 | 2ª | 3rd | |||||||||
| 1943–44 | 2 | 2ª | 9th | |||||||||
| 1944–45 | 2 | 2ª | 13th | |||||||||
| 1945–46 | 3 | 3ª | 3rd | |||||||||
| 1946–47 | 3 | 3ª | 2nd | |||||||||
| 1947–48 | 3 | 3ª | 8th | |||||||||
| 1948–49 | 3 | 3ª | 7th | |||||||||
| 1949–50 | 3 | 3ª | 5th | |||||||||
| 1950–51 | 3 | 3ª | 5th | |||||||||
| 1951–52 | 3 | 3ª | 3rd | |||||||||
| 1952–53 | 3 | 3ª | 2nd | |||||||||
| 1953–54 | 2 | 2ª | 4th |
| Season | Tier | Division | Place | Copa del Rey | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | First round | First round | Second round | Fourth round | Fifth round | Fourth round | Third round |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954–55 | 2 | 2ª | 1st | |||||||||||
| 1955–56 | 1 | 1ª | 15th | |||||||||||
| 1956–57 | 2 | 2ª | 6th | |||||||||||
| 1957–58 | 2 | 2ª | 16th | |||||||||||
| 1958–59 | 2 | 2ª | 16th | |||||||||||
| 1959–60 | 3 | 3ª | 1st | |||||||||||
| 1960–61 | 2 | 2ª | 12th | |||||||||||
| 1961–62 | 2 | 2ª | 16th | |||||||||||
| 1962–63 | 3 | 3ª | 4th | |||||||||||
| 1963–64 | 3 | 3ª | 3rd | |||||||||||
| 1964–65 | 3 | 3ª | 7th | |||||||||||
| 1965–66 | 3 | 3ª | 2nd | |||||||||||
| 1966–67 | 3 | 3ª | 3rd | |||||||||||
| 1967–68 | 3 | 3ª | 1st | |||||||||||
| 1968–69 | 3 | 3ª | 4th | |||||||||||
| 1969–70 | 3 | 3ª | 2nd | |||||||||||
| 1970–71 | 3 | 3ª | 1st | |||||||||||
| 1971–72 | 2 | 2ª | 5th | |||||||||||
| 1972–73 | 2 | 2ª | 19th | |||||||||||
| 1973–74 | 3 | 3ª | 1st |
|}
| Season | Tier | Division | Place | Copa del Rey | Fifth round | Second round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | First round | Second round | First round | First round | Third round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Third round |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974–75 | 2 | 2ª | 20th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1975–76 | 3 | 3ª | 6th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1976–77 | 3 | 3ª | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1977–78 | 3 | 2ª B | 6th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1978–79 | 3 | 2ª B | 5th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1979–80 | 3 | 2ª B | 4th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1980–81 | 3 | 2ª B | 4th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–82 | 3 | 2ª B | 19th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1982–83 | 3 | 2ª B | 19th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1983–84 | 4 | 3ª | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1984–85 | 4 | 3ª | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1985–86 | 4 | 3ª | 1st | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1986–87 | 4 | 3ª | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1987–88 | 3 | 2ª B | 14th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1988–89 | 3 | 2ª B | 8th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1989–90 | 3 | 2ª B | 7th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1990–91 | 3 | 2ª B | 9th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1991–92 | 3 | 2ª B | 6th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1992–93 | 3 | 2ª B | 10th | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1993–94 | 3 | 2ª B | 17th |
| Season | Tier | Division | Place | Copa del Rey | Third round | Second round | First round | First round | Preliminary | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994–95 | 4 | 3ª | 1st | |||||||||||
| 1995–96 | 3 | 2ª B | 4th | |||||||||||
| 1996–97 | 3 | 2ª B | 8th | |||||||||||
| 1997–98 | 3 | 2ª B | 4th | |||||||||||
| 1998–99 | 3 | 2ª B | 1st | |||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | 3 | 2ª B | 9th | |||||||||||
| 2000–01 | 3 | 2ª B | 2nd | |||||||||||
| 2001–02 | 3 | 2ª B | 2nd | |||||||||||
| 2002–03 | 3 | 2ª B | 5th | |||||||||||
| 2003–04 | 3 | 2ª B | 4th | |||||||||||
| 2004–05 | 3 | 2ª B | 10th | |||||||||||
| 2005–06 | 3 | 2ª B | 14th | |||||||||||
| 2006–07 | 3 | 2ª B | 11th | |||||||||||
| 2007–08 | 3 | 2ª B | 11th | |||||||||||
| 2008–09 | 3 | 2ª B | 2nd | |||||||||||
| 2009–10 | 3 | 2ª B | 12th | |||||||||||
| 2010–11 | 3 | 2ª B | 14th | |||||||||||
| 2011–12 | 4 | 3ª | 3rd | |||||||||||
| 2012–13 | 4 | 3ª | 2nd | |||||||||||
| 2013–14 | 3 | 2ª B | 14th |
|}
| Season | Tier | Division | Place | Copa del Rey | Second round | Round of 32 | Third round | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Second round | Second round | Second round | Round of 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–15 | 3 | 2ª B | 7th | ||||||||||
| 2015–16 | 3 | 2ª B | 7th | ||||||||||
| 2016–17 | 3 | 2ª B | 1st | ||||||||||
| 2017–18 | 2 | 2ª | 19th | ||||||||||
| 2018–19 | 3 | 2ª B | 5th | ||||||||||
| 2019–20 | 3 | 2ª B | 2nd | ||||||||||
| 2020–21 | 3 | 2ª B | 2nd / 6th | ||||||||||
| 2021–22 | 3 | 1ª RFEF | 12th | ||||||||||
| 2022–23 | 3 | 1ª Fed. | 10th | ||||||||||
| 2023–24 | 3 | 1ª Fed. | 6th | ||||||||||
| 2024–25 | 3 | 1ª Fed. | 1st | ||||||||||
| 2025–26 | 2 | 2ª |
|}
- 1 season in La Liga
- 16 seasons in Segunda División
- 4 seasons in Primera Federación/Primera División RFEF
- 36 seasons in Segunda División B
- 31 seasons in Tercera División/ Segunda División Grupo B (24 on 3rd tier)
Players
Current squad
Reserve team
Main article: Júpiter Leonés
Out on loan
Coaching staff
Notable former players
Note: this list includes players that have appeared in at least 100 league games and/or have reached international status.
Famous coaches
- Spain Miguel Ángel Rubio
Stadium
Main article: Estadio Reino de León
Reserve team
Júpiter Leonés is the reserve team of the club.
Founded in 1929, later known as Cultural de León and finally changed to its current name Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa "B" Jupiter Leonés. After the 2009–10, the team was dissolved after Cultural was relegated to Tercera División due to its debts. In 2014, it was re-founded as the reserve team and after three promotions it currently plays in Tercera División, the fourth tier, after gaining promotion in the Primera División Regional de Aficionados 2017–18 season.
References
References
- (2017-10-05). "Estadio Reino de León".
- (October 18, 2016). "Historia de la Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa". Nos Gusta León.
- (30 June 2011). "Doce equipos descienden por impagos a futbolistas". ABC.es.
- (16 September 2015). "Aspire compra la Cultural Leonesa y evita su desaparición". As.com.
- "LEEDS UNITED LAUNCH ASPIRE ACADEMY PARTNERSHIP".
- (October 25, 2016). "Aspire-owned Cultural Leonesa hope to shock Real".
- "Histórico Cultural Leonesa - Segunda División B G 1 2018/2019".
- "Resultados de Fútbol: Segunda División B Grupo 2".
- "Cultural Leonesa 2 Atlético Madrid 1".
- (January 30, 2018). "PLANTILLA {{!".
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