Cartagena FC

This article is about the successor club of FC Cartagena founded in 1940 as UD Cartagenera. For the original club from Cartagena founded in 1919, see Cartagena CF. For Cartagena CF's second successor club and this club's former parent club founded in 1995, see FC Cartagena.

Cartagena Fútbol Club is a Spanish football team based in Cartagena, in the autonomous community of Murcia. They were formerly called UD Cartagenera. Founded in 1940, they are focused on youth football, and hold home games at Ciudad Deportiva Gómez Meseguer, with a capacity of 3,500 seats.^[3]

Cartagena FC

Full name	Cartagena Fútbol Club UCAM
Nickname(s)	Efesé La Cebra (The Zebras)
Founded	25 February 1940; 85 years ago (1940-02-25) as Unión Deportiva Cartagenera
Ground	Ciudad Deportiva Gómez Meseguer Cartagena, Spain
Capacity	3,500[1]
Chairman	José Gómez Meseguer
Manager	Juanjo Tomás[2]
2021–22	3ª RFEF – Group 13, 15th of 18
Home colours Third colours

The club was a reserve team of FC Cartagena, during 2002–2009 and 2011–2014. In 2022, after suffering relegation from the Tercera División RFEF, the club closed their senior football department, only keeping their youth sides.

History

In the 1983–84 season Cartagena was nearly relegated to Segunda División B. The club finished 16th, just one point more than Linares and Algeciras, which moved one division down.^[4]

Club names

• Unión Deportiva Cartagenera – (1940–61)
• Club Deportivo Cartagena – (1961–74)
• Cartagena Fútbol Club – (1974–)

Honours

• Segunda División B
  • Champions (1): 1991–92
• Tercera División
  • Champions (1): 1979–80

Season to season

• As an independent club

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1940–41 4 1ª Reg. 3rd 1941–42 3 1ª Reg. 5th 1942–43 3 1ª Reg. 10th 1943–44 4 1ª Reg. 3rd 1944–45 5 2ª Reg. 1945–46 4 1ª Reg. 9th 1946–47 4 1ª Reg. 2nd 1947–48 5 2ª Reg. 1948–49 4 1ª Reg. 6th 1949–50 5 2ª Reg. 1950–51 5 2ª Reg. 1951–52 5 2ª Reg. 1952–53 4 1ª Reg. 9th 1953–54 3 3ª 16th 1954–55 3 3ª 4th 1955–56 3 3ª 2nd 1956–57 3 3ª 4th 1957–58 3 3ª 2nd 1958–59 3 3ª 3rd 1959–60 3 3ª 5th

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1960–61 3 3ª 2nd 1961–62 2 2ª 11th 1962–63 2 2ª 13th 1963–64 3 3ª 2nd 1964–65 3 3ª 2nd 1965–66 3 3ª 2nd 1966–67 3 3ª 4th 1967–68 3 3ª 3rd 1968–69 3 3ª 2nd 1969–70 3 3ª 4th 1970–71 3 3ª 2nd 1971–72 3 3ª 2nd 1972–73 3 3ª 2nd 1973–74 3 3ª 3rd 1974–75 3 3ª 17th 1975–76 4 Reg. Pref. 4th 1976–77 4 Reg. Pref. 1st 1977–78 4 3ª 2nd 1978–79 4 3ª 5th 1979–80 4 3ª 1st

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1980–81 3 2ª B 5th 1981–82 3 2ª B 2nd 1982–83 2 2ª 16th 1983–84 2 2ª 16th 1984–85 2 2ª 8th 1985–86 2 2ª 14th 1986–87 2 2ª 16th 1987–88 2 2ª 20th 1988–89 3 2ª B 7th

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1989–90 3 2ª B 11th 1990–91 3 2ª B 2nd 1991–92 3 2ª B 1st 1992–93 3 2ª B 5th 1993–94 3 2ª B 5th 1994–95 3 2ª B 16th 1995–96 4 3ª 2nd 1996–97 4 3ª (R) 1997–2002 DNP

• As a reserve team

Season Tier Division Place 2002–03 6 1ª Reg. 13th 2003–04 6 1ª Reg. 4th 2004–05 5 Reg. Pref. 8th 2005–06 5 Reg. Pref. 7th 2006–07 5 Reg. Pref. 9th 2007–08 5 Reg. Pref. 11th 2008–09 5 Reg. Pref. 3rd

• As an independent club

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 2009–10 4 3ª 13th 2010–11 4 3ª 14th

• As a reserve team

Season Tier Division Place 2011–12 4 3ª 16th 2012–13 5 Pref. Aut. 3rd 2013–14 4 3ª 13th

• As an independent club

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 2014–15 4 3ª 16th 2015–16 5 Pref. Aut. 10th 2016–17 5 Pref. Aut. 10th 2017–18 5 Pref. Aut. 13th 2018–19 5 Pref. Aut. 2nd 2019–20 4 3ª 17th 2020–21 4 3ª 5th / 2nd 2021–22 5 3ª RFEF 15th

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• 8 seasons in Segunda División
• 9 seasons in Segunda División B
• 31 seasons in Tercera División
• 1 season in Tercera División RFEF

UD Cartagenera uniform

CD Cartagena logo

CD Cartagena uniform

Selected former players

Jesús Lucendo Juan Cantarutti Pedro Chazarreta Fernando Rodríguez Ferrer Armando Husillos Américo Brizzola Fernando Santis Norberto Huezo Sándor Kiss Tatono Alejandro Sagarduy Fernando Arteaga Francisco Valle Martín Roales José Luis Arjol Alberto Vallina Andrés Fernández Manuel Requena Pedro Cordero

Paco Sánchez Cecilio Zunzunegui José Parra Martínez Quini José Sigüenza Carlos Llorens José Zapatera José Antonio Ramos Asier Garitano Fernando Marcos César Gálvez Mikel Roteta Narciso Rodríguez Enric Cuxart Felipe Nery José Carlos Trasante Daniel Fernández Roberto Álvarez