Cadiz Football Club

The Cádiz Club de Fútbol is a football club based in Cádiz, Spain. It was founded on September 10, 1910 and plays in the First Division of Spain. It has fifteen seasons in the highest category of Spanish football in which it occupies 31st place in its historical classification.

History

Beginnings (1910-1936)

The foundation of Cádiz C. F. dates back to 1908, however it was not registered until September 10, 1910, the date of registration of the Cádiz Foot-Ball Club bylaws in the book of registers of companies of the Civil Government of Cádiz, by virtue of which the Royal Spanish Football Federation gives this date of the year (1910) as the founding date of the current Cádiz C. F.

It was founded in 1910 under the name Miranilla FC. He competed for the first time in the Regional Championship of Andalusia in the 1924-25 season. In June 1936 it changed its name to Cádiz Foot-Ball Club, the most representative name of the city.

1940s

After the civil war, in the 1939-40 season the official competition resumed and after a series of negotiations at the federative level, Cádiz CF was included in the Second National Division, in Group V. This campaign began the season with a board of only four components: Rafael López Gazzo, Juan Oliveros, José Montesinos and Antonio Martín de Mora. The position of coach falls on the player and captain, Santiago Núñez. The squad is made up of only seventeen players, including the coach; and despite all this precariousness, the surprise arises and Cádiz FC is proclaimed champion of its group. In this way, Cádiz earns the right to play in the league of champions that will make the first two classifieds new First Division teams. After a brilliant start, the league got complicated at the end, and Cádiz fought for promotion at the Campo de Mirandilla, on May 5, 1940 against Real Murcia. A defeat by the minimum was enough, but Murcia won by 0 goals to two. And despite the tie on points at the top of the table with Murcia and Deportivo de la Coruña, Cádiz remains in third position making promotion impossible.

This defeat will greatly affect the future of the following seasons; discouragement seized the fans and after spending three more seasons in the Second Division the team was relegated to the Third Division, so that at the start of the 1943-44 season the sporting and economic crisis forced Cádiz to unite with CD Hércules , giving birth to the new entity Hércules de Cádiz CF, which will compete in Group VIII of the Third Division. The season is so catastrophic that at the end of it, Cádiz must play a permanent promotion against Melilla. The first leg, played on June 18, 1944 in Melilla, gave the fatal result of 3-1 in favor of the North Africans. In the second leg, played on the 25th of the same month, Cádiz lost again 1-2, despite going ahead on the scoreboard. The match was full of incidents, including an attack by the match official, who was punched in the mouth by a Cadista player. Cádiz lost the national category.

Despite all this, a group of fans revived the club from its ashes, managed to raise enough money to cover the debts and on October 19, 1944 in an assembly they decided to separate from CD Hércules, to compete as Cádiz CF, with reborn forces to fight in the 1st Regional. In the regular league, Cádiz is champion of the 1st Regional and goes on to play the promotion league. In the league he is eliminated by the Calavera de Sevilla team, but thanks to a reorganization of the Third Division and the withdrawal of Calavera as they do not have their own pitch, it is up to the Cadiz team to play a promotion with Atlético de Tetuán, the which had been bottom of Group IX of the Third Division. On September 2, 1945, the first leg was held in Tetuán, winning it 3-0. The second leg is held on September 9 in Mirandilla, equaling the tie by beating Cádiz 4-1. This result necessitates a playoff that is held on September 11 at the Campo de Nervión in Seville. In an exciting match, and after an extension, Cádiz won 3-2, thus achieving the return to the national category, the Third Division.

1950s

For ten consecutive seasons, Cádiz made a pilgrimage through the Third Division, from 1945-46 to 1954-55. The highlight of this period was the 1950-51 season. At the beginning of it, the club was about to be handed over to the Andalusian Federation for its disappearance due to the impossibility of finding a president to take charge of it; but Vicente del Moral Alonso, in a long assembly, offered himself as president before seeing the entity disappear. The first agreement adopted by the new leaders was to change the color of the shirts to the purple color of the city banner. This fact only took place during that season, the following season yellow and blue were recovered.

After twelve years of absence, in the 1954-55 season they were promoted to the Second Division. He faced Cádiz that season with Juan Ramón Cilleruelo as president and Diego Villalonga as coach. The beginning of it was somewhat difficult, since as a result of a restructuring of the Third Division in which it was expanded to 163 teams, it was the general opinion of the fans to withdraw the Club from the national competition. But president and coach, they alone face the Club's continuity in the category. Thanks to this persistence, the team competes in Group XI of the Third Division and after a great season, Cádiz is proclaimed champion of its group and disputes the promotion group to the Second Division in which it is part of group IV made up of eight teams. On May 1, 1955, in Don Benito, on the last day of the league, Cádiz achieved a goalless draw that was enough to proclaim them group champion and thus achieve promotion. The reception of the team was tremendous, the fans in different means of locomotion moved to the beginning of the municipal term in the Arillo River to escort the team bus to the City Hall. With this promotion begins a cycle in the existence of the club during which the team remains for fourteen consecutive years in the Second Division, from the 1955-56 season to 1968-69.

On September 3, 1955, the Ramón de Carranza Stadium was inaugurated, with the Cádiz CF – FC Barcelona match, which ended with a 0-4 win for the Catalans. That same year, the first edition of the Ramón de Carranza Trophy was also held.

On October 5, 1958, the extreme left Manolín Bueno made his debut as a Cádiz player, who that same season would be transferred to Real Madrid for the important amount, for that time, of one million two hundred thousand pesetas.

The 59-60 season has to be resolved with a permanence promotion disputed with Algeciras, and which the yellow team beat in a hurry.

1960s

In 1959, the Galician Francisco Márquez Veiga became president of the club, one of the presidents who has served the entity for the longest years. During his tenure, the policy of reducing expenses and the promotion of young people in the team prevailed. Long-term projects were his philosophy, and for this reason he kept José Luis Riera as coach for three seasons, and he made a contract for Julio Vilariño for five seasons, of which he was only able to fulfill four.

In the 62-63 season, Cádiz was on the verge of being promoted to the First Division. That same year it is worth noting the presence in the team of the Peruvian Máximo Mosquera, who would become an idol for the fans, but due to adaptation problems he was only there that one season.

The promise of the Cádiz youth academy, Juanito Mariana, was transferred to FC Barcelona in the 67-68 season.

In the 64-65 season, Cádiz had to play a promotion to save themselves from relegation. It was played against a Basque team, SD Eibar. In the first leg they lost in Ipurúa 2-0, and in the second leg in Carranza the tie was equalized by beating Cádiz by the same result as in the first leg. The tiebreaker was held in Madrid, in the old Metropolitan field, beating Cádiz 4-1 after losing 0-1 at half-time. Cádiz remained in the second division thanks to the brilliant performance of an emerging figure, Juanito Mariana, which earned him a transfer to Barcelona.

The 68-69 season was to be forgotten in the history of the club. Despite the great effort of its president, the team descends to the Third Division.

1970s

In the following season (69-70) he only lost one game, with Sevilla Atlético at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, winning 28 games and drawing 9 times. The president, Francisco Márquez Veiga, asked the press for a trust period of one season to return the team to the Second Division, and with León Lasa on the bench he achieved it. He was left out of the celebrations, and after a period of 10 seasons he left the entity without having achieved what he so longed for: promotion to the First Division.

The team finished the regular season as champion of Group VII of the Third Division, having to promote for promotion with Racing Santander. In the first leg held in Cádiz they drew 0-0, but in the second leg in Santander, held on June 21, 1970, Cádiz won 0-1. The reception for the team was splendid, celebrating the promotion throughout the city.

Once again in the Second Division, the former secretary of the former president, José Antonio Gutiérrez Trueba, takes over as president. That year, two promising central defenders made their debut in the team, Andrés and Migueli, who would eventually be transferred to Real Madrid and FC Barcelona respectively. The island goalkeeper Paco, who would later be known as SuperPaco, also played on the team, on loan from Sevilla FC.

The following season, 71-72, was completely disastrous, with up to three coaches passing through the bench: García Andoain, Fernando Daucik and José Antonio Naya. You have to dispute the promotion of permanence with Sestao. They win in Sestao 1-2, and on the return in Cádiz they draw 2-2, with the public saying goodbye to the team with a loud row.

In order to improve the disastrous previous season, Gutiérrez Trueba hires the former national coach, Domingo Balmanya. In Balmanya's first season, youth squad player Mané joined the first team. That same year the second team Cádiz B was created.

During Balmanya's second season as coach (1973-74) players such as: Eloy, Ibáñez, Fernando Carvallo (Chilean player from the Spanish Union of Chile, who became an idol of the fans), Cenitagoya, Marín, Julio Puig, Díaz, Tanco, Mané, Machicha, Isidoro, Mori and Baena, the latter being Pichichi in the category with 23 goals. After a good first round, in the end he narrowly escaped promotion, remaining in 5th place in the standings.

The following season, Gutiérrez Trueba resigned and Vicente Alonso González was elected as the new president, who inherited an entity in a sporting and economic crisis that would make the following campaign, 1975-76, unforgettable, with four coaches on the bench (Sabino Barinaga, Juan Arza, Adolfo Bolea and Luis Escarti), and in which despite a last victory in Tarragona by 0-1, the promotion in which another Basque team cannot be avoided, the Barakaldo. Cádiz wins 3-0 in Carranza and in the second leg they lose 3-2, maintaining the category.

In the 1976-77 season, Manuel de Diego Moreno became president after the resignation of Vicente Alonso.

On the recommendation of sports journalist José María García, Enrique Mateos, a former Real Madrid soccer player and without much experience on the bench, was hired as coach. He was transferred during the campaign to youth player Manolo Botubot to Valencia CF for 25 million pesetas. And after a great campaign, with players like: Quino, Mané, Ibáñez, Carvallo, Ortega, Villalba, Blanco, Santamaría and Puig, on the afternoon of June 5, 1977, beating Tarrasa 2-0 in Carranza, with goals from Villalba and Ortega, promotion to the First Division is achieved. The city lived a celebration of overflowing joy through all its streets.

In the summer of 1977, Cádiz participated for the first time in the Ramón de Carranza Trophy. The following year, in its first season in the First Division, Cádiz pays for the hazing and is relegated. The debut of Pepe Mejías takes place, in a game that Cádiz plays at home in the Domecq stadium in Jerez de la Frontera, due to the closure of Carranza (Cádiz, 2 – RCD Español, 4). Enrique Mateos did not end the season, being replaced by Mariano Moreno. Manuel de Diego resigns at the end of the campaign.

1980s: The Golden Age

Back in the Second Division where it remained for three consecutive years until the Yugoslav coach Dragoljub Milošević arrived in the third year and the most Cádiz-based team in history was made with players from the quarry and the province, with some exceptions punctual of Dos Santos, Hugo Vaca, Zúñiga, Lalovic and Mané II. They simply aspired to permanence, but in a good championship finale comes the last day of the league. On May 24, 1981, they faced Elche CF in Alicante. It was enough for the local team to draw to get promoted, and Cádiz had to win. Cádiz won 1-2, with goals from Zúñiga and Pepe Mejías, thus achieving the second promotion to the First Division. The lineup for Cádiz that afternoon was: Bocoya, Juan José, Dos Santos, Hugo Vaca, Amarillo, Zúñiga, Manolito, Luque, Mejías I, Choquet (López, 86) and Mané I. With this promotion begins a continuous cycle of promotion-relegation, from Second to First, which lasted about six years, and which gave rise to the nickname by which the team was known, the Yellow Submarine.

On their return to the First Division, Cádiz won their first Carranza Trophy in the summer of 1981, beating Sevilla FC 1-0 in the final, with a goal from Dieguito. The team that season earned the title of Matagiantes, given that del Carranza made a stronghold in which they defeated most of the powerful teams in the category: Real Sociedad (2-1), FC Barcelona (1-0), Real Madrid (1-0), Athletic Club (3-0), Real Zaragoza (2-0), Sevilla FC (1-0) and Atlético de Madrid (1-0). But outside of Carranza, all the games were lost except the last one in Castellón, which they won 0-1, so at the end of the season, despite being tied on points with UD Las Palmas and Real Sporting de Gijón, because of the goal- average, the category is demoted. The Cádiz side, Juan José, who would become an absolute international with the Spanish team, was transferred to Real Madrid. After the World Cup in Spain, the Salvadoran World Cup player Mágico González was signed, who became an indisputable idol of the Cádiz fans. The Yugoslavian Milosevic continues as coach and a compatriot of his, Mirko Vojinovic, is also signed. On May 22, 1983, they were promoted to the First Division for the third time by beating Elche CF again 3-1 in Carranza, with goals from Pepe Mejías (2) and Mágico González, and losing to Deportivo de la Coruña in their field with Rayo Vallecano 1-2. In the summer of 1983, Cádiz won its second Carranza Trophy, beating Real Betis on penalties in the final, after drawing 1-1.

Their new stint in the First Division is fleeting like the two previous ones and only lasted one season, 1983-84. On their return to the Second Division, Cádiz had a great season, always occupying first or second place, proclaiming themselves winter champions, with the goalkeeper with the fewest goals scored in the category, the Zamora Trophy for SuperPaco, with 21 goals conceded in 31 games and with the top scorer of the championship, Pichichi Trophy for Salva Mejías, with 17 goals. In the absence of four days the team is mathematically proclaimed as promoted to the First Division. This took place on April 21, 1985, a tie was enough to achieve the goal. The full house was full in Carranza, during the celebrations an unconscious man launched a flare from the preference that crashed into the chest of a fan in the stands, causing his death. Despite being promoted, the team lost 0-1 to CD Castellón and the joy of promotion turned into a big fight between the fans and the players and the coach, Benito Joanet. All celebrations were suspended.

From here begins the longest cycle of Cádiz in the First Division. In the summer of 1985, they won the Carranza Trophy, beating Gremio de Porto Alegre in the final in a penalty shootout, after drawing 1-1. A new season begins, with Paquito as coach, and permanence in the First Division is achieved for the first time in history, with a controversial draw in Carranza against Real Betis.

José Manuel Barla surpassed the hundred matches in Primera with Cadiz between the 1986-1987 and 1992-1993 seasons.

Victor Esparaago trained the club for the season 1987-88.

In August 1986, they won the Carranza Trophy for the second consecutive year, beating Real Betis on penalties in the final, after drawing 1-1. In this season the famous play-off campaign is played. Cádiz finished bottom in the regular league and returned to repeat the place in the play-off, but it happened that a restructuring was carried out, expanding the First Division to 20 teams, for this reason only one team was relegated. Given this, Manuel Irigoyen proposed and it was accepted that it was not the last one that was relegated, but the worst in a liguilla de la muerte, with a single round, among the three teams that had to be relegated, that is, Racing de Santander, CA Osasuna and Cádiz, since "if we had known that only one team was going to be relegated we would have fought not to finish last, when we no longer had a chance of finishing fourth from bottom". Cádiz led by David Vidal tied their two games 1-1 and thanks to Osasuna's 2-0 victory over Santander, it is the latter that is relegated. A Cádiz totally evicted and condemned to the last place in the classification, managed to save the category thanks to the mischief of its president.

In the 1987-88 season, under the guidance of Víctor Espárrago, the best classification in the entire history of Cádiz CF was obtained in the First Division, twelfth place in the table. Cádiz B begins to bear fruit, with a good generation of young promises such as Alfonso Cortijo, Barla, José González, Poli, etc.

In the following 1988-89 season, the services of the Austrian coach Helmut Senekowitsch were hired, soon dismissed and later replaced by David Vidal. The team remains in the lower zone of the standings and in the last game they win 0-1 in Murcia, with a goal from José González, and Cádiz is saved from relegation and promotion.

The 1989-90 season was marked by the long controversy between David Vidal and Mágico González. The fans demand the presence of Mágico, but Vidal does not line him up, claiming that he does not work for the team. In the last four league games, with Collin Addison on the bench, victory is necessary and is achieved by winning all of them 1-0. In one of them there was the curious case that he won 0-1 in Tenerife without shooting a single shot at goal; the goal was the work of local defender Manolo Hierro at his own goal. In the Copa del Rey, the best classification in history is obtained, reaching the semifinals where it is eliminated by Real Madrid C.F..

1990s

In the 1990-91 season, they again reached their necks in the water at the end of the season, although they achieved a golden victory against Real Madrid in Carranza, and, above all, they held on to promotion by beating the last three home games. On a great afternoon, the dream team of Johan Cruyff's FC Barcelona was defeated by a hefty 4-0, when the Catalans came to the Carranza ready to celebrate their League title in Cádiz; two weeks later, they managed to beat a Sevilla Fútbol Club 2-1 that came willing not to give away the game, which finally fell with an agonizing goal by Pepe Mejías in minute 89. Once again, with chances to save themselves, they arrive to the last day and Cádiz was playing it in Carranza with Real Zaragoza, which came with the intention of avoiding promotion. The Maño team took the lead on the scoreboard, leaving the situation almost insurmountable, with a goal from Paquete Higuera in the 65th minute. However, the Ramón Blanco-Lorenzo Buenaventura tandem, who occupies the bench after having replaced the Argentine Héctor Veira, decides to give entry to the field to a boy of the quarry, Kiko Narváez. With nine minutes to go before the game ended, Cádiz was on both feet in the Second Division, but Kiko caused a penalty that was converted by the Argentine Dertycia and a minute later, Kiko himself scored the winning goal, and Cádiz, along with Zaragoza precisely, he accessed promotion escaping relegation, where CD Castellón fell after losing his match against Real Oviedo who was seeking to enter the UEFA Cup. In promotion, the obstacle is CD Málaga. After losing 1-0 at La Rosaleda, they managed to equalize the tie in Carranza with a goal from José González and after suffering the expulsions of Barla and Quevedo they managed to hold out for the remainder of the game and overtime, to reach a dramatic penalty shootout where Raúl Procopio failed, but when everything seemed lost, Szendrei saved two consecutive penalties, the first against Mata, in the fifth and last regular shot that would have earned him promotion to Málaga, and the second, after scoring Juan José for Cádiz in the first shot of sudden death (his last action in professional football), Emilio was given the decisive penalty that once again left Cádiz among the elite of Spanish football for another year.

The following season, with Ramón Blanco on the bench, Cádiz also avoided direct relegation on the last day, although in a less agonizing way than the previous season. Of the league course, the draw at one goal at the Bernabéu against Real Madrid with a goal by Moisés Arteaga stands out, and at the Nuevo Estadio José Zorrilla against Real Valladolid, where he managed to draw at two goals when four minutes of ninety passed, which It allowed them to reach the last day more comfortably, since with a draw against Real Sporting de Gijón in Carranza, where nothing was at stake, it was enough, and it ended 1-1. The promotion was disputed with Figueras and they surpassed it in a relatively comfortable way, winning at home 2-0 with goals from Brazilian Mario Tilico and Fali Benítez from Chiclanero, and drawing 1-1 in Figueras with a goal from Mami Quevedo. Again it is possible to maintain the category.

The 1992-93 season ended the golden age of Cádiz in the first division. This season the miracle was not repeated. The club becomes a sports limited company. The businessmen do not respond and the fans do not have the necessary purchasing power to take over the shares of the club, Irigoyen finds himself in need of convincing the City Council to take over the shares. The socialist councilor Rafael Garófano is placed as president, who, given the priority of recovering the amount invested, through negotiations carried out by Irigoyen, transfers the company to a group of investors (Cádiz Sports Promotions) headed by Jesús Gil, president of Atletico Madrid. Cádiz is relegated to the Second Division. During the summer Kiko and Quevedo are transferred to Atlético de Madrid. Moisés Arteaga also leaves for RCD Español.

In the 1993-94 season, despite starting as a favourite, the negative results kept happening, as did the coaches on the bench. Up to four coaches tried to straighten the course, but the team sinks into the Second Division B, hand in hand with the Real Burgos Club de Fútbol, which has also dropped precipitously two years in a row. Irigoyen, who had been appointed CEO, had his ups and downs with Jesús Gil and left the entity. In this way he leaves the president with the longest tenure in office and the most successful in the history of Cádiz. Gil, appoints José Luis Fernández Garrosa as the new CEO of the entity.

As the only successes in these years, Cádiz won the 1993 and 1994 Carranza Trophies consecutively, both in penalty shootouts, after draws with SE Palmeiras (1993) and Sevilla FC (1994).

The first stage of Segunda División B lasts nine long years. During the 1995-96 pre-season the team was about to disappear due to financial problems, but thanks to a group of cadistas headed by Antonio Muñoz Vera and Manuel García Fernández, the entity returned to Cádiz hands. That year during the course of the championship, due to poor results, five players were fired: Zapatera, Pino, Ortiz, Bono and Garitano. The following week the coach, Paco Chaparro, was fired.

The Muñoz-García pairing broke up in the 1996-97 season with the resignation and departure of the second club. In the 1997-98 season, for the first time, the team qualified for the promotion league led by Ramón Blanco, having no luck in it. They win and tie with Barcelona B and Cultural Leonesa, but lose both games with Real Madrid B. However, Barcelona B is the team that gets promotion. Given the large debt that the club carries, the shares are put up for sale, a large package of shares, more than fifty percent, is acquired by the Madrid group Asesoramiento Deportivo Andaluz (ADA).

In the 1998-99 campaign, with the club already in the hands of ADA, Antonio Muñoz continued as president and, given the bad results at the beginning of the championship, he was forced to resign, occupying the position the advisor of the majority partner Rafael Mateo Alcántara. Mateo dismisses the coach Juan Antonio Sánchez Franzón on the bench, who had replaced the initial coach Ismael Díaz Galán, and replaces him with the Catalan coach Jordi Gonzalvo who does not achieve the objectives for which he had been hired.

Scrambled 2000s

Andrés Fleurquín was part of the first eleven he got in Chapín, the penultimate ascent to First Division of Cadiz CF to date.

In the 2000-01 season, with the club on the point of disappearing (a situation that Betic president Lopera helped to avoid), a very good campaign was carried out. It stands out that only three goals were conceded in the second round and the last ten league games were won. In the promotion group they lacked luck and despite being the leader they tied on points with Gimnàstic de Tarragona, who rose by goal-average.

In the 2002-03 season, the wardrobe was revolutionized. He bets on a young coach, coming from the quarry who has just had a sensational season with the youth team, the former player José González. He trusts Alfonso Cortijo as second coach. There is also a change in the technical secretariat, being named Alberto Benito, player of the team until the previous season. Likewise, the revolution reaches the offices, assigning the management of the club to José Mata Morales, a renowned cadista and marketing expert who replaces Francisco Canal Fidalgo in his position. Cádiz dominated the league with authority from the first moment and was able to get into fourth place in the promotion group. In the league, they only lose one game, the one played at the Miniestadi against Barcelona B 3-1. On June 29, 2003, with some 15,000 fans at the Ramón de Carranza Stadium and Cádiz playing at the Juan Guedes Stadium in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria against Universidad, the crowd is only aware of a large screen on which the the party in the Canaries. A draw is enough for Cádiz, but Universidad takes the lead with a goal from Jonathan Sesma, who would end up at Cádiz that summer. Shortly after, a drive by Matías Pavoni ended in a penalty that was converted by Abraham Paz from Porto. The match ends 1-1 and madness breaks out in Cádiz. The city took to the streets and in the fountain of the Puertas de Tierra the cadistas bathed to celebrate it.

In the 2003-04 campaign, Cádiz again in the Second Division, had a good championship, settling in the category. In the social section, the club's structures undergo a profound renovation, laying the necessary foundations for the entity's adaptation to the new structures of current professional football. The official store is created, the Cádiz CF Foundation, the Michael Robinson Football School, a psycho-pedagogical counseling office, the business club and the official website is promoted among other things. The number of clubs spread throughout Spain is also growing, reaching fifty of them.

Cádiz under the orders of the Uruguayan Víctor Espárrago achieved promotion to the First Division in the 2004-05 season, which was consummated in Chapín, against Xerez CD, which the yellows beat 0-2, with goals from Oli and Abraham Paz from a penalty. The starting eleven of that game was made up of: Armando, Raúl López, Abraham Paz, De Quintana, Varela, Suárez (Bezares 67'), Fleurquín, Enrique (Dani Navarrete 75'), Jonathan Sesma, Pavoni (Manolo Pérez 87') and Oli.

Celebration of the promotion of Cadiz Club of Football to First Division of Spain in the 2004-05 season.

The following season, 2005-06, in first class, is more discreet. The promising Spanish-Guinean midfielder Benjamín Zarandona was signed, who would barely have minutes in Víctor Espárrago's line-ups, disappearing from them in February, despite a good start to the championship, finally the bad results are echoed in the Cádiz entity, ending the campaign by giving a hand to the Málaga Club de Fútbol (the team that would finish twentieth in the table) 5-0 at the Carranza, but this would not prevent Cádiz from returning to the Second Division, being nineteenth in the table with 8 wins, 12 draws and 18 losses. There would be games that would leave the last mark of Cádiz in the First Division, such as the 0-2 in Cornella-El Prat or a tight 1-2 in La Romareda, in his return, José González's Cádiz obtained fifth place, but in the following campaign 2007-08 The businessman from Cadiz living in Madrid, Arturo Baldasano Supervielle, buys the club., they make the club find itself in technical bankruptcy. Baldasano leaves, Muñoz returns, who dispenses with the former's board of directors and coaching staff, triggering the settlements and worsening the situation, and the course of a disillusioned and unmotivated dressing room cannot be straightened, which enters a negative line that will make him descend back to Segunda B. They can still avoid relegation to 2nd B on the last day if they beat Hércules Club de Fútbol in Alicante. Cádiz took the lead with a goal from Gustavo López, but a few minutes later the local team tied with a suspicious ball control error by Abraham Paz. In minute 96 of a long discount, with all the First and Second games finished, Cádiz finds themselves with a penalty in their favor at the hands of a defender. Once again Abraham Paz is sad news, when he shoots at the post, the ball bounces off the goalkeeper's body and goes out through the end line, ending the game there. More grotesque was the arrival of the team's bus back to Cádiz, where they only take a handful of players who can be counted on the fingers of one hand; the rest had gone on vacation as soon as they left the José Rico Pérez Stadium, each one to their ball, and the coach Julián Rubio without knowing it.

This time, Cádiz's journey through Segunda B only lasted one season, 2008-09. The team under the direction of a young coach, Javi Gracia, qualified as group champion to play in the play-off for promotion to the second division. His rival was the Real Unión de Irún. The first leg was played at the Ramón de Carranza Stadium, with the result 1-0 in favor of the Cadista team with a goal from Mariano Toedtli. The return match at the Stadium Gal ended in a 0-0 draw, making the income of the Cádiz team sufficient in the first leg, so they thus managed to return to the second division. Later, they became the first absolute champion of Second Division B, beating FC Cartagena in the final in a double game for the title, a 1-2 victory in Cartagena and a 1-1 draw in Carranza.

In the 2009-10 season, the team from Cádiz was immersed in the 2nd Division, followed on the bench by the architect of the promotion, Javi Gracia. For this season, the hiring of the international striker Diego Tristán or as the Nigerian striker Ogbeche stood out, after an irregular start to the season in the middle of the season, the coach was replaced by Víctor Espárrago to avoid relegation from 2nd B but after a pathetic season the team does not achieve permanence. Cádiz ended up being relegated on the last day at home against CD Numancia, which they managed to beat in a sterile manner 4-2 in front of some 10,000 spectators who left crestfallen and in silence at the end of the game. The new relegation to 2nd B makes Antonio Muñoz and his board of directors present their resignation en bloc and announce that the club is for sale, and the sale price is 3.5 million euros, all this causes a crisis in the club, entering this in a Bankruptcy Law.

Cycle in Second B (2009-2016)

Dani Güiza, the man who gave the decisive goal of the climb from Cadiz to Second.

In the 2010-11 season, the team managed to finish in fourth place in the standings, with a squad that was much worse than the previous year. Hristo Vidakovic begins training the club, but on matchday 13 he is dismissed and José González arrives, who with his pluses and minuses achieves the classification. The position achieved in the league allowed Cádiz to play promotion to the Second Division in 2011. After winning 2-0 in Carranza, they were eliminated in the first round after losing in Anduva against Club Deportivo Mirandés by a result of 4-1, in a game where once again the yellows showed a cowardly attitude and did not live up to it. That summer of 2011, an agreement was reached with Quique Pina, president of the Granada Football Club, for the sports management of the club, as well as a possible sale of the club at the end of the campaign in 2012, on which it will depend if Cádiz is promoted. to Second or if it goes ahead in the Bankruptcy Law. Quique Pina has relations with the Pozzo family, owner of the Italian Udinese, who gets players to transfer and sell them. The Cádiz squad, made up predominantly of players they own, wins the championship of their group, which gives them the possibility of being promoted directly after eliminating another champion, or re-engaging in a play-off if they were eliminated. It's up to Real Madrid Castilla, who won the first leg 0-3 at Carranza and the second leg 5-1 at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium, in a tie where the white team was clearly superior. In the play-offs, they managed to eliminate Albacete in a penalty shootout in Carranza after drawing both games 0-0, but promotion could not be completed in the next round when they fell to CD Lugo also on penalties, after equalizing in Carranza on 3- 1 of the first leg in Lugo in that match marked by the arbitration controversy.

Despite not being promoted, Pina continued to be interested in the club, and he asked Muñoz to give him his shares for a year so that he could fully manage the club, try to promote again and only from there, in his opinion, there will start to be benefits. But Muñoz finally rejected the proposal and on July 12, 2012 he sold his shares for 400,000 euros to an international capital group, Italian-Swiss to be more exact, with a visible head for Cádiz in the figure of Florentino Manzano García as the new president., Alessandro Gaucci, as sports director, and Giovanni del Re as representative of the investment group, ending Muñoz's period as the club's largest shareholder.

Two promotions (2016-2020)

In the 2015-16 season, Cádiz is the last club to be promoted to the Second Division after an irregular campaign, they achieved it against Hércules de Alicante, winning 1-0 at the Carranza, and 0-1 at the José Stadium Rico Pérez for a decisive goal from Jerez's ex-Red international Dani Güiza and after winning the previous qualifying rounds against Racing de Ferrol and Racing de Santander.

The 2016-17 season started, Álvaro Cervera continued with the club, and it began irregularly but later consolidating and obtaining good results, ending in play-off positions in the First Division in winter.

On June 4, 2017, Cádiz CF would qualify for the playoffs for promotion to the First Division, also consolidating the relegation of Elche CF after beating it 2-1.

On July 12, 2020 after losing Real Zaragoza against Real Oviedo, Cádiz was promoted to first division for the first time in 14 years.

Choco Lozano scored the goal that allowed Cadiz to stay in the 2021-2022 season.

In the 2020-2021 season, Cádiz became one of the revelation teams of La Liga Santander, achieving a comfortable permanence for a recently promoted team and beating clubs like FC Barcelona or Real Madrid Club de Fútbol. Thanks to the formidable work of coach Álvaro Cervera, with a very clear and defined game, and players like Álvaro Negredo, Rafael Giménez Jarque (Fali), Jens Jønsson and Jeremías Ledesma.

However, poor planning in the summer led to a bad first round in the 2021-2022 season, causing the dismissal of Álvaro Cervera, replaced by Sergio González. The new coach, together with signings from the winter market such as Rubén Alcaraz, Fede San Emeterio or Lucas Pérez, achieved 25 points in 18 days, saving the Cadista team in an agonizing last day thanks to the 0-1 victory in Mendizorroza against Deportivo Alavés and the goalless draw at Nuevo Los Cármenes between Granada CF and RCD Espanyol.

Historical trajectory

Infrastructure

Stadium

It has a capacity of 25,033 spectators and dimensions of 105 × 66 meters. Built by Manuel Muñoz Monasterio and Manuel Fernández Pujol. It cost 11,000,000 pesetas to build.

It was inaugurated on September 3, 1955 with the match between Cádiz C. F. and FC Barcelona, which ended with a 0-4 win for the blaugranas. That same year, the first edition of the Ramón de Carranza Trophy was also held. There have been many stadiums where Cádiz and its predecessor teams have played, although none of them have played as many games as in Carranza:

The Jockey Club, which had been in operation since 1890, was the first field of the first Cádiz, located at the height of the current stadium, on the other side of the old railway track, now buried.

The Ramón de Carranza Stadium is the only one that has seen Cádiz play the 'Carranza Trophy', since it did not participate in it until it was promoted. Great and famous players have stepped on its grass: Maradona, Cruyff, Laudrup, Van Basten, and many more. In addition, Butragueño made his debut at this stadium with the Real Madrid first team, also scoring in his debut.

Sports City

Bay Sports City, place of the training sessions of Cadiz C. F.

The germ of the current sports city of Cádiz C. F. was planted more than 30 years ago, although it is now when it is getting the most out of it. Located in the municipality of Puerto Real, and near the Barrio Jarana, the former Ciudad Deportiva de El Rosal was renamed Ciudad Deportiva Bahía de Cádiz after its inauguration in September 2006. It was only a partial inauguration since it is currently in process of reform and growth and there are many facilities that are planned to be built in the project. Among these we must highlight a car park and a hotel.

The Bahía de Cádiz Sports City is where the first team of the Cádiz Club de Fútbol usually trains, in addition to the teams from the lower categories, who also play their official matches there. And not only they use the facilities. On occasions, and when so requested, other teams in the province enjoy this modern sports complex.

It has four soccer fields: two with natural grass and two with artificial grass. It is an advantage to have the latter, since the first team can make use of them to prepare for matches against teams that have pitches of this size and all without leaving their natural habitat.

The four fields are:

• The Ramón Blanco field: It is the main one, is located in the lower zone, has natural grass and is the place chosen by the Cadiz C. F. to train. It has a grad with capacity for 2000 spectators so Cadiz B plays there its official meetings. Next to this field are the costumes of the first team and the subsidiary, the gym, the massage room and the press room.
• Fields 2 and 3: They're upstairs, they're artificial grass and they've got a 500 people grade. There they train and play the lower categories.
• The field number 4: It is next to the previous two, it is natural grass and also has a small grad. Cadiz C. F. trains there sporadically.

Uniform

The first uniform worn by Cádiz consisted of a white shirt, white shorts and black socks. Later the uniform changed, the Mirandilla FC, had been founded within the San Miguel Arcángel College and used the Lasallian colors, that is, blue and yellow. In many press articles the team was known as the “blue cream” team.

In the 1933/34 season, a new stage in the club's history began, as the Mirandilla Sports Field was inaugurated and professionalism was introduced, which would lead to the club's participation in official championships. This new stage can be seen in the team's new shirts, which, although they maintain the hallmarks of their blue and yellow colors, do abandon the vertical stripes to use the uniformity that continues to this day, that is, a yellow shirt and blue shorts.

Evolution

1910

2012-13

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

Shield

Escudo de Cádiz.

The shield of Cádiz CF shows Hercules with two lions and in the background the columns of Hercules from the city's shield.

Sponsorship

Period	Supplier	Sponsor
1980-86	Meyba	None
1986-90		None
1990-96		None
1996-07		None
2007-08	None
2008-09
2009-12		La Pepa 2012
2012–13		Gagà Milano
2013-15		None
2015-16		None
2016-21
2021-Act.		JOBChain

Academy

Soccer players have emerged from his academy who, over time, achieved national and international renown, such as Juanito Mariana, Antonio Calderón, Kiko, Migueli, Juan José, Paco Baena, Pepe Mejías, Chico Linares, Abraham Paz, Juan Delgado, Marc Forqués, Pau Bertomeu, Álex Carrasco, Óscar Catalá, Carlos Marí, Roberto Carrió.

Cádiz Football Club "B"

The Cádiz Club de Fútbol "B" is the affiliate team of Cádiz. In the 2019-20 season, it competes in Second Division B. It occupies 311th place in the historical classification of Second Division B, with 0 games played and 0 points.

Cádiz Women's Soccer Club

Founded in 2016, it is the women's section of the club and is currently a member of the First National. Play at home on Field 3 of the Ciudad Deportiva Bahía de Cádiz, with a capacity of 500 spectators.

Club details

Denominations

During its history, the entity has seen how its name varied due to various circumstances to the current Cádiz Club de Fútbol S. A. D., in force since 1992. The club was founded under the name of Mirandilla Foot-Ball Club until it merged with Cádiz a year later as Mirandilla FC Sports Cultural Society

The following are the different denominations that the club has had during its history:

• Mirandilla Foot-Ball Club (1910-31): First Club prior to its merger.
• Cultural and Sports Society Mirandilla Foot-Ball Club (1931-36): Change in your denomination.
• Cadiz Foot-ball Club (1936-41): Fusion with the Spanish Football Club and a new Cadiz Foot-ball Club as a global representative club of the town.
• Cadiz Club of Football (1941-43): After the establishment of the Spanish State, monarchical allusions are restored.
• Hercules de Cádiz Club de Fútbol (1943-44): He puts the appeal of "Hércules" to his denomination.
• Cadiz Club of Football (1944-92): He dropped the "Hércules" rating back to his previous name.
• Cadiz Club of Football S. A. D. (1992-Act.): Conversion of the entity into an anonymous sports company (S.A. D.).

Nickname

The Cadista club is known as the Submarino Amarillo, a nickname that it earned in the mid-80s and early 90s, the club from Cádiz managed to avoid relegation to the Second Division in eight consecutive seasons. Cádiz CF used to have irregular seasons flirting with relegation and in the last days they managed to get out of the last places of the classification to achieve permanence. For this reason, Cádiz earned this nickname, due to its ability to go up and down between the last positions of the table, playing dangerously with relegation.

Another team that has used the same pseudonym since the 1960s is Villarreal CF, provoking conflicting arguments between the two hobbies about who is the real submarine.

Summarized honors list

Copa del Trofeo Ramón de Carranza, played for the first time in 1955.

Cádiz C. F. has accumulated numerous trophies in its more than one hundred years of history. Among them, one Second Division league, four Second B group championships, one Second B absolute champion title in the 2008-2009 season and two Third Division leagues in the national championships stand out for importance.

In the highest Spanish competition, the Primera División, it has participated in fifteen seasons, and achieved a twelfth place as the best result in the 1987-88 and 2020/21 seasons, and ranks thirty-first in its historical ranking.

In his records in the Second Division he accumulates a total of forty-one seasons in which he occupies the eighth position in his historical classification, being the 2004-05 championship his best participation, in addition to five runners-up, six promotions to the first division, a league for promotion to the first division (1939/40) and a play-off for promotion to the first division (2016/17).

In lower divisions he has sixteen appearances in the Second Division "B" and twelve in Third Division.

As for the second most important competition in Spain, the Copa del Rey sixty participations, the semifinals reached in the 1989-90 season remain as of 2020 as their best result.

Finally, he has two 2nd A Pichichi Trophy and two 2nd A Zamora Trophy.

Note: in bold current competitions.

National competition	Titles	Subcamponatos
Second Division (1)	2004-05	1976-77, 1980-81, 1982-83, 1984-85, 2019-20 (5)
Second Division "B" (2)	2000-01, 2008-09 Group Championships: 2000-01 (G.IV), 2008-09 (G.IV), 2011-12 (G.IV), 2014-15 (G.IV)
Third Division (2)	1954-55 (G. XI), 1969-70 (G. VII)	1946-47 (1)

Regional competition	Titles	Subcamponatos
Copa de Andalucía (1)	1915-1916.	1921-1922. (1)

On the other hand, the aforementioned Andalusian Cup had previous editions under the names of the Andalusian-Extremadura Championship or the Centenary Cup, framed within the regional scope and considered for that purpose as a regional championship. However, as they are privately organized by the Real Club Recreativo de Huelva and by the Spanish Football Club itself, instead of by the corresponding federative body, they are not considered official.

Friendly Trophies

• Trophy Port Town: (13) 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1986, 1994, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009
• Trofeo Ramón de Carranza: (9) 1981, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1993, 1994, 2006, 2011, 2020
• Trofeo Bay of Algeciras-Virgen de la Palma: (4) 1984, 2005, 2007, 2012
• Trophy Luis Bermejo (Badajoz) : (2) 1969, 1984
• Trophy City of the Line: (2) 2018, 2019
• Trofeo Mayor Villa de Los Barrios (1): 2019.
• Trophy Alcarria: (1) 1997
• Trophy City of Melilla:(3) 1988, 1989, 1990

Other awards include:

• Trophy Pedro Zaballa de la R. F. E. F (Real Spanish Football Federation) (2005-06).
• Gold Medal of the City of Cadiz (2005).
• Plate of gold of the province of Cadiz awarded by the Provincial Council of Cadiz (2006).
• Royal Golden Plate Sports Merit Order (2010), granted by its "merits, circumstances and contribution to sport that are reflected in the sport history"
• Gold Medal of the R.F.A.F (Real Andalusian Federation of Football) (2011).

• A street in the town of Algar (Cádiz) leads

the name of Cádiz CF

Trajectory

Season League Post Cup 1935-36 2. a 7. - 1939-40 2. a 3.o - 1940-41 2. a 8. 1.a round 1941-42 2. a 3.o - 1942-43 2. a 7. - 1943-44 3. a 10. - 1944-45 Reg 1.o - 1945-46 3. a 8. - 1946-47 3. a 2. - 1947-48 3. a 5.o 3.a round 1948-49 3. a 5.o - 1949-50 3. a 8. - 1950-51 3. a 8. - 1951-52 3. a 4.o - 1952-53 3. a 3.o - 1953-54 3. a 3.o - 1954-55 3. a 1.o - 1955-56 2. a 14.o - 1956-57 2. a 12. - 1957-58 2. a 10. - 1958-59 2. a 7. 1/8 final 1959-60 2. a 14.o 1.a round

Season League Post Cup 1960-61 2. a 4.o 1.a round 1961-62 2. a 10. 1.a round 1962-63 2. a 4.o 1/16 final 1963-64 2. a 7. 1.a round 1964-65 2. a 14.o 1.a round 1965-66 2. a 12. 1.a round 1966-67 2. a 8. 1/16 final 1967-68 2. a 5.o 1.a round 1968-69 2. a 18. - 1969-70 3. a 1.o 1/16 final 1970-71 2. a 12. 3.a round 1971-72 2. a 16. 4.a round 1972-73 2. a 7. 4.a round 1973-74 2. a 5.o 3.a round 1974-75 2. a 5.o 4.a round 1975-76 2. a 13. 1/16 final 1976-77 2. a 2. 3.a round 1977-78 1. a 18. 1/8 final 1978-79 2. a 8. 4.a round 1979-80 2. a 8. 2.a round 1980-81 2. a 2. 3.a round 1981-82 1. a 16. 2.a round

Season League Post Cup 1982-83 2. a 2. 1/8 final 1983-84 1. a 16. 2.a round 1984-85 2. a 2. 1/8 final 1985-86 1. a 15. 2.a round 1986-87 1. a 18. 1/8 final 1987-88 1. a 12. 1/8 final 1988-89 1. a 15. 1/4 final 1989-90 1. a 15. 1/2 1990-91 1. a 18. 1/8 final 1991-92 1. a 18. 3.a round 1992-93 1. a 19. 4.a round 1993-94 2. a 20. 4.a round 1994-95 2.a B 10. 2.a round 1995-96 2.a B 6.o - 1996-97 2.a B 7. - 1997-98 2.a B 3.o - 1998-99 2.a B 5.o 2.a round 1999-00 2.a B 12. 1.a round 2000-01 2.a B 1.o - 2001-02 2.a B 7. 1/32 final 2002-03 2.a B 4.o - 2003-04 2. a 7. 1/16 final

Season League Post Cup 2004-05 2. a 1.o 1/16 final 2005-06 1. a 19. 1/4 final 2006-07 2. a 5.o 3.a round 2007-08 2. a 20. 3.a round 2008-09 2.a B 1.o 1.a round 2009-10 2. a 19. 2.a round 2010-11 2.a B 4.o 3.a round 2011-12 2.a B 1.o 1/16 final 2012-13 2.a B 13. 2.a round 2013-14 2.a B 4.o - 2014-15 2.a B 1.o 1/16 final 2015-16 2.a B 4.o 1/8 final 2016-17 2. a 5.o 3.a round 2017-18 2. a 9. 1/8 final 2018-19 2. a 7. 1/16 final 2019-20 2. a 2. 2.a round 2020-21 1. a 12. 1/16 final 2021-22 1. a 17. 1/4 final Seasons in 1.a : 15 Seasons in 2.a : 41 Seasons in 2.a "B"16 Seasons in 3.a : 12

Sports organization chart

For a complete detail of the current season, see Season 2022-23 of Cadiz Club Football

Players

During the entity's more than one hundred years, more than a thousand footballers have worn the club's shirt. a total of thirty footballers. In total, more than a hundred foreign players have defended the yellow jersey.^{[citation needed]}

In addition, the players who were under the club's discipline for the longest years stand out in Cadista history, the natives Raúl López, Manolito Muñoz and Chico Linares with a total of fourteen seasons for the first and thirteen for the second.

Regarding the number of games and goals, the aforementioned Raúl López heads the list with a balance of 400 games —forty-six above Linares— and Paco Baena led the list of all-time scorers with 80 —five ahead of Mágico González, considered one of its most famous players.

Squad and coaching staff

Cadiz Club of Football of the season 2022/23

Players	Technical body		More used tactical scheme
N.o Nac. Pass. Pos. Name Age Eq. provenance Cont. INT. Porteros 1 ARG! 0BY Jeremiah Ledesma 30 years C. A. Rosario Central 2025 Sub-23 13 ESP! 0BY David Gil 29 years quarry 2025 Defense 2 ESP! 1DEF Raúl Parra 23 years quarry 2024 3 ESP! 1DEF Rafael Jiménez, "Fali" 29 years Gimnàstic de Tarragona 2024 5 SEN! 1DEF "Momo" Mbaye 24 years quarry 2024 Sub-20 20 ESP! 1DEF "Iza" Carcelén 29 years C. F. Rayo Majadahonda 2023 21 PAR! 1DEF Santiago Arzamendia 24 years Cerro Porteño 2025 Absolute 22 URU! 1DEF Alfonso Espino 31 years National 2023 23 ESP! 1DEF Luis Hernández 33 years Maccabi Tel Aviv F. C. 2025 Sub-19 25 ESP! 1DEF Jorge Meré 25 years Club America 2023 Sub-21 32 ESP! 1DEF Victor Chust 23 years Real Madrid C. F. 2026 Sub-21 - ESP! 1DEF Joseba Zaldua 30 years Real Society 2025 Campers 4 ESP! 2MED Ruben Alcaraz 31 years Real Valladolid C. F. 2024 6 ESP! 2MED "José Mari" Martin-Bejarano 35 years Levante U. D. 2024 8 ESP! 2MED "Alex" Fernandez 30 years Elche C. F. 2025 Sub-20 11 ESP! 2MED Ivan Alejo 28 years Getafe C. F. 2025 Sub-19 12 Mali! 2MED Youba Diarra 25 years R. B. Salzburg 2027 17 ARG! 2MED Gonzalo Escalante 30 years S.S. Lazio 2023 24 ESP! 2MED "Fede" San Emeterio 26 years Real Valladolid C. F. 2026 Sub-19 - ESP! 2MED Jon Ander Garrido 33 years Grenada C. F. 2023 Delanteros 7 ESP! 3OF THE Ruben Sobrino 30 years Valencia C. F. 2024 Sub-19 9 HON! 3OF THE "Choco" Lozano 29 years Girona F. C. 2023 Absolute 10 DRC! 3OF THE Théo Bongonda 27 years K. R. C. Genk 2026 Absolute 14 URU! 3OF THE Brian Ocampo 23 years National 2026 Absolute 15 ESP! 3OF THE Roger Martí 32 years Elche C.F. 2023 16 ESP! 3OF THE Chris Ramos 26 years C.D. Lugo 2028 18 ESP! 3OF THE Álvaro Negredo 37 years Al-Nasr S. C. 2023 Absolute 19 ESP! 3OF THE Sergi Guardiola 31 years Real Valladolid 2023 Cessions - Argentina! 0BY Juan Flere 24 years → Algeciras C. F. 2025 - Spain! 2MED Álvaro Jiménez 27 years → U. D. Las Palmas 2025 - Montenegro! 3OF THE Milutin Osmajić 23 years → F. C. Vizela 2024 Absolute - Spain! 2MED Martín Calderón 24 years → R. C. Celtic "B" 2024 Sub-19 - Spain! 3OF THE Ivan Chapela 23 years → Unionists of Salamanca C. F. 2024 Sub-17 - Chile! 2MED Tomás Alarcón 24 years → Real Zaragoza 2025 Absolute - Australia! 3OF THE Awer Mabil 27 years → Sparta Prague 2026 Absolute	Coach(s) Sergio González Deputy(s) Diego Ribera Jesus Muñoz Physical Preparer(s) Sergio Dorado Coach(s) of porters "Lolo" Bocardo Physical therapist(s) Jesus Moran Doctor(s) Antonio Luis Pérez Legend Captain Mission quarry (club-trained) Training (association-trained) European passport Aliens Extracommunity without restriction Lost to the club Granted to another club Discarded / No chip Updated on January 2, 2022 Official web template		4-4-2 ARG! BY 1 DEF 2 DEF 23 DEF 32 DEF 22 MED 24 OF THE 18 MED 4 MED 11 MED 14 OF THE 7 Incorporation 2022-23 Ruben Alcaraz ( Real Valladolid C. F.) Awer Mabil ( F. C. Midtjylland) Victor Chust ( Real Madrid C. F.) Joseba Zaldua ( Royal Society) Théo Bongonda ( K. R. C. Genk) Brian Ocampo ( National) "Fede" San Emeterio ( Real Valladolid C. F.) Antonio Blanco ( Real Madrid C. F.) Youba Diarra ( R. B. Salzburg) Filials with participation "Mady" Diarra (Debut on 14-8-2022) Lautaro Spatz (Debut on 13-11-2022) Carlos García (Debut on 30-12-2022)

Technical plot

The current president of the Cádiz Football Club is the Sevillian Manuel Vizcaíno Fernández.

Coaches

Most of the club's coaches throughout its history have been Spanish, and some were former team players, such as Antonio Calderón, Chico Linares or José González. In addition to Spaniards, two Argentines, a Serb, a Uruguayan, an Austrian and an Englishman have passed through the Cádiz bench.

The only title won by the club, the Second Division league, was won while coach Víctor Espárrago.

The Hispanic - Guinean Álvaro Cervera is the coach who has accumulated the most games since he arrived on April 18, 2016 to take charge of the squad and was dismissed on January 11, 2022.

Rivalries

Municipality of Cadiz and Jerez de la Frontera in the province of Cadiz.

The club maintains a marked rivalry with Xerez Club Deportivo from neighboring Jerez de la Frontera. The clashes between the two clubs have been marked as "high risk" on numerous occasions, necessitating the intervention of the forces of public order. Among its remarkable data, it is worth highlighting some of special relevance such as the promotion to the First Division of Cádiz in 2005 at the Municipal Stadium of Chapín, the stadium of the Jerez club.

Sports sections

Cádiz CF has several sports sections by virtue of the different collaboration agreements signed with different clubs in the city in different sports:

• Football Room: Cadiz CF Virgili
• Beach Soccer: Cadiz CF Playa Victoria
• Rugby Club Rugby Cadiz CF
• Volleyball: CD Cadiz CF 2012
• Fight: CD Lucha y Judo Cádiz CF

Club modernization

The return to the first division has meant a modernization of the club, which seeks to establish itself outside the province as a benchmark brand in Spanish football. In 2021 he entered the club's organization chart, as executive vice president, Rafael Contreras. In the 2021-22 season, Cádiz signed an agreement with JOBChain, to be the first Spanish club sponsored by a cryptocurrency, receiving part of the payment in said cryptocurrency. Also in 2021, the Social Council has been created, which will work on the social, educational and cultural advancement of the club, the creation of knowledge and the dissemination of technologies as objectives to improve the quality of life of the people of Cádiz. The following are part of it:

• Carmen Castro (Catholic Physiology at the University of Cadiz)
• Javier Garat (Secretary-General of the Spanish Confederation of Fisheries and President of the International Coalition of Fisheries Associations)
• Federico Linares (President of Ernst " Young Spain)
• Marta Pérez Dorao (President of the Inspiring Girls Foundation and Director General of the Spanish Federation of Electrical Suppliers)
• Helena Rivero (President of Bodegas Tradition)
• Daniel Romero-Abreu (President of Thinking Heads)
• Angel Vallejo (founding partner of Maio Lawyers)
• José María Vallejo (Global Fiscal Director of BBVA)